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Is 1 million enough for retirement in Malaysia? (2022)
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Hi, I'm Terence and I'm
going to be 50 years old next year and you know I actually
plan to live until 100. I do plan to you know make use of
the rest of my life to be useful because I really buy
into what Steve Job once said you know "We are all here to
make a dent in the universe". Don't you agree with that? So
the question to you is, what do you love to do, how much
time do you want to have, and how much money do you need? And
here's the thing whether or not we want to continue to work on
what we love or we just want to retire relax, and take it easy
we should have been planning for it already you know on our wealth
generation otherwise nothing will be easy.
Because if we have
to depend on a paycheck to decide what we want to do, we
will not have the power of choice. And the power of a
choice is what we call financial freedom isn't it? You
see, with the inflation rate of about 2-3% every year in
Malaysia, how much money do you think you need to have when you
retire or have financial freedom? A decent meal easily
cost about RM15 right now. And when you have more time you are
probably going to spend even more time with your friends, and
your loved ones having 'Yumcha' sessions. and this is going to cost money
as well. And to get to where you want to
go for the Yumcha sessions you need a car too, how much are you
going to spend for that? A house in a decent location will
cost easily a million Ringgit, otherwise that means you have
to stay far far away and spend a lot of time in commuting to
where you want to go and that would translate to a RM4,000
monthly repayment easily and that's a lot of
money isn't it? And then there are things that we have to pay
every month, the monthly bills! So, we have the electricity bill,
we have the mobile phone bill, internet bill, Netflix, Disney
Plus, Amazon Prime.
No, no, no, okay, okay,
I'm going to cancel my Netflix. I'm not going to subscribe to
all those subscriptions alright? So take that off. But
it's still a lot of money. And if you add that up over 15 to
20 years, it's going to cost a few millions. And we have not
even talked about our children's education and our
annual family vacation yet. Now, imagine adding all this
up. It sounds like an impossible dream now, isn't it?
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What Do You Do With Yourself After Retirement? – Dr. Devi Shetty with Sadhguru
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Devi Shetty: Sadhguru, I am constantly torn between my senior colleagues, who are extremely skilled surgeons. Sadhguru, the… on the heart there are some procedures, which are done by very few people on this planet. I’ll give an example – I do an operation called pulmonary endarterectomy that’s the blood clots from the leg goes to the lung arteries and it clogs up all the arteries. So twenty… twenty-five years ago there was no cure for this. And once you are diagnosed, you are destined to die within a year. Today people who are on home oxygen for two years, three years you do the operation they can go back to skydiving or they can go to scuba diving.
That’s the transformative effect but there are only fifty surgeons less than fifty surgeons in this world who can operate. And like this we have some of my colleagues who are extremely gifted surgeons. They are in their fifties now. And some of them are constantly talking about retirement. Especially one surgeon he is a extremely gifted surgeon who can fix any damaged valve. He is single, he has no other commitments every other day he talks about going to Banaras or somewhere and retire and I keep telling him that God didn’t create him to retire and meditate. He has to be fixing all these problems So he gives me extension every six months Guruji. So at the end of six months the usual rigmarole starts, he talks about retirement and everybody is depressed in the hospital.
So how do you deal with this kind of people? Sadhguru: You must you must give him a one year sabbatical with me Yes, because the need or the idea of retirement enters anybody’s mind because of the monotony of what they’re doing, whatever it may be. Somebody else may think it's a great thing but in your experience somewhere it's becoming monotonous or stagnant. Stagnation is one thing that human intelligence and human system cannot take. And most of the ailments are because of stagnation stagnation of life.
They may be… they may be getting their you know once in three years promotion. They may be making little more money. All these things may be happening but somewhere experientially there’s a stagnation, which could be a major cause for many of the complex ailments that people manufacture within their systems. The more complex they get you try to create more talented surgeons. I am saying we are manufacturing the problems, we are trying to manufacture a solution. I think as we offer solutions people who have adl… already gotten into problems, they need solutions. But it's very important that we teach people how not to create these problems, so that instead of fifty, you have to produce five thousand expert surgeons to attend to all these people who are on self-help to illness. So I would say a surgeon who is who has a certain competence and who has worked through his life, if he wants to explore something of his own nature, that will be the greatest thing to do because he is not a man without commitment nor competence. When competence and commitment is there, you should not run him through the rig ram role (rigmarole?) and destroy that possibility.
It’s important that he explores something of his own nature, which will make him We don't know what he’ll come up with. You cannot even estimate what he may come up with. I think a sabbatical is good. He may come up with something that you have not thought possible. Devi Shetty: I will… I will convey your message Sadhguru. I am sure he is watching this program.
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CBDC’s, FedNow, 401K’s, IRA’s, Real Estate, Banks, Gold & Silver – Lynette Zang
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I'm Lynette Zhang Chief Market analyst here at itm trading a full service physical gold and silver dealer really specializing in custom strategies based upon your goals which need to be put first today we're going to do something a little bit different we've got a bunch of questions that uh I'm going to be asked I don't know what those questions are which is the way I like it the best so let's just rock and roll all right do you think the banking crisis is over and if not why not okay no I do not by any stretch of the imagination think that the banking crisis is over in fact I think it's I think it's a rumbling underneath the surface and the reason is because we had what 15 years of zero interest rate policies so the problem that the banks that did go under a big problem that they had was that the value of their Securities had declined dramatically as the central bank had raised rates that is throughout the entire global banking system so what's really happening right now is the popping of the largest hard for me to call them asset but I'll call them a debt bubble in history no I don't think this is this is over by any stretch of the imagination it's just being hidden from view what do you see coming next with banks and do you think it's going to be similar to 2008 when three Banks collapsed in 2000 six or seven and then another you know 10 20 100 Banks collapsed a year I do think that there are some similarities but what I also knew which is why I even started my urban farm was that in 2008 when it became apparent to the whole world the banking crisis did that the system died at that point so I think the crisis that we have uh that is not yet visible to the public but is unfolding as we are sitting here and speaking is much larger because what they did in 2008 was just bury it under a mountain of new money and their solution which has been the same solution since 1913 frankly was to devalue the currency through inflation and they haven't gotten the central banks have not got control of the inflation that they caused and the problems that they caused and raising rates aren't going to help to be honest with you what they're doing isn't working because we are at the end of this life cycle so this next system with the Advent of the FED now accounts going into effect in July and we also have the Libor so for transition which we may or may not see any of those Rumblings by June 30th but there are Rumblings the biggest experiment in history on this debt bubble that is popping um yeah I think this next Crisis is going to make 2008 look like chump change and it's going to scare the crap out of everybody and that's when they're going to try and and cram the cbdc's down everybody's throats can you explain the difference between cbdc's and fednab well yeah the cbdc is the actual digital money of the Central Bank the FED now is the account in which they can put it in so that you the public has access to it what do you see happening if and when they get the public to agree to something like that well it's not whether or not they're going to get the public to agree because we've seen in a number of their countries that have forced their population into the cbdcs by demonetizing the money and creating crisis or or just by giving people free money you know they'll spend what you give them is whether or not they will allow like their paycheck to automatically go into the cbdcs will they will they continue to make deposits into that cbdc account that's the big question mark because we do vote with our pocketbooks or our wallets that's how we vote and that's been a big problem for those countries that have already made that attempt to get their population to accept the cbdcs you know I can't I can't answer that my hope is no and the public does not seem to want these cbdc's but do I think they're going to try and cram it down our throats yes and they'll do that through crisis what could the future look like with cbdc's and do you think that would affect people's retirement or retirement 100 you know what a cbdc does and and the FED has even admitted it in the I am international monetary fund the IMF papers that they've written is see right now when they make a policy it takes roughly 12 to 18 months to flow through the system did they get what they want so we're really starting to feel the impact of the rapid rates that the FED did 12 18 months ago right so this way once they have the cbdc then they can have their finger on that policy button 24 7 which is what they've said so that if they want the consumer to go out and consume and you're not consuming what are they going to do they're going to drop us into negative rates more deeply so that you're sitting there watching your principal evaporate and when you're sitting there watching your principle evaporate what are you most likely to do but once it's in cbdc form they can dictate what you can buy with it how long it even exists which you're going to see that at first they're not going to shock you with anything because