Discovery Award Group

Broken your New Year Resolutions already?

Oh dear! Never mind. What were you going to do?  Lose weight?  Get out more? Be more active?

Whatever it was you were obviously going to try and make life a bit better and more positive for yourself than it was in 2016.  And that’s good, – pat yourself on the back – at least you tried! But why give up?  Try again!  Remember Robert the Bruce!

Finding someone to share your goal with can be half the battle.  Better still, why not join the Discovery Award Group and share it with us. Everyone here has their own goals and we all encourage and support each other to achieve them.  Sharing makes it good fun instead of a chore.

If you have forgotten or don’t know what the Discovery Award is, it is an internationally recognised award scheme with bronze, silver and gold levels.  We set ourselves the task of undertaking 4 challenges of our own choice – no pressure, no time limit, no competition, no need to go out of our comfort zone if we don’t want to.  The four challenges are, 1) to start a new hobby or interest, 2) to do something which keeps us physically active, 3) to do something which helps others or our community, 4) to undertake a ‘journey’ which can be actual, like a holiday, or mental, as in finding out more about something you are interested in.

You set your own level, do it whenever you can, do the challenges one at a time or several together as you wish. And of course we are part of the U3A with all its support, which makes doing the challenges even easier.

And apart from supporting each other, we are a social group.  We go out together for a meal, to a play, or an afternoon out somewhere, -whatever we decide that as a group we would like to do.  If you are interested and would like to find out more contact Mary Howes on 01673 849554, email mary-howes1@hotmail.co.uk or simply come along to our first meeting at Jossals café in Market Rasen on January 27^th at 10am.  We will be in one of the upper rooms.  Just order yourself a drink at the desk and the staff will bring it up to the Discovery group for you.

Take the first step.  Pick up the phone, or come along to hear more without any commitment whatsoever.