Posts Tagged ‘Non-Financial Retirement Tips’
Tip #159: Get Fit
Tip #156: Go to the Spa!
As you may well know, Retirement Yenta loves a good party and it is rare that this little Yenta will pass one up. Your dear Yenta also knows this: too much partying is not good for the skin. With this in mind, Retirement Yenta would like to advise you to walk past the bar, do not pass go, do not collect $200, just go straight to the spa and pamper your skin with a facial and pamper your mood with a massage. It will help take a wrinkle or two off of your brow and a kink out of your back.
Tip #151: Look Up and Let Go!
Retirement Yenta’s little boychik (son) is taking a trip to Israel and is heading out tomorrow. Her sweet tokhter (daughter) is off at summer camp. Seeing her kinderlekh (children) growing up gives this little Yenta some anxiety. Oy Veh! What’s a Yenta to do? Well, dear Readers, Retirment Yenta has the solution: Look Up and Let Go! Your dear Yenta knows that anxiety is a self-defeating attitude and is now thinking about the good time her kids are going to have! This alleviates her fears. Plus, she knows that if all else fails, don’t worry, she’ll have a cocktail and just let everything go in one ear and out her liver.
Tip #149: Delay Retirement
Retirement Yenta realizes that she has given advice to retire sooner rather than later. Well, this little Yenta (like any other sheine Maidel) has the right to change her mind. Recently, Retirement Yenta has enjoyed her work so much, she doesn’t know what she would do without it. Every project that crosses her desk is better than the last. Oy Gevalt! What’s a Yenta to do? This little Yenta has decided to enjoy herself in her work and stay in the race a little longer. Retirement Yenta says: If you love your work (and only if you do), stay on the job. It’s better than the flu.
Tip #148: Don’t Disconnect
Retirement Yenta occasionally misplaces her things. That happens when you are as busy as a beaver giving advice and preparing for your impending retirement. Once, your dear Yenta searched for hours and hours for her readers, only to find them atop her own head. The one thing this little Yenta cannot go without is her phone–AND, it is one of the easiest things for her to misplace. With this in mind, your dear Yenta suggests you keep a landline or another cell close by for those times when you lose your cell phone. Retirement Yenta says: Keep your land line wired for the times when you are tired and can’t find your phone. You can call yourself–like ET: Phone Home.
Tip #145: Pick A “Puzzle”– Solve It!
Retirement Yenta believes in a good challenge. She also believes that learning to do new things will keep your brain active and thus keep it from developing Senior Amnesic Syndrom (a.k.a SASs). Yep, that’s a fancy way of saying “becoming forgetful.” (Retirement Yenta feels fancy today.) Recently, your dear Yenta set a challenge for herself. She took on a work related puzzle and really had to dig around to solve it. Let me tell you, Missy, this Yenta learned a lot and has benefited from that challenge. She also feels revived and excited to do more work like this. Retirement Yenta says: “be like Peter Piper, Pick a Peck of Pickled Peppers and Puzzles…and solve it!”
Tip: #143: Start Writing a Journal
Retirement Yenta loves her life. She loves writing. She also loves writing about her life. She knows that exploring one’s past helps one make better choices in the future. So, with this in mind, your dear Yenta wants to recommend keeping a journal. This little Yenta loves nothing more than to sit back (on a rainy day, or Monday when she’s down) and read what she was doing one, two, or even 10 years ago! It gives her perspective on her past, and makes her feel more positive about her future. Besides, when this little Yenta gets asked to make a movie about her life, someone has to come up with the details. It can’t all be fiction!
Tip #142: Make a Big Deal of the Small Stuff
Retirement Yenta knows that life is good. She also knows that she sometimes needs to remind herself that life is good. Recently, Retirement Yenta met a pug named Edith. Edith belongs to her beloved assistant. She realized while watching Edith that this happy little pug was happy for 3 reasons. 1. She has a home. 2. She gets fed. 3. She has toys. This Yenta looked around at her life and thought I have a great home, I get fed, I have toys, AND I have a wonderful family, AND a wonderful assistant, who could want more? Not even Edith.