they want to lull you into a all sense of security to get you to use it and they've talked many times about this so at first it's going to seem kind of normal like people are used to credit cards they're most people are used to credit cards and debit cards and all of that so and and of course they've heard all about the cryptocurrencies and we see what's happening in that Arena and remember recently the I can't remember whether it was the biz or the IMF but they came out with a paper basically private cryptocurrencies bad Central Bank cryptocurrencies good so they're trying to get you lulled into a false sense of security and then once they have you there and let's say that a lot of the population does make that deposit into that fed now and cbdc account right um and especially you know we could go into a hyperinflation on the currency that's already out there and then have the FED controlling the value for a minute of the cbdc so people go oh well look at this is really bad but this is staying more stable and I think that's really what's very very likely to happen to get you to participate voluntarily that frankly makes having physical gold and silver outside of that system critically important because if you have everything inside of their system that they have their finger on 24 7 and can dictate everything about it they have you by the cajones right so this is why it's absolutely critical for you to be as self-sufficient and independent in in as many ways as possible Food Water Energy security barterability wealth preservation community and shelter because the more independent you are the less control they will have over you and they they are attempting this I don't think it's a foregone conclusion I mean I really have hope of a revolution Ray dalio also thinks that A revolution is coming and I I agree with him and because of these repeatable patterns just like the end of the currency's life cycle I mean these patterns when you know what they look like then you know where we are in that cycle and you can get into a position to actually not just survive it but Thrive through it and come out the other side in a better position but you better have physical gold and silver in your possession or Heaven Help Us Heaven help you moving into the future of cbdc's and fed now if people just go into that blindly what does it look like with IRAs 401ks retirement plans all of those other Fiat money assets for lack of a better term the only thing you can convert them in is to Dollars and so again if we have this split system which would make a whole lot of sense for them to do where you have the current system hyperinflating and then the cbdc system where they keep that value more stable and they might give you the option well you can convert this into this and so you know I think there would be a lot of people that would grab on to that false lifeline because they could see the value of their Investments being absolutely eroded just like what we're seeing in Zimbabwe right now where their stock market is up 600 percent as they're trying to get people to adopt the cbdc that is presumably backed by gold but it's not convertible and if it ain't convertible it ain't over I got news for you it's just another gimmick to get you to get control of you so people will fly to these things thinking that they are protecting their purchasing power and wealth but it's a big scam because at the end of the day in that hyperinflationary mode they're going to have to do overnight revaluations to get the public to go along with it and to trust it again but I could easily see a scheme where they kept the value artificially of the cbdc stable and they are going to sell it because this is what they've said they are going to sell it as look if we do cbdc's there's not going to be any more inflation so it would make complete sense in their strategy to allow the current system to hyperinflate maintain artificially the value of the cbdcs until they got you hooked and then as they say not me they say then there are no limitations to how low we can push interest rates which means attacking your principal so if you hold all of your wealth in there your your pardon me you're screwed but if you hold a chunk of your wealth as much as you possibly can in physical gold and silver even if that is our current tool of barter you're holding your purchasing power and you just convert what you need and protect the rest of your valuation your purchasing power and your wealth valuation that that's what's going to level this playing field for people that's what's going to get them through it no doubt there isn't one doubt in my mind talk about that more how you convert what you need when you need it and your I guess strategy for that where well I mean right now there are a lot of dealers that are out there but you know what I think is really important places that you can convert I mean you can convert gold and silver at pawn shops jewelry stores uh liquidation smelters but frankly the best way to do it is to establish a relationship with a reputable dealer like itm who's been around since 95 has long-term relationships with wholesalers you're going to end up better um better off you're going to end up getting more of whatever the current currency is because of the way that our our network is established and we've you know we've proven ourselves so what you would do is based upon your strategy which you can set up a call and calendly so that you understand what the strategy is based on your goals based on your part possible your current income needs right then you would simply call itm as an example and say okay this is what I need you'd send it back through it gets liquidated it gets deposited and whatever the current fiat currency is and that's how you do it easy peasy it's no big deal so you said to make a note about gold and silver IRAs right yes thank you um I mean I think everybody knows that when I'm making choices because there isn't anybody out there that can guarantee that they won't do an overt confiscation of gold I mean there's lots of historic precedence there's even current in different countries that are that are confiscating gold right now because gold holds your purchasing power which is why all the central banks or most of the central banks are accumulating it so personally for my choices and also because of my Uncle Al who in 1964 had two safes full of pre-33 coins when you couldn't was illegal to hold more than five ounces except in that way right so I have some serious concerns because most people that own gold own it inside of an IRA and it's very very easy if they were to do an overt confiscation to do a big sweep of the IRAs now they're not going to want you to complain and since they know that they're destroying the Fiat money system so what if they pay you even a bonus to what the manipulated spot Market looks like just like they did in 33 and then boom it gets revalued and you're what you're left with you think you've got gold but if you don't hold it you don't own it and your perception is irrelevant in those kind of circumstances and certainly in a court of law so I want the kind of gold that you cannot hold inside of an IRA because there is clear past and current precedence for an over confiscation and let's face it desperate governments do desperate things where do you see real estate falling into the picture in the near future or and or with the changes in cbdc's and for now well you know real estate is kind of an interesting circumstance it has definitely been artificially inflated and if you go back to 2008 you can see the central bank and the Federal Reserve came out and said you know these are the areas that we have targeted for reflation right so the truth of the matter is it is severely overvalued on a global basis especially since what happened since 2020 okay now globally on average you see a major decline in the price but you've got to have a place to make your last stand I mean you're not going to camp out because real estate is overvalued so you just need to be in a position that if you had to take out debt in order to do it so you've got a mortgage that you have the ability to Boom pay that debt off in a heartbeat when they do that overnight revaluation right so there's a strategy around fixed rate debt which is exactly the same strategy that the governments use and that is to repay that debt with the currency so in in the US with dollars that have less and less value would I go out and speculate on real estate right now no we've been watching the um the the credit quality decline in purchasers we've been watching all of these special little give me's to get the most naive buyers of real estate buying real estate again Lower fees you know put down less money and therefore you're going to pay fewer fees which is insane you know so watching those kinds of manipulations shows me that they're trying to get the most naive people in the bunch to support this unsupportable really real estate market um but having said that you got to have a place to make your last stand so whether that's you know a roof over your head like you know I have my house in Phoenix which is an urban farm so I can eat off of that but also during 2020 when there were riots near my house and riots near my daughter's house and I slept in my bed that night with a gun and I woke up the next morning and said aha there is the hole right so I went out and Matt it took a while but I managed to find my bug out house did I care how much it cost not really because I believe that it's going to save our lives and we have a great place The Orchards were just I just was telling you the Orchards have been other than a few things that they're still looking for basically in so stay tuned you'll be seeing more of that um and it's completely off grid so I've and I've got a well so I it meets all of the criteria for the Mantra Food Water Energy security barter ability wealth preservation community and shelter um so you know with real estate it kind of depends because because you need it but would I buy it because I think it's going to go up in terms of Fiat dollars heck no no but would I buy it because it fit into my strategic plan that supported the goals that I'm trying to accomplish then yeah you mentioned sofa and live where earlier what's the simplest way to understand those two things and what's going on there tectonics shift right I mean I mean they are so dead silent on this transition and the problem is kind of what the problem was with the svb and the other banks that went out in that the value of their Holdings because of the increase in the interest rate the market value of all their Holdings declined right so when we transition when we conclude the transition uh the end of this month is when it's supposed to be concluded even if it's in pennies you're talking about trillions of dollars worth of contracts nobody really has any idea of how many trillions still have to shift that is a tectonic shift one that has never been attempted before and is happening into a debt bubble because all of these are dead instruments right all these derivatives and and debt contracts that are based that are shifting right so they're shifting into a bubble that is