We want you to succeed, and we want you to take care of yourself so that you can continue to succeed. Everyone needs to take care of themselves, especially students, so that they can keep performing at their best level. By making a plan you are committing yourself to doing something that will improve your health -- whether it be mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual.

Meeting the Challenge

Develop a written plan, submit it to SYE, and evaluate your results at a later date to complete this challenge. Some examples might include:

• Developing an exercise plan
• Joining a student religious group
• Attending plays, concerts, or other artisitic performances
• Practicing meditation
• Taking a martial art
• Journaling
• Sitting with a nutrition counselor and creating a dietary plan
• Reading books for personal enjoyment
• Creating art (acting, painting, writing poetry, etc.)
• Joining a local church, temple, mosque, monastery, etc.
• Joining an intramural or intercollegiate sport

Helpful Resources

• Wellness Plan Template (download PDF)
• Student Health and Counseling Services
• Office of Religious Life
• Course offerings
• Staff at the WoodPEC or SAAC
• Arts at Emory

What comes next?

There are many personal and practical benefits that come from improving your health and well-being.

• Find out about the groups involved with your plan. Engaging in some activities (religious gropus, physical activities, etc.) can lead to more serious involvement in the groups that provide those opportunities.
• Respond to what you experience. Some activities that are unexpectedly fulfilling may inspire you to new academic pursuits in those areas.
• Get engaged with others that you meet while pursuing your plan. Some faculty members are connected with those groups that provide activities for improving your well-being.
• Reflect on your experiences. You may learn a lot about yourself and discover more ways that you need toimprove yourself or more activities that you want to benefit from.
• Be open to the experience. Authentic religious experiences or other strong personal experiences are life-changing things. Being open to those experiences can change the way you view the world and the way you interact with others.