True wealth lies in meaningful relationships with family, friends, and the community. It is about sharing life, making a difference, and experiencing love and support.

Family (Relationships)

Good health is essential for a fulfilling life. Without it, material wealth loses its value. Vibrancy, energy, and well-being are priceless.

Fitness (Health):

Wealth is the ability to live on your terms—free from financial stress, rigid schedules, and limitations. It allows one to pursue passions and enjoy life fully.

Freedom (Choice)

Real wealth is found in relationships, well-being, and the freedom to live life as you choose.

Conclusion

Wealth is not about material possessions but is defined by three key aspects: family, fitness, and freedom.

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The True Measure of Wealth - 3Fs

The Kakeibo method encourages asking the following 7 key questions before making a purchase to promote mindful spending:Can I live without this?Can I afford it?Will I actually use it?Do I have space for it?How did I come across it? (Did I actively look for it or was it impulsive?)What is my emotional state right now? (Am I stressed, bored, or happy?)How do I feel about buying it? (Will I regret it later?)These questions help differentiate between needs vs wants, manage emotional triggers, and build conscious financial habits.

7 Key Questions to Curb Spending

Manually write down monthly income (salary, side earnings) in a notebook Increases awareness and strengthens commitment to goals

Step 1: Record All Income

Allocate a portion to savings first, then budget expensesDivide the remainder into 4 categories:Survival (food, bills)Optional (eating out, fun)Culture (learning, books)Extra (gifts, emergencies)

Step 2: Save Before You Spend

Helps differentiate needs from wantsReduces impulsive buying and buyer’s remorse

Step 3: Delay Purchases

Monitor account balance frequently Encourages accountability and budget adjustment

Step 4: Track Your Balance Regularly

Use a handwritten note like “Do you REALLY need this?”Acts as a trigger for mindful spending

Step 5: Place a Wallet Reminder

Physical money creates a stronger sense of value Makes spending more real, reducing overuse

Step 6: Pay with Cash, Not Cards

Kakeibo is a century-old system that promotes savings through simplicity and self-awareness It fosters a healthier, long-term relationship with money—not just frugality, but intentional living

Kakeibo - Traditional Japanese budgeting method focused on mindfulness, self-reflection, and intentional spending

Helps achieve financial stability and faster savings through disciplined tracking

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The book The Art of Living explores Vipassanā-bhāvanā, or "the development of insight," a practical, universal, and results-oriented meditation technique rooted in the teachings of the Buddha. Taught by Shri Satyanarayanji Goenka, it emphasizes simplicity, non-commercialism, and freedom from dogma. Based on S.N. Goenka's lectures and writings, the book provides guidance on applying Vipassana to daily life, with stories and answers to students' questions.

About Vipassana And This

I do not wish to convert peopleFrom one organized religion to another; I have no interest in any of these organized religions. My interest is in the truth, the teachings of all Enlightened Ones. But conversion is involved: from misery to happiness, from defilement to purity, from bondage to liberation, from ignorance to enlightenment.

You are your own master.You make your own future.

Mind precedes all phenomena,mind matters most, everything is mind-made.If with an impure mindyou speak or act,then suffering follows youas the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal.If with a pure mindyou speak or act,then happiness follows youas a shadow that never departs.

Mental action Is The Real Karma

Whatever suffering ariseshas a reaction as its cause.If all reactions cease to bethen there is no more suffering.

The Cause Of Suffering

As the causes is, so the effect will be. As the seed is, so the fruit will be. As the action is so the result will be.

Seed And Fruit

The chain of cause and effect that leads to suffering:1. Ignorance leads to reactions.2. Reactions give rise to consciousness.3. Consciousness creates mind and matter.4. Mind and matter lead to the six senses.5. The six senses cause contact with the world.6. Contact generates sensations.7. Sensations lead to craving or aversion.8. Craving and aversion cause attachment.9. Attachment leads to the process of becoming.10. Becoming results in birth.11. Birth leads to decay, death, and all forms of suffering.Suffering arises from ignorance and perpetuates itself through these interconnected steps.

