Do Your Health Decisions Reflect Your Values?

We often align our career or raising children with our personal values but many of us do not make health decisions based on those values. Why is this?

• We often don’t consider our values in decisions that do not immediately affect us.
• ›No immediate harm: one unhealthy meal does not have noticeable repercussions and eating poorly or neglecting to exercise may not cause any health problems for many years.

To help motivate you TODAY, make a list of the immediate benefits you’ll have exercising or eating a healthy meal like increased energy, improved sleep and reduced stress for example. Then make a list of your values. Do your values match up with your behaviors?

Making health choices based on your values can help you feel good about your daily activities. It is the accumulation of those daily choices and actions that will have a positive or negative impact on your health in the long term. ›