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Training for Retirement – Overview

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Retirement is as a second chance at life. An opportunity to take the paths not followed and to answer the unanswered questions about life’s choices. You need to enjoy the process as part of your life rather than a task or what you are told are the “suppose to’s of retirement that are designed to keep you out of the way. There are many paths you can choose:

1.Continue to work
2.Activates fill the day
3.Grandparent-Dom
4.Waiting
5.Paradigm shift of how your see yourself and what give you pleasure, happiness and purpose

Each of these are covered in the book Retirement – How not to end up Lonely, Tired and Bored by Joel E. Smith, available on amazon.
Coaching for retirement the process of discovery and change to help you deal with the reality of retirement. It is a rediscovery and awareness rather than a journey to somewhere. It is about seeing yourself as you are today and the transition to find pleasure, happiness, and purpose. It excluding drugs, sex, and conspicuous consumption and focuses on basics of your life eating, breathing, mental awareness and physical activity all in support of finding your please, happiness and purpose.

The training is centered around
Low stress, low impact multiple muscle group exercises that can be part of your life
Carbohydrate/sugar reduction program
oNo calorie restriction eating regime
oGradual intermittent fasting
Meditation development centered around clearing your mind and obtaining focus on self
How to find the tribe that supports your pleasure, happiness and purpose

Training helps you build self-improvement and monitoring skills that you will use to empower your retirement choices. Training centers around the following areas:
Breathing
Posture
Walking
Core development
Multiple muscle group activities
Expanding your comfort zone

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You spent 40 plus years paying attention to and planning your Breadwinning career. Work-related issues and problems filled your mind on the job and when at home. Now that is gone, but your mind has not moved on. Just like your planning for retirement where you were given financial advice on saving for retirement. You maintained a 401K, set aside money from your family for your own future use. You may have even gotten get help by engaging a financial planner to guide your investing. You were told that hobbies and vacations will fill your days with happiness and purpose. It may, but not likely. The book “Retirement How NOT to end up Tired, Bored and Lonely” is an excellent introduction to this next part of your life. In retirement, you need to rediscover yourself and your new purpose.

Retirement has started, so where to I go? What do i do?

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I wake up early, wash up, get dressed and go to the gym or bike for 45 minutes. Now what? I could stay at the gym or bike ride for the day and have bragging rights, but I would still be alone. My mother like to say a job solves all your problems. So what is the path to pleasure, happiness, and purpose in retirement?

The trick is do repeat what you did when you were a teen. Just go out and try it. If it does not work, pick something else and try again. Do it out of the house and with people. Just like when you were a teen and went to play in the neighborhood. If this is outside of your comfort zone. That ok. It was when you were a teen and you survived.

A YouTube Video on stepping outside your comfort zone.

The bottom line is you can now choose a purpose that does not force you to support your family. A choice that give you pleasure and happiness.

Meditation Is it possible while under drug addition

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The purpose of meditation is to have a tool to manage all the busy thoughts generated by judgments of others and negative thinking. Judging other would be great if they wanted or cared about your opinion. Usually, they do not, and it is only you justifying your view in contrast to theirs. Agree to disagree. Accept their idea as an alternative and free your mind and body from managing it on your thought list. Negative thinking is you looking for problems. Great if walking in the forest and watching out for lions, tigers, and bears or running a company looking for future challenges to solve. These are now distractions from you seeing yourself.

Drugs, in this case, sugar and carbohydrates when eaten in excessive quantities are an addictive drug that can result in diabetes, excessive weight, and anxiety or Metabolic Syndrome. These ailments are distractions from you finding yourself and your pleasures, happiness, and purpose during retirement

Are you a sugar and carbohydrate drug addict? Try MyFitnessPal and iPhone application to measure your percent carbohydrates and sugars that are consumed as part of your daily calories. Just like smoking, caffeine and alcohol, all drugs that hamper your free will, you are a drug addict addicted to sugars and carbohydrates.

Ted YouTube video on Sugar and Carbohydrates as an addictive drug:

You spent 40 plus years paying attention to and planning your Breadwinning career. Work-related issues and problems filled your mind on the job and when at home. Now that is gone, but your mind has not moved on. Just like your planning for retirement where you were given financial advice on saving for retirement. You maintain a 401K, set aside money from your family for your own future use. You may even get help by engaging a financial planner to guide your investing. You are told that hobbies and vacations will fill your days with happiness and purpose. It may, but not likely. The book “Retirement How NOT to end up Tired, Bored and Lonely” is an excellent introduction to this next part of your life.

Retirement – How NOT to End Up Tired, Bored and Lonely now available on amazon

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My book Retirement – How NOT to End Up Tired, Bored and Lonely is now available in printed and kindle version on Amazon.

Please enjoy the read. I would appreciate all comments and Amazon reviews.

Link to Amazon Page

You spent 40 plus years paying attention and planning your Big money career. Work related issues and problems filled your mind on the job and when at home. Now that is gone, but your mind has not moved on. Just like your planning for retirement where you were given financial advice on saving for retirement. You maintain a 401K, set aside money from your family for your own future use. You may even get help by engaging a financial planner to guide your investing. You are told that hobbies and vacations will fill your days with happiness and purpose. It may, but not likely.

What is a real friend?

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Friends are not acquaintances. A friend is someone who you can

-Trust to tell you the truth, even if they disagree with you
-Will come when called
-Shared a meal and
-Shared your feeling and thoughts without judgement

What is a real friend?

Do you have a friend?

Doing the financial planning, savings in a 401K, getting the best financial advice is only part of a successful retirement.

Retirement – Acquaintance or Friend – Loneliness

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A friend or an acquaintance can make the difference between during retirement.

A friend is someone who you have:
–Shared a meal with you recently
–When called will come
–May not agree with you, but always tells the truth

Ask yourself, how many friends do I have?

The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone.- Anne Drapper (Mad men)

All the people wo you pay for service, work with gym junkies that fill your day are most likely acquaintances. A short story to bring the point home.

I locked myself out of my car at YMCA. I asked a gym buddy, someone I have had conversations with to give me a ride home for the spare key. His response, you can go inside, and the people can help you. The financial advisors who help you save money and help plan for your happy life, most likely won’t give you a ride home

A video to help.