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Want to improve your life this year?

Experts suggest making goals specific and realistic

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This is the season for setting goals. Are you taking a “SMART” approach to yours?

As a new year begins, many Postal Service employees are focused on exercising more and eating healthier.

But wellness is about more than fitness and diet — it can also mean saving more money, working on your career development or being more social at work or off the clock.

To help you meet your goals — whether they are health, financial, social or career — the USPS Health and Wellness team suggests taking a “SMART” approach.

According to wellness experts, this means setting goals that are:

Specific: Make your goals concrete and detailed by writing them down.

Measurable: How will you know that you met your goal?

Achievable: Can your goal be accomplished in the proposed timeframe?

Realistic: Do you have the resources needed to achieve your goal?

Timely: When is the targeted date of completion?

The MyHR website’s Wellness at USPS page has more information on health, financial, social and career wellness.