I hope you would agree with me that life isn’t all about stock market investing or for that matter just about money. Making money is only a means to a greater end i.e. living a happy life.
It’s true that for many people stock market investing is a passion and they don’t do it just for money. However, it circles back to the logic that the activity of investing in stock market makes them happy. So investing is just a tool to achieve something more important – personal happiness.
The age old wisdom suggests that happiness is brought about by the right balance of financial, mental, physical and spiritual health. What financial abundance does is that it gives you an option to stop worrying about money all the time and focus your energy towards other happiness factors.
Another very important factor that brings satisfaction in life is the realization that you can make a difference.
Steve Jobs said –
“When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live inside the world….try to have a nice family…save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader …and you can change it, you can influence it..The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing….Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”
We at Safal Niveshak believe in poking life. Investing is just another avenue, a tool if you will, to make a difference.
So here’s the collection of our thoughts on experiments in life outside of investing.
May 2025
March 2025
December 2024
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
- Leander Paes on How to Deal with Triumphs and Disasters in Tennis and Life
- The Trappings of Wealth
- Rediscovering Hope in the Face of Loss
- The Art of Stillness
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
December 2023
November 2023
August 2023
June 2023
January 2023
December 2022
August 2022
July 2022
April 2022
March 2022
December 2021
October 2021
May 2021
- The Limits of Numbers in Life and Investing
- Two Monks and One Big Lesson in Life and Investing
- One Important Reminder
April 2021
November 2020
August 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
January 2020
December 2019
September 2019
August 2019
June 2019
February 2019
December 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
May 2017
- One Powerful Success Secret from Ben Franklin that Changed My Life
- How NOT to Teach Your Children about Money (A Personal Experiment)
February 2017
December 2016
October 2016
- 5 Ways to Create Luck in Investing and Life
- 100 Ideas on Living with Courage, Wisdom, and Peace (Special E-Book)
June 2016
December 2015
September 2015
- Why Good People Do Bad Things: A Conversation With My Daughter
- 5 Things I Learned from Elon Musk on Life, Business and Investing
- My Most Powerful Tool for Thinking and Decision Making
August 2015
April 2015
December 2014
November 2014
August 2014
July 2014
May 2014
April 2014
February 2014
- Announcing: The Safal Niveshak Education Scholarship
- How I Multiplied My Income 2.5x, Savings 5x, and Happiness 20x (After Quitting My Job)
January 2014
December 2013
- My 2014 Wish for You - Be Miserable
- My Ode to A Great Teacher
- 10 Simple Rules that Brought Me Financial Nirvana
November 2013
- One Small Step Can Change Your Life
- I Invest, So That I Live Like a Man…Not a Donkey, Dog or Monkey
- Life & Money Lessons from Kantilal
October 2013
September 2013
July 2013
June 2013
April 2013