Importance Of Wellness

Greg Anderson, an author of books detailing healthy lifestyles, once wrote, “Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.” As inferred from this quote, wellness is vital to our wellbeing and necessary for a healthy lifestyle. An important part of having proper wellness is having a wellness plan that you can follow and use as a guide to live a life as the best version of yourself. In the following paper, I will address my current state of physical, spiritual, social, and emotional wellness as well as explain my goals for the above areas of wellness five years, fifteen years, and twenty-five years from now. Firstly, in summary, good physical wellness is defined as follows: confidence in your personal ability to take care of health problems while living an active and healthy (proper diet, maintaining body weight, avoiding drugs, etc.) lifestyle measured by your ability to carry out ordinary and unusual demands of daily life safely and effectively. As of now, I would say that my physical

I plan and hope to be fresh off a four-year college soccer career. As a result, my goal for my physical wellness is to maintain the high level of fitness that I have right now throughout college and into my first year out of college. Spiritually, my goal is to challenge my faith throughout my college classes and experiences and to develop a strong sense of who I am and how that applies to the new job I hope to find myself in. Socially, my goal is to have created meaningful friendships in college and begin to create new relationships with my colleagues. Emotionally, my goal is to develop the ability to better handle stress because of all the stress that will come with graduating college and stepping into a new chapter of my