Summary

Chapter 6

Developing a personal care plan of action

• Identify potential barriers to achieving your goal and ways to overcome them. • Think about how confident and ready you feel to make a change. If you don’t feel confident about your progress, start instead by taking smaller steps. • Keep track of your progress and reward yourself for your successes!

• Ask for help if you are having trouble staying motivated.

Summary

You can live a healthy life even with a chronic disease.

• Creating a “health diary” can be useful to help you keep track of information regarding medical history, changes in your physical health and feelings.

• Preparing for your medical appointments is important as you may forget some of your questions if you haven’t written them down and you will always be asked to provide a list of the medications you take.