Employee Health Promotion Program Changing Behaviors Health is becoming a matter of individual responsibility more and more. If so, it follows that if we want to be healthy we should take an active role in directing our behaviors towards health . Even though it is not easy, it is possible to change personal behaviors.
Experts recommend selecting only one behavior at a time to change.
The chart given below can help you make this selection on the basis of which change is most likely to be successful for you. A way to use this chart is to select up to five behaviors that may cause you to be at risk for illness. Some examples are smoking, lack of exercise, elevated cholesterol, overweight, etc. The behavior that has the lowest average ranking is probably the one you should choose to work on now. Save the list to refer back to later when you want to work on other behavior changes.