Tag: productivity

The edges of being a salaried Investor

Bored with your job ? Sick of taking orders all day ? You are not the only one who is thinking of becoming full time investor, but before you take the plunge, I want to persuade you to remain in your job and continue as salaried investor (SI)

A salaried investor has tremendous edge over a full time participant in market, What are those edges ? Let explore them

Your bread is not dependent on returns from markets

This is an obvious edge, bear market or bull market, you take home a salary thereby ensuring basic necessities of you and your family is taken care of, you don’t have to sell your shares in distress to pay bills.

You will be less stuck to the screen

In any competitive job, no company will leave you without extracting 60-80 hours a week, which means you will have limited time outside work. This is great as you will miss the daily swings in markets, as Daniel Kahneman wrote in “Thinking Fast and Slow”

Closely following daily fluctuations is a losing proposition, because the pain of the frequent small losses exceeds the pleasure of the equally frequent small gains. Once a quarter

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Make this little changes at your workplace

WordItOut-word-cloud-327657Are you the one who has to withstand daily grind of attending meetings, sending emails, managing bosses, organizing diaries and paperwork  and overtime?

Are you in search of ideas to improve your workplace effectiveness?

If the answer to any of the above is yes – Read on

The work component is very crucial component of our everyday life with almost one-third or more of our time spent in that component, add to that the pressure to excel and be the best in work.  Here are few small changes that we can embrace

 

1. Manage your energy not your time – Most of us respond to increasing demands in the workplace by putting in extended hours, which inescapably take a toll on us, remember time is definite however energy can be methodically expanded and habitually renewed.  If managed well expanded capacity means we would could do more in less time. Now how do we manage and expand energy?

Tony Schwartz in his best-selling book The power of full engagement recommends managing energy by establishing specific rituals – it could be simple rituals like going early to bed to get up early for exercise or scheduling ‘recover time’ in your office … Read the rest