Diabetes management and control has no fairy godmother, no magic star to wish upon. We can hope and wish and dream of good diabetes control, but it doesn't happen by itself. It's not that we don't try, but it just seems impossible to put everything together and make it work.
The thing that's missing is simple: direction and focus. That's no big news, but how to get direction and focus may be very good news. Here it is: turn your wishes into GOALS. Not gold, but goals, which as far as diabetes control goes, are better than gold.
Setting goals is absolutely vital to manage and optimize your diabetes care and treatment. This simply cannot be overstated. Failure to set goals just leaves you with wishful thinking and a difficult struggle to control your diabetes.
Diabetes control doesn't magically improve all by itself.You cannot just hope in luck, dreams or wishes that got you nowhere in the first place.
Think about where your present course will take you in the next year. Will your diabetes control be better or worse? What about your weight? What about the effects of diabetes, the heart disease, the nerve damage over the next five years? Or the next ten years? Those years will still come, whether you improve your diabetes control or not. And then where will you be?
Think about the difference it will make in your life between continuing as you are, or setting and achieving life-changing goals over the next year, five years from now, and ten years from now.
I know we all hope and wish for that. But wishes are not goals, and goals are not wishes. Goals are not wisps of dreams or of feelings or good intentions. Goals are real. Unlike wishes and dreams, well-constructed goals can change your life.
And not only for diabetes control, but for virtually every area of your life — academic, career, financial, relationships — you name it. Goals can take your wishes and make them come true. Begin today to set goals for your life and set yourself to achieve them.
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Jaye Marno is an internet writer specializing in goal-setting and time management with a focus on Type 2 diabetes. Read this and other articles by Jaye at: ControlDiabetesForLife.com/
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