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Designing a Personal Self-Care Protocol Please note: this material is for your own use. there is a tendency on some people's part to be quick, terse, or global in their responses. Such approaches, while natural, limit the helpfulness of completing this questionnaire to gain as full an awareness as possible of your current profile and the personal goals you plan to develop for a realistic, rich, and balanced self-care program. consequently, in preparing this personally designed protocol, the more clear, specific, complete, imaginative, and realistic your responses are to the questions provided, the more practical and beneficial the material will be. Activities Frequency/ Time Now Allotted Planned Change/ Improvement Spending Leisure Time with: Spouse/Significant Other Children Parents Other Family Members Friends Going to Movies/Watching TV (Continued on following page) R ob e rt J. Wic ks a nd Tina C . B uc k * 11 f e a t u r e 1. list healthy nutritional practices that you currently have in place. 2. What are specific realistic ways to improve your habit/style of eating/drinking (of alcoholic beverages)? 3. What physical exercise do you presently get, and when is it scheduled during the week? 4. What changes in your schedule in terms of time, frequency, and variety with respect to exercise do you wish to make? 5. Where are the periods for reflection, quiet time, meditation, mini-breaks alone, opportunities to center yourself, and personal debriefing times now in your schedule? 6. given your personality style, family life, and work situation, what changes would you like to make in your schedule to make it more intentional and balanced with respect to processing what comes to the fore in your time spent alone or in silence? 7. How much, what type, and how deeply and broadly do you read at this point? 8. What would you like to do to increase variety or depth in your reading, research, and continuing education pursuits? 9. Below, list activities present in your non-working schedule not previously noted above. alongside of the frequency/time, list changes to this schedule that you feel would further enrich you personally/professionally as well as have a positive impact, in turn, on your family, colleagues, and overall social network.

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Frontiers of Health Services Management - Winter 2013

Frontiers of Health Services Management - Winter 2013
Contents
Editorial
Riding the Dragon: Enhanching Resilient Leadership and Sensible Self-Care in the Healthcare Executive
Managing Resilience by Managing Purpose
Building Organizational and personal Resilience
Resilience: A Responsibility That Can't Be Delegated
Personal Resilience: A Gateway to Organizational Health and Progress
Response from Feature Aurthors

Frontiers of Health Services Management - Winter 2013