Retirem Activity Plan Business Plan
Retirement Activity Plan
HOW TO UTILIZE TIME ONCE RETIRED
The circle = a 24-hour period. How will you use all 24 hours? How much relaxing? Exercising? Chores? Meals? Hobbies? Volunteering?
What else?
SLEEPING = 6 to 9 hours +
EATING = 2 to 3 hours
So, to make this exercise useful, please do the following.
Take a blank piece of paper (if you have a partner in life, each should take a blank piece of paper, not showing their ideas to the other until done. Only then, compare the two charts and discuss similarities and differences.)
This circle that you have drawn is the beginning of a Pie Chart representing 24 hours of any day of Retirement.
As the sample indicates, you can eliminate about half of the circle right away, as we will …show more content…
How will you use your time during those waking hours? I gave a few ideas above, but think carefully about your use of time when it’s all your choosing and capture the activities that will add up to 12 hours. This was not easy for me when I first tried it. But I am glad that I stuck with it and I found that I was more confident than I had thought about how I would spend the days of my Retired life.
Imagine a Back Up Plan
I want to emphasize that the first “dream” that we create will, if implemented in a thoughtful way, launch us into years of enjoyment of our Retirement journey. I suggest that all of us sit back periodically during our journey and appreciate where we came from to get here and how much fun we experience daily. (more about Appreciation in the next chapter)
But, while all this fun will engulf our days and render such good feelings, we also need to be realistic about this truth. Our Retirement journey will have phases of change that can be predicted and counted on. These phases will allow us more and more physical and cognitive limits on what we are able to do with comfort.
Therefore, several back up plans are important to keep “at the ready”.
The phases to which I refer are
HOW TO UTILIZE TIME ONCE RETIRED
The circle = a 24-hour period. How will you use all 24 hours? How much relaxing? Exercising? Chores? Meals? Hobbies? Volunteering?
What else?
SLEEPING = 6 to 9 hours +
EATING = 2 to 3 hours
So, to make this exercise useful, please do the following.
Take a blank piece of paper (if you have a partner in life, each should take a blank piece of paper, not showing their ideas to the other until done. Only then, compare the two charts and discuss similarities and differences.)
This circle that you have drawn is the beginning of a Pie Chart representing 24 hours of any day of Retirement.
As the sample indicates, you can eliminate about half of the circle right away, as we will …show more content…
How will you use your time during those waking hours? I gave a few ideas above, but think carefully about your use of time when it’s all your choosing and capture the activities that will add up to 12 hours. This was not easy for me when I first tried it. But I am glad that I stuck with it and I found that I was more confident than I had thought about how I would spend the days of my Retired life.
Imagine a Back Up Plan
I want to emphasize that the first “dream” that we create will, if implemented in a thoughtful way, launch us into years of enjoyment of our Retirement journey. I suggest that all of us sit back periodically during our journey and appreciate where we came from to get here and how much fun we experience daily. (more about Appreciation in the next chapter)
But, while all this fun will engulf our days and render such good feelings, we also need to be realistic about this truth. Our Retirement journey will have phases of change that can be predicted and counted on. These phases will allow us more and more physical and cognitive limits on what we are able to do with comfort.
Therefore, several back up plans are important to keep “at the ready”.
The phases to which I refer are