5. After your active life – involving important things such as your career, marriage, children, taking care of your children’s education, career and marriage and so on . . . the next most important thing your own retirement
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7. Do not get worried about your retirement and old age Everyone grows older We get older every day, without realizing 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. THE WAY YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE TILL YOU RETIRE HAS AN IMPORTANT BEARING ON YOUR RETIRED LIFE
10. 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
11. Life after Retirement . . . new Issues . . . new Problems . . . new Challenges . . . new Opportunities
15. 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
30. KEEP ON LEARNING NEW SKILLS & BROADEN YOUR HORIZONS
31. FROM BEING VERY BUSY TOWARDS LAZINESS TOWARDS LEISURE TOWARDS ENJOYING THE LIFE
32. 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
33. You have a right to enjoy your Retirement … DON’T ALLOW ANYTHING TO DISTURB THE TRANQUILITY
34. Retirement Should become the best period of your life, when you can literally sit back and relax.
35. 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
37. 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
38. 9. LEARNING SOMETHING NEW 10. WRITING FROM MEMORY 11. HAVE SOME HOBBY, THAT WOULD MAKE YOU SWEAT 12. CHECK REGULARLY AND MAINTAIN PROPER WEIGHT
45. 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 . . .
46. . . . 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
47. . . . Feeling disinterested . . . Unwillingness to do personal works . . . Inability to explain the vaccum . . . Brooding over the past . . . Feeling of isolation . . . Loss of dear ones
48. . . . Increasing forgetfulness . . . Feeling isolated . . . Imaginery health problems . . . Feeling that others are not interested in you . . . And so on and so on
58. CONSIDER : READING ELEVATING LITERATURE SOLVING CROSSWORD PUZZLES, PLAYING CHESS, SU-DOKU Etc. GETTING INVOLVED IN RELIGIOUS, SPIRITUAL & PHILONTHROPIC ACTIVITIES How about COMPUTERS ?
60. LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITH A SENSE OF DETACHMENT
61. IMPROVE C = R RESPONSES RESPONSIBILITIES RELATIONSHIPS IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPOUSE & CHILDREN NEIGHBOURS TOO
62. 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
63. 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
64. 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.
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66. THANK YOU A BIG THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENT LISTENING IF MOTIVATED, PLEASE PUT SOMETHING INTO PRACTICE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR A HAPPY LIFE