A slightly modified version of an earlier presentation, made for the officers who are about to retire from service, organized by the Zonal Training Centre, LIC.

2. WELCOME

3. Retire and Enjoy Prof. V. Viswanadham - Growing Old Gracefully

4. HONOURABLE AND PEACEFUL LIFE

5. ARE YOU READY TO RETIRE ? EMOTIONALLY ?

6. After your active life – involving important things such as your career, marriage, children, taking care of your children’s education, their career and their marriage and so on . . . the next most important thing is your own retirement

8. Do not get worried about your retirement and old age Everyone grows older We get older every day, without realizing that the future depends to a great extent on the choices you make today Right decisions with the help of proper planning, taken at the right time will assure smile and success at the time of retirement

9. Plan to enjoy your retirement

10. THE WAY YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE TILL YOU RETIRE HAS AN IMPORTANT BEARING ON YOUR RETIRED LIFE

11. LONG LIFE . . . has become a distinct reality 1. Developments in Medical Science 2. Increased awareness of Healthy Life 3. Adoption of Healthy Habits ~ Food, Exercise, Yoga, Pranayama & Dhyana 4. Improved opportunities for Happy Living

12. Life after Retirement . . . new Issues . . . new Problems . . . new Challenges . . . new Opportunities

13. Economic Security Social Security

14. Physical Health Mental Health Spiritual Health

15. DECLINING HEALTH INCREASING STRESS DECREASING ABILITY TO COPE WITH CHANGES

16. GOOD HEALTH ~ AT ANY AGE DEPENDS ON WHAT WE EAT WHAT WE DRINK WHAT WE BREATH HOW WE EXERCISE HOW WE REST HOW WE RELAX HOW WE RECREATE IN SHORT, HOW WE LIVE

17. DECLINING ENERGY LEVELS INCREASING NEED FOR BEING MORE CAREFUL

18. ANAYAASENA MARANAM . . .

19. GETTING BED-RIDDEN

20. DEVELOPING DETACHMENT

21. WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG . . . YOU HAD MORE ENERGY MORE CONFIDENCE MORE INSISTENCE

22. NOW THAT, YOU ARE NO MORE YOUNG . . . A CHANGE IN YOUR ATTITUDE IS NECESSARY IN YOUR OWN INTEREST

23. SPIRITUAL INCLINATION IMPROVES DETACHMENT

24. STHITHA PRAJNATHVAM

25. SPIRITUAL PRACTICES IMPROVE SATWICK ATTITUDE

26. EARLY TO BED & EARLY TO RISE

28. Some FRIENDLY SUGGESTIONS THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

29. AT LEAST 1 % OF YOUR TIME TO BE INVESTED IN GOOD READING SO AS TO PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE FUTURE 24 hours X 60 minutes = 1,440 minutes

30. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS : CONSTANTLY & CONTINUOUSLY REVIEW PAST PRESENT FUTURE

31. PAST + PRESENT + FUTURE THE NEED FOR A : RECORD + ACTION PLAN + VISION C + D + P COMMITMENT + DISCIPLINE + PERSEVERANCE ADOPT WORK IS WORSHIP ATTITUDE

32. REINVENT YOURSELF YOU ARE YOUR OWN RAW-MATERIAL. YOU ARE YOUR OWN SCULPTOR. WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU CONSIST OF, & WHAT YOU WANT TO MAKE OF IT, THEN YOU CAN INVENT YOURSELF And reinvent yourself.

33. Is it not True that we are continuously learning and shaping ourselves

34. WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR THINKING YOU CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS ~ EXPECTATIONS ~ ATTITUDE ~ BEHAVIOUR ~ PERFORMANCE ~ LIFE.

35. January 26, 2011 DON'Ts . . . NO DRUGS NO ALCHOHAL NO TOBACCO NO INDULGENCES NO EXCESSES NO NEW VICES know when to say "no", & learn when to say "stop"

36. Jan 26, 2011 LISTEN TO SOFT & SOOTHING MUSIC

37. MOVE OUT INTO THE OPEN AND ENJOY OBSERVE SUN RISE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU CAN

38. Jan 26, 2011 ANGER IRRITATION REACTION TAKE A DEEP BREATH TRY TO REGAIN CONTROL THINK BEFORE YOU TALK FOR EVERY MINUTE YOU ARE ANGRY YOU LOSE 60 SECONDS OF HAPPINESS

39. WALKING WALKING WALKING Please see my presentation on “Walking”

40. KEEP ON LEARNING NEW SKILLS & BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS

41. List the activities: you need not have to do you may have to do you have to do you could not do & you would now like to do With greater maturity, what new things you would like to do now

