This is something i want to share with everyone.
Many people here myself included are easily caught up in this investing game.Your reasons may be wealth,retirement or just plain fun but i think its important to remember all other things in life. Im not getting all new age and hippy on you i just had an event that makes you rethink things.
A close friend just lost his battle with cancer. It was not a nice ending also with the cancer taking nearly all the traights that him who he was.And you know what. Speaking to him just before he moved on you know what he said he will miss. The smell of flowers,wind,sun,laughing,smell of food cooking things like this but most of all he wishes that all the time he spent worrying over things outside his control was better spent with friends and family instead. His eyes showed this to be a large regret in his life.He died with much money in the bank but a partially waisted life due to it.
Now to me this does not mean throw everything out the window and just hang with your family. Afterall many are doing this to provide a better life for their family. But i just think of the many hours i spend sometimes on the net or studying property all the while my wife sits alone on the lounge ???.
Sometimes i will be at a friends house and while everyone is having fun im sitting there all quiet crunching numbers in my head for a property i read in a paper two days earlier.
Anyway im rambling my point is keep balance in your life,enjoy what your doing whatever it is and remember you are dead a long time show enjoy yourself along the way.
Many people here myself included are easily caught up in this investing game.Your reasons may be wealth,retirement or just plain fun but i think its important to remember all other things in life. Im not getting all new age and hippy on you i just had an event that makes you rethink things.
A close friend just lost his battle with cancer. It was not a nice ending also with the cancer taking nearly all the traights that him who he was.And you know what. Speaking to him just before he moved on you know what he said he will miss. The smell of flowers,wind,sun,laughing,smell of food cooking things like this but most of all he wishes that all the time he spent worrying over things outside his control was better spent with friends and family instead. His eyes showed this to be a large regret in his life.He died with much money in the bank but a partially waisted life due to it.
Now to me this does not mean throw everything out the window and just hang with your family. Afterall many are doing this to provide a better life for their family. But i just think of the many hours i spend sometimes on the net or studying property all the while my wife sits alone on the lounge ???.
Sometimes i will be at a friends house and while everyone is having fun im sitting there all quiet crunching numbers in my head for a property i read in a paper two days earlier.
Anyway im rambling my point is keep balance in your life,enjoy what your doing whatever it is and remember you are dead a long time show enjoy yourself along the way.