The Wheel Of Suffering

The process of suffering can be reversed step by step:1. Eradicate ignorance, reactions will cease.2. Without reactions, consciousness ceases.3. This ends mind and matter.4. Without mind and matter, the six senses cease.5. Without the six senses, contact ceases.6. Without contact, sensations cease.7. Without sensations, craving and aversion cease.8. Without craving and aversion, attachment ceases.9. Without attachment, the process of becoming ceases.10. When becoming ceases, birth ends.11. With no birth, decay, death, and suffering cease.Eliminating ignorance leads to cessation of suffering.

The Way Out Of uffering

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Don't hire to grow your business, hire to buy back your time.

The little-known secret to reaching the next stage of your business is spending your time on only the tasks that you excel at, you truly enjoy, and those that add highest value to your business. Focusing on tasks where you excel, find joy, and which significantly impact your business's success allows you to operate in your zone of genius. It maximizes productivity, quality, and energy while enabling you to delegate or streamline less critical tasks. This way, your efforts yield the highest returns, driving your business toward the next level efficiently.

Buy back your time, reclaim your freedom & build your empire

The key is not spending time, but in investing it.

The "learn, do, teach" method reinforces knowledge by engaging with the material in three distinct ways. Learning helps you understand the concept, doing allows you to apply it practically, and teaching ensures you've truly mastered it, as explaining requires deep comprehension.

The best way to learn something is to learn, do, teach.

Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.

Growth in business isn't just necessary for expansion. Growth is necessary for survival. If you don't evolve, your customers, and your employees, will leave for a better option.  If a business remains stagnant, it risks becoming outdated, losing its appeal, and being overtaken by more innovative competitors. Growth ensures that you adapt, improve, and continue to meet or exceed customer expectations, securing your position in the market and ensuring long-term survival. Growth ensures that your employees and team stay with you.

Growth in business is necessary for survival

The Buy back Loop is a powerful framework for maximizing productivity and efficiency. By regularly auditing your time, you identify tasks that drain your energy and don't align with your strengths or goals. Delegating these tasks to someone who excels at them not only boosts overall efficiency but also allows you to refocus on high-impact activities that generate more value and income. This continuous cycle of evaluation, delegation, and refocusing enables sustainable growth and ensures you’re always working in your highest zone of effectiveness.

The Buy back Loop

By starting with Audit, you identify the tasks that drain your energy and could be easily and affordably delegated.The Transfer step encourages you to leverage your team or external resources to handle these tasks, freeing you up from activities that don't align with your strengths.Finally, Fill your time with high-impact, revenue-generating tasks that you enjoy, ensuring that your efforts are aligned with both your passions and your company's growth.This proactive strategy helps in scaling your business efficiently while maintaining a sense of fulfillment and purpose.

Audit, Transfer, Fill

The Pareto effect suggests 80% of all results come from 20% activity. The Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 rule, highlights the disproportionate relationship between effort and outcome. In business and productivity, it means that 80% of your results often come from just 20% of your activities. By identifying and focusing on these high-impact tasks, you can maximize efficiency, eliminate distractions, and drive significant progress. It's a reminder to concentrate on what truly matters and contributes the most to your goals.

The 80/20 Rule - Pareto Principle

The DRIP Matrix offers a structured way to evaluate how you spend your time and energy, helping you make more intentional decisions about your activities:Production Quadrant: Activities that both light you up and make you money.Investment Quadrant: Tasks that energize you but don't directly make money.Replacement Quadrant: Activities that generate income but don’t excite you.Delegation Quadrant: Tasks that neither make money nor bring you joy.By using the DRIP Matrix, you can strategically manage your time, ensuring you’re investing your efforts where they matter most.

The DRIP Matrix

Tasks in the Delegation Quadrant are those that tend to drain your energy and don't contribute significantly to your business growth or personal fulfillment. These tasks, like administrative work, billing, invoicing, travel arrangements, and managing emails, can be time-consuming but are often routine and repetitive. By delegating them to someone else, you free up valuable time to focus on activities that truly add value, energize you, and drive your business forward. This shift allows you to operate in your zone of genius and concentrate on high-impact tasks.

Delegation Quadrant

The Replacement Quadrant contains tasks that are crucial to the success of your business, such as onboarding, selling, marketing, and team management. These tasks carry significant value but may no longer bring you the excitement or passion they once did.As your business evolves, the goal here is to eventually find capable individuals who can take over these responsibilities, allowing you to shift your focus to areas that genuinely energize you. This way, you maintain the high value these tasks bring to your business while freeing yourself to pursue more fulfilling and strategic activities.

