This is not a financial post, just a happiness post. If you assume happiness has a lot of financial implications, you are right. If you are happy, you will be rich. Read it again. If you are happy, YOU will be rich – the reverse is not true always!! So to be happy you need […]

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When a person is dying..what do you think are likely to be his/ her major regrets? Do you think there could be a pattern? Has any research been done on that? What are YOUR regrets…I mean if your death was to happen NOW, what would be your biggest regret? or regrets? Based on an article […]

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  This is such a catchy headline and completely contradictory to my saying ‘if you do not know what you are going to do with your leisure, do not retire’! Frankly the word ‘Retirement’ means ‘doing what you enjoy rather than doing what you must’. So a retired doctor could still be in practice – […]

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Here is a story..obviously from the great Hindu Mahasamudram. It is an obvious cut paste (which means it is NOT original), but the learning is more materialistic. Obviously at the philosophical level it is the Gandhian philosophy – there is enough for every man’s need, not for every man’s greed. Or you could take it […]

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Ayn Rand says “money is the root cause of all good”. Indian philosophy says ‘money increases desire – and like ghee and wood to a fire – increases desire and misery’. Immaterial of whether you take the western view or the eastern view, all of us have at some point chased money, have we not? […]

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