Dear readers, I had shared with you that during the Covid-19 Circuit Breaker I shunned jogging since jogging without a mask was unimaginable to me then. That was when Singapore was thick in the uncertainty of the Covid-19 episode. It was then that I turned to brisk walking, long hours of brisk walking to be exact, with a mask of course. To make up for the vigorous nature that jogging afforded me, I brisk-walked long hours in return. It was through my long hours of brisk walking that I discovered corners of my neighbourhood which I had never explored before. And definitely this was before the Singapore Tourism Board announced just two days ago initiatives for Singapore to rediscover Singapore!
Now that we are in Phase 2 Safe Re-opening, no doubt there were still quite a handful of Covid-19 cases here and then, I felt more relived to jog without a mask. And this time, when I returned to jogging, I did it with a vengeance. Why so? Well, although I have been working from home these few months, the pace of work have been super heavy.
I hope you could agree with me. Before Covid-19, home is a refuge from work where we turn to after leaving the problems of work at the workplace. With Covid-19, home is where we live and work. Where we work “overtime” as well. Or has the concept of “overtime” been lost among some bosses so that employees work and work?
Anyway, enough of work. Returning back to jogging with a vengeance, I jogged about 7km plus for most of the times in one single setting. Never mind that my pace for a 7km jog was no longer as fast as before with age, but I began to realise that my I could jog for even longer distances after circuit breaker!
That was when I realized that my long hours of brisk walking during circuit breaker had actually prepared me to become fitter so as to jog longer distances now.
From the above, I draw a similar analogy with investing. The current time of lacklustre and volatile stock environment is to prepare investors for the better.
How so? Well none other than holding on to your cash. Saving as much as possible. Building up a war chest to deploy to invest in good stocks when many investors have fled.