A healthier mind is way for
both successful in life in both in career as well as wealth creation. Therefore,
it will be very important to keep your mind active and stay from daily stress,
which are doing work in related to investments in stock market and mutual funds
on day-to-day basis. Healthier mind will make your decision making power more
effective and improve the investment decisions.
Thus, your investment skills are
improved by healthier mind. Below are some of the techniques, which will
sharpen your mind and these, are good exercises for the mind:-
1.
Research
and Analysis:
For improving
your capability in terms of information about a company, financial statement assessment,
evaluating market trends, and for making good well informed decision you have
to practices the research and analysis of companies. This will provide you the
fair idea about the investments in a particular sector or a particular company.
2.
Case
Studies:
Case
studies will help you find out what are other investors strategies, which has
been successful in past. As it is always assumed that in past studies works
well for future as well. You can easily analyse their investment decisions and
outcome of these decisions as well. You can even study about failures of the companies,
which will tell you an idea how to avoid such similar situation companies. This
will improve your critical thinking approach.
3.
Risk
Management Simulation:
You can
practice risk management simulation by simulating investment scenarios and then
check for potential risks associated with the same. You can easily assess the
impact of the risk factors on your portfolio by using that technique. By doing
so you will make informed decisions about your investments with risks
associated the same.
4.
Scenario
Planning:
This is
also a wonderful exercise in which you can imagine and analyse your investments
by considering different economic and market situations. You can imagine what
type of stocks you should be invested even when there is global slowdown and
recession. Impact of war on particular sector. This exercise will help you to
adapt according to the geopolitical affects. You can even shift from stock
market to debt instruments by considering such planning.
5.
Mental
Math and Financial Calculations:
Mental Math
and financial calculations will improve your numerical skills and even sharpens
your mind. You can do calculations in mind by just analysing the financial
books of the companies. This will help you to perform investment according to
valuation of the company, Profitability and revenues of the company etc.
6.
Problem-Solving
Games:
It will be
helpful if you engage yourself in problem-solving games or puzzles that require
analytical thinking. There are activity games such as chess, Sudoku, or brainteasers
can help enhance your logical reasoning and decision-making abilities and help
in building bonding with other personals, which will help in relaxing the mind
in free time. This will make your investment decisions quick and more precise.
7.
Emotional
Intelligence Training:
Emotional
intelligence training is required so that you should take decisions according to
emotions. It has been seen that if any particular investment in a stock or
mutual fund gets wrong we generally keep on holding the stock for lifetime, as
we don’t want to book losses as we are emotionally attached with the company.
We don’t even look at the deteriorating fundamentals of the company hoping for
revival of the company. Meditation or mindfulness exercises can be helpful in
improving emotional intelligence.
8.
Continuous
Learning:
Learning is
lifetime process; you should keep on learning about new things in the market
such as new software’s, new rule and regulations, new technologies etc. You
should focus market trends, economic indicators, world economic situation etc.
To do this we should attend seminars, read books, subscribe or follow some reputed
advisors; listen to inputs from world influential peoples etc.
These all
will help in making your in sound investment decisions for long term and short
term as well. Healthier mind is door to wealth creation.
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