DAFNE is all about change. There are new skills to be learned and practised and knowledge to be gained, but the long-term success of DAFNE depends upon how you fit DAFNE into your everyday life.
From research, we know that people are more likely to be successful when making changes, if they have set a realistic goal that it is important to them, followed by the development of an action plan, which states exactly how they are going to go abou achieving the long-term goal. Doing these two things seems to really help people to get where they want to be.
So throughout the DAFNE course you will have some time to develop your own plans each day, and at the end of the course you will have some time to set a goal that is important to you, and plan the small steps that will show you how you would like to go about reaching it.
How do I work out what my goals are?
You might be reading this and thinking 'I don't know what I want to be different?' You may have come on the DAFNE course because someone suggested it to you and you do not really have any particular expectations. This is absolutely fine and it might be that over the week you begin to think of things you would like to be different.Sometimes it can help to think of goals as short and long term. Long-term goals are what you would like to achieve over the next few months or even years. Short-term goals are possibly the steps along the way to achieving your long-term goal or they can be some of the things that affect your life on a day to day basis. It is a bit like a set of steps; at the top is your long term goal with each step being a change you make along the way.
If you are struggling to think about a long term goal you could try to imagine your future self and future life. When you think about yourself and your life living with diabetes this time next year what do you see? What would you like to be different?
The difference in your future life might be your long-term goal. Remember, to choose something that is important to you.
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