already popping whether or not they can keep that hidden for a little bit more we're going to find out just like it seems like the banking crisis is over no it is not and I don't doubt that even one second and I don't care if it's the smallest community and just recently Janet Yellen came out and said that she expects more consolidations in banks that means she expects more Banks to go down and yes because the Federal Reserve and Global central banks so it's not just here it's everywhere look at look at Credit Suisse and UBS right you know globally we had all those negative rate Bonds in in Europe Etc and we had all those bonds that basically came as at zero interest rates and now the interest rates are going up I mean I think that's going to change but the market is the Market's betting that the Federal Reserve is going to go in shortly and drop rates again so the market no longer trusts what the FED says because the FED showed them that they can't trust it and that if you remember that was last August surprised the Hades out of me when they actually gave up that level of confidence because the only level of confidence in this Con game left is the public confidence that the currency could never go away right and that I don't know do people still think the FED knows what they're doing that the treasury knows what they're doing has this debt ceiling issue ah resolved but the whole world they took it to the to the exact moment pretty much and the whole world that is based the whole marketable world that is based on U.S treasuries was looking at this and going that's our bedrock and they're playing with the Bedrock and now they're going to be issuing a whole bunch of treasuries to fill up the treasury Bank book right so they can write those checks which by the way is inflationary by the way okay is that crisis averted no we haven't seen the end of that crisis but this whole thing is based on confidence and it really did a job on a global level which was already shaky so yeah no we've got lots of issues that can erupt at any moment that we just can't see so silver and Libor are two different kinds of rates correct Libor was created in the 80s and so you have all of those mortgages car loans student loans which by the way people are going to have to start repaying now coming up in September they had three years where they didn't but now they're gonna have to mortgages uh credit cards and derivative contracts which in a derivative is just a big unsubstantiated bet against could be a stock or a bond or the weather or whether or not you do your hair up or down I mean you know um so there's just a lot of Leverage way more leverage that is built into the system today which is basically debt upon debt upon debt upon debt upon debt which makes everything look great on the way up but it also crashes the system on the way down and that bubble is popping so yes once it was discovered that shockingly uh Traders were manipulating the Libor which was just a few Banks getting together and go gee if I were gonna charge you interest overnight this is how much I would charge and if I were going to pay interest overnight this is how much I would pay once it was discovered that it was being manipulated they're a good long run uh then they had to come up with a new Benchmark and so in this country we came up with sopher and they have to shift from one to the other and then while it's supposed to be a market rate when you read the really fine print they eliminate a lot of bonds from that so is it really a market rate and the rate that that they get for so far is different than the Libor rate so that's why it's a tectonic shift that revalues trillions of dollars worth of assets that have not yet been converted and those that have been like especially for leveraged loans closer packages of Leverage loans what they're finding out is that they're taking in a lot less money as well so they're fighting it they're still fighting it that's a big problem and we can't they're not talking about it why aren't you talking about the biggest experiment in history why aren't you talking about it kind of makes me nervous so it may be a big fat nothing Burger but I don't think so it's just when are we going to notice it flyboards London so first U.S well Libor yes is the London interbank offer rate but but it was used globally okay and so far is at this point primarily being used in the U.S but that too could be used globally and I don't think it's gonna make it there there were uh like about five central banks that came up with their own interest rate new interest rate benchmark so we'll see but even even uh what they did to try and fix that difference was come up with some kind of mathematical formula but even with that formula they cannot get it to match Libor so that means that the valuation of all of these contracts that are based on Libor and shifting into so far those valuations change you can't tell me that's a nothing Burger because I don't believe it on on how many contracts who knows they were saying something like over 610 trillion but nobody really knows how I mean admittedly nobody really knows how many derivative contracts there are out there and before they change the accounting rules I personally with my own eyes at the bank for international settlements counted 1.4 quadrillion and that I think was like in 2009 and that market has exploded since then so how many quadrillions there's no way to bail it out no flipping way period period why do you think people I think so many people are confused right now and what can they be doing to protect themselves well I think that people are confused because there is definitely the normalcy bias right and what we're asking them to do is have a paradigm shift and that means that you have to admit that what you have believed to be true what you've been taught to be true your entire life is a lie and that's very hard for people to do but they knew this when they set the system up with inflation baked in it right so um and and I'll tell you an interesting story because you know I just got back from Italy right and Natalie our our guide but I've known him since 2009.
We were talking about his personal experience when they shifted from the Lira the Italian currency into the Euro right and he said and I I knew this he he didn't recognize the first part of it where they devalued the currency by 17 to get they supposedly on par with everybody so they could make this transition and then when they made the transition if say a loaf of bread cost you two Lira it cost you two Euros except that it took four Lira to buy those two Euros so immediately you lost what 50 100 of its value right and he was telling me but he couldn't charge twice as much for his Services because that was too much right so I made a comment about um how that Union was set up and there have been lots of studies on it where it was sold as it's going to level the playing field for all of these countries but in reality it was set up for Germany that is a nation of Savers to benefit the most by loaning money to all of these other countries so that those countries and those individuals in those countries could buy goods from Germany and take on that debt and so where it was supposed to level the playing field don't hold me to this because obviously I'm not looking at this but if I recall something like 96 of the populations in the other countries their standard of living had declined dramatically and when I told him that and even based on his personal experience he said to me well Lynette I'm surprised that you would say that because we've been taught talking about community and meeting Community all this trip and here you are saying that this community is not a good one and I said to him so so number one there's your normalcy bias he admitted how that transition had a negative impact on his personal standard of living right and he knew it absolutely knew it and yet when it came down to the bottom line it was definitely supportive of the Union and even the currency Union so for me that was a normalcy bias because when they set up the system they knew they knew many things but they knew two key things number one people marry the legal money of the state and number two not one man in a million understands inflation and that's how they've been able to take advantage of us so understanding that that's where they are and the only thing we are at the end of this currency's life cycle period end of discussion the only thing that can protect you from it is to be secure in the whole mantra but you gotta have this that's why you see on a global basis central banks buying gold hand over fist at the highest levels ever because they absolutely know that they're destroying the last little bit of whatever happens to be in their Fiat money and trying to transition us into a new system whether or not that's going to work I don't know I hope it doesn't I hope we have that Revolution so that we can have a more fair system because the system that they have in mind for us is a full surveillance system where they control if you are completely dependent on that system they can control every single aspect of your life and look at where they've taken us to so far they've done such a great job for themselves but not for you and me so what you can do is execute the strategy and make sure that you are secure in food water energy security barterability wealth preservation community and shelter so that you don't have they can't dictate to you if you're not they're going to be able to dictate to you and I'm pretty sure even though you will own nothing you will not be happy and you prioritized your wealth preservation first oh absolutely you can fund all of your sustainability projects absolutely a hundred percent and and you know you might have seen that in May turkey sold a bunch of gold and so you could say oh well why did turkey sell the gold because this is your savings right this ensures your wealth preservation and your purchasing power it has for thousands of years and so what you would all have also noticed if you looked at the report is that China and India and a number of other countries added to and when turkey had to sell off it was to be able to buy things it was their savings that were able to buy things that they needed so yes 100 you you know it's it's just like if you're in an airplane and you're going down and the oxygen mask comes down what do you do you're supposed to put that on first and then you can help the child next to you even though you would give up your life for that child right so yes that's why you you get your wealth preserved and your ability to purchase you know short barter you get that done first then that's your that's your oxygen mask then you can do everything else and don't wait because we are running out of time I can't tell you exactly the moment I'm not going to know it before you or anybody else but I'm hoping and I'm thinking that I am going to know when this gig is up completely and then we get to our bug out house thanks Lynette appreciate the time my pleasure but just remember wealth 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Don’t get bored in retirement! Steps so you don’t fall into this retirement trap.
