2011Jan25_RetireAndEnjoy_ZonalTrainingCentreOfLifeInsturanceCorporationOfIndia

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WELCOME
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Retire and Enjoy
- Growing Old Gracefully
Prof. V. Viswanadham
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HONOURABLE AND PEACEFUL LIFE
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ARE YOU READY TO RETIRE ?
EMOTIONALLY ?
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After your active life involving important
thingssuch as your career, marriage,
children,taking care of your childrens
education, their career and their marriage and
so on . . . the next most important thing is
your own retirement
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The Retired Life Emotional Considerations
great change

• Retirement
• is a period of
• In Activities
• In matters of Health
• In terms of Relationships with family and
  friends
• In respect of Choices about
• where to Live
• In Your Outlook on life

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Do not get worried about your retirement and
old age Everyone grows older We get older every
day, without realizing that the future depends
to a great extent on the choices you make
today Right decisions with the help of proper
planning, taken at the right time will assure
smile and success at the time of retirement
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Plan to enjoy your retirement
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THE WAY YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE TILL YOU RETIRE HAS
AN IMPORTANT BEARING ON YOUR RETIRED LIFE
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has become a distinct reality
LONG LIFE . . .
1. Developments in Medical Science 2. Increased
awareness of Healthy Life 3. Adoption of Healthy
Habits Food, Exercise, Yoga, Pranayama
Dhyana 4. Improved opportunities for Happy Living
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Life after Retirement
. . . new Issues . . . new Problems . . . new
Challenges . . . new Opportunities
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Economic Security Social Security
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Physical Health Mental Health Spiritual Health
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DECLINING HEALTH
INCREASING STRESS
DECREASING ABILITY TO COPE WITH CHANGES
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GOOD HEALTH AT ANY AGE DEPENDS ON WHAT WE
EAT WHAT WE DRINK WHAT WE BREATH HOW WE
EXERCISE HOW WE REST HOW WE RELAX HOW WE
RECREATE IN SHORT, HOW WE LIVE
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DECLINING ENERGY LEVELS
INCREASING NEED FOR BEING MORE CAREFUL
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ANAYAASENA MARANAM . . .
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GETTING BED-RIDDEN
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DEVELOPING DETACHMENT
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WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG . . .
YOU HAD MORE ENERGY MORE CONFIDENCE MORE
INSISTENCE
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NOW THAT, YOU ARE NO MORE YOUNG . . .
A CHANGE IN YOUR ATTITUDE IS NECESSARY IN
YOUR OWN INTEREST
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SPIRITUAL INCLINATION IMPROVES DETACHMENT
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STHITHA PRAJNATHVAM
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SPIRITUAL PRACTICES IMPROVE SATWICK
ATTITUDE
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EARLY TO BED EARLY TO RISE
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Some
FRIENDLY SUGGESTIONS
THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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24 hours X 60 minutes 1,440 minutes
AT LEAST 1 OF YOUR TIME TO BE INVESTED
IN GOOD READING SO AS TO PREPARE YOURSELF
FOR THE FUTURE
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THE SECRET OF SUCCESS CONSTANTLY
CONTINUOUSLY
REVIEW
FUTURE
PRESENT
PAST
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PAST PRESENT FUTURE THE NEED FOR A RECORD
ACTION PLAN VISION
C D P
COMMITMENT DISCIPLINE PERSEVERANCE
ADOPT WORK IS WORSHIP ATTITUDE
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REINVENT YOURSELF
YOU ARE YOUR OWN RAW-MATERIAL. YOU ARE
YOUR OWN SCULPTOR. WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU
CONSIST OF, WHAT YOU WANT TO MAKE OF
IT, THEN YOU CAN INVENT YOURSELF And
reinvent yourself.
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Is it not True that we are continuously learning
and shaping ourselves
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WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR THINKING YOU CHANGE
YOUR BELIEFS EXPECTATIONS ATTITUDE
BEHAVIOUR PERFORMANCE LIFE.
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DON'Ts . . .
NO DRUGS NO ALCHOHAL NO TOBACCO NO INDULGENCES NO
EXCESSES NO NEW VICES
know when to say "no", learn when to
say "stop"
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LISTEN TO SOFT SOOTHING MUSIC
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MOVE OUT INTO THE OPEN AND ENJOY
OBSERVE SUN RISE AS MANY TIMES AS YOU CAN
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ANGER
FOR EVERY MINUTE YOU ARE ANGRY YOU LOSE 60
SECONDS OF HAPPINESS
IRRITATION
TAKE A DEEP BREATH TRY TO REGAIN CONTROL
REACTION
THINK BEFORE YOU TALK
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WALKING
WALKING
WALKING
Please see my presentation on Walking
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KEEP ON LEARNING NEW SKILLS BROADEN YOUR
HORIZONS
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List the activitiesyou need not have to
doyou may have to do you have to doyou could
not do you would now like to doWith greater
maturity,what new thingsyou would like to do
now
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TOWARDS LAZINESS
FROM BEING VERY BUSY
TOWARDS LEISURE
TOWARDS ENJOYING THE LIFE
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You have a right to enjoy your Retirement
DONT ALLOW ANYTHINGTO DISTURB THE
TRANQUILITY
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RetirementShould become the best period of
your life, when you can literally sit back and
relax.
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CONSIDER
1. GETTING UP EARLY 2. DRINKING 4 GLASSES OF
WATER, AS THE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING 3.
REGULAR WALKING / EXERCISE 4. YOGASANAS,
PRANAYAMA DHYANA
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5. EAT SPROUTS AND MORE FRUITS 6. REDUCE
OILY FOOD
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7. DRINK 2 GLASSES OF WATER, BEFORE FOOD ALSO,
AFTER 2 HOURS BUT NOT WHILE TAKING FOOD 8.
PREFER FOODS THAT CAN BE DIGESTED
EASILY, PARTICULARLY FOR DINNER, consider adding
seasonal fruits.
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9. LEARNING SOMETHING NEW 10. WRITING FROM
MEMORY 11. HAVE SOME HOBBY, THAT WOULD MAKE YOU
SWEAT 12. CHECK REGULARLY AND MAINTAIN PROPER
WEIGHT
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13. REDUCE SALT INTAKE 14. REDUCE SUGAR
GUD 15. REDUCE SPICEY FOOD
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16. PRACTICE DOING YOUR THINGS ON YOUR OWN 17.
REDUCE ANGER, IRRITATION JEALOUSY 18. LOVE AND
NOT HATRED
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IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER
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SELFLESSNESS SELFISHNESS

