SINOJ JACOB

There are only two practical rules to deal with your wealth concerns in this world today. Note that it's just about today, because they may change tomorrow when our economic affairs change. So, they are: Minimize your Liabilities Maximize your Assets In order to minimize your liabilities, start working on your debts from small to big and start planning on your unaffordables by settlements or alternatives. And to maximize your assets, begin to invest at least something regardless of the size you do in and begin to take calculated risks with predictable financial opportunities you are skilled in. No gambling and no try of luck with your money. Because life is too small to endure their ruthless blows and too short to recover from their compromising implications. Finally, don't bother too much about monetary matters that you can't alter or control anyway. Then develop the attitude: 'whatever happens in life, life has to go on'. Just kill your ego and only choose to get ...

Experience is considered to be the best teacher for life lessons. Failures, insults, losses, illnesses, disasters and so on teach you painful yet powerful lessons in life. Victories, recognitions, gains, affluence, wellness and such kinds show you exquisite and exuberant aspects of living. Based on your priorities in life, the intensity of learning from good and bad experiences may vary significantly in each of you. Apart from all the above, there is a rough and tough yet a versatile and imperative teacher who can indubitably and inevitably impart you the neediest and the mightiest lessons for a lifetime: Empty Pocket. Empty Pocket is the teacher who appears in your life consequent to unwise decisions, unexpected incidents or uncontrollable changes that happened incidentally or accidentally in your past. Anyway, a derailed run during your yester times is the invitation you made to Empty Pocket to your life, for sure. There are advantages and disadvantages in entrusting Empty Pocket to ...

‘Nishkaamakarma’ (effort without expectation) is not just a spiritual path but a logical applicable reality. Let us discuss it for now. The desire does not impact the result. Positive or negative expectations are not going to make any difference in the quality or quantity of results. Our expectations do not make any effect on the results but our efforts do reflect on the size and shape of the results. It is superstitious to believe that positive or negative expectations can invite their corresponding results. But it is realistic to believe that good or bad efforts can draw matching results. Results are objectively neither positive nor negative, they are just results of efforts. But they are either positive or negative subjectively based on the need and context of the affected. For instance, one’s efforts of feeding children may positively help the hungry ones and at the same time may negatively cause vomiting for the ones already full. Though it’s a silly example, it's the reality ...