At this time of the year what's the one thing that concerns you most about your Diabetes?

When you wake up in the morning and you don't feel great, what's the thing that gets you moving? What's your top tip, that first step that you take and how and what enables you to achieve it? On the days when you're feeling fantastic, what do you like to do and what really makes you smile? There are days when everything seems gloomy and grey but we just need to find a way to get moving, get on with our day. Sometimes it's just taking that first step that we need some motivation for. It's so different on days when we feel fantastic because we can achieve a goal or something that just makes us smile. So it's actually the job itself is a great motivation you know we love this job, we love health people, we love taking care of people, so that motivates me, so absolutely, and I know I have to stay healthy, I have to take care of myself, for myself, for my family, but also for my patients. I don't think there's a single answer to that. For me, my motivation varies over time, you know, sometimes it's my professional life, sometimes it's things that I'm doing with my wife and things I'm looking forward to. I think the thing that does stretch across a lot of time though is even when you wake up and you're not feeling like you're in the mood to face the day, it's important to think about how far you've come, what's got you to where you are today, and to appreciate that, you know, particularly for people with a long-term condition, it is a daily task and challenge to deal with and you should be proud of yourself for for doing that and for taking ownership and for carrying on so sometimes when there isn't something obvious I think that's the thing you turn to is look how far I've come to get here today let's carry on that journey. So I have a couple of cats. I love my cats. You're owned by cats they don't own you. You don't own them, they own you. What's have done, which I enjoy because they're very independent thinkers and they will motivate you to get up and feed them at four o'clock in the morning. I get up and feed him four o'clock in the morning, feed the two of them and then I know I can go back to bed, get up at seven o'clock and just drive through the day, whatever I've got to do. So I tend, I'm quite structured in as much as I like to know what I've got to be doing on a particular day. So the day before or even a week before, I'll have a week planner, but this has got to get done, this has got to get done, this has got to get done. And you kind of drill through what you've got to do on a daily basis. Sometimes you'll get everything done, sometimes you won't. But it's the motivation to reach that goal at the end of the week. I don't know that I do anything different. I might try and go and do something more or do something different or go and see the thing that I enjoy that gives me that enjoyment whether in my case that's watching football or going to get something in the shops. I quite like if I've got time to myself going out and having having a coffee at a local cafe. Being human means we are never the same from one day to the next. It's all right not to be sure of yourself all of the time. Diabetes is a complex medical condition and it can be a minefield to negotiate. There are times when your diabetes will give you those highs and those lows that you just have heard about from our community members and it's okay to seek professional help as well. We at healthshare.com want to support your thoughts and your decisions and help you feel safe in where you need to turn to next.