I remember when I retired over 15 years ago, I both looked forward to not working anymore and also had some reservations as to how I was going to keep from getting bored with all that free time. How I keep from getting bored is different now then the earlier years of my retirement.
1. At the beginning of my retirement, I kept from being bored by:
a. Playing golf twice a week.
b. Doing a lot of financial planning, seminars, and investing the first 5 years.
c. Doing a lot of family tree research
d. Planning and taking 3 to 4 vacations a year for the first 10 years and before Covid hit. Traveled to much of the US and to 25 nations in Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Costa Rica.
e. Taking lots of photos and videos of vacations and family and editing them.
f. I exercised daily on a treadmill for 3o minutes (walking at a brisk five miles an hour) and then increased that to twice a day.
2. As time progressed:
a. I dropped golf which I was never good at and play pickleball 5 days a week which I am good at. I had to drop the treadmill due to knee problems and the recumbent bike never gave me the good blood sugar results that the treadmill gave so I dropped it too.
b. Got into a pinochle group for men, women, and couples. The men and women's groups play once a week and then go to lunch together. There's also a monthly pinochle Men's nightly pinochle game with dinner first, and the same for a monthly couples pinochle game with dinner first.
c. Put hundreds of gigabytes of edited photos and videos for family, vacations, Family research, and internet photos of amazing places, nature, etc., Investment Advice, on a website that I share with family through links and that I continue to update.
d. Created a blog for my interests and thoughts on Economics, finance, and politics.
3. Most recently:
a. Our diabetes causing frequent bathroom trips has made the guided tour vacations we liked to take impractical. fortunately, we have seen almost everything we wanted to see.
b. So we started taking more all inclusive beach vacations since bathrooms by the pool and ocean are always near by. However, we have gotten bored with them and the food and nightly shows are not as good as in the past, so we stopped doing them.
c. Still doing pickleball, pinochle, and family tree research.
d. Some TV time, more computer time including reading a newspaper on line and playing pinochle and Hearts on my computer with my wife and "robots" or just robots.
e. Going out for lunch and dinner more often.
f. Giving investment advice to young family members.
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