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because there are many people who leave retirement with a huge sense of relief and excitement you have your life back maybe they were shocked when a month or six months or a year or even longer went by and they finally hit a wall for some it creeps up sooner and others it hits later and harder and that you get that feeling of okay so so now what or the feeling like everything feels a little out of control although I'm bored which is kind of a strange juxtaposition today we want to focus on how to prevent boredom in this phase of life boredom is the silent killer that can end your retirement way too soon if you begin to let the days unfold with Lila or no planning you're going to find yourself with idle time and that can lead down a path of self-destruction or at a minimum feel lost and a little scared about what the next 30 years of your life will more and there is boredom leads to loneliness which leads to a list of chronic illnesses such as heart disease anxiety depression and more today we're going to give you some easy Surefire steps to make sure this doesn't happen to you and you're going to finish this video knowing that what you can expect and make a plan to avoid this largest retirement Challenge and stay to the end where we're going to give you three easy steps to bounce back if you feel bored but before we go any further we want to introduce ourselves my name is Mark Rollins and I'm Jody Rollins and we started retirement transformed not only for us but also for you and the 10 000 people turning 65 every day now we don't focus on the financial aspects of retirement but rather lifestyle Health relationships and more if you're new here please hit the Subscribe button and also the notification button so you'll get notified when our videos come out all right let's get into it during your career or if you are a stay-at-home uh mom or dad you were busy right 40 to 60 hours a week and you had a built-in schedule you did if you had children then that was your schedule running them from place to place organizing being involved and you had routines and you had routines that were commonplace maybe you got up at six there was coffee you checked emails maybe had breakfast you did a little exercise that was what our morning was like but it was just automatic we didn't even think about it we had to do that right and then at night at night we would uh come home uh open a bottle of wine cook some dinner and put another bottle have another bottle of wine watch some TV and almost busy Beyond busy in fact we made busy a thing in our house yeah during the week it was it was sort of Controlled Chaos yeah so sometimes it was just chaos weekends for us was rest catching up doing chores doing laundry going dry cleaners having fun with friends but then and they landed that's right you land in retirement and there's this huge relief that now you're free to commit and do whatever you want to do without a schedule and you're free from your from you're free from being Tethered to your career with all of those responsibilities and time commitments that's right and it opens up I remember our first Monday after retirement we retired at the end of 2018 on a Friday at three in the afternoon we walked out of the office with our boxes with our boxes and I remember that Monday the weekend was kind of cool but I remember Monday we still got up at six because our bodies were used to it we still had the coffee we still watched the news but then we had more coffee more news and we said hey we've never really been able to watch the morning shows let's do that all of a sudden it was 10 30 and we're looking at each other like now what do we do well and then if you think about it on that Monday where the blues were just starting to sink in we decided to shower and go out for lunch right and what we didn't really click into was most restaurants were closed on Mondays that we would go to so we came home when we made a list of chores we needed to do around the house well wait a second what we were going to do you made a list of chores I needed to do around the house which wasn't really fair but that's not true you wanted to keep me busy well and then Mark will say things like let's go to Home Depot and before I know it we're at like nine other stops and we finally get to Home Depot well we also decided let's start a Netflix series which we had never really gotten into no so all of a sudden it's six o'clock in the afternoon and we hadn't done anything other than made a list went to Home Depot watched three hours of TV and now it's time to cook dinner and then before we knew it Tuesday looked like that Wednesday looked like that Thursday looked like that and Bam there we are with a board retirement and that was embarrassing to say boredom had set in and we we didn't even want to say to each other but there it was right it was there so we got to work we did we dug ourselves out of that feeling and invested some real time in figuring out how would we fill our days you know maybe you had a different experience because there are many people who leave retirement with a huge sense of relief and excitement you have your life back maybe they were shocked when a month or six months or a year or even longer went by and they finally hit a wall for some it creeps up sooner and others it hits later and harder and that you get that feeling of okay so so now what or the feeling like everything feels a little out of control although I'm bored which is kind of a strange juxtaposition today we want to focus on how to prevent boredom in this phase of life so the first thing you need to do is you need to do some planning now I know I know what you're thinking and you've heard us say this before you've heard us say this before but there's no way you went through a 30 or 40 year career without planning so you need to plan in retirement too because you want to plan on how to fill this new found 40 plus hours of free time that come your way and it's going to guarantee you have at least one activity each day to look forward to you know it's also going to open up you know opportunity for you to make some commitments yes you know we had a client Deb who ended up making a commitment to her College roommates after she retired that she was going to do 52 new things a year that was one new thing every week for a year sometimes alone sometimes with her friends but that's the other thing about this phase book sometime with your friends go to a gym play golf with a friend just go have a cup of coffee or carve out time for your partner Jody and I carve out a lot of time during the week for each other and I would say also especially as a prior recovering working executive mom workaholic maybe you know carve some time out for just yourself what is it that you want to do but again by planning you're going to open up your calendar and you're going to be able to make these commitments so morning time yeah our coffee we sit and chat no TV we just it's funny because we watch we did the whole thing in the beginning with the Netflix series and binging we've really stepped away from TV we don't do it that much if it's a rainy day and we get the urge maybe but our coffee time is pretty sacred I think that's important it is and you know we don't even really turn on the news anymore because there's so many ways that we get news right so news comes at us through our phones and our laptops and you know YouTube and all these other people besides the planning that we do when we're having coffee we just have nice conversations we chat about the kids and things we're going to do or dinner plans or opportunities each of us may have been given for the week and we also talk about what we're grateful for yeah now a lot of people say okay we heard you say that but what do you fill your days with well we obviously have this business but you also need to find something for for ourselves a hobby exercise reading research go to the library when was the last time you were in the library and got lost in some research on a hobby or a or anything that you wanted to learn something about or spend time with a friend you know having a community in retirement is really critical I also think this is a great time you know I know for me weekends were filled with chores when I was working because that was the only time I had a chance to do them but they were always the emergency chores well there are also chores that like kind of overwhelmed me because I had to get it all done now you know I can space out you know I can clean a closet I can clean a drawer I can organize part of the basement I can take a load of stuff to a charity you know so you know adding a chore or something like that to do each day actually makes it a little more fun and a lot less pressure you know the other thing that we've found is that we retired with closets filled with work clothes that we haven't worn in years we've already purged twice right really give serious thought to getting rid of your work clothes so that someone else can wear them you know I think that's really really important you know I think it's important to remember that building each day with a plan begin with your plan it'll do wonders for your boredom it almost negates the opportunity for boredom to get in plus I think it's okay at the end of the day when we're having dinner whatever to check in and see how did we do today right what was it what was the best thing that we did today and what are we looking forward to tomorrow right you know if you stick to this schedule with the morning planning making commitments and activities and filling your days putting in some down time too you'll feel less bored and more excited about what tomorrow brings so the last thing we want to share with you to make sure boredom does not creep into your retirement is to protect your weekends we did talk about that a little bit how weekends were so important to us during our career but they're really important now too we really like our weekends we do and you know we we fight that urge and we fight that wave and we actually fight some clients on the fact that they say shouldn't every day be a Saturday now that I'm retired but our weekends we still do fun weekends right and our response is no you know protect your weekend Savor your weekend still make Saturday Saturday plus you do want to plan some things we did another video on this we want you want to plant some things so you know what day of the week it is right you don't want to just feel like every day is a Saturday but we do certain things on Mondays and Wednesdays and Fridays and all of that but the other thing about weekends is a lot of our friends are younger and they still work right so we plan things to do on the weekend with them because they're more available yeah I mean even if it's dinner out or a farmer's market or breakfast or you know a day trip to a to a village nearby we plan that on the weekends really savoring that weekend time you know what you don't want to do is be a weekend homebody because because there are crowds you know it's okay these days to get out you know bring your own crowd into the weekend bring your own energy into the weekend so we're big fan of weekends so make your weekends fun all right