Investments....did you think stocks?

How many times you have heard your friends talking about planning for the future by investing in the stock market? SIPs, Realty, Commodities, Forex and what not. We immediately get carried away into the future thinking about how all can we increase our bank balance. But ever wondered about how can you increase your mental & physical balance? Ever thought about how can you invest in yourself & reap the benefits for your own self? Did you even think on those lines? These were the questions I had asked myself a few months back & now I am already reaping the benefits of all those important investments that I made. Or maybe I should say the most important investments that I have ever made.

Yeah...you can say that these are also stock investments but these stocks won't ever deplete because they aren't dependent on any market forces or any outside factor. These stocks are personal & integral parts of your life, dependent only on your own investment. That's why the more you invest the more you will reap the benefits.

What stocks am I talking about? Simple but essential ingredients of life like calmness, integrity, humane ethics, physical fitness, confidence, talents, whatever you can think of that add value to your life. And how can you invest in these stocks?

Not so simple because no one may have ever taught you before. I learnt all these thanks to the YES+ course conducted by the Art of Living organization. There are a few other organizations who are committed to instilling human values in today's world. So it depends on us to take that first step & learn these things.

Massive expansion of the mind happens once you invest in yourself. Everything that I wanted to achieve seems so achievable now just because I have started to realise the greatness of the human mind. I have come to terms with the fact that the only difference between thinking & acting is me myself & no one else (maybe the Safari Dicor ad rings a bell here). I could never think of even thinking on these lines before. There's so much to do & give in this life. Time is not less but has to be properly utilised. What's the point in just going for a job 5 days of the week & doing something different only on the weekends? Is that a life or a procedure? There's no harm in having a routine but for God's sake there's no point in just holding on to that routine too. We can have many such routines each day man!

There's only thing that I have realised & that I cherish in implementing each day - if you can't give time to yourself even for half an hour a day, there's absolutely no point slogging 9 hours for someone else.