Healthy Habits and Routines
This section consists of resources for understanding your life history and current occupational profile with emphasis on occupations, habits, and routines as the foundation for diabetes management. You can review your ability to summarize your medical history, and gather information about your life history and current occupational profile, emphasizing those aspects involving current diabetes management and habits. You can also assess your knowledge base and readiness to change in relation to diabetes care in order to guide selection of later activities.
Occupational Storytelling and Storymaking
- My Life Time Table
Plot significant life events, including event related to diabetes (date of diagnosis, major complications, hospitalizations).
Activity Analysis
- Activity Analysis
This worksheet has information about various personal, environment, and task factors that could be supporting or hindering your diabetes management. You are able to write down factors from each column and how they can be adapted to support your diabetes management.
Significant Events and Occasions
- My Life Timetable
See “Occupational Storytelling and Storymaking” for worksheet and description.
Health Promoting Engagement in Activities
- Sleeping Well-Sleep Hygiene & Routine
This worksheet provides information about different tools that can be used to improve sleep hygiene. You can also write in anything you want to change and how you can improve your sleep hygiene and routine. - Sleep Myths
This resource explains some common sleep myths and what’s actually correct. - Physical Activity
This worksheet provides ideas about how to incorporate more physical activity into your day along with a couple of questions about what barriers and supports you might have for trying to establish an exercise routine. - Top 10 Tips for Nutrition Weight Management
10 of the best tips for healthy eating. - Anatomy of Nutrition Labels
This resource explains various parts of the nutrition label to help you better understand what to pay attention to and what it tells you. - Food Report Card
This resource distinguishes between the “highest quality”, “good quality”, and “not for everyday” foods in the categories of proteins, fruits and veggies, carbs, condiments, and drinks. - Healthy Hacks
This resource provides general tips for eating mindfully and taking control of your eating experience at home and at restaurants. - If Food Labels Said What They Meant (This is What They Would Say)
Provides explanations of what it means when a food label says things “calorie free”, “low fat”, etc. - Meal Planning
This meal planning worksheet provides you with space to write down three meals and two snacks per day for a week. - Portion Sizes
Provides convenient hand-based or common object-based references for portion sizes. - Sample Menus
These sample menus provide examples of various healthy meals and a number of ways in which one could choose to eat including various meal and snack times.
Habits and Routines
- Balance Wheel
Visually represents the amount of time spent daily in the categories of work, rest, play, and self-care activities. - Lifestyle Balance
This worksheet can help you understand how you balance various demands in your life and the resource you have to maintain a balanced life. - Time Stress Questionnaire
Rate 30 items that describe time-related difficulties people sometimes experience and describe strategies for handling 4 of your largest stressors. - Did I Do That - Breaking Bad Habits
This worksheet illustrates the process of deconstructing a negative routine into specific changeable behavior to help in creating a realistic plan toward a goal - How to Create a Habit
This worksheet deconstructs the process of creating a habit into step-by-step questions in order to help you create a realistic behavioral goal. - How to Change a Habit
This worksheet provides questions and a guide for you to self-reflect upon antecedents and motivations towards a specific negative habit in order to facilitate a plan for change. - Implementing a Habit
This worksheet provides you a way to formulate a plan for the implementation of a new habit. - Change Plan Worksheet
This worksheet is for use after deciding to make a change in routine. It provides key questions as a guide to developing a plan, including ways to self-monitor and sources of support. - Past Stages of Change
Encourages self-reflection on feelings and experiences within specific stages of change.
Planning and Problem Solving
- 2 Day Blank Schedule
7 Day Blank Schedule
These worksheets provides you a schedule with 30 minute increments beginning at 12:00 am and ending at 11:00pm. Options for a schedule with 2 days or 7 days. - Procrastination - Reasons & Solutions
This resource offers information about why so many of us procrastinate and how we can rise above procrastination. - Time Management - Understanding Your Time Better
This worksheet can help you assess where your time is actually going and what those things mean to you. - Time Management - Prioritization & Scheduling
This resource presents four steps to improving time management - organization, prioritization, scheduling, and improving awareness of time.
Goal Setting
- Achieving Realistic Goals
This worksheet allows you to breakdown a goal into smaller steps to help you achieve your overall goal. - SMART Goal Worksheet
This worksheet guides you through a step-by-step process of making specific, measurable goals and creating a plan to reach your goals. - SMART Goal Tracking
This worksheet allows you to track progress towards your goal by reflecting on what’s working and what’s not working.
Other Resources
Work Life Balance
Mental Health America’s tips for the workplace and at home to support a healthy work life balance.
Why an All-Nighter Can be Harmful to your Health
The National Sleep Foundation’s four ways that an all-nighter can be damaging to one’s short and long term health.
Diabetes and Your Career
This article highlights your rights as a person with diabetes in the workplace.
5 Tips for Navigating a New Job
Lindsey Wahowiak’s tips for interviewing for and accepting a new job.
5 Things to Know When Leaving the Nest
Lindsey Wahowiak’s tips to consider when one moves out of their parent or guardian’s home.
Tips for Relocating with Diabetes
Lindsey Wahowiak’s recommendations for moving with considerations for your diabetes needs.
Check out “Healthy Habits & Routines” within the Resources tab for more resources related to this module.
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