we're at the end and we wanted to give you three steps to get unstuck if you feel like you're bored first thing is as soon as you feel bored do something fun for yourself do not sit there in your sadness work on the hobby read for an hour call a bunch of friends just pick up your phone and call your friends don't just sit there and lament that you're bored you know something easy you can do is to just turn on some music loud music dance sing I like loud music Mark doesn't so much but I turn on music when I feel that boredom creeping in the second thing is spend some time planning a vacation Dream a Little Google some fun places pick some great hotels or Resorts make it a project that when you have time you feel that you can work on it get a folder include kids don't include kids include another couple talk to your spouse where do you want to go and how can you dream there's actually science around the fact that you get happier oh yeah when you're planning a vacation as opposed to even just going on the vacation so yeah if you get happier planning your day if you just sit there and plan your day even if you don't do everything it gets exciting right all right right you're feeling bored here's the third thing you can do get out of the house and take a walk fresh air if it's raining if it's snowy it doesn't matter dress for the weather go to a beach and walk along the beach or walk in the in the woods on a trail the Japanese call that Forest bathing if you're bored get out and move you know feeling bored is not a good feeling and it's not an option for you in retirement if it continues for a long period of time it can be debilitating when it kicks in adjust and do something to get you out of this funk now if you want to learn more ideas on having fun in retirement check out this video right here we just posted a while ago and it gives you a lot of great ideas and if you enjoyed this please share with your friends and also please subscribe by clicking the Subscribe button below and finally join our free Facebook Community the link is also in the notes below thanks for being with us today and we'll be back again soon
6 Retirement Essentials (Most people only prepared 2 or 3)
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I'm planning for retirement most people focus
mostly on marshaling together enough money you know Financial Resources so that they can last
the distance and then maybe at the back of their heads they have some vague plan right perhaps
two or three things to fill the time with a lot of the times this is stuff like travel family
well unfortunately I'm gonna say that's not quite nearly enough for Preparation we ourselves
have been retired for two years and going looking back on the past two years I kind of see like
six essential things that if you prep for it beforehand before your retirement starts I think
this can really make such a positive difference to your retirement so that's what I wanted
to bring up and discuss with you guys today number one first and foremost of course we have
to talk about money most people's concern is the amount of money that they have in retirement
whether it will last them till the end come comfortably and allow them to afford the Hobbies
like travel good food Etc but I actually think after going through the last two years building up
our financial Acumen is just as important if not more so what do I mean by Financial Acumen I mean
stuff like budgeting tracking projecting investing I mean if you think about it the money in your
bank account can always be squandered we all know that story I think more importantly what's
going to make your retirement more fireproof is having an ability to generate more money where
it came from in the first place so the second essential thing that you can prepare for so that
you have a wonderful retirement it's definitely the ability to be self-directing and disciplined
self-direction definitely helps so much with spending your retirement days meaningfully right
after all there are no more like work schedules or like demands from colleagues or bosses to help
shape your days anymore you have to be the person to take charge in retirement there's a study out
there actually that shows that for happily retired folks most of them actually have about 3.6 core
Pursuits that's what they say and the unheably retired folks tend to have less than 3.6 corporate
suits coming in at about 1.9 call Pursuits that's what the study reflected I guess it kind of just
shows in retirement you really need to fill your life to the brim and keep busy with activities
you love and that is a really great formula for happiness and self-direction will help you
to achieve that state as well as discipline because if you think about it like discipline
directly affects the state of your finances right it affects whether you stick with your retirement
planning whether you keep fit and active and you get to maintain your health in retirement even
whilst you're left up to your own devices even to find your cover suits if you don't have any
when you're starting or in your retirement so discipline and self-direction will be like
the building blocks for enjoying your life in retirement the third essential thing you might
want to work on and cultivate or happy retirement is people skills right so studies and research
have reflected very consistently that the main determining factor for happiness and Longevity
for most of us is actually relationships Human Relationships friendships relationship with
your spouse and with your family I guess if you look at most of us you know we all have
a little need of work on some social skills in some aspect I mean some of us are a bit shy
paper hats or graph or maybe socially anxious working on our people skills really will help us
to get along and live happily with our spouse and family members and also importantly to make
new friendships at whatever age we all know that making new friends gets a lot more difficult
as we get older I mean I haven't heard anyone say otherwise for me personally making new friends
as I get older is the biggest challenge there's this huge feeling that nothing can replace
friendships with people who have known you all your life but it is also a challenge as I
have chosen to exercise through Arbitrage in our retirement and we've moved away from home
so those friends aren't with us in our present I find that it takes a lot of intention I have
to consciously push myself to broaden my Social Circles and make the effort to get to know people
on a more intimate basis I am also very happy to be able to say that it has paid off in that for
the last two years in Bali I have actually made two or three new friends that I'm happy to say are
kindred spirits and not just social acquaintances so that's very nice and it's a huge Comfort to our
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thing that you can definitely work on and that will benefit your retirement tremendously it's
actually courage you're definitely gonna need lots of courage in retirement and I guess this isn't
a skill exactly it's kind of more of a quality but in retirement you need a lot of courage
to even plunge into retirement you need the courage to you know take that leap of faith to
stop putting it off due to fear of the unknown feel or financial insecurities so then it's all
about courage at that stage not let fear and insecurity rule your life and your decisions it
is also the courage to recognize that in life at the start at the end in the middle the Domino's
you need are never all nicely lined up you know at some point you just got to jump into it and
then learn to cross the obstacles as they come so for retirement long term I guess the
biggest issue most commonly is always money but my perspective on this is that hey budgets
can always be reduced money can always be earned or recouped or whatever happens so I still
think that you know it is actually beneficial to Advocate an approach whereby you get to
a point where you feel that you have most of your Ducks lined up you've planned well you've
prepped for it grab hold of your courage with both hands and then take the plunge people tend
to think of retirement as the end but it's not it's the start of a new phase where you should be
trying so many new things new Pursuits new ways to live and for each of these new adventures
you're gonna need courage to take action and once you have taken the plunge you'll find the
next fifth thing very very useful and that would be a mentality of resilience especially in early
retirement there are a lot more decades ahead of you you know and therefore a lot more chances that
they things can go wrong whether it be down to bad financial planning or perhaps an unexpected Health
catastrophe or even sometimes natural disasters whatever comes I guess you will always need that
strength of Will and the resilience so that you can roll with the punches and then get back up
you want to know that you have the mental strength that even if things go pear-shaped you won't just
give up and lose hope and certain Corner you've got to Marshall what you've got inside you go out
there find Solutions perhaps if necessary you've got to go back to work but know that later on
you can return to retirement and try again so the sex essential thing that I believe will benefit
everyone in retirement is to cultivate an attitude of gratitude we all know life is a very long
journey hopefully at least and so much of what we Chase using most of our years actually doesn't
really matter in the big picture once you have taken a step back and then at that point is when
you start realizing the earlier you cultivate and attitude of gratitude and that appreciation for
the simple little things that are probably around you everywhere every day the happier you probably
will be and it sounds silly but it's not really automatic I mean we all live and grow up and
work and go to school in a society that kind of innovates us with messages that we need to reach
for more have more ambition gives us you know that High definitions of success in life that we
have to try to jump to reach and nobody sings the Praises of the pleasures of a simple cup of
tea you know the importance of family time with your loved ones or or just the pleasure of being
able to take an evening walk on the beach with your dog so I think that it's very important that
somebody reminds you that you know you can not overload what you already have what you're already
surrounded by growing that muscle of appreciation so that in each and every moment you are present
in your own life you see all the little Joys that you're surrounded with every day and if you
live life like that I think that will help you achieve contentment with just the small stuff
around you and that's what majority of your life in retirement may be about is just a small stuff
every day but in my own retirement here in Bali it is what makes me so grateful and so happy every
day that I am surrounded by my loving husband and very interesting and independent little dog
that's very very cute you know that we have very comfortable a bit simple house we have the ability
to enjoy good food even if it's simple stuff from the war rooms locally we have a garden and
beautiful things are growing around us every day the weather is great you know stuff is good yeah
