A Student of Diabetes

By Scott Coulter We are (as a species) so GOOD at starting things! And we're so bad at following through. Now, as someone who has spent a lifetime practicing piano and refining my skills in that particular niche, I can often get on a high horse and lament the "lack of willpower of this generation." I often do, going on and on about how my students don't practice, how they say things like, "I want to be a famous musician," and then proceed to spend maybe 30 minutes during the course of an entire week practicing their instrument. And yet… I want to lose weight. And what do I do about that? I make feeble attempts to start, substituting a salad for a sandwich here and there, riding my bike every now and then. But really, I go about this the same way those students I so freely lampoon go about their practice. I'm great for a week or two, and then right back into procrastinating and avoiding. And it's not just dieting where I run into this. I want to do more on the business end of my music career, but I thoroughly despise the business side of music. And the result is I create great schedules, plans, checklists, and more to organize myself and get myself ready to become the greatest self-managed band since The Clash, spend one week making initial calls to clubs, and then fail to follow up with ANY of them because The Great Muppet Caper is on TV five times the next week. As with many things, diabetes should have taught me better. You see, with so many of these things, the pro...
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