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Some of us may think that\xa0after retirement, we'd just be sitting around and do nothing but Noel Baker talks to us about how after retirement, it gets better. You can listen to the show at http://rockyourretirement.libsyn.com/it-gets-better-episode-32\nToday we interviewed Noel Baker, a retiree who has some advice for us.\xa0 It gets better!\nIt gets better!\nNoel grew up in Minnesota and attended college at the University of Minnesota. After college, she worked for about a year before getting married. In 1970 she moved to Colorado with her husband, where she spent the next 8 years raising her 2 children and was very involved in politics.\nOnce she and her husband divorced, she had to gain employment. She worked a few different jobs, including work at a bill collecting agency and as a counselor at a detox center for alcoholics. She worked as a Senior Administrative Assistant for KPMG, an accounting firm for 26 years. The firm decided to downsize in the fall of 2009 and Noel was forced to retire at 64 years old she wasn\u2019t ready for it and like many retirees, became depressed. She didn\u2019t let that stop her though and soon she was up and about rocking her retirement.\xa0 It gets better.\nIt gets better!\nSOCIAL AND FAMILY\nShe joined her local recreation center where she made a circle of friends, and they enjoyed going to the movies.\xa0 She also enjoys going to lunch with the ladies from the recreation center.\xa0 Now that she has friends, she knows that it gets better.\nADVENTURE AND TRAVEL\nNoel does like to travel inside the USA and a year ago made a trip to see her youngest daughter in Utah.\xa0 She also travels to Minnesota to see her sister.\xa0 AND…she is also hoping to take a cruise sometime.\xa0 We discussed Costco Cruises and Celebrity Cruises.\xa0 \nTravel… it gets better!\nHEALTH\nEating healthy and exercising are very important to her. She didn\u2019t exercise at all until she retired as she felt like she had no time.\xa0 Noel gave up smoking and put on some weight. She goes to the recreation center to get exercise and go swimming.\xa0 Her doctor told her if you do nothing else, drink lots of water.\xa0 Good advice, Noel!\xa0 When you take care of your health…it gets better!\nWhat do you think people should know BEFORE they retire?\nIt gets better. There are friends to be made, places to go, and things to do.\nWe have a lot of listeners who are new retirees or maybe feel stuck in their lives at the moment.\xa0 If you were sitting across the table from a new retiree, what\u2019s the one piece of advice that you would give to have a successful retirement? \nLook around at the possibilities. Volunteering or taking a class. Find something you love and do it!\nTo find out about Senior Centers near you, do a search in your area or you can go HERE.\nhttp://traffic.libsyn.com/rockyourretirement/033_R_Noel_Baker_160506_IFinal.mp3