Woke up with a blood sugar of 138 this morning. Had to get up early to take my kid to school. Normally she takes the school bus and I can sleep a little later. After taking her to school, I came home with the intentions of going back to sleep, however I got to thinking about all the things on my list for today that I needed to do. So I got started on the list and writing down how much time it took me to get a task done and how many times I was interrupted and how much time was involved.

My family is trying to be more understanding since I had a talk with them last week about my frustrations. However this morning, I got interrupted numerous times by a family member who had been reorganizing the basement and finally wanted me to come down and look at their accomplishment. As I walked down the stairs, I said a quick prayer that all would be well. The rooms were more straightened, HOWEVER, a lot of my merchandise is now buried behind other personal boxes. I had a system with the merchandise boxes by having a sticky note taped to the box with the inventory numbers listed on it that it contained. All stacked in order by the inventory numbers. Oh my, oh my, I am going to have to go back down and reorganize the basement room again to be able to find what I need before listing it. I never expected the family member to just reorganize the basement as they haven’t done anything in a year down there, much less to do with my online businesses. They were looking for praise at their hard work and I was feeling anxiety over where to find a piece of merchandise. I should be just grateful.

I did manage to accomplish some task that were on my list today with the help of a friend and mentor, it felt so good to complete them. I didn’t get as many done as I had planned. I need to set more realistic goals on time frames to complete each task. Goals can be in different levels; career, education, home, personal, physical and financial. Can be short-term or long-term goals. Setting priorities for me has been a tough decision. My Mom use to say, “Too many irons in the fire”. Until I finish writing down all the things that need to be prioritized, it is hard to make the right decision at the moment on what needs the most attention.Writing down your goals is important so you can be more focused and positive minded. Gene Donohue wrote in his site about 7 easy steps to goal setting. I got a better understanding about goal setting.

Setting goals in my personal, business and my diabetic life is important to me as I feel more in control and self-confident as I work to progress forward. My blood sugar has stayed more in balance today being home and maintaining a time schedule with my eating. One of my goals is to get my weight down and keeping my blood sugar more in control. The end results will be less units of insulin taken everyday.