Geet Sethi : Prakash Padukone once told me that for six years in a row he did not watch a single movie while he was undergoing a rigorous training regime. He would wake up at 5.30, go for a 10-kilometer run, return home for breakfast, exercise, then play two-and-a-half hours of badminton, come back at noon and sleep for two hours. He would then wake up at 2.30 in the afternoon, exercise till 3.

Here is a splendid talk by Ms.Ananda Shankar Jayant (a PadmaShri recipient ) about her dance and it’s power of healing. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

Systematic Investment Plans(SIPs), Value Investment Plans (VIPs), Value Averaging Transfer Plan( VTP) , Dollar Averaging Concept, Value Averaging Concept, are ALL usually associated with answering a question – “ How to invest money over a long period of time to get adequate returns, given that it is impossible to time the market exactly ? “. It has been quite some time since I had done any analysis at a portfolio level.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. -- Seth Godin ( Tribes)