Today I turned 60 and I have gray hair and a few wrinkles. What would be the best thing to do with the rest?

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of my life. I work, take care of the grandkids and volunteer at a local elementary school ( this is the best part of each day). I don't really want to go back to school but I do need to start planning a retirement and I don't just want to sit around and watch the grass grow. So does anyone have an idea for me?

Answer 1

First -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY! (Mine is next week, so I know this is important. :-)

Next... what's the one thing in the world you care most about? You mention volunteering at the elementary school as the best part of your day, and that's a great place to start. So is that where you want to leave your legacy? Is there, maybe, something you want to be remembered for?

So here's a little visualisation exercise for you. It's January of 2017, and you're turning 70. But instead of sitting around the kitchen table with a cake and a bunch of birthday cards from your grandkids, you're at the multi-purpose room at your school where the mayor, the head of the school board, the principal of your school and a bunch of the teachers and parents are giving you an award -- in recognition of the tremendous work you've done in...

...in what? They've given you a brass plaque with your name (spelled correctly and everything!), and it mentions the project you undertook, which is now changing the lives of all the kids who have gone through it, and their families, and the community you live in.

So, what's the project? It could be anything -- teaching kids to read, or connecting with your community theater to put kids on stage, or a free hot-lunch program for the underprivileged, or financial literacy classes for teens, or...

What is it? When you read the article in your local newspaper, what project are they talking about?

THAT is what to spend the rest of your life on. Find that, and you'll never grow old.

Answer 2

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! You sound like you've got a pretty full life. Somehow I don't see you sitting around watching the grass grow. I'm not sure if retirement is stressing you out because of financial reasons or because you think you'll be bored. I would try and look at retirement as an opportunity to explore more interests. You don't have to go back to school, but you can keep learning. Most towns have great adult education classes where you can learn all kinds of new things. It's all in your attitude.

Answer 3

First, write down the word sarcopenia. Put it in big letters on a wall somewhere. This will be the most important word in your life. Look it up on the internet. It is a disease that affects ALL of us! The older we get, the worse it gets.

Now, there is no cure. But there is preventatives. Go to BeFit Enterprises and order the books and videos. That is Jack LaLanne's web site. He is 90 years old. God Bless that man.

Next, establish a DAILY exercise program. By doing DAILY aerobics, DAILY stretching, and WEIGHTLIFTING every Mon-Wed-Fri, while everyone around you gets older and weaker, you will get stronger and healthier. You can do this at home, or join a gym. I recently found a lady on a web site who is a bodybuilder, at age 86!!

Sitting around and watching the grass grow is a slow and painful death. There is nothing worse.

Thanks to todays medicines, you have a good 30-40 or MORE, years ahead of you. With daily exercise, you will look forward to each day in your life.

Teach your grandkids how to also exercise their entire lives. My son lifts weights, at 15. He started at age 5! And show others how to turn their own lives around and live life to the fullest.

Life can be exciting each day. Or just another day.

I am 54 and a chosed to be excited about life every day. I have been weightlifting for 21 years. I am in better shape than most people around me. I have weightlifting friends, one is 85 years old, and he can lift things that most people could not even push across the floor. He LOVES life.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Maybe you could turn your fun volunteerism into a full-time retirement thing. If you have spent your whole adult life working, raising kids and grandkids, I am sure that you have a lot to offer, and there are SO many people out there that need it.
I have LOTS of ideas:
Volunteer @:
Nursing homes- read someone a book, take someone for a walk, brush someone's hair, eat lunch with a lonely person
Hospice
Daycare-read books, take someone for a walk...etc.
Schools
Library
Youth programs in your community

The idea being to use the wealth of knowledge that you have learned in your life to help someone else along the way. I've read story after story about kids who decided not to kill themselves because there was just ONE person who listened, and thought that they mattered. You don't have to have a teaching degree to make a difference in the life of a child, and you don't need a nursing degree to make a difference in the life of an elderly person.
Happy Retirement!!

Answer 5

From an economic point of view...60 is too late to plan for retirement unless you hit the lottery. But if you want to have a master plan of what to do or where to go...I agree...plan now. Figure out the things you always wanted to do but didnt for one reason or another. Then eliminate the ones that you can't do because of age..... then make an implementation plan to finally do all those things. Travel, explore start a new hobby. Try volunteering where others have not...mentorship is always good.

Answer 6

dye your hair exercise and live another 40 years .Maybe get a younger husband.My mom is joining the senior olympics and we walk alot.Wrinkles well youve earned them embrace this time in your life.Maybe go to craft fairs or look up single farmers on farmers only.com You dont actualluy have to be a farmer just love the country.Also for the wrinkles there are some good products out one called Velvet skin primer it is really good on the appearance of wrinkles.Learn something new buy a dog or an Rv or a motorcycle or maybe just a glue gun just stay active and think positive remember you never quit learning.

Answer 7

Restore antique tractors
Become a motivational speaker
Get two jobs
Run the Boston Marathon
Tour America in a rusty pickup

Answer 8

Depending on your economic situation and whether you are attached to your family, you can buy a state room aboard a cruiser and sail all year to different ports around the world. 60 is not old to me. If you are widowed or divorce consider romance with a vivacious 49 year old.

Answer 9

Happy Birthday!!

Answer 10

should have started planning that retirement some years ago. Do more volunteer work