Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Thoughts on Time Management

Why do you need to learn time management when you are retired. The myth is that you will have all the time in the world, to do what you want, when you want. Talk to friends and others who have been retired for a while, and you will find that we do not have any time and for most of us we are juggling so many activities it is hard to keep them straight. That is why learning time management is important and not as difficult as many believe.

One of the first steps in managing time is to understand your individuality and what you can handle. What are you currently doing with your time, and what is important to you, need to be examined before starting to manage our time. We can break time management down according to your individual needs, but for the most part managing time is the process of handling tasks so that we can complete the tasks we have undertaken. 

One trait that comes in handy when we start to manage our time, is flexibility. We may need the ability to alter our plans, since people, places, things, and businesses change. We need a direct order of skills to make a plan work and need the ability to comply with those plans. We need to learn to accept changes as they come and learn social skills and conditioning in order to manage our time. 

When we are balanced and learning our time is spent wisely, which contributes to time management. Another great tool to have when starting to manage your time is motivation. Motivation is achieved in many ways, and some things in life can affect how we feel or think. Some of the things that affect our motivation levels are smoking, caffeine, lack of exercise, overeating, lack of dieting, and having the ability to cope with changes. To cultivate motivation then we need to treat our minds and body well

Learning time management is essential for all the things we do in life. From the first day, you came into the world up until the time you went to school you were learning time managing skills. If we do not understand who we are as an individual, we are not learning what it takes to manage time wisely.

Monday, April 1, 2019

Retirement throughout the ages in graphics






Sunday, March 31, 2019

World Health Review Website

The World Health Review has an interesting website. At the website, you can look up information on your country and you can compare to other countries to see how you are doing in a number of areas. I did a comparison between Canada and the United States. Here are the results, which I thought were interesting, especially life expectancy at various ages.

TOTAL DEATHS BY CAUSE
TOP 10 CAUSES

                              CANADA                  UNITED STATES
                                          Deaths              %            Deaths       %
1.  Coronary Heart Disease   37,876876         17.93       479,223     20.90
2.  Alzheimer’s/Dementia      23,536              11.14       263,916     11.51
3.  Lung Cancers                  20,431                9.67       161,533       7.05
4.  Lung Disease                  13,408                6.35        181,735      7.93
5.  Stroke                            12,693                6.01        131,954      5.76
6.  Colon-Rectum Cancers      9,463                 4.48          60,418      2.64
7.  Diabetes Mellitus              6,834                 3.23           79,936     3.49
8.  Influenza and Pneumonia  6,391                 3.03           80,463     3.51
9.  Breast Cancer                  5,785                 2.74           47,291     2.06
10.Falls                                5,125                 2.43           32,672     1.43



CANADA                                         UNITED STATES
TOP 50 CAUSES OF DEATH                      Rate per 100,000 population             
1. Coronary Heart Disease                     55.36             86.89
2. Alzheimer’s/Dementia                       32.30             44.41
3. Lung Cancers                                   30.94             29.82
4. Lung Disease                                   19.01             32.01
5. Stroke                                             18.22             23.69
6. Breast Cancer                                  17.60             17.56
7. Prostate Cancer                               14.30             12.69
8. Colon-Rectum Cancers                     14.28              11.50
9. Suicide                                           10.54              12.70
10. Diabetes Mellitus                            10.27             15.21
11. Influenza and Pneumonia                   9.34            14.91
12. Falls                                                 7.42              5.95
13. Lymphomas                                      7.35              7.27



 LIFE EXPECTANCY BY AGE


          CANADA            UNITED STATES
                                                
             Male      Female      Male Female
AT BIRTH     80.9   84.7           76.0  81.0
AGE 5       81.3   85.1           76.6  81.5
AGE 10     81.3   85.1           76.6  81.5
AGE 15     81.4   85.1           76.7  81.6
AGE 20     81.5   85.2           76.9  81.7
AGE 25     81.7   85.3           77.3  81.8
AGE 30     81.9   85.4           77.7  82.0
AGE 35     82.1   85.5           78.2  82.3
AGE 40     82.3   85.6           78.7  82.6
AGE 45     82.6   85.8           79.2  82.9
AGE 50     83.0   86.1           79.8  83.3
AGE 55     83.4   86.5           80.6  84.0
AGE 60     84.2   87.0           81.8  84.7
AGE 65     85.1   87.7           83.1  85.7
AGE 70     86.3   88.5           84.7  86.8
AGE 75     87.8   89.7           86.6  88.3
AGE 80     89.7   91.1           88.7  90.1

AGE 85     91.9   93.0           91.4  92.3

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Confused

Thought you might find this interesting. Thanks to Judy for sharing.

I used to think I was just a regular person, but I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist. I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a fascist.

I am heterosexual, which now makes me a homophobe.

I am mostly union, which makes me a traitor to the country while still a friend of the working class and an enemy of big business.

I was baptized a Christian but became an atheist, which now labels me as an infidel for all religions.

I am retired, which makes me useless.

I think and I reason, therefore, I doubt much that the mainstream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary.

I am proud of my heritage, which makes me a xenophobe.

I value my safety and that of my family and I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist.

I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist.

I (and most of the folks I know), acquired a fair education without huge student loan debts and little or no debt, which makes me some kind of an odd underachiever.

I believe in the defense and protection of my country and I honor those who served in the Armed Forces, which now makes me a right wing-militant.

Please help me come to terms with the new me... because I'm just not sure who the hell I am anymore!

Funny ... it’s all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years; prior to which I had no confusion or delusions about myself.

As if all this nonsense wasn’t enough to deal with ... Now I’m not even sure which toilet to go into!