Recently I watched a guy putting any things on the top of others. He's a kind of balance champion in the world.
You can watch one of his videos here :
He may balance almost anything even with different weights and shapes. He even said that creating that balance takes a lot of time from him. Sometimes even a few hours needed to balance some objects. Of course he needed a lot of training and trying again and again to reach that success. That's what I may call Equanimity. I would define that as setting a goal and reaching it no matter what it takes.
The same about Equanimity in life. When you want something, you have to do the impossible to get it. Recently I heard a businessman talking about those who complain about their low salaries. He said that if I ask some questions, you may always say yes ! Those questions were : Can those workers change their work ? Can they study and learn something else and get a better work ? Can they start blogging ? Can they run their own business ? .... etc.
So, in fact instead of complaining people may change the environment they live in. Change their behavior and thinking after all. That what will make them achieve what they want. Keeping everything as it is will not change the situation. We can always blame someone, but not ourselves. Equanimity in this case is taking the full responsibility for our actions. If we made a mistake we should admit it. All the results that led us to where we are at, are due to our own choice. So, blaming others, or the government, or where we were born, is not a solution. We should change circumstances and only that will lead to improvement.
The same about investment. Equanimity is accepting the losses. Learning from that. Not repeating mistakes. Only in this case we will win more often. We won't lose money. So, we should learn enough about what we are investing in. And in case we already support something we like, we should accept what's lacking in case we can't influence that for better ! Or we should do everything to make it closer to our view of perfection.
By the way, I took that picture myself. We have home some traditional dishes. So, when I watched the balance champion the first time, I decided to do that myself. It's not that easy and it depends on what we try to balance, but It went well with those dishes we have home and a chess piece on the top. Even the picture looks really nice with that Russian old calculator I have at home and some yellow toys of my son. ☺
