
Setting and achieving health behavior goals are usually associated with your "readiness" and motivation level to make your goal a reality. Changing lifestyle habits that are often well-established require you to recognize what drives your choices of behaviors. Changing a habit usually happens through a series of "changes" from thinking about making the change to accomplishing the change and establishing the new behavior as part of your lifestyle. So your "readiness" to making this change will be important to the successful accomplishment of your goal.
It is also important to think about what is happening within your life that may get in the way of your ability to focus and concentrate on the changes you will need to accomplish. It is also helpful to ask yourself if this is an appropriate time to tackle an important lifestyle change. But it is equally important to remember that in the busy world we live in today, there will always be events and responsibilities that present themselves as "barriers" in the pathway of change.
So with these things in mind please choose the level of motivation that best describes where you are on the "readiness scale":



