How to Achieve a Balanced and Healthy Lifestyle in Retirement
How to Achieve a Balanced and Healthy Lifestyle in Retirement
Now that you’ve retired, you have entered an entirely new phase of life, a life filled with new challenges, adventure and hopefully one that brings you complete and total satisfaction. However, if you’re like most people, change isn’t always easy and is sometimes stressful. This stress is completely normal but may be compounded if you don’t learn how to balance all the demands on your time. With this in mind, we’ve developed an innovative questionnaire and article to teach you how to determine how stress affects your life and how balancing it will lead to a more healthy and balanced lifestyle. Sound interesting? Well, sit back, grab a pencil and let’s access how stress is affecting your life.
Make sure that you answer these questions carefully and honestly:
1. I keep spending too much time on unappealing activities and less time doing things that I really want to do.
True
False
2. I often feel I don’t have enough time for myself or for my priorities.
True
False
3. No matter what I do, I can’t seem to get enough done and always feel stressed, tired, overcommitted, and/or exhausted.
True
False
4. Since retirement, I don’t feel that I’m accomplishing my retirement goals.
True
False
5. I often feel guilty when I can’t do the things that make me happy.
True
False
If all of your answers were “false” then you’re on the right track. Congratulations, you’re leading a balanced life and have a very low stress level. If you answered “true” to 1 or more questions then you can really benefit from these 5 steps which will help you more effectively balance your life
Dr. Cynthia Barnett is a ”refired” educator who had reinvented her life moving from the school house to an entrepreneurial venue.. She is the author of “Stop Singing the Blues: 10 Powerful Strategies for Hitting the high Notes in Your Life, and RE-FIRE, Don’t Retire: 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Retirees She was featured by Time magazine for their article on women in mid-life who have reinvented themselves.
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