42. FROM BEING VERY BUSY TOWARDS LAZINESS TOWARDS LEISURE TOWARDS ENJOYING THE LIFE

43. You have a right to enjoy your Retirement … DON’T ALLOW ANYTHING TO DISTURB THE TRANQUILITY

44. Retirement Should become the best period of your life, when you can literally sit back and relax.

45. CONSIDER : 1. GETTING UP EARLY 2. DRINKING 4 GLASSES OF WATER, AS THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING 3. REGULAR WALKING / EXERCISE 4. YOGASANAS, PRANAYAMA & DHYANA 18

46. 5. EAT SPROUTS AND MORE FRUITS 6. REDUCE OILY FOOD

47. 7. DRINK 2 GLASSES OF WATER, BEFORE FOOD; ALSO, AFTER 2 HOURS; BUT NOT WHILE TAKING FOOD 8. PREFER FOODS THAT CAN BE DIGESTED EASILY, PARTICULARLY FOR DINNER, consider adding seasonal fruits.

48. 9. LEARNING SOMETHING NEW 10. WRITING FROM MEMORY 11. HAVE SOME HOBBY, THAT WOULD MAKE YOU SWEAT 12. CHECK REGULARLY AND MAINTAIN PROPER WEIGHT

49. 13. REDUCE SALT INTAKE 14. REDUCE SUGAR & GUD 15. REDUCE SPICEY FOOD

50. 16. PRACTICE DOING YOUR THINGS ON YOUR OWN 17. REDUCE ANGER, IRRITATION & JEALOUSY 18. LOVE AND NOT HATRED

51. IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER 3

52. SELF { SELFLESSNESS SELFISHNESS

53. SELFLESSNESS SELFISHNESS Give & Forgive Get & Forget

54. IMPROVE CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPOUSE

55. Depression . . . Family circumstances . . . Shift from an active & busy life to leisurely life . . . Reduced regular income . . . Shifting place of residence . . . Change in the environment AVOID in spite of . . .

56. . . . Absence of friends . . . Away from the grown-up children . . . Decreasing immunity levels . . . Brooding over relatively small matters . . . Inability to feel happy at even small things

57. . . . Feeling disinterested . . . Unwillingness to do personal works . . . Inability to explain the vaccum . . . Brooding over the past . . . Feeling of isolation . . . Loss of dear ones

58. . . . Increasing forgetfulness . . . Feeling isolated . . . Imaginery health problems . . . Feeling that others are not interested in you . . . And so on and so on

59. YOU ARE AS OLD AS YOU THINK YOU ARE

60. UNWILLINGNESS TO BE ACTIVE IS WILLINGNESS TO GET OLD FASTER

61. UNWILLINGNESS TO BE ACTIVE IS BECOMING MORE UNINVOLVED, DEPENDENT & BECOMING BITTER

62. OLD AGE IS SECOND CHILDHOOD !!! While Children are young & dependent You are old and independent ~ this adds to unhappiness and sense of solitude

63. Just Think . . . Whether you are getting OLDER or getting BETTER ?

64. Learning is for the young RIGHT ? or WRONG ?

65. The human body and brain were not designed to relax for long . Those that relax long and unnecessarily, d e c a y .

66. DON'T BE INACTIVE DON'T BE REACTIVE BE PROACTIVE BE RESPONSIVE BE ACTIVE

67. DEVELOP THE ART OF GETTING OLD GRACEFULLY

68. CONSIDER : READING ELEVATING LITERATURE SOLVING CROSSWORD PUZZLES, PLAYING CHESS, SU-DOKU Etc. GETTING INVOLVED IN RELIGIOUS, SPIRITUAL & PHILONTHROPIC ACTIVITIES How about COMPUTERS ?

69. Control the tendency to give u n s o l i c i t e d a d v i c e

70. LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITH A SENSE OF DETACHMENT

71. IMPROVE C = R RESPONSES RESPONSIBILITIES RELATIONSHIPS IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPOUSE & CHILDREN NEIGHBOURS TOO HOW ABOUT GOD ?

72. W. A. T. C. H. W = WORDS A = ACTIONS T = THOUGHTS C = CHARACTER H = HEAD & HEART

73. BE PREPARED FOR : . . . for being treated as low priority . . . for being asked to perform small tasks . . . for being considered a source of money . . . for acquiring greater emotional maturity . . . for facing the realities of generation gaps, particularly with grandchildren 9 THINGS

74. BE PREPARED FOR : 9 THINGS . . . for giving advice, only when asked . . . for reconsidering expenditure pattern, . . . for becoming increasingly self-reliant . . . for increasing mental, physical & spiritual activity

75. Love is so caring… People have to see themselves as part of a relay team. Your job is to get the baton into the hands of the next person and get off the track. If you think this way, Retirement is a very natural, peaceful process.

77. January 26, 2011 Please Put Something into practice WISH YOU ALL THE BEST

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