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Male 1: Effective management of your diabetes: You may feel that you are being asked to make a lot of changes and it may feel a bit overwhelming. It is not. There is help, all along the way. Understand that you need to have a long-term goal and you must also keep putting one foot in front of the other and take action on a day to day basis.
Male 2: And work with some exceptional people that have me develop as a professional. So, they help you on problems solving, they help you on leadership, they help you on strategy and they have help develop me as executive in the company. And I have learned a lot of it, in order to become successful.
What have I learn then in terms of managing this disease called diabetes through my work life? You know great personal balance, we do not always do what we need to do but we promote it. How to confront conflict, how to lead, how to deal with stress, all those things, because you work life is only one part. But there are so many things that you learn, that you can take on other parts of how you function.
Male1: What is really worth at home is that we look after the kids in the same way that I am looked after. And my children is such that though say well, if we eat all the stuff and we eat it all the time and they are eight and seven years old, they will say, “well we have a chance of getting diabetes, right?” And we go, “yes, you will”. Just good healthy living and eating can stand this disease coming in the our home.
In an ironic way, you can be a role model. We do these little games, we go through weekend and if we have not given the kids great memory, we will ask them before they were go to bed. Then we really as parents have not done a good job. That is not that is spoiling your kids but it is about your setting the tone for everyday is a good day.
As a role model for the kids, how do I eat, how do I exercise, how am I driven, what do I want to achieve, how am I being fair, how do I understand other people. That is coming out of this disease. I do travel from North America. We also traveled at China sometimes and New Zealand. So what I am trying to do then with the exercises program and the meal program is trying to find hotels that had gyms or pools, so I can work out or swim, while I am on the road.
If I am in remote part of China looking out a new resort location, and a lot of the cities do not have a gym, I will bring a portable gym, I will bring a elastic band with me and do some exercise in the room or do some stretching. A lot of the people I worked know that I have diabetes, people that I am going to a meeting. I may have met them once or so twice, they know I have diabetes. One group that I worked with in Chicago that always has apples or orange juice, if I want a piece of fruit to get me through the day, so, I have not hidden it.
There are other peoples that may hide because they maybe shy about, my choice was well I have it, it is not a big deal, it is part of who I am now. I deal with it. This is how I manage it. I am not going to do this. I am not going to do that. And this is the reason why I am not going to do it.
I got back into swimming when I diagnosed with diabetes. And I met up with the masters group one night and they invited me to swim. I was in the fast lane, set it off in the second or third fastest lane. I started getting into it some improvements of something with the group. And I remember hearing Christy about a study that was done, if you train with lock-minded people, you can enhance your work out by 20% to 25%. I believe that is true.
Female: We like to go to the park and play together and we liked to go bike riding. We like to swim together. There is lots of activities.
Male 2: The disease allows you to open up in the number different ways. You know I understand a lot more stuff about yourself. And if you do not get honest with yourself and understand yourself, your life is not heading the right direction with this disease. You are going to confront some stuff whether it is losing your sight, you could lose a foot, you could lose a limp. So, you become more honest with yourself and you ask yourself, what are things I need to improve upon. Improve upon certain things because of this disease but then you start improving upon how bunch of stuff and you become a better person I think for it.
And we have used that with the kids, so I do hope when I grow up and my kids and my friends and then they are 23 that I have been the right model for them. By now I am sitting with my friends who say, “What! Cram started to do this, and he is got a busy life and he is working here he is going to China, his doing that his got the kids, and Gabby on others stuff his doing in and now he is training for this and his going there”. So it has been good good.
If you are unhappy in your work life, you can change that. If you unhappy living with diabetes, you can change that. I am more happy now and more balance in my life than I have ever been, in any point in time. When I discover the disease and I learned how to manage it. I has done a whole bunch of really good things for me.
There is nothing that I cannot do, really, because of living with diabetes. So I have to leave a balance life in terms of exercise and diet and so on but those are just a good things for good living anyhow. But, if I want to fly to the other side of the world and go on safari, I can do that. If I want to sleep in on a Sunday morning, I can do that, if I want to read a paper and have a cup of coffee I can do that. There is nothing that it is really that dramatically different about my lifestyle.
I do not see this disease that I have, that so many people have, has a thing that is going to slow me down in doing the things that I want to do.
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