Your 7-point retirement checklist
Be useful. Ensure you’re still using your special talents and abilities to somehow make a dent in your universe, whatever that looks like for for you.
Get connected. Not to the NBN like I did last week. Rather, to the people, places and circumstances around you.
Ensure you’re still taken seriously. For instance, some people prefer not to tell new people they meet that they’re retired, while others choose to care less what other people may think, refusing to ever stop taking themselves seriously.
Find your sense of place. That’s where you can go beyond your own home that feels more familiar and more comfortable than your own home.
Believe in something. It can be anything… whatever fuels your fire, helping to give you that sometimes elusive sense of meaning and purpose in life.
Make sure something happens in your day. For some this will never be a problem, proclaiming their busyness like a badge of honour. For others this fight against the boring and mundane will be where their retirement game is won and lost.
And finally, never stop belonging. And the best person to belong to is yourself. That doesn’t mean being selfish though. Rather it means having a clear sense of your own values, principles, boundaries and standards.