Over the past year we have enjoyed great dividends! we have been able to watch our investments grow and enjoy the fruits of our good fortune. While globally the markets and economy have been fairly stable, 2025 brings some uncertainty, and people who fear change are being forced into situations the leave them feeling like the end is near!
We are not here to fall into those traps of small thinkers, the naysayers, because they are resisting change and fearing the unknown. While I may or may not agree myself with things as they are, I am steadfast in my quest for building and maintaining a good investment portfolio that adds income for the long term, I will not let the wrong things dictate my future.
I think we are at a point in history where as a small group of people we make sure and be mindful of how we use the rewards of our efforts. We make sure to plan for not only the upside of investing but the downsides as well. Let me go into a bit of detail to that idea.
Within the group of ETF’s we currently are putting out money in, there are those that ride both ups and downs, some only ride the ups, while other bank on the downs. “Balance” is the name of the game! currently we mostly point to ETF stocks that return high dividends, and we can look at the trend charts and see when to buy and when to hold, I’m not pushing selling when the stock goes down, for a specific reason, we are not here the stocks, per say, we are here for the Extreme Dividends!
So let me get to the point! Our main focus has been to purchase these ETF’s and reap benefits, that is still our main focus, among us, we all have ideas and intuitions that guide us into what to do. 1. Make sure yours is on high alert! 2. do spend 30 min to 1 hr a day looking at how the market is trending, review the charts on your specific stocks and look at others way outside of our focus. For instance; pick a stock that focuses on agriculture, foreign exchange rates other market indexes or ???.
These help to clarify how all markets are responding, and help you determine you are making sound decisions with your investments. When I do this I focus more on the graphs and trends rather than the stock chatter, simply because the data doesn’t lie, its data based on actual results not on opinions of people taking knee jerk reactions to a dream or nightmare from the night before.
Now let them make those mistakes! it’s part of learning for us, as we analyze the trends we can see when you hop on the stock and make the best purchases, and when to hold back and let thing smooth out. Will you miss an opportunity doing this, probably; will you miss it twice, probably not! At the end of the day we make the best decisions using our best understanding of what we were intending on accomplishing.
This helps us to keep in mind our main goal, build a dividend income we can live on without relying on a 9 to 5 job for income. You need not become a million-air to accomplish this, just keeping working towards a level which let’s you be comfortable with your situation, be debt free, enjoy life and enrich those around you within your small circle of life.
Finial thought; someone once told me to know something is a terrible thing! why you might say? in literal terms once you know something you know everything about it and you have nothing left to learn, but to understand, leaves you wanting more and the ability to grow and things change, in 2025 have tings change, yes that have, I understand that. LET’S GROW!