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Tips For Staying Healthy

Health

~~Tips for Your Health

Often time retirees find that a great portion of their social life has been left in the office.  You spend the majority of your waking hours at work and as a result you spend most of your time with your work family.  But when you retire, that work family does not necessarily retire with you.  When you call them they may not have time to talk.  Their schedules may now be very different from your own.  Just finding time to do things together might become a challenge.  It does not mean they don’t want to spend time with you; it is just that your schedules are now very different.

It might be time you established a new group of friends and acquaintances.  You worked most of your adult life so you have probably had to organize a few committees, focus groups, teams and the like.  Use the team-building skills you acquired from work to do something innovative and fun in your community:
• Start a walking club in your community.  Name the group, print up some tee shirts and design activities that will bring about some health competition.
• Start a book club.  Select interesting books and enjoy discussing the book over some home-made health eats.
• Buzz around to see if there are any thespians (would-be actors) and talented writers lurking around in your neighborhood.  Start a community play house so that your community can enjoy the arts right in their own back yard.
• What about a biking and hiking club.  Getting in touch with nature is both stimulating and refreshing.
• Travel clubs are nice.  You don’t have to travel alone and depend on the social generosity of strangers.  There are lots of group discounts just waiting to be had.
• Go dancing.  Listen to some great music (the language of the Gods) it even soothes the savage beast.
• I live in the Washington Metro area and the Kennedy Center offers free, magnificent performances throughout the year.  Wherever you live, I am sure you can find something equally as entertaining.
• Have you considered going to school.  They say children keep you young.  Volunteer at one of the local schools in your community.  You are filled with knowledge, share it with a kid.  They say the “darndest” things and they keep you laughing and feeling young, most of the time.
• You are looking good.  Keep yourself looking good because it makes you feel good.  We are so used to getting ourselves shined up for work, but when we stop working often we forget about continuing to care about what we look like.  Ladies you no longer have to wait for weekends to get your hair done.  You are free to go during the week at your leisure and even meet up with some of your new friends afterwards for a nice walk indoors or outdoors.
• What about a community cook-in healthy living café?  Loneliness has a tremendously negative impact on our health.  Once you have formed the healthy living café, the group can alternate preparing aesthetically pleasing, calorie sensitive, and budget conscious, great tasting meals.  This eliminates the loneliness, controls weight, reduces high cholesterol, hypertension and brings together a circle of supportive friends with a common goal.
Retirement can be fun and exciting.  It can be a time of discovery and new beginnings. Your health is what is most important.

P. S.  Always Remember to Share What You Know.

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