| Any investor knows not to put all of his or her eggs | | | | bad or cause someone to feel like they have lost |
| into one basket, or all of your money into one fund | | | | everything. Like investing, the good and bad |
| or stock account. If all of your funds are in one | | | | experiences can balance one another. Hobbies can be |
| stock, the risk is great that the one stock account | | | | good experiences that people can create; they can |
| could go down and you would lose all of your money. | | | | have control over creating good experiences in their |
| If you spread your investments out into many | | | | lives that can outweigh the bad. |
| different funds or accounts, if one account goes bad, | | | | My suggestion to everyone is to sit down, think of a |
| it does not create drastic adverse affects on your | | | | variety of things or hobbies that you love, enjoy, or |
| total funds. The losses and the gains will balance out | | | | that make you happy, and systematically go after |
| and as long as the economy is going well, your | | | | each one of them. Learn to play a musical instrument, |
| money will grow. I find it is useful to apply the same | | | | the guitar or the piano or whatever interests YOU. |
| philosophy in our daily lives. | | | | Learn a new sport or yard game to play outside with |
| One of my favorite quotes is, Variety is the spice of | | | | friends. Find of a line of books or topics of books |
| life. If you put your whole life into one thing, one | | | | that interest you and begin reading them. You will be |
| hobby or one interest, or one friendship, you are | | | | surprised how fast finally doing things YOU enjoy, or |
| taking a great risk. Problems and struggles in life are | | | | helping others find hobbies THEY enjoy, will make |
| inevitable. Relationships can end, friends can be lost, | | | | your life seem so much better. One more thing, in |
| interests can change or ambitions may fail. Such | | | | case anyone ever really reads this. I am not |
| experiences can lead one, who has invested all he or | | | | advocating getting a variety of romantic relationships; |
| she has into something, to feel that all is lost. They | | | | that will obviously just ruin every one of them, rather |
| can feel hopeless. They can feel like a failure. As I | | | | find a variety of interests that you both have and do |
| said, such experiences are inevitable in life, but they | | | | them together. |
| do not have to drag one down the way they do. | | | | If you can learn anything you can learn everything. It |
| The trick is to learn to manage such experiences | | | | just takes time and commitment. Why not commit |
| more effectively. | | | | to the things that make you happy. Think what |
| One way to manage the inevitable bad experiences | | | | practicing the guitar or piano for just half an hour a |
| in life is to create a variety of other good | | | | day will do. The difference between knowledge and |
| experiences to fall back on. By having a variety of | | | | ignorance on a topic is only a book away. The |
| interests, a variety of goals, or a variety of hobbies, | | | | difference between failing and succeeding is getting |
| as in investing, one bad experience will not hurt so | | | | up and trying. |