Replacement Quadrant

The Investment Quadrant is all about activities that bring you joy, fulfillment, and personal growth, even if they don't generate immediate financial returns. These tasks, such as physical activities, nurturing relationships, pursuing hobbies, engaging in industry collaborations, and investing in personal or professional development, play a crucial role in your long-term success and well-being.By dedicating time to these , you're building a foundation that enriches your life, strengthens your network, and enhances your skills. They bring benefits such as improved health, expanded connections.

Investment Quadrant

The Production Quadrant is your ultimate zone of productivity, fulfillment, and financial success. It includes tasks that not only generate substantial income but also energize and inspire you. These activities align with your strengths, passions, and areas of expertise, making them the most rewarding and impactful for your business and personal growth.Spending time in this quadrant maximizes your efficiency and ensures that your efforts are focused on what truly matters.

Production Quadrant

That's a great reminder of the power of delegation! While it’s tempting to aim for perfection, letting go and allowing someone else to handle tasks—even if they're completed at 80% of your standards—can be incredibly liberating and effective. It frees up your time and energy for higher-value activities where you can have the greatest impact. Embracing this mindset helps you focus on what truly matters, accelerating progress and allowing others to contribute and grow within your business. Sometimes, "good enough" by others is exactly what you need to keep moving forward.

80% done by someone else is 100% freaking awesome

Annual Dividend from Business is the total amount of money you earn from your business in dividends over a year.2000 hours represents the average number of hours a person works in a year (assuming roughly 40 hours per week and 50 weeks of work per year).Value of Your Time = Annual Dividend / 2000 ($ / hour)

Your time is worth how much your business pays you in dividends, divided by 2000 hours

Level 1 Trader – The Employee: Employees exchange their time for money, earning a set salary. Their income is tied to the hours they work, limiting their earning potential and freedom.Level 2 Trader – The Entrepreneur: Entrepreneurs shift from trading time to trading money for more time. By delegating tasks and investing in systems, they buy back their time, allowing them to focus on business.Level 3 Trader – The Empire Builder: Empire builders have mastered art of leveraging money to create more money. They invest in assets, businesses that generate passive income achieve financial freedom.

The Three levels of trading Time & Money

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business. You have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you are working for a lunatic.

The Replacement Quadrant’s concept and the Replacement Ladder provide a structured roadmap for gradually stepping away from day-Rung 1: AdministrationKey Hire: An administrative assistant or operations manager.Current Feeling of Stress: Overwhelmed by routine, repetitive tasks.Responsibilities to Transfer: Managing schedules, emails, invoicing, and other administrative duties.

The Replacement Ladder - Administration

Rung 2: Product DeliveryKey Hire: A product manager or fulfillment specialist.Current Feeling of Stress: Struggling to keep up with delivering quality products/services.Responsibilities to Transfer: Overseeing production, quality control, and ensuring products/services reach clients.Rung 3: MarketingKey Hire: A marketing manager or strategist.Current Feeling of Stress: Pressure to constantly generate leads, promote the brand, and manage campaigns.Responsibilities to Transfer: Planning and executing marketing strategies, managing social media, and overseeing branding efforts.

The Replacement Ladder - Product Delivery, Marketing

Rung 4: SalesKey Hire: A sales manager or sales team lead.Current Feeling of Stress: Maintaining consistent sales and building relationships with clients.Responsibilities to Transfer: Managing the sales process, nurturing leads, closing deals, and maintaining customer relationships.Rung 5: Leadership in BusinessKey Hire: A general manager, COO, or CEO.Current Feeling of Stress: The burden of leading the company, making strategic decisions, and ensuring growth.Responsibilities to Transfer: Strategic planning, business growth, decision-making, and overall leadership.

The Replacement Ladder - Sales, Leadership in Business

The 10-80-10 Rule is an excellent strategy for entrepreneurs who want to maintain control and quality over crucial aspects of their business while still leveraging the power of delegation. First 10% (Initial Setup): As the entrepreneur, you start the project by setting the direction, vision, and strategy. Middle 80% (Execution): Delegate the bulk of the work to a capable team member or external expert. They handle the main execution, and delivery of the project. Final 10% (Final Magic Touch): This final stage is where the entrepreneur steps in again to ensure the project meets his standards.

