Your own physical fitness may be the ultimate investment opportunity. Think of it like this. If you are willing to make the commitment (investment), you will feel and look healthier, have an abundance of energy, be more self-confident, more productive, reduce your disease risk and slow the aging process. You will also have the get up and go to fit more pleasurable and enjoyable things into your life.
Time for a reality check - what priority are you giving your well-being? Many of us plan financially for our future to make sure our needs will be taken care of but where does our health and wellness fit into this future planning? To leave it up to chance or luck is taking a big risk with the high rate of modern chronic disease that affects one in two people in our world.
Remember that if you are strong, fit, well and happy with yourself and your lot in life this will benefit others too. Every spouse should have an energetic partner in life, every child deserves a happy parent; every boss would rather have a fit and healthy employee.
If you have not had a structured exercise program before, looking at the "big" picture can seem overwhelming. And the bigger the task, the more overwhelming and difficult it can seem. It is best to break the task apart into smaller pieces. If you need to lose 50 pounds try losing 5 pounds and repeat the process ten times.
To start an exercise program begin with just 2 or 3 strength training exercises and then slowly expand your routine. Don't exercise too hard when first starting-out or you will become stiff, tired, disillusioned and soon give up. Make it easy for yourself then you will be more likely to repeat it often until it has become a habit. Then you can expect to start reaping the rewards and the results of the time you put in to the program.
It sure makes sense to invest a little time each week, maybe 2-3 hours in a proper exercise program that could pay huge dividends later in life. To ensure you are strong, healthy and disease free right through your life you need to be preparing now no matter what your age. Ask yourself "What am I doing today that will ensure a functional and healthy future for myself?"
The health profits that you will reap far outweigh the potential expenditure and time that you spend on your exercise program. Many people cannot see this and fail to act on this extraordinary opportunity by simply choosing to procrastinate or ignore the proven benefits of proper exercise.
Millions of people all over the world have an exercise deficiency and millions of people are ill and dying from this deficiency. It is in your best interest to practice some self care so you do not become one of them.
Your investment in exercise becomes even more attractive when you consider that there is absolutely no down-side risk having everything to gain and nothing to lose
How many times can you remember ever been offered a better deal?
Sometimes we think that a task is unpleasant or boring just like any other activity, this can also be true for exercise. There are days when we just plain lack the enthusiasm and motivation to bother with our exercise routine. On days like these focus on 'why' you are doing it maybe even think about the people you care about and who may need and rely on you. What would happen to them if you became ill or disabled and was unable to work or worse, if you were out of the picture completely?
Think of a properly structured exercise program as a blue chip investment, and include it in your personal lifestyle portfolio. You may eventually save both time and money, feel better, look better and have more energy. Exercise is after all, the cheapest investment around worth its weight in gold.
I. INTRODUCTION.
Due to LPG policy particularly liberalized Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) regime the India's explosive economic progress has captured the world's attention and its property market has indeed emerged as one of the most appealing investment destinations for both domestic and foreign investors. Indian Real estate is on the high growth path and the boom is mainly due to mall culture, multiplexes, hypermarkets and retail sector are growing in India and retail brands from all over the world are showing their keen interest to even setup their base in India especially MNCs apart from retail outlets coupled with rising demand for commercial and residential boosting the industry. It is expanding its wings even in remote towns. Leave aside metro cities, smaller towns have attracted construction activity from big developers. Shopping malls, skyscrapers and new infrastructures are shaping new India. II OPPORTUNITIES
Indian real estate has huge potential demand in almost every sector especially commercial, residential, hospitality, healthcare, retail and industrial etc. This is growing at a dizzying pace of almost 30 percent each year. The bulk of construction activity - 80 percent is dedicated to housing, while the rest is commercial, including offices, malls, hotels and hospitals. The Real Estate market is projected to grow to US$60 billion by 2010 at a CAGR of 40% Several factors are expected to contribute to the rapid growth in Real Estate
Large demand-supply gap in affordable housing, with demand being fuelled by tax incentives and a growing middle class with higher savings. Increasing demand for commercial and office space especially from the rapidly growing Retail, IT/ ITeS and Hospitality sectors etc.
Investment opportunities exist in almost every segment of the business as per the estimates of Investment commission of India particularly in the following sector.
Over 20 million new housing units will require in next 4 years.
Office space for IT/ITeS: Five-fold increase in office space requirement over the next 3 years
Commercial space for organized retailing: 200 million sq. ft. by 2010.
Hotels & Hospitality: Over 40,000 new rooms in the next 5 years
Investment opportunity of over US$75 billion in will require in the next four years.
Working Group on Urban Housing pertaining to the 11th Plan made assumptions on unit cost of construction of houses in million plus cities and other urban areas for estimating the investment required for overcoming the housing shortage. The total estimated investment for meeting the housing requirement upto 2012 was estimated to be of the order of Rs.3,61,318.10 crores consisting of Rs.1,47,195 crores for mitigating housing shortage at the beginning of 11th Plan and Rs.2,14,123.10 crores for new additions to be made during the 11th Plan period (this includes construction of pucca houses & upgradation of semi-pucca and kutcha housing units.
Apart, India in the next two years period is estimated to require investments worth US$60 billion by 2010. This again has opened up opportunities for foreign investments in the realty sector. FDI liberalization in year 2005 has thrown open the lucrative parts of the Indian realty market to global investors.
Foreign Direct Investments in the real estate sector in India would also contribute towards making the sector more organized. Besides increasing professionalism in the sector, it would bring in advanced technology and help in the creation of healthy and competitive market environment for both domestic and foreign investors.
Real Estate companies have been successfully tapping the country's booming capital markets for funds.
Commercial office space requirement is led by the burgeoning outsourcing and Information Technology Industry. The leaders of the IT/ITES world have set up or are setting up their centers in India. Estimated demand from IT/ITES sector alone is expected to be 150mn sq.ft. of space across the major cities by 2010.
In residential sector there is housing shortage of 19.4 million units out of which 6.7 million are in urban India. High demand growth has led to prices doubling over 3 years in many cities.
The increase in purchasing power and exposure to organized retail formats has redefined the consumption pattern. As a result the country has experienced mushrooming of retail projects across the cities.
Growth is expected in the all following sectors and Foreign Direct Investment is encouraged and permitted these sectors subjected to certain conditions.
?Hotel Development ?Tourism
If you want to read article go to second part of this - Indian real estate investment policy India ? Part II.
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