- Have a positive attitude
It’s simply the next stage of your life and like all the other stages, it offers opportunities and challenges. Possibly for the first time in your adult life, you have the freedom and time to do the things that you want to do rather than the things that others want you to do. That’s a good reason to be optimistic.
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- Accept that you’ll be dealing with lots of changes
Yes, retirement does involve some major changes. If you realise in advance that that there will be some challenges, you can do some research and be prepared when they arrive. Our retirement planning books can certainly help.
- Have some goals
A life of passive leisure and a strategy of “going with the flow” is going to get boring, and boredom can be a big problem in retirement. We need a sense of purpose in our lives and having some goals is a good way to find some purpose.
- Do some planning
Having a financial plan gives you a better chance to have a reasonable level of control over your retirement years. However it’s equally important to do some planning for the lifestyle that you wish to have. That’s where we can help.
We have published a very comprehensive retirement planning book titled “A Holistic Guide to a Happy Retirement”, which has been used by four major superannuation funds and thousands of individuals. You can find more details about this book on our website at https://retirementbooks.com.au
- There’s more to a successful retirement than having enough money
Unfortunately, we’ve all been told that planning for retirement is all about having enough money. That’s only part of the story. Unless we also think seriously about issues like – our important relationships, our health, our new purpose in life, our family, where we are going to live, future paid or volunteer work, how we are going to stay involved with life, to name some of the major issues, we are likely to have trouble adapting to our new life.
- Your age has more to do with what’s between your ears than a date on your birth certificate
You probably know some people who are “old” in their 50s while there’s others who are full of life, active and curious in their 80s. It’s all about our attitude. As George Burns famously said: “We can’t help getting older, but we don’t have to get ‘old’.”