1. Do you need a bucket list?
This might be the first and most important of the retirement mistakes that people have always made: bucket lists. Some might think that a list is a good way to keep yourself organized and focused on your goals, but life is not really working like that.
Maybe a list can help you at your job or when you go to get groceries, but you can’t keep your biggest wishes and desires on a list. Over the course of time, people change a lot, and so do their desires. You wanted a new car a few years ago, but now you don’t think that’s what you really want to have.
It will not help you in the long run to have a bucket list with 100 or more wishes. It can keep you in place, and it can also make you feel like you’ve never accomplished anything in your life. Because let’s be real now: how many of us will have most of our things on the bucket list completed when we draw the line?
And as we already said, you might have changed, and many of the things you have written there are not part of you anymore. Why would you cry over things that are not even “you” anymore?
4 thoughts on “6 Retirement Mistakes You’ll Regret on Your Deathbed”
Thank you so much for this wonderful advicess they are very important incites for people like us the retirees. I believe people like us can benefit a lot from this very educational article. I learned a lot from this, I hope others will have the time to read it and tell many other retirees.
Yes to looking after one’s body. My doctor gives laconic advice including “Keep moving”. I know several people who use canes and walkers much earlier than they should (60s, 70s) due to aversion to exercise and long-term very sedentary lives.
My doctor: “Keep moving”. Too much love of sedentary living and aversion to simple exercise leads to early dependence on canes and walkers.
Your advice is clearly very important for a self longer life – but with respect you didn’t mention
other important personal points – in my humble view.
1 Recognise how you have not acted decently in a friend/relationship which may deserve an apology.
2 Remember a friend who is having difficulties – your remembrance will be so welcome.
3 Tell all close to you how much they have positively meant to you even if they didn’t realise it.
4 Tell Family members how much you are proud of them and that you will always Love them