The 10-80-10 Rule for Entrepreneurs

As the driving force behind the vision, strategy, and culture of the business, the founder's time should be spent on activities that have the greatest impact on growth, innovation, and long-term success. When founders are tied up in low-value or routine tasks, the business loses out on the strategic insights and leadership that only they can provide.By focusing on high-leverage activities, building systems, and delegating effectively, founders can maximize their contribution, steer the company in the right direction, and drive it toward its full potential.

A company's most precious asset is the founder's time

An administrative assistant can give you the benefit of executing without the mental and psychological hang-ups that make it difficult at times for entrepreneurs to execute things. An administrative assistant will follow rules better than an entrepreneur because founders and entrepreneurs have at times to make exceptions.

Hiring an assistant is non-negotiable

Task batching allows you to optimize your time and energy. By grouping similar tasks together, you tap into the power of focused attention and reduce the cognitive load that comes with switching between different types of activities. This not only helps you get into a flow state but also improves efficiency and the quality of your work.When you batch tasks such as sales calls, customer meetings, production reviews, or team meetings, you minimize interruptions and distractions, enabling you to maintain momentum and complete tasks more quickly. It also ensures that you're in the right mindset.

Task batching is a highly effective productivity strategy

If you want to save time, you hire the right person to buy that time back. They must be capable of managing the tasks on their own using available resources. The time you will save with the right person will be enormous, and they will more than pay for themselves. On the contrary, a wrong hire will cost you more time, energy, money than you can imagine.

Hire right to save time

Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and let them surprise you with their results

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do. We hire smart people so that they can tell us what to do

The shift from transactional management to transformational leadership can elevate a team's performance and growth.Transactional management focuses on micromanaging and monitoring tasks, where managers set specific instructions, check on progress, and move to the next task once completed. While this approach ensures tasks are done, it often stifles creativity, autonomy, and long-term development.Transformational leadership, on the other hand, emphasizes guiding people toward a shared vision. It involves:<ul><li>Focusing on the Outcome</li><li>Empowering Autonomy</li><li>Measuring Results</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Providing Coaching and Feedback</li></ul>

Shift from Transactional Management to Transformational Leadership

There are four reasons for this. 1. Your employees are closer to the problem than you are, and they may have more information than you do. 2. They have more time and energy to solve the problem, and as a result, more creativity. 3. By shifting responsibility, you are forcing them to increase their capabilities. 4. When the solution is theirs, they are more likely to be excited about it and champion that decision and ensure its implementation is completed.

Get your team to solve problems

If you want to have a high performance team, learn how to coach them successfully. Coaching your team isn't an option, it's a requirement. Leaders know how to pull the best out of someone. They can see potential and make it reality. You need to coach your team so that they can build your business.While coaching, it is important to focus on the broader issue, the core principle, instead of the one-off situation. Coaching often will come down to a series of small conversations at pivotal moments that help adjust someone's steering.

You build the people, and your people then build your business.

1. Health -  Without it, you've got nothing. 2. Hobbies - Use this for decompression. 3. Spirituality -  Tap into this energy. 4. Friends -  Don't drop the ball. 5. Love - Go all in on your relationships. 6. Finances - Face the money. 7. Mission -  Know why you're doing what you're doing.

Seven pillars of life

My goal is to build a life I don't need a vacation from.

Buy Back Your Time presents a strategic and actionable approach to scaling a business efficiently. The buy back principle says, "Don't hire to grow your business, hire to buy back your time." Instead of hiring just to handle more work, the focus is on hiring to free up your time from tasks that don't align with your strengths or high-value activities.  Thus, you can concentrate on growth-driven roles, strategic decision-making, and areas where you add the most value, ultimately accelerating your business's progress. This shift in mindset enables sustainable growth and prevents burnout.