I think this is one of the most essential simple things that's often overlooked simply because it's
a matter of mentality but I believe this essential quality or characteristic could make all the
difference for you so these are the six essential things that I believe are very very important for
you to cultivate and prepare for in the leader to actually taking the plunge into a return then I
think that if you have these six strong skills and qualities going for you you will be in a position
much more well placed to make the best out of your retirement however long that period may be let me
know what you think of my suggestions whether you agree or if you think they suck let me know why
but in any event I really appreciate you tuning in and sharing my thoughts for this week and
wherever you are in the world I'm wishing you a happy Saturday evening and let's speak again
next week till then you take care and bye for now
Top Tips to Declutter Your Home for Retirement
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living in a cluttered home filled with too many possessions that don't mean anything to you can create stress anxiety and depression and you have to know that this clutter is actually stealing from you whether you know it or not it's stealing your energy it's certainly stealing your space it's stealing your money and it's definitely stealing your happiness you know it's been proven that people are less productive in a cluttered environment now look this idea of decluttering is so hard for some people and maybe you have a little bit of a hoarder mentality I think we all do we don't like to throw certain things away or maybe you always disagree with your partner on what gets thrown away yeah exactly like that stupid frying pan from college that you had there had Teflon peeling off and was killing us one egg at a time you know clutter breeds more clutter Mark's mom loved pigs pigs everywhere not live pigs but she did like live pigs pigs in every way shape or form if they were printed on plates painted on cups she had knickknacks years of pigs every gift she was given I swear had a pig on it yeah and because over the years I was buying my mom so many Pig things Jody started buying meat Pig things and I said no no I'm not the pig person no only after so this is well it's an example of someone who has a I don't know roosters or pigs or pillows would do tchotchke names on it oh that's nice but then people start giving you all this stuff and in the end your house is filled with it I mean think about it how do we get clutter in the first place and if and if you go back to what we just said you do have objects that remind you of important things or objects that have sentimental value those are hard ones we're going to talk about that at the end actually how to declutter those but then there's the expensive yeah oh really like the snowshoes that you purchased top of the line snowshoes that we have those are going to my niece who lives in Vermont they've been going to Lucy for years okay so this is what this is how this is going to go today but so to your point an expensive purchase sometimes we're afraid to let go right right we also take a lot of comfort in our possessions sure you know they make us feel comfortable you know people give us gifts and maybe you don't really want them but you hate to just get rid of them because sometimes they look for them when they come into your house well we're talking about that at the end too because that's not fair that we don't get rid of it just because they gave it to us right so appliances from your kids wait we use the air fryer twice let's jump into decline we need better air frying stuff come on recipes yes all right so if you have a good air frying recipe stick it below yeah let's talk about our process right now this might seem mundane and very granular but this is what you need to do to start and you want to start small so you have some easy wins just try it try taking your kitchen utensil drawer and take that apart first start with the area above it can't have all sorts of stuff clean that out but then take your drawer open it up and everything comes out as you're taking it out if you know something's definitely going to go in the garbage put in the garbage but get everything out clean the drawer and then if you need any kind of new separators or organizational stuff you know you want to get that ahead of time well and I'd be careful I mean you know maybe you have two of something so it doesn't go in the garbage but it goes into a bit where you're going to well I know I'm just saying I mean I'm just garbage things well if there's something in there that's garbage I'm saying put it in the garbage don't put it on the counter right but if there's something that you can donate so here's the things you can do you take it out and you want to sort it some it's either going to go in the garbage you're going to donate it it's going to go back in the drawer or saved items might go in a different drawer so you might reorganize a little bit so you can actually start a new junk drawer no and we're not in a junk drawer we're in a utensil door you're right but it might belong somewhere else this is what I do you don't do this I know you mess up I clean them I love this stuff very true but you want to keep going until the counter is clean and the drawer is full and maybe you need to make a list of new things you need like the rusty can opener doesn't work anymore but do one drawer get it done and look at it and you'll feel great and then keep going if you have the energy but do not start a new drawer never mark never start a new drawer unless you have the commitment to finish it correct right don't look at me I'm like the king of this oh my goodness so just take pictures and leave them below there's nothing worse than having a drawer half empty on the counter in there and then you won't touch it for days yep but there's also some Rules of Engagement if you're married or in a relationship or you live with someone if you have a roommate right yeah you can't you can't create this d-cut cluttering plan and have it lead to fighting you know you got to make it fun you got to make it purposeful and you could even turn it into a game you know you can agree on some items and maybe you choose not to agree on other items and I know we have a few of those well the other thing to do is if I'm going to clean a drawer I make sure Jody is gone for the day and I do it and then she doesn't even notice it but it feels so much cleaner I feel great huh what do you mean is that when that happens that's when it happens you think a little munchkin comes in the middle of night and does it no so you're going through this process start small start small start with a drawer make sure you can finish it and make sure you stay till the end we're going to give you some tips on decluttering the sentimental items that's where we really get stuck yeah we'll all do all right so let's tackle the bathroom okay now we've done the kitchen kitchen drawer not the whole kitchen which is testing we're getting warmed up all right now we're in the bathroom okay another easy one under the sink in the drawers medicine cabinet get some divisors for down below but most of the crap down there you could throw out you just don't need it you know what's funny is there are dates and expiration dates on a lot of things you know and I know there's debate whether they're true expiration dates or not but I know when we did this recently and we went through like half of our sunscreens had expired well yeah they moved all over the place and so you know you got to look at the dates look at things that are half empty things that you can combine things you don't use anymore and pay particular attention to medicines right and you can't flush everything down like you have to figure that out but the same rules apply when you're taking everything out it's either garbage donate goes back or go somewhere else and you need to be rigid with yourself you can't mess around with this you got to make sure you do it right all right so now you've had some good and easy wins and everybody feels like I should start a new business how to how to declutter people's houses I would love to do like Maria Conde or whatever yeah we should switch shift from retirement transform to clean your house I should just go out more in the house would maybe be cleaner because apparently you do it well all right so we've had some easy wins everyone's feeling great now you got to figure out how to do the rest of the house so you want to set a time frame to finish it let's say six months well you can do six months I I would say do this you know count your rooms before you set your time frame so if you have three bedrooms a living room dining room and kitchen you know that's six so then the six month time frame give yourself a month in each room I was going to say a week oh I would do a week in each of those rooms and I would say the attic the garage and the basement for Less you are definitely the expert oh yeah because they're complicated they're loaded with things that always kind of move around the house and that's where they end up well they're also loaded with things that aren't necessarily yours what do you mean so our basement attic garage is loaded with things that are the kids well that too yeah yeah but the bedrooms that's another process and I think it's it's individual but you have to take your dresser take everything out touch every piece of stuff that goes in there and put it on your bed you do my dresser when I'm gone no I never touch your dresser but it's either going to go back in the dresser it's going to donate or it's going to go and that's where donating really feels good if you have you know things that you're not wearing or things that you're not using that you know other people can use and you get them together and you put them in the car and you donate them that really does feel good bedrooms are tough because you tend some people tend to have piles of things boxes and all of that so you just have to start somewhere and keep working your way around and that's why maybe six months is a good time but I do the stuff in my hanging my hanging clothes you know if I look at a piece and I haven't worn it in a year it gets donated and what's funny is when I go through that process every year sometimes I always find a few pieces that I haven't worn in three years right but now that you have some Rhythm let's in and then move on to the dining room if you have one you know you might have a dining room cabinet that's full of glasses and platters and you know just make sure you're using them all or donate them or hand them down to their kids if they're family heirlooms living which by the way the kids don't love like China my kids don't anymore China Crystal they kind of look at it and go like no what am I going to do with that living rooms you're going to run into problems because you're going to probably have a lot of sentimental things in there like we said we're going to cover that at the end so keep listening but it's the same process yeah and and I can tell you firsthand so while you're cleaning drawers and potentially under the sink I got stuck