When you are looking for a house to buy, the real estate people will tell you there are three important things to keep in mind: position, position and position. Where and how the property is situated – the district, street, the adjacent properties, which way it faces, etc, are the main determinants of its present and future value.
If you want to have a successful retirement there are also three things to keep in mind: health, health and health. And by health I mean both physical and mental well-being. Maintaining good health through regular checks, vaccinations, exercise, correct posture and a suitable diet is the essential basis for a full and active life. And challenging the brain and exercising all your senses will help prevent the mental deterioration that sometimes accompanies ageing. In the words of the old dictum: If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it!
Before retirement, the pressure of work can often interfere with taking regular exercise, visiting the doctor for annual checkups, eating well-balanced meals, and keeping a check on weight and posture. Your job may have been so draining that you had no inclination to relax with a book or take long walks; but just flop in front of the television.
Now you have retired, there are new priorities. And the most important of these is health, because without good health you will have difficulty achieving the other things you want to do.
Renaissance not Retirement 