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Outrageous Retirement Wishes- Who do you want to spend time with?

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Make New Friends

Even if you have a healthy and active community of friends and family after retiring, you need more.  Most people find that their community dwindles after retirement.  Maybe the friends from work no longer relate the way they used to. Maybe you never developed friendships because of work and family responsibilities. It doesn’t matter the reason. If you don’t have a community of friends and family in retirement then build one. Start by asking yourself who you would like to be part of your community and them plan your life to make room for them. Ask yourself three questions: Continue reading →

Originally posted 2010-08-30 09:17:38. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Develop a sense of urgency – to pare down that bucket list

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I’ve got a list! You might call it a bucket list

Actually it is more than one list- of things I want to do and have. I started it early on in life.

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There were the things I could do when I grew up; when I graduated; when I got married; became a father. And then the big kahuna of lists; the things I would do when I retired. I still have those lists because I never made everything on those lists happen. All along my life, I believed that there would be time to make them happen. I deferred for various reasons but the biggest was that I always believed I would have the time or money later. I thought that working harder now would make it possible eventually to have them all. Continue reading →

Originally posted 2011-01-12 09:14:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Retirement Advice: Know what’s important.

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Hats off to Joan

I rail about the benefits of blogging for ‘mature’ people “Why do I rail?” you ask. If you have followed me for a while you know that it is just what I do but there is reasoning behind it. Blogging or reading blogs is a good way to get your thinking right or to understand the thinking of other people. If you don’t have anything to say yourself then you should be reading the blogs of people who do. I can’t tell you how much I have learned about life from connecting with other people through their blogs. Through their thoughtful posts I can learn how they approach life and make real decisions. I like to think that each of us should make our lives extraordinary (sometimes I say outrageous) but it is hard to do because society wants us to be responsible and cautious. I think that you need to do things that you will remember all your days with great pleasure instead of not doing them and regretting what you could have done. One of the bloggers I read regularly did just that and she shared her decision process with her readers. Joan looked at her choices and rejected conventional wisdom. Joan decided to be outrageous. Continue reading →

Originally posted 2010-10-29 09:38:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Take Charge of Your Attitude

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The posts this week asked two questions about attitude: What gets you up and what puts you down. These are critical questions for anybody who isn’t willing to settle for what everybody else has. If you want something different, you have to fight for it. It is a struggle to keep your motivation and drive even just to get up out of bed in the morning. Getting up is only the start, however because the next task is to counter the negatives that tell everything is hopeless and not to even try.

Clearly the answer is a positive attitude that carries you forward to your dreams. You can’t let someone else control your thinking. So what can you do? How can you keep focused on your outrageous lifestyle goals and how can you fight off the negative forces that tell you you can’t do it? How can you have a positive attitude in a negative world? It is a challenge but a big part of the answer is to get reinforcements. Learn two important keys to developing and maintaining a positive attitude.

Take Charge of Your Attitude

Originally posted 2010-11-12 08:47:28. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Retirement Lifestyle: What is your legacy?

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What does ‘legacy‘ mean to you?

It is money and things that you can buy with money? Is it extravagance and luxury? Is it something you buy? Is it a college endowment or a wing at the hospital that makes your name immortal? Is it a lifestyle that sets you apart from other people and gives your family a unique quality of life.  Do you want to leave a legacy? Continue reading →

Originally posted 2010-10-08 08:19:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter