"Time is our best gift to someone", use it in your life or lose it!!! . "Money and Time the Conundrum"

You work and spend your time to get money. One gets money to get the essentials in life and the comforts one can get. We also need money to gift someone you love. This can be in the form of food, clothes, education, assets as the gift to the someone you love. this can be your parent, child, wife and so on. But you spend time to get the money to gift that someone in any form as i detailed.

Then the time of yours is the gift to them and not the actual gift. The time is then the most precious part of all. Just like the time you invest in health as i explained in my previous blogs, you also invest in time to get the money which in turn is used for your loved ones. Then what you are actually giving your loved ones as the gift is your time.

Now if time of yours is the gift to someone, then even if that time does not yield in material benefits (with money and the associated gifts), it is still the gift. for example, you spend time with your loved ones, then it is your gift to them. in fact the loved ones with which you are spending the time are also gifting their time to you

This is something you can use in your work life as well. If you are able to give time at work to someone or something important then you are gifting your time. This is something you have to remember in a job you love doing where you are happy to gift your time for that job.

More importantly you should not be wasting your time in jobs you do not like or enjoy. When the people who do not do their job properly for example, are wasting their precious time in a job where they do not enjoy or like.

You also have to remember if someone is incompetent, or complascent in what they should be doing, then they are not only wasting their precious time of life but also your precious time of life if you are involved in the outcome of their job.

Which brings me to the concept of finite gift concept in everyone's life. Finite means that there is definite end point and it is measurable. Our life has a finite end point though we ourselves cannot measure it.

In other words, our life and the time you spend has a finite end point and that is all the gift we can give to anyone and ourselves. Hence one should choose how we would like to gift that precious time we have and not waste it.

Remember our time is finite and hence the gift of time we can give is precious. Remember the person who is receiving that gift should also be able to appreciate this and make them understand so.

I hope that you have got what i wanted to convey as Time is My Best Gift to you and not the actual gift. Now if someone moans that they did not get what they wanted from someone they love, make them understand this point. The time that individual spent to get that particular item is the gift
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This is especially important if one is not well off to give an expensive gift but labours his time to get that gift

Back to the second part of title of the blog, "Use it or lose it". This is written for the good use of the time we have got and if we do not use it well, sorry it is too late, we have already lost it.

Now go on and use your time well and i shall try to do as well

Regards

Chockalingam

"savour this moment, time is as important as money and health"

You would have read my previous blog on money and health the conundrum, if not please read before this blog.
I discussed the importance of health over money and in fact described a way of combining money and health. Thus we spend time to acquire money and assets to make us happy in the future.

Some of us would spend more time on acquiring health than the time we spend on acquiring money. this may be due to the fact that we value health more than money or we have lots of money already.

Acquiring health, we may do by going to a gym, for a swim, jog in the park, eat healthy as opposed to indulging in junk foods etc. Acquiring money, we may do by doing a job, working overtime, have a second job, work harder in further education to acquire a better job which will result in a better paid job.

But life is not entirely tomorrow. life is not yesterday either. Life is today with work towards a better tomorrow. Working in a health sector, we do see people who do not have a choice in a better tomorrow. A 39 year old, a father of two young kids, presents to me with shoulder pain, only to be diagnosed to be suffering a cancer which has already spread all over his body! shocking is it not ? this makes you think

What is life, is it more money with an ability to enjoy the wordly pleasures, or is it being healthy which we can acquire with good food and exercise. not completely. it is an ability to enjoy the worldly pleasures with a healthy mind and body at this point of time. as i said today we can plan to an extent for tomorrow, however can be unpredictable.

