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Healthy & Wellbeing - Find Your Why
HEALTH & WELLBEING
Staying active: Evelyn
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FIND YOUR WHY!
Moving in as many different ways as possible and as often as you can is important for maintaining and improving mobility and physical capabilities. Linking it to your why – creates a whole new momentum.
You all would have heard the phrases ‘use it or lose it!’ and ‘It’s never too late’. It would be very rare for a doctor to say ‘there is nothing you can do to improve your capabilities’. How can we translate these everyday sayings into something practical we can do to make our lives better physically? Motivation or having a purpose is the key. It should be enough to do it for yourself – maintain personal physical abilities, look good, feel good, be physically fit to drive or be able to dance at a close family members wedding. Sometimes though many of us will need more of an incentive. You could derive your motivation from ‘doing it for your others’, like someone special - your partner or future partner, a grandchild, your best friend or perhaps even your pet. For example, your focus might be on being able to physically participate in certain tasks, such as walking with partner, walking your dog, getting on the floor to play with a child, or giving better hugs.
What is your WHY?
Need some help? Have a chat to one of our senior centre staff or volunteers. We would love to share with you the myriad of opportunities for older people living locally to get physically active and help find activities suitable for YOU! We will also help you discover your WHY! Remember: ‘tiny is mighty’. Small changes over time add up to making a BIG difference. Haven’t walked much lately? Start by going to the letterbox and back a couple of times and gradually build up from there. We are so lucky that within the City of Salisbury we: a. have the range of programs at our senior centres, community centres and recreation centres. b. have access to such a vast network of beautiful trails, parks and reserves. Let’s get out and use them more ourselves and encourage others to do the same.
