Wheel of Wellness
This dimension of health is all about building strong friendships, resolving arguments peacefully, and practicing active listening.
What is Social Health?
Instead of a static "yes/no" list, we look at our wellness as this kind of sliding scale that shifts constantly based on our daily behaviors.
What is a dynamic spectrum (or the Health Continuum)?
These are health-driving forces that come from inside your own brain—such as your personal beliefs, values, character, and self-talk.
What are Internal Influences?
According to the 6-step decision-making model, this is the action step you must take immediately after you identify your health problem.
What is list your options (alternatives) and weigh their consequences?
In the SMART goal-setting framework, the letter "M" ensures that you have numbers, tracking, or a specific way to prove you made progress.
What is Measurable?
Keeping your personal study desk organized and helping to clean up trash around the school gym are ways to improve this dimension of health.
What is Environmental Health?
Sitting directly in the middle of the Health Continuum, this is the point where you have no active sickness, but you have no healthy habits either.
What is the Neutral Point?
These are health-driving forces that come from your surroundings—such as family traditions, peer pressure, and advertisements.
What are External Influences?
In our "4-Second Brain Scan" (H.E.L.P.), the "H" represents this filter, which asks if a choice protects or damages your body.
What is Healthful?
Before you can build a roadmap to your target goal, you must take a self-assessment (like our Day 2 Wheel) to establish this starting point.
What is a baseline?
This concept describes what is happening when high stress or anxiety over an algebra test causes a student to get a physical headache or an upset stomach.
What is the interrelationship of health dimensions?
To have true health literacy, you must obtain, process, and understand health information—and then do this final, critical step.
What is Apply (or Act / make a correct decision)?
An athlete avoids an unverified fitness supplement because their family values prioritize natural performance over chemical shortcuts. This is this category of influence.
What is an External Influence?
In the H.E.L.P. filter, the letter "P" stands for this filter, which asks if the adults who care about you would support your choice.
What is Parent-Approved?
Instead of a weak wish like "I want to eat healthier," a high-performing student-athlete writes this type of highly structured, specific target.
What is a SMART Goal?
This dimension is not strictly religious—it is your personal inner compass, purpose, and living a life aligned with your core character values.
What is Spiritual Health?
Researching medical questions on a verified site like CDC.gov instead of relying on a viral social media influencer is a sign of having this.
What is High Health Literacy?
This multi-layered model shows that an individual's health decisions are a ripple surrounded by family, school, community, and society.
What is the Social-Ecological Model?
This is the confident, self-respecting style of direct communication you use to push back against peer pressure
What is an "I" Statement?
What does SMART goal mean?
Specific
Measurable
Acheiveable
Relateable
Timely
We use this sports vehicle analogy to show that neglecting even one dimension of health will cause your entire life to "stall out" on the side of the road.
What is a high-performance sports car (with a flat tire)?
Sliding your marker all the way to the far-left end of the Health Continuum by making chronic, high-risk choices eventually leads to this premature outcome.
What is Premature Death?
Social media can trick us into believing false statistics about risk behaviors (like thinking "everyone vapes").
What are peer norms (or false peer norms)?
We identified three classic "mind traps" that cause good decisions to fail: The Flat Battery, Stress-Blindness, and this pressure to blend in.
What is the Invisible Herd (unspoken peer alignment)?
The "T" in the SMART goal-setting framework ensures that your goal does not drag on forever by giving it this.
What is a time limit (or a deadline)?