Sparkling Your Self-Care Goals with Hope (July Self-Care Challenge Day 2)
Hi everyone,
As we all concluded from Day 1's exercise, self-care is essential and we can't live or flourish without it. It can be challenging when our self-care declines. As many of us reflected, self-care encompasses so many things, some of which are displayed in the graphic below:
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Today, we'll be exploring our personal goals related to self-care and will be using the concept of hope to optimize and sparkle them!
Hope is a cognitive state that leads to an optimistic outlook in life through goal planning, motivation, and problem-solving to overcome challenges and meet goals. Hope involves 3 distinctive components: goals thinking involving a clear sense of goals, pathways thinking involving the conceptualization of strategies and paths to ensure goal completion, and agency which is the motivation maintained to achieve successful goal completion.
Today's Activity
(i) Identify a short or long-term goal you would like to achieve in terms of self-care.
(ii) Think of your best strengths that usually help you problem-solve or reach your goals. Confused about what your strengths may be? Consider taking the Character Strengths test.
(iii) Which of your strengths can boost your capacity and capability to achieve your short or long-term goal you listed in the first step? Use "I" statements to affirm your ability to achieve your goal - this will also help you boost your agency (motivation)
(iv) Now that we have figured out our goals, strengths, and motivation, what are some pathways/different ways we may need to take to achieve this goal? Remember to think of your obstacles and any solutions (new pathways) that may be used.
Ready to share your action plan? Share it in the comments!
Want to earn a Kindness Badge for practicing self-kindness which is an important aspect of this self-care challenge? Remember to fill out this form daily.
Better stress management
According to the character strength test my greatest strength is kindness - I just don't apply it to myself much
But I have been speaking out more when things are a concern to me and I've been allowing myself to take a step back to calm the anxiety when it hits hard. It helps me respond rather than react
Idk - for some reason I struggled to answer this 😕 lol
Short
Term Goals:
Make my morning routine
more of a habit.
Finish my 2 online courses.
Long Term
Goal:
Take better care of
my body – Exercise, Sleep, Stress, Food, etc.
My Strengths:
Love, Spirituality,
Perseverance, Gratitude, Kindness, Love of learning, Fairness, Perspective,
Hope, Zest
Pathways:
I will use my strengths of love, gratitude, and perseverance to be consistent in working toward these goals.
My love of learning will inspire me to work on my 2 online courses that I’m excited about finishing.
I can use my strengths, especially gratitude for my life by taking daily steps to move and do other things that will improve my health.
I will use mindful perseverance to stick to my morning practice.
I can show love-of-self by not condemning myself if I don't do exactly what I want to do daily. I will strive for progress, not perfection.
(And even if I fall flat on my face, I can use HOPE wrapped around my perseverance to get up and keep going).
@SoulfullyAButterfly My short-term goal is to survive this last class—three more weeks.
My long-term goal is to get back to seeing friends and going back to yoga. To be able to think my own thoughts instead of what is next on the schedule.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
My goals are a-plenty but my short term is pass my CDL-A test. But more recently here on 7-Cups I'd like to be part of a goal setting group of people who actually share thier progress on a daily or weekly basis. Kind of a support group for real tangible goals. For me , this would be a long term goal. This thread is great, I see so many amazing goals people are shooting for. It's inspiring, Thanks for posting this thread.