cleaning the attic before we moved out of New York so the attic can definitely be a multi-day project and here is really the time to be really clear with yourself that you're gonna get rid of junk I mean just yeah I need a dumpster that's where junk ends up and believe me I learned that firsthand attic basement garage yeah they're tough multi-day projects might want to do it on a weekend and then clean the areas up you might benefit from putting some shelving in there or some racks we like to use those racks that have wheels on them so you can move them around the garage and clean it when you need to but right it's really um it's for me it's a fun process it's painful sometimes but in the end gosh you just feel so much better well listen thanks for staying to the end but now let's talk about what to do with the sentimental things you know first thing you can do is see if your kids or any other family members want it and believe me we tried that we got a few things from our parents we didn't know what to do with them and I remember our kids looking at us with a few Furniture pieces and said no we don't want your brown furniture so um we had a hard time we actually had to donate it donated a lot all right so with sentimental things you need to be intentional is it something that we actually use or is it just feeding memories if it's that I don't know that spoon in the kitchen you never use it because it's all crappy and old and Rusty get rid of it if you're not using it are you talking about my grapefruit spoon with the serrated edges no that's that's up on a mount on the wall with a plaque my grandmother game but don't keep these things in your life just if it's for the memory if it's feeding memories maybe limit the number like one photo one spoon for grapefruit one serving dish one tool from your dad one beloved heirloom just keep one but not all of them it's just it's just too much gosh that's a hard one what you just went through I know I guess the other thing you could do and this is a big project but turn your photos into a digital format you know get the digital picture frame what is the name of our picture frame it's called Remember uh Adventure we'll find out what it is put a link below it's amazing it just flips through pictures all day long well you can upload them from anywhere that you have Wi-Fi and you can also Grant access to other people to upload so if one of the kids takes a great picture when they're here and they have access they can upload that so instead of having hundreds of photos just send baskets do that and it's hard to have hundreds of photos if then something happens to you like your mom we have 12 moving boxes of photos that your mom had now you also can make a scrapbook which is kind of fun and if you're not really good at this you can hire someone to do it but take some photos some letters some cards and notes and put them in a scrapbook put some handwritten notes in the column one why that item is important to you and maybe it's something you could pass on to your kids and this and this fifth one is hard for me be a burden you know if someone gives you a gift and you know you're gracious and you accept it and but it's not something you want to keep forever you can't keep it forever because that's really how clutter starts all over again look this is a hard process but in the end you lighten the load you make space in your home and you make space in your mind and you're gonna feel happier really having more empty space in your home will make you feel a difference in so many areas of your life now if you like this video you're really going to like this next one do this instead of downsizing now not everyone wants to downsize so it's not going to work for everyone but in this video we walk you through ways you can make your current home feel fresh and new and we give you 10 easy low-cost tips to upgrade your house so watch this next
Rethink Retirement – well-being beyond your bank account | Clare Davenport | TEDxBYU
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Transcriber: Annet Johnson
Reviewer: gaith Takrity Do you ever dream of retirement? What’s your retirement dream? Is it pure bliss and relaxation? Can you almost feel that warm wind? Taste those fruity umbrella drinks? Lounging by the pool, endless games of golf,
walking on the beach? I’ve always loved vacations, haven’t you? So I think we’re really going to love
this constant vacation space in retirement too, right? It actually reminds me of a couple I know. Let’s call them, “Jeff and Jenny.” They’ve dreamt of retirement for years. Jeff had worked at the same company
for over 30 years. He knew everybody. He was the life of the place.
And Jenny, she’d often worked two jobs
so they’d have enough. They finally did. They moved to sunny Florida, of course. But something strange started to happen. Jeff seemed lost, lonely. They started to nip at each other. They started to quarrel. And Jenny, although she was
beginning to make community, really didn’t like to golf. She’d never been that sporty. She missed her long-time book club. She missed her best friends, her kids, her soon-to-be grandchild. What was going on? Had they not done everything right? They’d moved to sunny Florida. They’d worked with
a smart financial advisor. They’d saved enough. I ask you, if this is the dream vision
for retirement – You see it in the adverts. Why is it that so many are
dissatisfied at this age? Why is it that depression
increases by 40%? Why is it [that] substance abuse,
divorce rates are climbing? Why is everyone lonely? And people’s self-worth is low? Surely we can do better than this. Look, I’ve spent many years consulting and coaching and researching
the ideas, tools, and frameworks that best support us
during times of transition, like retirement.
Look, I’m not here to tell you
whether you should or shouldn’t retire, because maybe you should
or maybe you shouldn’t. It is up to you to design and discover. But I do want to share with you
what I know about these life changes, these life quakes, these life disruptors so we don’t end up
in a situation like Jeff and Jenny. Look, we know that transitions
are a regular part of life. They can be trying and triumphant.
They can be predictable and unpredictable because life often
doesn’t follow a straight line. But my research and others’ shows us
that if we bring our intention and attention to them,
we can improve our well-being. And we can improve our well-being
in retirement too. I like to think of it as an ROI,
a return on investment. But this time for our well-being. Think of it as the “ROI”
beyond our bank account, an investment portfolio
in human flourishing, your flourishing in retirement.
Where “R” is where we reframe
our current definition of retirement. “O” is where we optimize
the well-being in retirement. And “I” is where we ignite
our way forward. So let’s “ROI,” Reframe, Optimize,
and Ignite, your retirement. Let’s start with “R”: reframe. Let’s reframe your current
definition of retirement. Look, even the word retirement
sends shivers down my spine. I really don’t like that word much.
And when I look up the word “retire”
in a thesaurus, I see the strangest words: retreat, remove, exit, my personal favorite, “go to bed.” And, although I get it – It is very, very tempting
to go to bed sometimes, it does imply that we are
fading from life when in fact these years can be
some of our best years, some of our most flourishing years. So then, how did it start? Well, historically, we never
abruptly retired. We gently moved from one stage
to another in life. And then rumor has it, this gentleman – I think he looks a bit scary, actually, German Chancellor, Otto Van Bismarck,
in 1889, created this idea, this invention of retirement
when he put in place disability insurance for those over 70. This idea was radical. But other countries followed suit,
making retirement age between 65 and 70. But what’s interesting about
this time period of 1889 was the life expectancy
was less than 44 years. A far cry from our 80′ish years today. So to be clear, this definition
or invention of retirement is over 100 years old and we have almost doubled our lifespan.
So surely, can we not all agree that
we need to reframe, rethink, redesign … our retirement definition? Next, let’s “O” of the ROI, let’s optimize. Let’s optimize our well-being
in retirement. And it’s here we can learn
from some great science and research. Edward Jones asked over 9,000 retirees, “What gives you fulfillment
in retirement?” Their answers: being authentic, spending
time with those they care for, they love, doing interesting things,
things that help them grow, and being generous, giving back. Interestingly, money was
at the bottom of the list. And, look, we know that money can
bring us freedom and flexibility. But research consistently shows us
that above a base level, money is not the secret ingredient
to happiness in life or in retirement. It’s also interesting to examine
the disconnect between what retirees are thinking about – connection, contribution, community, and pre-retirees are thinking about, which is pretty much their bank accounts
and this vacation view of retirement. And when we look at
this vacation view of retirement, we find that over time it becomes the norm and starts to lack the joy it once did. It’s probably why
Berkeley researchers found that we have a sugar rush
of well-being when we first retire and then a year or two later
a fairly sharp decline.
Behavioral economists might call it
hedonic adaptation, where one more umbrella drink, one more golf game just loses its sparkle. We can also look into the world
of positive psychology as we continue to “O”, optimize. We can examine the science of
what makes for a good life, a happy life, a life better than fine. And it goes by the acronym, PERMAV. I like to think of it
as my well-being playbook where “P” is positive emotion,
feeling good, hopeful, inspired, loving. It’s like a micro moment of joy: a good laugh, a good meal. “E” is engagement. Having interests in pursuits that fully
captivate us and take us away: help us grow, our relationships, having loving and authentic relationships
with another, with groups, with communities.
“M” is meaning, that sense of purpose,
something beyond ourselves. “A” is accomplishment, having positive progress in life. And “V” is vitality, investing in our bodies, in our minds,
because they both matter and they work together. Look, these elements collectively
make up our well-being. They matter, they work together, and we have to bring our attention
and intention to them because they can change. So it’s super important
in retirement to focus on these. We can also learn from the
blue zones of the world, those zones where people
fully embrace the PERMAV elements. They live flourishing lives and they live
an extra 10 to 15 years than most of us. The word retirement doesn’t even exist. Take Marie, for example. She’s amazing. She's 101, has her own garden. walks over a mile a day,
volunteers five days a week, and spends a lot of time
with her great friends and her six great grandchildren. She is thriving. She is optimizing her retirement years. Next, “I” of the ROI. Let’s ignite our path forward. Let’s take action. Let’s explore ideas. Let's sneak up on the future.
