Retirement Memory Book

These days retirement may last for a third of your life, so don't neglect a retirement memory book

Childhood, schooldays, working life. All these are important milestones in your life and are worth remembering, but don't forget the days of your retirement.

Gone are the days, for most of us, when people were not expected to live long once they finished their life's employment. Good diet and good health care, have resulted in many people living a good and active life for thirty years or more after formal retirement.

What to do with all that time.

What a great opportunity to take up a new hobby, to learn something new, to take up full time a hobby that you've not had time to do full justice to during your working life. What a great time to start creating a record of your memories, not only looking back throughout your childhood, schooling, or working life, but also looking back and reflecting upon your achievements and interests during your retirement.

Start with the day of your retiring. What happened, how did you prepare for it, once it had been and gone was it how you expected it to be? A sense of freedom or a sence of bereavement?

What is available at your local college, and is there a subject you would like to learn? A new language to make your holidays overseas more interesting. Fancy painting landscapes but never had the time, how about painting lessons. Or recreational fishing, or walking, or cycling, or swimming, or dancing. Remember that book you always knew was within you but never had time to write? The great thing is, for many people, prices of lessons, and of activities, are reduced once you have retired.

But whatever you do, don't forget to keep a record of how you started and what made you take the decision to start, how you got on at first and how you improved.