Don’t Spend Another Year Lonely! 5 WAYS TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS IN RETIREMENT
Friendship just might be the fourth secret to longevity, right behind eating well, exercising, and getting plenty of sleep. According to the Mayo Clinic, making friends can reduce stress, improve your self- confidence, and give you purpose in life! People with good friends are also more likely to exercise and less likely to drink to excess. But making friends is tough, especially in your golden years. To finally kick loneliness to the curb in 2022, try these five tips. 1. Get a dog. Adopting a dog (assuming you truly want one) will incentivize you to leave the house for walks, vet visits, and more. You’ll likely attract new friends in the neighborhood when they stop to pet your pup, and you can also meet people at the dog park or obedience classes. If nothing else, you’ll have your dogs in common! 2. Join a hobby group. The easiest way to find friends with similar interests is to pursue those interests. If you like to quilt, join a quilting group, and if you kayak, look for an outdoors club near you. Facebook is a great resource for finding online hobby groups, too! Just type your interest into the search bar and select “Groups” on the left-hand side of the screen.
There’s likely a cause for whatever you’re interested in, whether that’s food, animals, or sports. Visit VolunteerMatch. org to find opportunities in your area sorted by organization type.
Move to a 55-plus community. Also called retirement communities or active adult
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communities, these neighborhoods are known for their low- maintenance housing, amenities, and group activity options — and they’re all over the U.S. If you want to find friends in your age group to swim and play tennis with, a local real estate agent can help you find them.
5. Become a mentor. Mentorship is a valuable way to form
friendships across generations. You can sign up for an existing program in the field you retired from or reach out to a local college or high school career center and offer your services. They’ll likely have graduates who’d love to meet you!
3. Volunteer. Volunteering has similar benefits to joining a hobby group with the added benefit of giving back to the community!
Improve Your Financial Wellness in 2022 Flex Your Financial Muscles
As a new year begins, many of us pledge to get in shape. Whether you vow to eat better, exercise more, or simply lose weight, many new year goals center around physical well-being. But what if we took that passion and obsession with our physical wellness and applied it to our financial health? That’s the very idea behind Financial Wellness Month, which is celebrated every January. If you’re examining the ways you can improve your well-being, we want to encourage you to consider how you can bolster your financial knowledge, too.
regularly posted informative blogs, and be sure to snag your copy of Krista McBeath’s “The Generational Wealth System: A Holistic Approach to Preserving Your Wealth and Legacy.” It can be ordered at Wealth-Book.com or by scanning the barcode! You can also find us in two local publications, Healthy Cells Magazine and 50 Plus News & Views magazine. SIGN UP FOR WORKSHOPS AND WEBINARS! You’re never too old to learn something new. Workshops are generally geared toward specific needs, like bird-watching beginners or first-time Medicare enrollees. At McBeath Financial Group, we’ve created our own workshop series, including a workshop about Krista McBeath’s new book “The Generational Wealth System,” which we will host at the Bloomington Public Library. Visit our website to learn more! (We also hope to teach the same material at Heartland Community College again soon! Stay tuned for more details.) This year, as you commit to your physical well-being, don’t forget to expand your financial expertise, too. Please visit our visit blog at McBeathFinancial.com/blog for entertaining educational content.”
Here are a few ways you can improve your financial wellness in 2022.
READ MORE EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS. While it’s fun to get lost in another mystery novel, sometimes a little informative reading can be useful! And it doesn’t have to be much. If you can commit to reading something educational for 15 minutes each day, by the end of the year you will have read 5,475 minutes’ worth of information. That’s 91 hours of instruction! And we have a few reading materials to help you start. Check our website for
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