Procrastination is an Enemy to Building Wealth
“Energy and Persistence Conquer All Things.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is an enemy to building wealth. It’s too easy to put off working your brain and resting your body at the end of a long day at work or taking care of the house and kids all day. But then days turn to weeks, weeks turn to months and months turn to years. And before you know it you’re seeing your retirement years quickly approaching on the horizon. Will your retirement be coming in a luxury cruise ship bringing travel, leisure and financial security? Or will it be a rubber raft with oars, requiring you to continue rowing through your retirement in order to keep afloat on the waves of life? Or perhaps it’s something in between.
Whatever ship, boat, or raft you end up boarding when your retirement arrives, it will be of your choosing. But the choice won’t be made at the day of your retirement… or even 10 years before your retirement. It will be made daily. You’ve already been making the choice and each day you continue to choose how your retirement will be. What kind of retirement you have will be the result of the choices you make each day compounded over weeks, months and years.
It takes “energy and persistence” to conquer procrastination; your enemy to building wealth and an early and rich retirement. Your desire to enjoy a retirement of leisure and financial security can be your fuel. Each day make the choice to use your Stock Investor software to go through the 3-Step Investing Process. Persist in doing your searches, research and portfolio management on a daily basis and you will end up on the luxury cruise ship of retirement.
Your Friend,
D. Scott Elder