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Retirement; What To Do, What Not To Do

Retirement; What To Do, What Not To Do

Retirement is the withdrawal of your position or employment or active working life. A person can also retire by reducing working hours

What To Do In Retirement

Retirement can be an interesting phase of life; for the first time, you the time and the freedom to pursue other interests on your list of to do. However, it can also be a challenge because it is adapting to the loss of a stable work routine. Much study has been done to show that those who are better retired are those who remain active and involved, so it is important to look for new activities to fill your time.

Here are some tips for staying active after retirement:

Travel In Retirement

Take daily trips, cruises, travel abroad or visit each of the neighboring states.

Attend Classes

Learn to master a foreign language, learn computer skills, and learn new hobbies or additional ideas for current hobbies.

Learn New Retired Hobbies

Too many to mention all but some options are: drawing, painting, pottery, sculpture, piano or other musical instruments, singing, knitting, crochet, embroidery, quilting, scrapbooking, photography, gardening, cooking, woodworking, genealogy, craftsmanship.

Clean / Declutter

Instead of doing spring cleaning, do a "retirement" cleaning and organize, simplify and put in order your home.

Become A Volunteers 

There are several groups of organizations that need volunteers to help in the courses and activities of the program. You can select a course that is important to you or visits one of the many websites that match their skills with organizations that need volunteers.

Write, Even Though You Are The Only One To Read Your Work!

Finally, there is the time to write the book you always wanted to write, or to establish and manage a blog, write articles to be published in a bulletin, magazine or elsewhere, poems or their memories.

Social Organizations

Participate in groups of meetings oriented towards particular interests or populations. Clubs focused on books, chess, astronomy or exploration of gems and minerals are excellent opportunities and dating sites.

Remember Your Retired Family

Spend more time with your family, grandchildren or great-grandchildren. For older grandchildren, it is possible to participate in school and sports activities, take them to special events, zoos, museums, sports games.

You can offer to take care of the younger nephews. Help their education by reading with them, exposing them to upcoming quizzes, helping them with special projects and tutoring when necessary.

Find A Sport

Take part in all the sports you are interested in, such as fishing, walking, running, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, surfing or diving.

Join The Sports Championships

Take part in a sports championship to practice sports such as bowling, tennis, pickles, softball or football.

Mentor Or Teach

Help schools teach children to read or write, Teaching English to foreign speakers. Help an adult to learn to read, or if he has special skills developed during his career, he serves as a mentor for young people starting in the same field.

Reunite With Spiritual Activities

Meditate, learn yoga and participate in the activities of your church.

Stay Fit

It helps to prevent diseases that occur with old age and when walking, exercising or going to the gym. Many insurance companies offer free membership to the gym with the Silver Sneakers program.

If you are not sure if your insurance company offers Silver tennis shoes, you can call for a mutual insurance company to find out if they qualify for a free gym membership.

Be Interested In Reading 

For a little quiet time, sit down with a good book. You can read for pleasure or learn something new.

Find A Part-Time Job

Even if you do not need money, sometimes they have a little extra to spend money in your pocket allowing you to buy something that would not normally be needed. Check out some of the Internet job sites for companies looking for someone who works a few hours a week.

Take Civic Engagement Seriously

Apply for a political position in your community or become an activist for a cause that interests you.

Search For Special Events

Go to shows or concerts, watch movies, participate in theaters or special events organized by your city or nearby cities.

Play Retirement Games

Challenge yourself by playing against others on the Internet. This blog, sixty and me, has several games to choose from to play for pleasure or to refresh your mind.

Create A Bucket List

Write a list of things you've always wanted to do, but you could never do it in time, money, value or anything else. Set a goal to do and scratch something on the list once a month.

Start A Business

I kept the latter until the end because starting a business is what I did when I faced the question "What do I do now that I'm retired?" It was not something I thought of before retiring, but I had an idea of a service that I thought would help people and now had time to develop.

Think about what you could offer the public: a service or a product and study if it's something you sell. Starting up a business on the Internet is much easier than ever and has little-associated costs.

What Not To Do In Retirement?

Have Fun, But Do Not Be Unruly

When you experience that existential anxiety, it's time to move from the initial phase of retired vacations and think about what you want to do with the rest of your life:

• Do the research, explore your interests, write down your thoughts and dreams and plan a course. In other words, create a list of cubes.

• Develop new routines that provide the missing structure and keep you from feeling disoriented during your life without any purpose.

Do Not Immediately Reduce Your Home

When you retire, you are tempted to sell your home and go to smaller digs, especially if you need money and equity in your home. However, you may want to click on the pause button, especially if your payments are low or if you paid your mortgage.

• Reducing size is luxurious.

• Effective change is a considerable expense and may require emotionally and physically, even if it has just been transferred to the retirement community throughout the city.

• If you are thinking of moving over long distances which are said to be among the best retirement city in the country, consider those old friends would leave behind and all that is familiar.

• The postponement of moving to a new home after retirement will provide fewer changes to accommodate everyone at the same time.

If your monthly accommodation costs are low and it's just having more money available, there are fewer traumatic options to get your capital up and running to sell your home. You can get a reverse mortgage, rent a room, or make a studio rental garage that generates income.

Do Not Ruin Your Savings

Most people have a fixed income after retirement and are usually much lower than they earned when they worked. With so much time in your hands, it's easy to spend money as if you were on vacation. Budgeting and financial planning are essential. Have fun, but do not immerse yourself in your savings, except for needs.

• Savings on goods and services.

• Sell what you're not using.

• Check your credit.

• Enjoy your senior status.

• Use your head and follow what you are spending on the trip.

It may take time to recover expenses, so try to control the purchase on impulse. When you go shopping, save receipts and do not delete sales tags until you've decided that you need the item you just bought.

Conclusion

Retirement days are a time to have fun and make the most of it.

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