Investments....did you think stocks?

How many times yoiu have heard your friends talking about planning for the future by inveting 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 el