Treat your healthy behaviors as activities that matter. Draw up a behavior-change contract. State your goal, plan of action, time frame, how you will measure your progress, rewards, and a date to reevaluate your contract. Managing your health can be highly gratifying, but it can also be very difficult. Maintaining good health is a challenge in a world that demands that we constantly perform.
Most people face work pressures, and everyone deals with family and social commitments.
Often we let the many stresses of living erode our best intentions. Health management demands a lifelong commitment.