SELF
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SELFLESSNESS SELFISHNESS
Give Forgive Get Forget
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IMPROVE CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPOUSE
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. . . Family circumstances . . . Shift from an
active busy life to leisurely life . . .
Reduced regular income . . . Shifting place of
residence . . . Change in the environment
AVOID
Depression
in spite of . . .
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. . . Absence of friends . . . Away from the
grown-up children . . . Decreasing immunity
levels . . . Brooding over relatively small
matters . . . Inability to feel happy at even
small things
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. . . Feeling disinterested . . . Unwillingness
to do personal works . . . Inability to explain
the vaccum . . . Brooding over the past . . .
Feeling of isolation . . . Loss of dear ones
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. . . Increasing forgetfulness . . . Feeling
isolated . . . Imaginery health problems . . .
Feeling that others are not interested in
you . . . And so on and so on
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YOU ARE AS OLD AS YOU THINK YOU ARE
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UNWILLINGNESS TO BE ACTIVE IS WILLINGNESS TO GET
OLD FASTER
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UNWILLINGNESS TO BE ACTIVE IS BECOMING MORE
UNINVOLVED, DEPENDENT BECOMING BITTER
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OLD AGE IS SECOND CHILDHOOD !!!
While Children are young dependent You are old
and independent this adds to unhappiness
and sense of solitude
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Just Think . . .
Whether you are getting OLDER or getting BETTER ?
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Learning is for the young
RIGHT ? or WRONG ?
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The human body and brain were not designed to
relax for long. Those that relax long
and unnecessarily, decay.
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DON'T BE INACTIVE DON'T BE REACTIVE BE
PROACTIVE BE RESPONSIVE
BE ACTIVE
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DEVELOP THE ART OF GETTING OLD GRACEFULLY
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CONSIDER
READING ELEVATING LITERATURE SOLVING CROSSWORD
PUZZLES, PLAYING CHESS, SU-DOKU Etc. GETTING
INVOLVED IN RELIGIOUS, SPIRITUAL
PHILONTHROPIC ACTIVITIES
How about COMPUTERS ?
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Control the tendency to give u n s o l i c i t e
d a d v i c e
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LEARN TO ENJOY LIFE WITH A SENSE
OF DETACHMENT
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IMPROVE
RESPONSES RESPONSIBILITIES RELATIONSHIPS
C R
IMPROVE
RELATIONSHIPS WITH
SPOUSE CHILDREN
NEIGHBOURS TOO
HOW ABOUT GOD ?
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W. A. T. C. H.
W WORDS
A ACTIONS
T THOUGHTS
C CHARACTER
H HEAD HEART
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BE PREPARED FOR
THINGS
. . . for being treated as low priority . . . for
being asked to perform small tasks . . . for
being considered a source of money
. . . for acquiring greater emotional maturity .
. . for facing the realities of generation gaps,
particularly with grandchildren
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BE PREPARED FOR
THINGS
. . . for giving advice, only when asked . . .
for reconsidering expenditure pattern, . . . for
becoming increasingly self-reliant . . . for
increasing mental, physical spiritual
activity
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Love is so caring
People have to see themselves as part of a relay
team. Your job is to get the baton into the
hands of the next person and get off the track.
If you think this way, Retirement is a very
natural, peaceful process.
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THE PURPOSE OF TODAY

• The Purpose of Today is to Create Great Memories
• for Tomorrow,
• for Ourselves,
• for Others.

Everyday Spent Doing that Doubles the Value of
our Lives.
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Please Put Something into practice
WISH YOU ALL THE BEST
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