After many years of helping patients set and achieve goals related to their health, here are the clinical team’s top tips for success.

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Identify your personal objectives

• Recognising your unique needs and aspirations is crucial to crafting goals that resonate with you. 

• Reflect on what motivates you to embark on this journey towards better health. 
• Consider the aspects of health and well-being that are most meaningful to you. 
• Evaluate your current situation and focus on areas that may require improvement or change. 
• Determine which goals are most critical to your overall well-being and focus on them. 

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Break down goals 

• Sometimes our long term goals are ambitious, and this is motivating! However, if they are going to take a little while to achieve, it can help to break them down into smaller milestones so we don’t get fatigued along the way.
• Celebrate each milestone achieved to maintain motivation.

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Create actionable plans 

• Once your goals are defined, it's time to draft some actionable plans, that is things you can do or steps you can take to achieve the goal.
• Consider the resources and support you may need.
• Anticipate what barriers may prevent you from succeeding and plan ways to navigate these.

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Track your progress!

• This is very important! We know that goal setting is most successful when paired with self monitoring.
• If your goals are around weight loss, reducing blood pressure or waist circumference, you can track these in the Me section of the Roczen App.
• Use a calendar to tick off days when you have achieved your goals.
• Share achievements and challenges with your mentor, the clinical team or other patients in our official Facebook group.
• Try to attend the 4 week reviews with our clinical team so we can provide you feedback and review your progress.

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Keep motivation high 

• Acknowledge your efforts and celebrate every step forward, no matter how small.
• Embrace setbacks as learning opportunities and use them as key information to refine your plan. 
• Treat yourself to rewards when you achieve milestones, therefore reinforcing positive behaviour. 
• Practice self-compassion and be kind to yourself during challenging times.

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Build a support system 

• Within Roczen, you have access to a fantastic support system, whether that’s other patients, your Mentor or the clinical team.
• Engage with the community (Strava, Facebook Group) for shared experiences and encouragement.
• Tell your friends and family about your goals, explain why they are important to you and ask for their help in keeping you on track.

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Adjust when necessary 

• Regularly evaluate your progress and assess if your goals need adjustments - your clinician will help you with this!
• Be open to modifying your strategies as you learn and grow on your journey. 
• Stay committed to your objectives, but balance this with other life priorities, don’t be afraid to hit pause when you need to.

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Maintaining Long-Term Success 

• Adopt sustainable lifestyle changes for weight loss and diabetes management, remembering that these are long term conditions and they require a long term approach.
• Set new goals to keep progressing and growing to ensure they align with your current priorities.

We hope you find these tips useful and wish you good luck goal-setting! Remember the Roczen team will be more than happy to guide you if you have any further questions or need a helping hand.