Just as a balanced portfolio has short, medium, and long-term investments, so does every day.
While I believe that true equal balance does not necessarily look like 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 for each, every day— there is an overall balance in these three areas that we can find.
My relationship to the medium and long-term investments are more familiar than the short-term ones.
The fun, the frivolous. the spontaneous.
My friends and family help me with this. You all help me with this every day.
You take me out of me head, and into the moment.
My good friend says that we are all trying to access and maintain access to resources.
This is true environmentally and energetically.
What are my true resources?
What gets in the way? Hint: how do I get in my own way of accessing my own resources?
Do I even know what my true and real resources are?
What gets in the way of me finding enjoyment, and taking pleasure— not simply utilizing the resource?
There is a difference between quickly washing yourself to get clean vs revelling in the bathtub to enjoy.
Using the resource— again, water is a good analogy— to get me from point A to B,
rather than basking in the thermal hot springs.
One way is utilitarian. The other is therapeutic.
One is highly practical— perfunctory. In service of “doing.”
The other is enjoyable. In service of “being.”
Short-term investments make us more kind. Fun. Playful. And receptive to life.
They feed us, nurture us, and fill us up.
My new practice is to bring in more of the short-term, and trusting that all my medium and long-term investing will pay off.
Not wither away, with my not constantly tending and / or worrying.
What do you do for short-term investing?
How do you balance this out for yourself?
Ducit Amore 