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The CAN DO Challenge 2021
There are five days of the week and five ways to wellbeing. Can you see where we're going with this?
The five ways to wellbeing are five things we can all do that are scientifically-proven to help us feel better. For the CAN DO Challenge, we're calling on everyone to choose a different way to wellbeing to try each day of Men's Health Week.
Every day, a different way
The five ways are:
- Connect - connect with other people (eg. call an old friend you haven't since before lockdown) #connectmonday
- (Be) Active - move your body (eg. go for a run/walk/swim/dance/etc) #activetuesday
- Notice - take notice of the environment around you (eg. turn off your phone for an hour) #noticewednesday
- Discover - learn something new (eg. read a book you haven't read before) #discoverthursday
- Offer (or give) - do something for someone else (eg. volunteer for a local community group) #offerfriday
Read more about the Five Ways to Wellbeing or find out about Man MOT for the Mind manual, based on the five ways. Or get started now.
Men's Health Week 2021
For Men's Health Week 2021, we are asking as many people as possible to try the CAN DO Challenge. Let us know what you're doing by telling us here and sharing on social media etc. Use the hashtags above and #menshealthweek
You CAN DO it by yourself. Or with friends. CONNECT Monday is the perfect day to round up your friends for the rest of the week.
You CAN DO it for fun. Or you CAN DO it to fundraise. Support your favourite charity. Hopefully, us! (If you do choose us, use our Total Giving page. But if you prefer Just Giving, we have that too.)
#ShowUsYourBlue
On Friday, everybody can give their support to the men’s health message by wearing blue. (A great initiative from our US friends the Men's Health Network.) There's a Blue Friday poster among the freebies. Can you give something else as well?
Want to make the challenge more challenging?
- Can you find an activity that ticks all 5 boxes? Taking a group of people on a historical walk, for example.
- Can you get five friends to do it too?
- Can you do your chosen activity five times - five press-ups, five books, five minutes dancing five times, five marathons
- Can you do all five ways in one day? Can you do that for every day of the week?
- Not sure what to do? To get you thinking, here are 50 ideas from our men's health champions. There are dozens more ideas in Man MOT For The Mind.
- Keep checking back here - we'll be posting some of our favourite ideas.
- Tell us what you're doing.
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The Men’s Health Forum need your support It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking. In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to. It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for. We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing. Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.
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