We know that life is not
a fixed destination but rather a continual design project. There’s not one best option for us. There's many great options
for us in retirement. We also know to break down
our ideas and our actions. We break them down small, so we feel comfortable taking action. We have a conversation, we explore an idea, we learn something new, but in a safe way. So we take some action. We adjust and edit and we take a little more action
as we ignite our way forward. So in closing, I invite you, all of you, to have a conversation
about your retirement. But maybe a little differently this time. It is never too early
and it’s never too late. Let’s create a retirement canvas full of the colors and
textures of well-being and ignited by our boundless
designs and imaginations, like Jeff and Jenny did. They moved back from Florida. They still vacation there sometimes. They bought a smaller condo,
two doors down from their best friend. Jeff decided to go back to work part-time, and he’s taking improv
classes twice a week. And Jenny, she’s enrolled
in doing a Masters in English and still loving her long-time book club.
They are prioritizing their friends, their family, and their new grandchild. They are thriving. So … what about you? Let’s begin to ROI
your retirement chapter. Let’s start with “R”, refrain. What does retirement now mean to you? And what beliefs are
no longer serving you? “O”, optimize. Who and what will you prioritize and how will you use your many,
many strengths and skills? And how does this compare
with those you care for? And “I”, ignite. What is one small step
you could take today to better understand
your “retirement act,” knowing the best can be yet to come. Thank you. (Applause).
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Our Day In Retirement / A Day In The Life
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well team i got a favorite beatles song from way back when can you tell what the title is i was gonna say is it a hard day's night norm well that might describe a marriage but uh hey yay no i was thinking about day in the life oh that's that's a great topic for a video team it is but before we get to that we are tina and norm and we talk all things retirement lifestyle and travel when we can travel and if you're new to the channel um thank you for joining us and please consider subscribing it really does help our channel grow soden a day in the life and the reason we're doing this is because we've had quite a lot of viewers actually say to us what do we do in a day so we thought we would talk you through it so it's quite simple team i get up i sit in my chair and that's it i don't do anything no that's not true is that the end of the video in actual fact norm is the early riser he gets uh at around 5 30ish in the morning and he will creep away and go into the office and he will do video editing or photos or pictures whatever is needed um for youtube or for stock that's right tina's a hard task master she boots me out of bed so i enjoy that because it's quiet i get a lot of work done i'm able to concentrate on video editing and photo editing and i i quite enjoy that so then around uh well i can hear i know when it's 6 30 because i start to smell coffee wafting through from the kitchen oh yeah that's a good sort of mini alarm clock isn't it i don't even have to look at my watching actually no you can hear it gurgling in the distance so coffee goes off on the coffee maker at 6 30.
So my job at quarter to seven seven o'clock is to get her highness here or a cup of tea in bed what the perfect way to start the day i love to do it and so we uh i wake her up with the team bed and i don't throw it at him no we put a light on and uh and then we start having our first discussion of the day yeah we um at that point we do look at our youtube channel we do just to make sure there's no naughty comments on there that need deleting we always like to see like if where the subscriber numbers are how many views we've had on the videos we've put up we just generally just have a quick chat about it don't we we do and after we've done that we will then move through into the kitchen where we will have breakfast between around 7 30 to 8.
Yeah and then normally that's uh we we tend to like eggs and um as as we've told you in a in a video it seems a long long time ago we go to an egg farm that's uh that's just in the countryside not too far from here and we get fresh eggs from the farmer and um they're absolutely fantastic so we will have eggs for breakfast of some description and um and once again we will listen to the news um on our amazon device yeah we can't say a name because you'll start talking now we've really enjoyed listening or putting that on and just talking about the news that's going on and current affairs keep up the date so that we mentally caught it it catches us and keeps us um stimulated and aware of what's going on doesn't it that's kind of nice to do that and then after breakfast i will um sit in a nice comfortable chair and i like to do some of these brain games sort of either word puzzles or suduko um yeah you like those don't you i just feel as though your brain needs to be kept active and exercised as as much as your muscles do and um so i do that every day and then um yeah generally while you're doing that i'll do like comments and that on the youtube channel won't i tina's the chief commentator replier on our youtube channel i help her out with comments but tina does an awful lot of the comments so you know who to blame if you don't like the comment and then we might have maybe maybe a mid-morning coffee or after that we'll rotina's favorite is either a hot cross bun or a currant bun from our baker friend out in the countryside with coffee so she would have that every day at 10 30 toasted with butter yeah but we have tried to cut that down a bit looking sort of weight and things haven't we yeah the injuries are starting to pack on and then we will try to go for a walk um if we can we'll go for about an hour or so it has been really cold lately so when we have to adapt to the weather and if it's really really cold we'll sometimes just walk up and down the floors and go up and down the stairs in the apartment building and it's a great way of exercising um sometimes i will go swimming but the pool's being closed hopefully it's going to be opening soon so then i might go swimming too it's had a leak which has defied uh fixing for a long time so it looks like it might be coming back online um tina would swim every day um so and then with the markets being open i like i have a watch list uh that i have put together i have two actually i have uh the global mail newspaper has a watch list that you're able to set up and also yahoo finance does and i've just switched to the yahoo finance one because it it allows you to input your stocks into there as a portfolio and it shows the running amount by the second as the market is trading it's very addictive to sit there and it's actually very interesting isn't it because as we're buying new stocks and you're putting them on there then you can instantly hopefully that we're making money as opposed to losing it but you see the graph go up and it is quite exciting isn't it but we don't we think it's important to be aware if you if you are invested directly in the stock market um because the one thing that we have done is to is to leave a fair amount of cash in uh high interest bank accounts and if we see a pullback then we will invest if it's the type of stock that we are interested we just recently did that with the bank of nova scotia and the cibc bank and bought them at a at a nice discount they they dropped in a day um and uh they've gone back up yeah it's great we're doing really well on those aren't we so we spend quite a bit of time or you spend a lot more time than i do on that but we do that and then normally tina there's that magic hour of the day comes around oh that one hey you've missed lunchtime norm oh i'm on a diet so generally we will then have lunch and then we might do lots of different things in the afternoon we might go grocery shopping yeah um we might just go for a run out just for the hell of it to get out the apartment because as you realize this day is generally different because we're at home with the pandemic isn't it but this at this time of year as we're making this video we would normally be uh somewhere sunny uh either portugal or the us all destinations yet to be explored but we can't do that at the moment so we're adapting to around here on we are we're adapting to having a boring day actually and sometimes normal say in the morning this is just like groundhog day because he feels it's the same day in day out and it kind of is isn't it but it'll get better and that takes us to that well-earned great time of the day which happens at four o'clock doesn't it norm yep happy hour yay so we have been doing um virtual happy hours with friends yeah and i must admit this it's been working really well hasn't it so we use facetime but but just to to save all our own modesties we we just do it as audio um message uh facetime so our friends can be in their pajamas if they want to be and we normally chat for an hour and a half to two hours easily don't we we'll have a beverage or two and uh chat about news what's going on about mutual friends yeah and but the beauty is that then you can actually start to prepare your meal your dinner as well while you're chatting and having your happy hour so you know we might be chatting for an hour and a half and then in the last half hour we'll start to prepare dinner which is great isn't it and there are two ways that we eat dinner we'll either sit at our table and once again continue chatting we we have a lot to talk about with our youtube channel no shortage is this our stock photography business and with with places that we've identified we'd like to travel yeah so we will chat about that well the other way is we just stick the good old tele on and we sit on the couch with our dinner and watch a movie or a show and we've been finding some really good shows on our new tv with some great movies so that's been working really well it's been very enjoyable and that's kind of what we do in the evening now we will also check then our youtube channel before we go to bed see what's happening there um get updated with comments and things and normally we're we're in bed by 10 o'clock yeah and have a really sound sleep and then it's groundhog day again and then home gets up at 5 30 in the morning now we are hoping this will change slightly as we progress to being able to go to the trailer in may we do we're looking forward to yeah which will be great but basically that's kind of what we do we're just ordinary people day in the life of isn't it and what you find in retirement is you you wonder how you're going to spend the days but those minutes just find a way of filling up on all on their own and you'll be swept along with it yeah so that's our day in the life and thanks for watching and we hope that everybody is staying safe and keeping well till the next time bye bye bye
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