Some for fun and some to stir the thoughts
Marriage
Risk in Investing
Evolution of a Parent
Habits feel effortless
Aim for moveshots
Incremental value of work
How fortunes have changed – Thank God
Inflation in housing
Month: August 2023
How did I invest during Covid in 2020?
Covid has become a bad memory, thank god for it. In investing, we hear – Buy when there is blood on the street and to be greedy when others are fearful. Covid was a perfect example to evaluate what you actually did
Three years have passed and I thought it will be a good exercise to see if it’s easy to do the right thing when there is madness all around
A glimpse of the madness
Nifty dived close to 40% from 11,000 in the space of days, this is such a rare event that it’s difficult to think about it let alone stomach it
What was one of my first decisions – I need to protect profit in one of my big profit positions Suven Life Sciences, My rationale was
Life science component though close to Mr. Jasti’s heart, it is pure play speculative bet and tough to put a valuation figure while the pharmaceuticals component is something the management may get rid off and then at ~INR 4500 crore market cap was richly valued
In hindsight this was not a great move as Suven Pharma went on to become stronger and stronger, I course-corrected and later recreated this … Read the rest
What can derail your momentum?
In 2014 I wrote, The 21 success principles – it is 2023 and they have stood the test of time
Today I wanted to share things that can derail your momentum and stop you from achieving your best
- Easy Money can blindsight you and will force you to stop working on yourself, try and avoid this trap
- Remaining in your comfort zone will limit your growth
- Doing things cause everyone is doing it, this is a sure shot way to live a miserable life
- Chasing the fad – Never works
- Health – be vigilant to not neglect it
- Bad habits – like eating junk, gambling they form easily and become a lifelong bane
- Real friendship is rare treasure it, In life most folks would be fair-weather friends know this
- If you are employed, better plan your career otherwise you are going to get a rude shock in 10 years
- if you don’t learn, you can’t get ahead in any sphere of life
- Learn to communicate or you would be paid less than your worth
- if you avoid hard things in life – Exercise, Transparent conversations and soon your life would be hard
- Average days would become Average months that would