Embracing Spring for Health and Joy

Spring is a wonderful time of the year, you know, having been cooped in, indoors throughout the winter months, you suddenly feel a sense of release as the weather improves outdoors. I'm an outdoor person, I love going for walks, I love organising outdoor activities, picnics and things like that. The spring weather always brings a sense of relief that the winter seasons are finished and a sense of optimism as we go into the better weather. What I like to do is organise gatherings with friends outdoors and I will do that. Go for walks, let's go and feed the swans and the ducks in the lakes, let's go and play tennis, let's go and play cricket, let's go and do cycling and various things outdoors and the spring season allows me to do all of that. With spring cleaning in mind I love to get rid of clutter that I've collected over the winter months and along with that all the bikes and so on I have in in my garage they come out we pump them up get them ready and then out we go to enjoy with the whole of my family. As far as diet is concerned, then the spring season makes it a little bit easier. I'm no longer in all the festivity seasons. I'm not just indoors all the time. I am outdoors and I try to maintain a healthy diet throughout with help from my friends. Question number two. In previous springs, are there resolutions you've made with your health that have worked for you? So what resolutions have I made for myself health-wise in previous spring seasons? I found that in the winter season I do put on a little bit of weight. I will then make a resolution to myself that I'm going to shed that weight off and I'll do that with outdoor activities and in the spring season jogging outdoors restarts, picnics, maybe cricket, maybe cycling. All of those things restart again in the spring season and I try my best to take advantage of the spring weather. I've noticed one thing though, you get extremely good spring weather during the months of April and a little bit of May. It then does go downhill, I've noticed, and then pick up again in July. So, I know about the seasonal variations and so I'll try and take advantage of the end of April, early May as much as I can. Brilliant. Question number three. What would you say to others in your community with health issues to motivate them to take on new resolutions and challenges and how to make those a success? Look, every winter is followed by spring and if you're in the winter season, my friends, if you've been cooped indoors and you feel that perhaps you're not looking after your health as as much as you would like to. Spring is the awakening moment where you can take charge again for your health and well-being and re-implement some of the lifestyle changes that you promised to yourself. So don't feel the blues, don't feel run down by the winters. Look forward to the spring and take full advantage of it. Look after your health. Your health is your wealth. Brilliant. If you can pick the piece of paper I've got again, considering the eight behaviours and 12 characteristics, is there one that particularly speaks to you, and which one and what are you doing about it? Okay, so looking at the eight behaviours and 12 characteristics, physical activity is the is the one thing that really jumps out at me. During the spring season, having really missed all the outdoor activities, I love to get back into it. And the old bicycle will be scrubbed down and tires will be repressurized and everything becomes good again. The cricket bats will come out and so on. And I look forward to organising picnics with my friends and things like that. So physical activity is the one thing that I really like to do. And yeah, physical activity. That's the one for me. That's perfect. That's perfect. Thank you. Final question. What do you feel an online community can do to contribute with during preparation for the spring months? Look, there are a number of things that an online community could do to prepare people ready for the spring months. Remind people, all these outdoor things that were available are now available once again in the spring. Encourage them to organise picnics, walks, perhaps outdoor activities like tennis or cycling and so on. Inspire them with videos, inspire them with other people similar to themselves, all getting out of their winter blues and then taking full advantage of the improving weather. Remind them that they've got to keep up their diet regime, so just because they're outdoors doesn't mean that they have to give up their intermittent fasting regime, for example. So keep up your lifestyle changes you promised yourself and take full advantage of the improving weather outside. An online community should start inspiring and reminding people to look after themselves and take advantage of the spring weather.