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Retirement - How To Do All The Things You Want To Do, And More!
to enjoy your retirement? to still have a purpose to every day? to achieve a good balance between seeing friends and family? to pursue your own interests and have time to relax? Then this article is for you. It's aim isn't to tell you what to do in retirement, but to open your mind to the many opportunities available. You earned it, now enjoy it!! Did you know life expectancy in the UK is 78 years for men and 82 years for women? And the good news is that this is increasing all the time. As we get older we have more chance of living to a 'ripe old age' because we have already survived so far! A 68 year old male can expect to live another 16 years. So the secret is don't get old before your time. Now is a great opportunity to do all the things you have always wanted to do, but never had the time. 'If I'd known that retirement was going to be this good I'd have done it the day after I left school' Mickey White To Plan or Not to Plan . . . Are you a planner? Do you like to be organised and know what is happening in the week or are you a 'free spirit' - some body who likes to 'go with the flow' and do whatever they feel like doing whenever they want to do it? I suppose most people would fall between these two extremes. It's nice to be able to think 'it's a nice day, let's go to the coast', but no planning tends to result in no focus in life, wasted days, boredom and not living an active retirement. The answer is flexible planning - an overview of what you want to do, but with the option to change it as and when you want. Long and Short Term Planning Get a piece of paper and write down everything that you would like to do in the coming year. The list might go something like this. Decorate the lounge. Spend a month in my sister's caravan. Learn to swim. Read more books. Clear out cupboards and take things to charity shop, then keep them tidy. Look up some old friends. Do more exercise. Arrange to babysit for my daughter once a month Then pencil these in to a month by month calender. You can add to it as the year goes on, but you now have a flexible framework on which to build, without having each day mapped out. Now let's get on with planning the sort of retirement that you want! Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Pat Donbavand is a retired primary school teacher. She is married with two adult children and one lovely granddaughter. She has compiled her own retirement website www.livinganactiveretirement.com |
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