Wall Street Journal Bestseller Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and growing rich: Time How you use your free time will make or break your success. The secret? It’s not about working harder or finding more time to do work. It’s about designing the freedom to engage in the high-value work that brings you energy and fulfillment. This is at the heart of the message that has made Dan Martell the world’s most popular SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) coach. Now, in his first book, Buy Back Your Time, he teaches entrepreneurs at every level how to scale their business, fast, while avoiding burnout. Trading money for time—that is, literally buying back free space in your calendar—will give you more financial success than you ever dreamed was possible. With over two decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur and founder, Dan Martell will teach you the secrets to work less and play more while building an empire. He’ll dig into the practical steps that will allow you to start buying back time immediately, while also developing operating procedures and hiring practices that will ensure rapid and robust growth. And he will teach you how to invest in your newfound time wisely—at work and at home—so you keep building your empire while living your best life. Buy Back Your Time is the definitive guide for entrepreneurs at every level on how to succeed in business while enjoying more freedom than you ever imagined.

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We have all known Boeing to be a world class company - the Gold Standard in aviation, and a company known for its engineering and manufacturing excellence. Yet, when a company choses to comprise on quality (which in the case of Boeing airplanes has a direct bearing on the safety), for the sake of business and profitability, slowly but eventually it results in descent, and undoing of all the good work done over many years, hurting the business reputation beyond repair. The following is a short narrative of the Boeing 737 Max case study, based on the Netflix documentary and some reading.

Business Lessons From The Boeing 737 Max Cras

When a company choses to comprise on quality (which in the case of Boeing airplanes has a direct bearing on the safety), for the sake of business and profitability, slowly but eventually it results in descent, and undoing of all the good work done over many years, hurting the business reputation beyond repair. The following is a short narrative of the Boeing 737 Max case study.

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Good Work Brings Goodwill & Growth, Greed Results in Disgrace & Downfall – Life is Beautiful

The Success Mantra is a collection of time tested and proven principles, that I have attempted to summarise in this note, from some of my all time favourite books. The following is a short brief on the 10 valuable Mantras of Success 1. Definiteness of Purpose 2. Mastering Self-Discipline 3. Positive Mental Attitude 4. Learning from Failure 5. Effective Communication 6. Building a Mastermind Group 7. Taking Action 8. Persistence and Determination 9. Continuous Learning and Growth 10. Giving Back and Serving Others

The Success Mantra

The Success Mantra is a collection of time tested and proven principles, that I have attempted to summarise in this note, from some of my all time favourite books.

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The Success Mantra – Distilled From My All Time Favourite Book Reads – Life is Beautiful

In “Start With Why,” the author, Simon Sinek presents that purpose-driven individuals and organisations succeed because they start with the “why” instead of the “what” or the “how.” His submission is that when individuals, leaders, institutions, companies and organisations communicate their purpose and beliefs, they can create a following of people, partners, team members and employees who share those values, and as result are sure to succeed. "Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them.”

The Sinek Success Formula

The Book, 'Start with Why' can be summarised in the following 4 statements 1. WHY is the purpose, cause, or belief.2. Every inspiring leader starts with WHY3. People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.4. Knowing your WHY is the key to lasting success.

Summarised In 4 Statements

The Golden Circle". The Golden Circle is formed of three parts: ‘Why,’ ‘How’ and ‘What.’ What ?The What of a company relates to the product or service that a company provides. The What is the outer layer of the circle. How ?The How of a company is the approach adopted by a company. The How is the differentiating value proposition or a unique selling point of the company. Why ?The Why is at the core of the golden circle. Why does the company exist?

Start with Why

Ikigai is the reason for your being. 'Iki' in Japanese means 'life,' and 'gai' describes value or worth. Ikigai means your purpose in life, which makes you wake up everyday. Having a clearly defined ikigai brings satisfaction, happiness, and meaning to our lives. Ikigai is illustrated in four overlapping circles, as in a Venn Diagram which talks about a synthesis of:• What you love to do.• What you are good at.• What the world needs.• What you can be paid for

What Is Ikigai

To know what your Ikigai is, make a list of the following three things - • Your values • Things you like to do • Things you are good at The cross-section or overlap of these three lists, is your Ikigai, something you should do for the rest of your life. Happiness is in the act of doing, not the result.

Knowing Your Ikigai

The keys to longevity are diet, exercise, finding a purpose in life (an Ikigai), broad circle of friends, and good family relations.

Ikigai and Longevity

The concept of Ikigai aligns with everyday life, as opposed to a lifetime. It makes us appreciate our daily life, celebrating it, and experiencing the small joys of living. Ikigai is the reason you wake up in the morning for, that thing you live for, daily. Whatever you do, don't retire. Keep your heart young. Smile. Live an unhurried life. Show respect for nature.

