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