At this current state in my life I would rate my physical well-being at a 6, my spiritual well-being at a 7 and my psychological well-being at a 6.
Last year I would have rated my physical well-being at an 8, and I am currently working towards that again...of course with the overall goal a 10! During the 2013 holidays I let pies and cookies combined with a lack of exercise get the best of me. Don't get me wrong I am a very active person with a high metabolism, so some people did not even notice. But I noticed and when I came to the realization at what happened I was very upset with myself! My goal is to become a runner. I can do cardio activities for an hour at ease. However, I cannot run for 10 minutes without wanting to stop. Next fall I want to run in the Akron Marathon-relay. This may be a difficult goal to achieve because I would also like to have baby #4 next fall.
I would always rate my spiritual well-being at a 7. Spiritually I do not change often. My relationship with God is constant and is never altered. I take my children to Sunday school; however, we are often too "busy" to stay for church. My goal is to stay more often...at least every other week :)
Psychologically I rate my self a 6.5; 6 seemed too low and 7 too high. I have a wonderful, supporting husband. However, he works a lot and this causes a lot of stressful time issues for me. Our social life is lacking because of his schedule. When we do get a babysitter for our children we just want to enjoy each others company. Often times when friends ask us to do something they want it to be kid free, sorry folks these kids are our lives! We can't just push them off on a babysitter all the time.
I do deal with stress well, but I am always rushing around. Between school, homework and work, and the kids school and homework and extracurricular activities and exercising and cooking meals and packing healthy lunches for everyone and family events, it is a constant, constant rush. I am not sure how to reach my goals for psychological well-being because most of my lack of well-being is a time issue. My husband keeps reassuring me his work schedule will not be crazy forever; we have high aspirations for a positive change next summer. Then when this happens I will have help in the evenings, and will be able to participate in some adult extracurricular activities, being that I will have help. Also, our social lives will also become better.
-Justina xo
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