The New Retirementality by Mitch Anthony

Author:Mitch Anthony
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118705025
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-01-19T16:00:00+00:00

If you would like to think through your own purpose and direction, I would encourage you to work through the Retiring on Purpose workbook at the end of this book. This profile will help you to set your own direction and define the engagements that will be meaningful to you as you enter the third and potentially most promising stage of life.

Challenge Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

“This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose, recognized by yourself as a mighty one: being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish, little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”

—George Bernard Shaw

Going forward, it will be more beneficial to choose a posture of proactive health rather than get caught up in the health care system. You need to decide that this will be a vigorous and involved stage of life as opposed to a withdrawing and “retiring” stage. You can make the preparations you feel are necessary (such as long-term-care insurance), but the greatest impact to your health will be rendered by the New Retirementality decisions we make for holistic well-being, such as:

Work out your heart on a regular basis by walking, jogging, or some other aerobic exercise. One study showed that walking three times a week for two miles adds five years to your life expectancy; decreases depression, diabetes, and cancer rates; and helps you sleep better. Cardiovascular challenge replenishes oxygen into your cellular system and improves the function of both body and mind.

Engage in regular, light weightlifting. Lifting holistically produces not just physical strength and resilience but attitudinal and internal strength as well.

Maintain physical intimacy. The head actuarial at a leading insurance company told me of a conversation he had with a 75-year-old woman who was rated for a 20-year life insurance policy by his company. Having never seen this happen before, he called the woman to ask for the secret to her great health. Her reply: “Frequent and frantic sex.”

Schedule charitable and altruistic activity into every week. Those who feel a sense of purpose live longer and better.

Don’t join the “moan and groan” sorority or fraternity. Of course, we will have joints that hurt or don’t work as well as they did, but we don’t have to linger on them. Pessimism leads to an expedited health decline.

Engage in work or activities that utilize your talents and challenge your brain. “Continuing to work keeps the mind sharp and the body healthy, which aids in maintaining a positive attitude,” says Dr. Russell Clark, a 103-year-old real estate developer.

Drink a little coffee to start your engine and a little red wine to wind it down. You’ve seen the studies. Cheers!

Examine your soul each day with reading, prayer, meditation, and checking of motives in word and actions. Forgive those who offend, and love those who don’t deserve it. It has been said that “grace is getting what we don’t deserve, and mercy is not getting what we do deserve.

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