Six Great Life Investments

There are many kinds of investments. We are used to thinking of investing in property, stocks or building a business. Sometimes we forget that there are other important investments to be made.
Here are six ways to invest in your life that will help you to be wealthy no matter what the size of your bank account.

1) Invest your time in the people you love.
If you are too busy to spend time with your family and friends, you will find that your life is not filled with love, but with the activities that you have found more important. Along with your earthly family, find and spend time with your spiritual family. Fellowship with like-minded souls is essential for long-term spiritual health.

2) invest in your continuing education.
Never stop deepening your knowledge of the subject that interests you. Keep your mind open to new possibilities through exposure to fresh and inspiring ideas. Reading is one of the most powerful ways to do this.

3) Invest in a giving nature.
Acts of spontaneous and unselfish giving are rewarding in ways that selfish people can’t imagine. Giving without the thought of what we will receive in return attunes us to the positive joyful energies of life. When we live in the natural joy of the soul it will be its own reward.

4) invest in self – study.
Take the time to get know yourself. Take a good look at your motivating energies and the kinds of thoughts that pass through your mind each day. Release the energy that you give to negative thoughts and qualities by giving more attention to your positive inner qualities and thoughts.

5) invest in your physical heath.
Exercise regularly and consciously eat foods that are rich in nutrition and low on artificial flavours and sugar.

6) invest in your relationship with life itself.
No matter your religious affiliation – or lack thereof – spend time in silent meditation. Inwardly explore the central truth of your existence. Through this inner journey you will discover the greatest of all rewards: God’s infinite love and joy.
By making regular deposits in each of these areas, your experience of wealth in life will grow regardless of the changes in the economy or interest rates.

When A Vegetarian Diet

A vegetarian diet includes grains, pulses, roots and tubers, fresh and dry fruits, and abundant supply of fresh, green, leafy and non-leafy vegetables that God has blessed the earth with!
There are some people who claim that milk is an animal product and therefore, should not be included in a strictly vegetarian diet. But the fact remains, that we do not kill a cow to obtain its milk.
Mahatma Gandhi, an ardent advocate of vegan diet- one which did not include milk- excluded milk totally from his diet for about six years or so. Then in 1917, he fell ill, and in his own words, “was reduced to a skeleton”. The doctors warned him that he would not be able to build up enough strength to leave his bed, if milk and milk products were not included in his diet. However, Gandhiji had made a vow that he would not take milk.
A doctor then suggested to him that when he had made the vow, he could only have had in mind the milk of cow and the buffalo- so the vow should not prevent him from taking goat’s milk! That was how Gandhiji began to take goat’s milk.
At that time, he himself admitted, it seemed to bring him new life! He picked up rapidly and was soon able to leave his sickbed. On account of this and several similar experiences, he wrote, “I have been forced to admit the necessity of adding milk to the strict vegetarian diet.”
Gandhiji wrote prophetically: “I am convinced that in the vast vegetable kingdom there must be some kind, which, while supplying those necessary substances which we derive from milk, is free from its ethical drawbacks.” Nutrition experts now feel that soya milk and tofu can indeed provide such an alternative.

Tongue Twisters

Let’s see if you can repeat the following 5 times in a row without having a slip of your tongue!

If you understand, say “understand”. If you don’t understand, say “don’t understand”. But if you understand and say “don’t understand”, how do I understand that you understand?
Understand!

Mr. Inside went over to see Mr. Outside. Mr. Inside stood outside and called to Mr. Outside inside. Mr. Outside answered Mr. Inside from inside and told Mr. Inside come inside. Mr. Inside said “NO”, and told Mr. Outside to come outside. Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside argued from inside and outside about going outside or coming inside. Finally, Mr. Outside coaxed Mr. Inside to come inside, and then both Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside went outside to the riverside.

We surely shall see the Sun Shine shortly. Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold Or whether the weather be hot, We will weather the weather whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not. Watch? Whether the weather is hot. Whether the weather is cold. It is weather, whether we like it or not.

She sells sea shells on the sea shore, but the sea shells that she sells, on the sea shore are not the real ones.

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.

Giving Up Too Soon Is Disaster

Some people in this world give up too soon, half way or even before they start. The fine line between persistence and pest is rather blurred. Patience is a vital virtue in personal, official and social life.
William Faulkner said it best: “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on, after others have let it go”.
Winston Churchill said: “if you are going through hell, keep going. There is no point in returning to the same point. The excitement of discovery will be lost”.
Most creative people come up with wonderful fascinating ideas but few follow through and consistently promote them. Those who can stick around are the ones you hear about. Those are lucky ones doing the right things.

Maratha graham once said: “great dancers are not great because of their technique. They are great because of their passion. Passion and promotion go hand in hand. If you have a dream and you are passionate to achieve it, you are more likely to be filled with enthusiasm and able to sustain that enthusiasm for long time. Passion pushes you to an unlimited extent.

J.R.D. Tata said: “Give me a clerk with a goal and I will give you a man who will make History”.
Remember that you get born only once but you can die again and again. Life is a bicycle with gears but we never use the gears. We go at the same speed.
Harry Beckwith in his book, ‘Selling the Invisible,’ says: “Suppose you are hearing a song again and again. First you listen and after a few days start singing the tune. In due course of time, you may become a singer on the stage. All depends on your commitment, ambition and ultimate goal”.
We should be dare to be different and allow our originality, creativity to flower and blossom. If it perishes in the bud-stage, there could be no flower and fruit. It is up to us to find a way to make life an interesting game to play.

There is a story of Dennis Woodruff who lived in a trailer in Los Angeles permanently. He had no home, no car, and no money but became famous because of his eccentricity. So with limited means, with unlimited energy, we too can become celebrities.

Between Me And The Bowler ! -- A joke

A batsman was facing a fast bowler at his best. The first ball flew past his left ear, the second knocked his cap off and the third came close to his heart.The Batsman was perplexed for the the time being. After a few minutes, however, he recovered and prepared to take the next strike. But he wanted the sight screen moved. The umpire asked him where he would like the sight screen moved?........,"Between me and the bowler",replied the batsman.

How Does An Aqualung Work?

Aqualung is a modern aid to diving. It makes it possible for a diver to go on berating underwater. He carries his own air supply with him, strapped to his back. He is a free diver.
For air supply the aqualung has two or more sturdy steel bottles filled with compressed air. A special valve gradually lets the air out of the bottles. A hose from the valve goes to a mouthpiece. The diver has to breathe through his mouth because; his nose is covered with a face plate.
With the aqualung strapped to his back and a heavy belt to keep him down, a man can swim almost as freely as a fish. He uses big flippers on his feet, so he does not need his hands for swimming. He can even hold a camera or a fishing spear. In shallow water he may be able to stay down for half an hour or more.
There is a problem in deep diving. The compressed air in the aqualung bottles is about four-fifths nitrogen and about one-fifth oxygen, like ordinary air. We need oxygen to stay alive. Ordinary the nitrogen we breathe in is breathed out again. But as the pressure of the air increases, some of the nitrogen dissolves in blood and tissues.

As the diver comes up, the nitrogen must leave his blood and tissues. If it cannot come out fast enough through his lungs, it turns into tiny bubbles inside his body. The bubbles squeeze nerves and block blood vessels and the diver is overcome by the ‘bends’. The diver feels great pain. A bad case of the bends may kill him or cripple him for life.
This is why diver must come up quite slowly when he is down to a depth of two hundred or three feet. And he must stop often on the way up.