This brings me to the title of this blog, namely "savour this moment". Today at this point of time, be happy and healthy. Being happy and healthy now will not be enough for tomorrow which is also going to be your life. Hence whatever you do to acquire money and health for tomorrow, enjoy the act of doing so.

i.e enjoy your job which you will have to do today for a better tomorrow. If you cannot enjoy the job you are doing now, please look for your job which you will enjoy and savour the moment. Similarly if you do exercise, choose an activity which you enjoy and choose a healthy food which you enjoy.

feel sorry for people who do not do their job with pleasure and well, as they are not only wasting their life. Also feel sorry for people who do not care for their and their kith and kin's health as they are also wasting their life. Appreciate the person who enjoys doing something to a wealthier and healthier tomorrow.

now to the second part of my title,"Time is as important as the money and health". I hope you would have got this by now. Essentially savour this moment of time, as your life is the time now, .

If we savour this moment doing our job happily and keeping ourselves healthy, then we are indeed enjoying our life. Is is not what we all want.

Regards

Chockalingam

"Invest health for your loved ones"

When i had the book given to me by one of our good friends at the hospital i work, it helped me greatly. i will elaborate on the book itself in another blog. The book opened up my thoughts and creativity quite a bit. Then, when i saw the mother of a cardiologist who was morbidly obese coming for a knee replacement with the associated risks, the thoughts started flowing to this subject of "Money and Health, the conundrum"

This blog is the continuation of the blog and if you have not read my earlier blog please go and read and continue>

How to combine money which is so well associated with comforts and health which is so associated with well being? Being healthy would enable one to enjoy the money and its comforts.

Saving money when you need to spend the money is one of the models i have been following since 1993. Saving money when you spend time for a good cause is a concept i had been exposed to when i started doing the charity walk for the cancer in UK.

is a new conceptWe at Sugam Charity thought of a model when one can save money for the time you spend for being healthy! after many trials, the model which we have come up with are the following. one can choose the method one wants depending on his circumstances.

1. Save money in a separate account or pot for the time you spend exercising for example. this could be pounds/dollars/rupees for the time you spend on trying to become healthy. Use this pot as exclusive pot for spending later when you want to have comforts like buying your hi tech headphones for example.

2. Save money for your loved ones when they do exercise is gifting someone money when they spend time for their health. one may say i do not have anyone whom i would like to see them healthy! or do not want to save money for someone else!

3. Spend time for your loved ones to become healthy for them to be able to spend time with you longer in the longer run is even better. this would be for you to exercise more for your loved ones as much as for yourselves. Quantfication can be in the form of money which you can save for them or for yourselves!

Think about these options and start using them in your life. i know few who have started already.

Hang on, it is time for me to exercise! no for work!!!!!!. The anaesthetist has anaesthetised my patient for surgery and the patient is waiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Regards

Chockalingam

Money and Health, the conundrum!

Money is something we find as a commodity to have our life go smoothly. we start saving it by various means.this could be a current account, savings account, investment account, fixed assets such as land and assets such as gold. We spend time acquiring this to be able to spend them at some time. The spending is meant to give us worldly pleasures. This could be something like spending money to buy a nice Television so that we could enjoy watching something we enjoy.

We also know that we need to be healthy to be able to enjoy the worldly pleasures. The importance of health is though not as well transparent to our thoughts as money's importance. Healthy persons are able to live without pain and suffering and hence can be quite happy even if they have less money.

We know that we cannot take money and its various forms to where our soul go after we are rest to peace at the end of our life. hence we see some people denounce the need of money to and give importance to health. we see them suffering in some way as money's importance soon becomes apparent.

Money is also needed to keep yourself healthy. for example we need money to be able to buy good fruits and healthy food to keep us healthy. being healthy helps us to be able to get more money. for example, if one is healthy, he is able to get more work and do more work and hence can command more money.

Should one give more importance to money or health. A conundrum indeed!

The answer lies in somewhere in the middle. May be Being Healthy will win over Being Wealthy to most people when cornered into answering one over the other. however no one can not deny the fact that having some wealth is essential to be able to survive and be happy when you have good health.

I am then working on a model to be able to combine these into one in one way for a common man approach for us to follow in real life.

I will elaborate in my next blog.

Meanwhile i have not forgotten to follow up my other blog on traffic and speed awareness!

Warm Regards

Chockalingam