Building Investment Discipline: The Key to Success

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Author: Teve Torbes

Article source: http://saving-and-investing-money.blogspot.com/. Used with author's permission.

The key to financial success is mostly to build investment discipline. You have to keep putting money in, over and over. If you adopt the tortoise strategy rather than that of the hare, you'll end up ahead in the long run.

Many people want to invest in spurts. They don't think about it on a regular basis, but only when they happen to have some extra cash on hand. This is exactly the wrong way to go about it. You should think about investing as if it's a regular bill that you have to pay. Every month, you need to be putting something in, and it needs to be the same amount. Don't decide that you can cut it out for a month or just not do it. You'll lose your discipline - you'll decide later on that maybe you don't need to do it for two months, or three. After that, it's just a disaster - you'll gradually spiral downward, losing your investment momentum. This can be a terrible chain reaction, and it's a bad idea to even let it get started. Only a regular investment program can make sure that you're sticking a decent amount in every month. You need to use an investment calculator to figure out what your ultimate goal is, and how much you need to put in every month to get there. If you skimp, you won't reach your goal - and that can mean a retirement that you won't really enjoy. You don't want to be working into your 70's, you want to be enjoying your life.