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Deferring luxury vs Deferring youth.

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A fine Friday evening, the weekend mood was already set in, yet I was not able to move myself out of my seat, as I had to attend a meeting until 8.30pm and had to complete few tasks for the week as the dead line was approaching. It was almost 11pm, when I reached home after a tiring day at work. My kid was eagerly waiting for me and she wrapped me with her arms the moment I stepped in to the home, you know what, nothing in the world is so magical than this. And this is what happiness and luxury to me! These days I am finding it little difficult to manage multiple things. As I have crossed half way through the retirement age, my brain is literally working and most of the time it tells me I’m aging and need to catch up a lot with my life and aspirations. The aspiration to move on and the persistence to do what I love to do is what keeping me going and I hope it does to you as well. Being an insomnia is equally good and bad. I find more time to read and browse through somethi

What to do when my Investments go up or down ?

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                                                  We have spoken to a whole lot of people and were surprised to notice the same mentality among most of the them. What is that mentality ?  Before we answer that question, Please choose one of the 2 options for each of the questions below - (take a paper and write "a" or "b" whatever your answer is) Q1. If the Stock market investments you make fall regularly will you increase your investments ?      a. No     b. Yes Q2. If the Stock market investments you make rise regularly will you increase your investments ?      a. Yes     b. No Q3. If the price of Gold fell regularly will you buy more Gold ?      a. Yes     b. No Q4. If the price of Gold rises regularly will you buy more Gold ?      a. No     b. Yes Most of us would choose Option A for all the questions. This is the mentality we noted. In this weeks's blog, we are will try to change this mentality as this is a BIG hindranc