Staying Motivated in Autumn

Thank you very much. And if you were encouraging someone to prioritise their health in the autumn, what advice would you give, drawing from your own lived experience, your own insights? Yeah, stay as active as you can. Again, I'm an ex sports nut when I was in my 20s and I love playing sport and I felt your sense of wellbeing improves from playing sport. So stay as active as you can because of the sense of wellbeing, you get stay as connected as you can. Because there's a lot of isolation in our communities, unfortunately, a lot in the elderly, which are who I speak to, but there's also young people with mental health challenges who are so anxious, they don't really want to venture out. So support for them. Sometimes I think people have never really done much exercise or sport in their life. I've missed out. That's my personal view. But because they don't appreciate the benefits it can do to exercise and feel better about life and get into a group walk. I mean, Bracknell are doing group walks now, which is great. Group led walks where you just walk at a leisurely place and you chat and you get walking in the countryside for 45 minutes and then you go home and it does help. So I'm a big fan of exercise as a way of feeling better. And I just want people who are depressed or anxious, get out in the woods, get out and go out for a walk. And it's not as simple as that, obviously, but it might improve it a bit the way you feel about life. If you go out in nature and have a walk, even in winter walks, if such things could happen. So, yeah. Fantastic. And how do you stay motivated or connected to your healthy habits during autumn? Is there a particular behavior, mindset or tool that helps you, that works for you in autumn? Again, sorry to belabor the point, but staying active as possible, if I find I get down, if I don't exercise, if I don't do something to get the blood circulating, I find that I get down as the evening goes on. So for me, it's a physical and mental health benefit to exercise. Again, having family around helps as well, staying socially connected, doing this job is worthwhile as well. So on the on the hard days, remembering that I'm helping people in their lives. So yeah, remember these things trying to be again, kind to myself about about life. Yeah, absolutely. And what could the Bracknell Forest cultured community that we're establishing. What could it do to support you or others through the autumn months into the winter? Any ideas for engagements, conversations or resources? Yeah. Yeah. Awareness of what's in the community is important. Are there more things that can be done in winter evenings that will get people out of their houses and connected with others socially and getting exercise as well? Could exercise be made more accessible? I mean, there are some good programs like the Everyone Active Wellbeing Service, which is six months free for people who are on benefits, which is great. It's usually people who are having a good income who can get access to the gym. now it's people who are struggling financially can get access to the gym and that's a way of feeling better. So I don't know if there's any plans to increase, what's the word I'm looking for, increase the activities in the area, if it can be sponsored by the council, you know, the well-being walks in the evening perhaps. Yeah, there's the athletics club, I think they have floodlights as they're more floodlit sport that can be available that will encourage people out in the evening that they can easily get access to that's not too demanding if they're not used to playing sport to get to ease their way into it it make it easier for the public to to engage with activity.