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We spend considerable resources of time, money & energy in planning our lives. This includes one or more of a never-ending list:

  • Our career
  • Our marriage
  • Our house 
  • Our ‘big-car’
  • Our holidays
  • Our taxes
  • Our children
    • Their birth
    • Their education
    • Their career
  • Our health
  • Our wealth
  • Our post-retirement life

Thanks to technology, a great deal of time is invested in net-surfing for options, best deals, financial resources towards achieving the above ends.

Today we have a virtually endless list of (in the above order) job-websites, marriage-websites, home & home-loans' websites, car & car loan options, travel-websites, parenting-websites, healthcare-websites, the ubiquitous insurance company websites, the ‘get-rich-quick’ investment schemes, the ‘happily-ever-after’ reired life websites….and on and on.

 

What is all this planning going to yield ?

What are we targeting to achieve through this aggressive planning ?

What is the one, most-important thing we aim to achieve through this intensive exercise ?

Never thought about it ? Well, so have countless people…

Now.. spend a minute and think…

What is the one, most-important thing we aim to achieve  ?

The obvious answer is Happiness.

Good, so far ?

So we expend so much of resource, in securing ourselves.. physically, financially, mentally, emotionally,  spiritually, for the one, most-important thing – Happiness

How come, then, we never think of

Planning for Happiness

which was the  desired goal, to begin with.

Ponder over it....

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