Ikigai: Everyday Life and not Lifetime

Eating a variety of foods, in particular fruits and vegetables. Make sure, that you are "eating the rainbow" - red peppers, carrots, spinach, cauliflower,and eggplant, for example, offers color and variety. The world's longest living people eat less than 10 grams of salt per day and cut down on refined sugar, refined grains, and foods prepared with cow’s milk. They have sweet potato, soyabeans. They enjoy their green tea.

Diet

One of the most common sayings in Japan is “Hara hachi bu,” which is said before or after eating and means “Fill your belly to 80 percent. Overeating wears down the body with long digestive processes that accelerate cellular oxidation. By presenting their meals on many small plates, the Japanese tend to eat less.

Hara hachi bu - The 80% Secret

The longest-living people are not the ones who do the most exercise but rather the ones who move the most. Everyone should be involved in some type of body movements such as talking walks, gardening, doing your laundry, cooking, cleaning, on a regular basis. Practicing yoga or any other form of light exercise can help. The Surya Namaskar (the Sun Salutation) with just twelve basic movements is one of the simplest and most effective hatha yoga exercise that one can practise at home for a lifetime. Breathing properly can do wonders.

Movement & Exercise

A Moai is an informal group of people with common interests who look out for one another. Those who will motivate you and provide you with constructive feedback and support when necessary. Surround yourself with good friends and family, with people who are positive and cheerful. Nurture your friendships every day. If you are anxious, go out, say ‘Hello!’ and ‘See you later!’ to people.

Moai: Connected for Life

A sound mind lies in a sound body. Physical exercise keep the body healthy. Simple exercises like jogging, stretching, pushups, cycling, makes you feel happy and energetic. Mental work, exercises help create new neural connections and revitalizes the brain.

Active Mind, Youthful Body

High-level stress leads to premature aging. One way to reach a state of mindfulness is through meditation. Get seven to nine hours of sleep.

Be Mindful about Reducing Stress

Walk to work, or just go for a walk 20 minutes in a day, take the stairs, play a sport, play with kids, participate in social or leisure activities.

Sitting for Prolonged Periods Ages You

Stay cheerful and maintain a positive attitude. Accept emotions without trying to control them since feelings will change as a result of actions.

Have a Positive Attitude and Emotional Awareness

• Pray once you wake up. • Focus on the most important than the most urgent. • Be flexible, concentrate on things you can control, and don’t worry about those you cannot. • There is nothing wrong with enjoying life’s pleasures as long as they do not take control of your life. • Think about what’s the worst thing that can happen. However, do not give in to negative emotions. • Observe the thoughts as they appear, without getting carried away. • Focus on here and now. • Only imperfection resembles the natural world.

How to Face Life’s Challenges without Stress and Worry  ?

Both Buddhism and Stoicism remind us that the present is all that exists, and it is the only thing we can control. Instead of worrying about the past or the future, we should appreciate things just as they are in the moment, in the now.

The here and now, and the impermanence of thing

Wabi-sabi is a Japanese concept that shows us the beauty of the fleeting, changeable, and imperfect nature of the world around us. Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, we should look for it in things that are flawed, incomplete. Japanese concept is that of ichi-go ichi-e , which could be translated “This moment exists only now and won’t come again.” It is heard most often in social gatherings as a reminder that each encounter is unique and will never be repeated, meaning that we should enjoy the moment and not lose ourselves in worries about the past or the future.

Wabi-sabi and ichi-go ichi-e

Stay active; don’t retire.Take it slow.Don’t fill your stomach.Surround yourself with good friends.Get in shape for your next birthday.Smile.Reconnect with nature.Give thanks.Live in the moment.Follow your IKIGAI.

The 10 Rules of Ikigai

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1.5 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE “Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.” ―Business Insider   “One of the unintended—yet positive—consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life.” ―Forbes Find your ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy) to live longer and bring more meaning and joy to all your days. “Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb   According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy. In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds—one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and—their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai. Because who doesn’t want to find happiness in every day?

The True Measure of Wealth - 3Fs

The Japanese Psychology of Saving Money - Kameibo

The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka

Buy Back Your Time

Good Work Brings Goodwill & Growth, Greed Results in Disgrace & Downfall – Life is Beautiful

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