Every person carries some financial worries or burdens, here is a list of such worries that I notice: 1. My husband handles all the money and I do not know what is happening: very common among women who want to participate in the action. Sensible too, but does not always happen. Sigh. 2. My wife […]
It is Feb and you are already lax about your health and wealth goals, right? It happens. How do you make the resolutions work day after day, month after month….? It is not easy, but let us try the following steps: 1. Stop criticising yourself, but do not get too complacent. 2. Tell yourself it […]
Let us look at some more lies that we tell ourselves: 1. I had to go to a wedding…and had to over eat. View: Complete lie. Even at a wedding there is a huge range of simple food – daal rice for example. We over eat because WE CHOOSE TO OVEREAT, not just because somebody […]
this is a forward that I got….I have added a few Ramayan characters…the forward had only Mahabharata characters…. Dronacharya: The Mentor. The employee who doesn’t like working himself but is always ready to guide and train new joiners. Bhishma: The Loyal. The employee in a relatively senior position who happily assists the boss in spite […]
You hear many people tell you that when you are young you can take more risk. Let me explain this better. When you are young (say 22-35 years of age) you start investing small amounts in equity mutual funds. Let us say you started doing a SIP when you were 24 years of age with […]
An American website says that the average cost of a wedding has gone up to $ 30,000. Now if you adjust this for purchasing power this is about Rs. 10L (say). Indian marriages cost much, much more than that. More like Rs. 20 lakhs for a decent wedding to about Rs. 1 crore for a […]
How many of us remember the dark night when a few terrorists killed people in the Taj, Trident and Leopald cafe? Is it riskier to go there? All of us remember a few air accidents in 2014, do we not? Is it riskier to fly in 2015? or is the risk over in 2014? How […]