Retirement is a new beginning of your 2nd phase of life. It’s a time in your life to reinvigorate (or reinvent) yourself no matter what your age, gender, culture or beliefs. Retirement is a phase where you get to choose what direction to live out the rest of your years – and may there be many to come.
Whilst this life chapter offers a choice, and you are in charge of your own destiny, there are several key factors to consider that will impact the course you take.
Through self-awareness and careful planning you will understand the important parts that lifestyle, finance, health and fitness, and psychological outlook play in your retirement.
Retire with drive is here to provide you with all the support, ideas and opportunities you will need to live an eventful untruly fulfilling retirement.
Category Intro – Lifestyle
Retirement is very much a beginning of your life, not an end. You will have ideas and ambitions. Hopes and dreams. They may be fairly simple – spending more time with family and friends. Or more grandiose – travelling the world, moving house, buying a dream car, or indulging an interest in a way you’ve never had time to do before.
At the same time, you have to be realistic. This is not a time to rush headlong into anything. It is a time for careful planning within the boundaries of health, finance and an honest assessment of what is possible.
With the right planning, you can have the best of all worlds. Your retirement can be the exciting and invigorating time you want it to be, without compromising your stability.
Built on a solid foundation, you can have the lifestyle you desire. More than that, you can have the lifestyle you never imagined.
Category Intro – Finance
Retirement finances can seem like a minefield – what to save, what to invest, what to spend?
Actually, with the right advice and planning, finance need not be a prickly subject, an itch at the back of the mind. Instead it can be one of comfort, a warming cloak of security. The right advice is the cement in a sturdy financial wall.
A common mistake with finances is to imagine that retirement will be a time of decreased expenses. In the short-term it may be. But longer term, we must remember certain tasks, home repairs, for example, and mobility, will become limited by the aging process. Unexpected injury or illness can similarly have an impact.
Finance is the number one concern of those entering retirement. It absolutely needn’t be. With a careful and realistic plan, access to the right advice, and by learning from others, you can enjoy your retirement with the knowledge your finances can support your new lifestyle and account for any eventuality.
Category Intro – Psychological
Retirement is a big change. After years on the go – family, work, juggling the multiple demands of the everyday – it’s only natural that retirement can challenge a mind as well as free it.
Understanding that retirement is an ever-changing process is key to maintaining a healthy mental attitude to your journey through your later years.
Maintaining social networks, indulging in new activities, and staying active should not be listed as requirements – they are actually hugely fun necessities to achieve soundness of mind.
Awareness of one’s mental health, and maintaining it, is a huge part of a happy and fulfilling retirement.
Category Intro – Health and Fitness
There are some who run marathons well into their 80s. Fear not – that need not be you! But healthy aging can only add to your retirement.
Halting the momentum of time is something beyond any of us, but, by taking care of our health and fitness, we can slow it down.
Looking after ourselves need not entail hours in a gym. It is about utilising the everyday – staying active, feeding the mind, and perhaps adding one or two activities, as simple as a stroll around the block, to our lives.
There are endless possibilities to jump on board of to make the most of this exciting chapter of your life.