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Indeed, one study showed that approximately a quarter of all North American retirees are unhappy because they would rather be working. Almost a third of retirees return to work sooner or later; most do so within a year of retiring.
important principal ideas should be used to generate retirement activities that you may want to pursue: Activities that turn you on now Activities that turned you on in the past (but you have stopped doing) New activities you have thought of doing (but haven’t done yet)
“Night Classes.” You can add more branches off the secondary ones to record a third level of ideas; for example, for the general activity “Night Classes” there are specific classes: “Zen,” “Wine Tasting,” “Writing Fiction,” and “Business Courses.” You could even add a fourth level; for example, “Marketing” and “Accounting” (not shown) from the “Business Courses” branch.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson For most of us, a happy retirement won’t be attained by freedom from duty and responsibility, leading to a life filled with nothing but passive leisure and pleasure. Undoubtedly, if you have read this book this far, you don’t want to end like up the average North American, looking for as much recreation, entertainment, and cheap thrills as you can get at the expense of doing something that is challenging and exciting.
These activities, however, are poor preparation for a retirement that is happy, wild, and free. Only by being physically, intellectually, and creatively challenged can individuals find satisfaction and fulfillment in their leisure activities.
In fact, over the years some workers become totally reliant on the company for social intercourse, so much so that they eventually lose the skills necessary to develop new friendships away from the workplace. Upon
To retire happy, wild, and free, virtually every one of us needs friends with whom we can interact personally, philosophically, and spiritually. We don’t necessarily need many friends, but we need a few close ones.
They should care about you deeply enough to want to spend a lot of time with you once you retire.
in style. Virtuoso is a network of 250 independent travel agents who specialize in arranging luxurious and out-of-the-ordinary getaways for the moneyed class. The agents are polled annually about the nature of the business. One of the questions regularly asked is, “What was the most unusual active/adventure trip you scheduled for clients?” Following are some of the responses to that question
It’s important to acknowledge the role that travel plays in having a healthy retirement instead of thinking in terms of being able to travel only if one is healthy. The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) and Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS) recently released a research study titled Journey to Healthy Aging: Planning for Travel in Retirement. According to the research study, travel during retirement can be much more than just an enjoyable activity. Travel and its associated activities have been linked to healthy aging — boosting physical, cognitive and social benefits. Those who
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Betsy and John Braden moved from Atlanta, Georgia, the place where they had retired and found too boring, to a rented cottage in southwestern France.
Asheville has regularly been cited in surveys by magazines such as Money and Modern Maturity as being one of the best places to retire in the United States. Approximately 20 percent of Asheville’s residents are over sixty-five; this contributes to an eclectic mix of residents from young students to working adults to middle-aged artists to third-age retirees. “For a city its size, it’s quite remarkable — the cultural richness, the small-business community,” boasted Rogers.
in the United States, you can start by checking AARP’s website where AARP regularly rates college towns as retirement destinations. Some time ago AARP’s Modern Maturity magazine rated the following places as the best college towns in which to live: Austin, Texas; Charlottesville, Virginia; Columbia, Missouri; Madison, Wisconsin; Princeton, New Jersey; Iowa City, Iowa; Bloomington, Indiana; Las Cruces, New Mexico; State College, Pennsylvania; and Ann Arbor, Michigan. For more information on
Retirement Places Rated by David Savageau, compares more than 200 top retirement areas according to costs of living, housing, climate,
His conclusions support the premise of this book that how happy you will be in retirement will depend on whether you are willing to be happy.
Retirement is not a time to sleep, but a time to awaken to the beauty of the world around you and the joy that comes when you cast out all the negative elements that cause confusion and turmoil in your mind and allow serenity to prevail.”
you must put your life in synch with your deepest values and beliefs. You must pursue what you truly want out of retirement, and not what others want you to pursue, or what other retirees are pursuing. This is not an easy thing to do, particularly in modern Western society where we are subject to so many outside influences.
The more you are out of step with society, the greater your chances for self-discovery, adventure, and happiness in this world.
When you are ageless, you never get sick, tired, or depressed.”
Indeed, prosperity comes from the Latin word “spes,” which means “hope and vigor.” To the happy retiree, being truly prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment, regardless of level of wealth.
Living in the moment is crucial for living happily because the present moment is all that you really have.
If you are not as fulfilled as you would like to be, perhaps you are playing it too safe. The one thing we should never regret are our mistakes. And the one thing we should regret is not having made more. Always waiting for the river to run dry before you cross
“In the end these things matter most,” revealed Buddha. “How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you learn to let go?”
Have some perpetual small enjoyment in which you indulge daily. Never miss it, regardless of how busy you are. This will do wonders for your well-being. Indeed, it will do more for your happiness than acquiring the biggest and best of possessions.
Consider each day you haven’t laughed, played, and celebrated your life to be a wasted day. You
Costa Del Sol, Spain The Cinque Terra, Italy Provence, France Boquete, Panama St Vincent & the Grenadines, Caribbean County Lare, Ireland NONG KHAI, Thailand Crete, Greece Ambergris Caye, Belize Tunis, Tunisia Algarve, Portugal Cayman Islands, Caribbean San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Paphos, Cyprus Ubud, Bali, Indonesia You can see more information relating to the best places to retire for Americans on the Where to Retire webpage on The Retirement Café website. Additional
We had been living off our portfolio and we got CRUSHED in the Fall of 2008. It meant a return to the world of w**k. So we sold the motorhome, moved back to the suburbs of Buffalo, NY and went back to IT jobs.
stop at Cayuga Playground in SF on my way home from a wonderful
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