I envision 2014 as a time to put a little more focus back in to work and personal growth, while keeping the rest and the play that I have learned to incorporate this year!
When I think about setting goals for the year, I try to include something from every aspect of wellness, including physical, emotional, occupational, spiritual, social and intellectual. As a holistic health coach, I use the wellness wheel pictured below as I help clients set nutrition and exercise goals. An imbalance in any component of wellness can really affect the progress in others. For instance, if you work 80 hours per week, motivation to come home each night and cook a healthy dinner and run for a half hour might not be feasible: the occupational wellness is the issue, whereas the client tends yo beat him/herself up about "failing" the physical wellness goal.
The wellness wheel can be really helpful in creating a balanced and happy life: 
In order to stick with my lofty list, I have committed to a variety of "helpers" to hold me accountable, including an Ayurvedic health counselor to help with developing a mindful nutrition and meditation practice, IIN and Precision Nutrition programs to help me follow through with occupational and intellectual goals, and a crossfit endurance coach to help keep me in check with my typical "over do it" approach to athletics. I also payed for the yearly farm share and yoga in advance to hold myself accountable. We can't go at our goals alone. In order to create our best life, we must invest in the resources to hold us accountable to get us there! My clients are often surprised when I say that I work with coaches as well, as they see me as the "expert" in holistic health. I truly believe that in order to be a great coach, one must put him or herself in his/her clients' shoes and work on improving in all aspects of wellness as well.
For some goal setting suggestions, check out my segment from yesterday on channel 22, "14 Tips for a Healthier you in 2014"!
My goals for this year are as follows...note that I created overarching goals or visions, for each section and daily or weekly action steps to get there. It is important to
physical: overarching goal=stay injury free and progress in my sports, while nourishing my body with real, healthy food.
---action for physical activity: get coaching and trust the process for crossfit and running, and challenge myself to compete in run/row/crossfit events 10 times this year.
----action for nutrition: join winter and summer farm share, eat at least 2 sit down meals per day, try 1 new recipe per week and post on this blog!
emotional: overarching goal: continue managing my work/life balance so I don't burn out
---action: take one complete day off work per week, one full weekend per month, and one full week quarterly (4 weeks per year)
occupational: overarching goal: figure out where I want to take my business
---action: enroll in Continuing education "Immersion" program through the institute for integrative nutrition to work on taking my business in a new direction
---financial action: make a monthly budget and be a better record keeper
spiritual: overarching goal: continue my yoga habit and add in meditation
---action: incorporate a meditation in to my daily routine and work up to 5 minutes per day
social: overarching goal: spend quality time with friends, family, and Geoff
---action: take weekly action to speak with/meet up with friends and family and go n a date once per week
intellectual: Overarching goal: learn something new!
---action: enroll in the Precision Nutrition program to learn about and incorporate some new wellness skills for myself and clients.
Happy New Year and happy goal setting :-)
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