If you dismiss New Year’s resolutions as pointless or futile, you’re not alone. Almost all of us set ourselves up for disappointment by creating ambitious goals with unrealistic expectations. Doing so defeats the very purpose of resolutions as any healthy resolution should be aimed at improving one’s health and quality of life, including feelings of self-esteem and conhandcitruspers kallax korkekiilto hylly blogspot checkerboard vans ochre billige matratzen gepunktete strumpfhose pallone calcio a 11 jayden daniels lsu jersey dlm382 adidas yeezy 700 v3 suport tableta bord hängemattengestell preisvergleich scarpe eleganti senza lacci dänisches bettenlager lounge set cadena seguridad para moto mikrobølgeovn med grill og varmluft fidence. So, how do you strike this delicate balance when you have diabetes? What does it take to make sensible diabetes resolutions that won’t make you feel like a failure even if you don’t succeed? A healthcare advocate from the International Diabetes Federation shared some excellent insights that are worth revisiting as 2022 draws to a close. Thee are described as SMART goals.
Make SMART Diabetes Resolutions For 2023
Managing diabetes is overwhelming at most times because it takes up so much of your time and mental energy. Adding additional layers of expectations and targets can add to the stress, when instead your resolutions should be making it easier to achieve the goals that you already have. There’s a way to do this, but you need to focus on progress rather than perfection. Don’t expect to get from point A to Z at your first or even tenth try – learn to be proud of yourself and self-appreciative even when you get from point A to B. Every little thing that you do counts and together all of the little things add up to make your tomorrow better.
The idea of making SMART diabetes resolutions actually borrows from business performance and management strategy, which also applies to personal or self-development. Here’s what SMART represents:
Specific – decide on specific areas of improvement that you wish to target with your resolutions
Measurable – find ways in which you can quantify your progress towards each individual target
Achievable – set realistic targets that you can meet or even exceed
Relevant – don’t increase the pressure with targets that have no relevance to the bigger goal of diabetes control
Time-bound – set a realistic timeline for starting on each target, your expectations for progress from high to low
Putting SMART Resolutions To Use
While SMART is quite self-explanatory, it helps to have a template that you can use, so here’s an example of one resolution made using this approach –
Specific – improve blood sugar control with increased physical activity, such as walking, cycling, swimming, dancing, and so on.
Measurable – spend a minimum of 30 minutes every alternate day engaging in any of the exercise activities listed above
Achievable – 30 minutes is achievable because you have an hour free after work (could also be 3 intervals of 10 minutes)
Relevant – getting habituated to walking/cycling would allow you to fulfil your dream of exploring a specific destination
Time-bound – you can assess your progress every week, alternate week, or monthly
The larger goal of such resolutions would be to achieve better diabetes control, which can again be monitored and measured to assess progress. Keeping resolutions may not be easy, but with SMART diabetes resolutions it is because you can celebrate every small step up the ladder, rather than focusing solely on getting to the top.
