Enjoy Retirement to the Fullest

Any visitor to this website quickly realizes that I believe everyone should enjoy retirement to the fullest.  That means enjoying your life in every possible way.  I think every hour of every day should be taken advantage of.  But that doesn't mean you have to rush around like an overachiever without taking the time to enjoy the finer things in life.  No, just the opposite is true.  When you enjoy retirement to the fullest you take the time to assess every aspect of your life and nurture it in a way that allows you to experience more, appreciate what you have and direct your actions to constant improvement in your mind and spirit.  I hope that doesn’t come across as too intellectual because it’s not meant to be.  It’s meant to motivate you to stop taking any aspect of life for granted and to make an effort to appreciate everything the world has to offer.

When you enjoy retirement to the fullest, you don’t just sit down and eat something for the sake of satisfying your hunger.  No, you take a look at what you have for ingredients and try to create a meal that will rival those of the best restaurants you’ve ever visited.  If you’ve had a great pulled pork sandwich somewhere, make one that’s even better!  A clam chowder that you remember from Cape Cod?  Do some research and bring that taste to your own kitchen!  Okay, so I’m exaggerating just a bit.  But you can add some excitement and variety to your life much more easily than you think and have a lot of fun doing it, especially if you’re able to do it with others.  Our family actually did vacation one year in Cape Cod and we decided to create our own Chowder Crawl by having the clam chowder in every restaurant we went to.  It was fun to watch our children turn into food critics and analyze what they liked about each offering.  Truth be told, my wife and I did the same thing when it was just the two of us and we returned to the area about twenty years later.

You can add some fun to almost any activity and that’s the secret to life at any stage.  You can enjoy retirement to the fullest by adding a little twist to almost anything.  If you meet up with friends and do the same thing all the time like playing cards, change the script once in a while by watching a favorite movie or buying one of those Murder Mystery kits.  We’ve done that twice and it can be a lot of fun.  The pictures will prove it.  Too many people fall into a rut and don’t know how to get out of it.  Life is meant to be enjoyed, and retirement should be filled with new activities to do rather than just memories from the past.  Make new memories.  Go to new places and try new foods.  Start a new hobby and make new friends.

You can enjoy retirement to the fullest by learning new skills and trying new things.

Our daughter has been involved in local theater for over twenty-five years and knows quite a few seniors who became active in their post-working years.  It’s never too late to try new things or master new skills.  Although our daughter is quite accomplished as an actress and singer (and hasn’t given up on here dream of starring on Broadway), she is still learning new skills in the video world and has started recording storytelling for children which is a passion of hers.  I give her a lot of credit for staying with her dream.  I am absolutely sure she will stay on that path and probably never actually retire.  Everyone’s story is different, and your complete story has yet to be told.

You can enjoy retirement to the fullest by being proactive instead of waiting for invitations to come your way.  Plan a trip and then do it.  If someone else wants to come along, that’s fine but don’t wait for someone else to create the opportunity to see another part of the country or even the world.  And don’t be afraid.  Some people do things because they’ve never done them before and they’re not sure they can do it.  Trust me.  You CAN do it.  If you want to do something, you can.  There is a saying that I came across that basically says that whether you think you can do something or think you can’t do something, you’re right. 

Be the person who thinks they can.  Be the person who makes a list of places they want to travel to and then makes the reservations to take the trip.  Be the person who starts a new hobby and masters it.  Be the person who decides to learn to play a new instrument and then plans their first concert.  Life, and retirement, are as good as you want to make them.  Our working years provided excuses to put things off because we could never leave our job.  But those days are over.  The only excuse now is that, deep down, we didn’t want to really do all of those things we dreamed about.  I just don’t think that’s true.  Retirement is our chance to do it all.  Every place we ever wanted to see is waiting for us.  Everything we wanted to try to do from writing a novel, to skiing downhill to surfing the Pacific is still there waiting for us to go out and do it.  You can enjoy retirement to the fullest by becoming determined to do so.  You’re not going to get another chance.  It’s time to Enjoy Retired Life!

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