Retirement Planning Tip - Spend Many Pre-Retirement Days Thinking about What You Want to Do
Although retiree Pat O’Brien of East Haddam, Connecticut occasionally misses the stimulation of work, she is as active as she could be. Eighteen months after O’Brien retired from her proofreading job for a law firm in Stamford, Connecticut, she told a U.S. News Reporter, “The biggest surprise is I just don’t know where the time goes.”
Regardless of the bad press that retirement often gets, many people such as Pat O’Brien don’t have trouble filling their days when they retire. O’Brien, 65, is joined in retirement by her husband, Jim, 70. She is active in the local historical society, a church group, a women’s exercise club, and the American Legion. “It’s been very enjoyable for me,” stated Pat.
According to the survey conducted by AIG SunAmerica, the people most likely to enjoy retirement are those who have planned for it. This is borne out by the fact that 78 percent of people who prepare for retirement both financially and psychologically view it as “a whole new life” or a “continuation of life as it was.”
If you are not presently retired, it’s important to spend many preretirement days thinking about what you want to do when you walk out of your workplace for the last time. All too often, people put off things too long. As 71-year-old Florida retiree Howard Salzmann stated, “If you didn’t learn how to live before you reach 65, it’s very difficult to teach you how to live afterwards.”
#1 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retire from work, but not from life.
— M. K. Soni
#2 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.
— Susan Miller
#3 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before your boss does.
— Unknown wise person
#4 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
I never stopped doing anything [when I retired], I stopped getting paid for it.
— Bill Chavanne
#5 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is the beginning of life, not the end.
— from the international bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
#6 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
— Abe Lemons
#7 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
There is life after retirement, and it is BETTER.
— Catherine Pulsifer.
#8 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
I never stopped doing anything [when I retired], I stopped getting paid for it.
— Bill Chavanne
#9 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
— Workplace graffiti
#10 Quote of First Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
— Abe Lemons
Note: The above retirement quotes and retirement sayings are adapted from:
Written by Ernie Zelinski. Other articles by Ernie Zelinski.
Ernie J. Zelinski is a leading authority on the subjects of retirement, solo-entrepreneurship, and attaining real success without a real job by pursuing one's dream career. Ernie is the author of the recently released "101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting", the bestseller "How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free" (over 90,000 copies sold and published in 7 foreign languages), and the international bestseller "The Joy of Not Working" (over 225,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages). Ernie is presently rewriting his "Real Success Without a Real Job" which will now be called "Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations." For the Free E-book version of Ernie's book "How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free" visit: http://www.real-success.ca/free_ebooks.html
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