Three tips for adding spice to your retired life

Retirement is a time to enjoy the dividend of happiness that comes your way once you stop working.

However, some find it difficult to fully engage with all the free time, lack of routine or simply not having direction from a boss. We all experience retirement differently. Here are some tips to add spice to your retirement.

1.   Reflect on your identity in retired life

What does this mean you ask? Well, you had an identity when you worked, whether as a bus driver or prime minister. Now do you want to be known as a “retired person”? Probably not. So will you be a volunteer, an oboe player, a bushwalker? The choice is yours to make.

2.   Make a new friend

You may already have lots of friends, but the chances are that during your busy work life friendships waned and lapsed. OK, why not make new friends. Impossible? No. Challenging? Yes. Perhaps join a club or take up a hobby or do a course. That way you have a chance to meet new people and who knows, make a friend or two.

3.   Visit a part of your town you’ve never seen before

It’s so easy to go stale in retirement, living under a predictable regime and finding that you are getting bored. Not good. Here’s a simple trick to engage your curiosity muscle: visit a part of your town/city you’ve never been to and observe. Who knows what you’ll see. 

Please visit:

https://www.64plus.com.au/contact

To get more ideas. The door is open.

Jon Glass Retirement Coach.