TOP-TEN ACTIVITIES TO
PURSUE
WHEN YOU
ARE RETIRED

Top-Ten Retirement Activities
People love
chopping wood, In this activity one
immediately sees results.
- Albert
Einstein
Before
enlightenment, chop wood, carry
water. After enlightenment, chop
wood, carry water.
- Zen proverb
You can feel
whole and alive again at any age provided you have an
overriding purpose other than to just exist in
comfort.
An elegant
sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship,
books,
Ease and alternate labor, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving
Heaven!
- James
Thomson
In other
words, you want to have an active retirement with many
fun things to do.
Here are the top-ten activities for retirees that will
help you retire
happy.
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Have a major life
purpose.
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Be open to learning new
things.
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Accept that money will
buy style and comfort, but it won't buy
you happiness.
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Learn how to enjoy
solitude.
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Find a retirement job
that you can work at temporarily as a fun
job.
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Maintain old friendships
and create new
friends.
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Indulge in regular
strenuous exercise so that you will be
physically fit and able to enjoy your
retirement activities.
-
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Travel a
lot.
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Find many ways to
connect with the world.

Top-Ten Retirement Activities That
Are Never Too Late to Pursue Unless You Are
Dead
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Obtain a
University Degree. Doris
Eaton Travis was 88 when she graduated with a
degree in history from the University of
Oklahoma.
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Learn How to Read
Better: Franklin Tennessee
resident David Eugene Ray was ninety-nine when
he started to learn how to read.
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Run a
Marathon. Ed Benham was 84
when he ran a marathon in 4 hours, 17 minutes,
and 51 seconds.
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Go to Jail for a
Good Cause: Doctor
Benjamin Spock was 83 when he was arrested at
Cape Canaveral, Florida for demonstrating for
world peace.
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Operate a Ski
Club: Lloyd Lambert, at
87, was an active skier and operating a
seventy-plus Ski Club that had 3,286 members
including a ninety-seven-year-old.
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Climb the Highest
Mountain That You Can
Find: Hulda Crooks was 91
when she climbed Mt. Whitney, the highest
mountain in the continental United States.
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Continue
Working in Retirement as an
Architect: Frank Lloyd
Wright, a pioneer in the modern style and
considered one of the greatest figures in
twentieth-century architecture, was 89 when he
designed his last building.
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Start a Symphony
Orchestra: Leopold
Stokowski founded the American Symphony
Orchestra at 80 and recorded twenty albums in
his nineties. At the age of 96, Stokowski - an
eternal optimist no doubt - signed a six-year
recording contract.
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Write a
Book: At the prime age of
ninety-eight, Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux sold her
first book for a small fortune. The
great-great-grandmother, an unschooled and
unskilled writer, turned a memoir she wrote in
a writing class for senior citizens into a
book.
An E-mail from
a Reader in Kuwait Who
Is
Looking Forward to Early Retirement
Over the years I
have received well over 1,000 letters and e-mails from
readers of my international best-selling
retirement books
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free and
The Joy of Not
Working.
It comes as a
surprise to many people, but not to me, that a
lot of the readers of my books write a
letter of liberation either to announce that they
have quit their jobs to pursue a more enjoyable job or
take early retirement so that they can experience the joy of
being retired instead of the misery of the
workplace.
The following
e-mail is from a gentleman in Kuwait who is looking
forward to early retirement and likely will have no
problem finding inspirational activities to make his
retirement happy, wild, and
free.
----- Original
Message -----
From: Nbren510
To: Ernie Zelinski
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:29 AM
Subject: Hello
Hi Mr Zelinski
I am from Kuwait.
Your book reflects the real life in
Kuwait and I think everywhere.
I have enjoyed reading
The Joy of NOT
Working.

It's a great book.
I am considering
retirement within 3 or 5 years .
By the way, I am 31, married, and have a
daughter.
Good Luck
Thanks
Sulaiman Alhasawi
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