Conquering Diabetes

Many of us love a challenge, especially when they say "It can't be done - it's impossible!" but you know otherwise! As you know, one of life's great challenges is to do the best we can with what we've got. We want to fix what can and accept what we can't, and become wise enough not to mistake one category for the other.

Think about the challenges of "conquering diabetes" as you contemplate the poem below, and let me know what you think.

- Michael Dansinger, MD

It Couldn't Be Done
By Edgar A. Guest

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no one ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.

This poem and others can be found at Motivational-Well-Being.com.

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Diabetes reversal is all about living life to the fullest by doing the best we can with what we've got, which is true about all life's challenges and imperfections. Please let me know what you think the poem below has to do with conquering diabetes.

Things Work Out
By Edgar A. Guest

Because it rains when we wish it wouldn't,
Because men do what they often shouldn't,
Because crops fail, and plans go wrong
Some of us grumble all day long.
But somehow, in spite of the care and doubt,
It seems at last that things work out.
Because we lose where we hoped to gain,
Because we suffer a little pain,
Because we must work when we'd like to play
Some of us whimper along life's way.
But somehow, as day always follows the night,
Most of our troubles work out all right.
Because we cannot forever smile,
Because we must trudge in the dust awhile,
Because we think that the way is long
Some of us whimper that life's all wrong.
But somehow we live and our sky grows bright,
And everything seems to work out all right.
So bend to your trouble and meet your care,
For the clouds must break, and the sky grow fair.
Let the rain come down, as it must and will,
But keep on working and hoping still.
For in spite of the grumblers who stand about,
Somehow, it seems, all things work out.

What do you think this has to do with conquering diabetes?

-Michael Dansinger, MD

This poem and others can be found at Motivational-Well-Being.com.

Related Topics:

Labels: diabetes, motivation, positve attitude