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Guide To Good Investment - Take It Seriously

Monday, March 21, 2011

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If you choose to manage your own money, you take one of the key tasks that you hit ever in life. Apart from the love of our family, and perhaps of our career, the second most important, how we manage our money. He will say if it bit you put aside growing, stagnating or worse, it shrivels and dies. This will depend on the quality of the decisions you make today and tomorrow.

Of course, if we manage our money better, so maybe we can shorten our careers, or should not rely solely on revenue it produces allows us to spend more time with our families. I really do not know what I'd do ... 9-to-5 job, or play with my kids ...

But unfortunately most people do not put nearly as much time, much effort or consideration into their investments as they do in their families and careers. For many people adopt an "It goes right mate" approach to their investment. He takes a back seat far to the rest of their lives, but in many ways it is as important as creating a successful career. Get your investment and there will be many more to leave your family when you finally see!

In my seminars and workshops often people in their investment approach and try to reach the heart of the amount of time and effort to really put on their investments. The results are surprisingly uniform: not enough! Most investors simply do not understand the work necessary to succeed in the market. They really believe they have a solid investment plan and credible, but in reality, its methodology is far from one.

"What I do is to find good value with a good story and keep it for the long term. The market goes up over the long term, how can it be?" This proved to be a deeply flawed plan (or not really) in recent years, as markets have melted.

Chip-chip stocks have shown that there were more reliable or safer than their more speculative and, indeed, many have simply disappeared. It is much more successful investment that buying shares called blue chip and hope for the best.

Unfortunately, most investors can be described as a hobby investors. Are part time. Not at the same time, says the effort and professionalism normally reserved for their careers as they do on their investments.

Career investors will not fail to adopt a well thought out, studied, tested and proven. It is more commonly called a "business plan". It is logical that every person or company has successfully achieved this success through proper planning and execution of a well thought out plan - and certainly not by chance. Investing is and should not be different. Luck has nothing to do with it.

Why is it then that many investors coming into this game without any plan at all, or a plan of attack that can only be described as "fragile"? I just hope I get lucky!

I see many more investors who are not achieving their full potential, are not even aware of what it is that they are - hands down. I'm not sure there's a way to sweeten the pill - but most investors I know are lazy and complacent. Unfortunately for them, do not realize how lazy and complacent, they really are!

Most believe they really do a great job in his place. So I stress that the goal is not just making money, but to beat the market. Of course it is good to make a return of 10% in one year. But what if the market grew by 20%? If this is the case, then you make money, but lost a long time. We could have done better to simply give money to a manager of index funds, not stress, do not put in any effort, and only in the relevant market.

Most investors I talk to realize that what they thought was a good performance is in reality costs them thousands and thousands in lost opportunity! A dollar earned today, not because of laziness and complacency that will cost you $ 6.72 in the disposable capital in 20 years at a compound rate of 10% per year. That may not seem like much, but extrapolate for every dollar of investment that have fluttered away over the years and have an idea of ​​how important it is to get your right to invest today.

If everyone who is successful and the company achieved this success through careful planning and execution, so many investors put their hard earned money at risk in the market without the same application? Can you afford not to have a trading plan? Can you afford to be lazy and complacent and treat your investment as a hobby? Will you have a well-defined research, tested and proven investment plan, or will you leave to chance?

Most of the work is running an investment plan is well documented, studied, tested and proven. Unfortunately, not only does not have such a plan, they exaggerate a lot of effort applied to their investments. Instead of treating their investment in non-professional, was a new "hobby".

I intend to use the analogy to describe the concept. And 'one that I have already spent some time in my workshops to show in terms of how difficult it is and how much time and effort to be successful in the market. You know what I mean in the second, but strangely, this comparison has worked well until recently. It 'been a source of great amusement of my students!

I am an avid golfer weekend warrior. I say a warrior, because you can often find me to conquer and shrubs of local golf course near you on Saturday morning. No Bush is too thick, and the forest is too incomprehensible to my quest to find their own ball when the tee shot stubborn.

Of course, I love golf, but I hardly call my job. It will, at best, a hobby for me. I have very little time to practice my game and that's why most of my practice occurs in the game in real time when I really need to reap the fruits of my efforts during the week. My lack of time to search the golf course, perfection is a big problem, but outside of my disability nearest telephone, I must say that my biggest handicap is probably my lack of talent. I really did not have much of it when it comes to making a club ...

I would say that my excuse for why I'm so bad at golf because I was not born with the innate genius of Tiger Woods (you can get an idea of ​​the joy that the analogy does now in my workshop!).

However, one wonders if Tiger was born with his talent and that is why it is so good, or whether it was an acquired skill? Of course we're talking about golf and Tiger feats no other innate ability to score (well, this is the first and last joke I'll do that!).

How is Tiger so good? Were you born with it or that he really worked hard to develop his talent? Well, I think his talent has more to do with the fact that he started playing golf when he can walk and maintain a club. He was an excellent coach and mentor of his father, worked on his game almost religiously looking for the best professionals will show you where good and evil. Then there is practice. Tigre is one of my heroes (the only golf course) and I've seen some documentaries about it. I saw him play in the rain, hail or shine for 8 hours a day. Chip is 300 balls in a bunker, not a backyard, and another 300 chip balls, and so on.

I can only conclude that the secret to the success of Tiger is not really a secret at all: it's bloody hard work! The time devoted to practice, giving you the experience that gives you confidence that you can ... you guessed it ... talent! Who would have thought it would be so easy (hard!)?

It is not enough that practice makes perfect, though. It 's just something that our teacher told the school to make us feel better suck that was we were doing. It 's more accurate to say that perfect practice makes perfect application.

You can see that there is no great difference between the old practice and perfect practice. Anyone can take a set of golf clubs and hit the ball 300 off the bunker, take a step back and do it again and again and again until the cows come home. Believe me, I did before, and certainly not made me a Tiger Woods.

Each tiger is dead, both in practice and in a state tournament, recorded and investigated. Not only for the Tigre, but also those who used to train him. Nothing is taken for granted and nothing is lost. Constantly with an action, reviews, and the control loop, has improved. Continue this and you can improve to the point where you turn your passion into a profession.

It's really the difference between me and Tiger. I'm not a golf coach, so I have no idea that I'm doing wrong. Even if I did because I did not have an experienced trainer, I have no idea how to solve it. In my defense, but I have no intention of leaving my day job and begin to play golf for a living. I will never have enough training and discipline to spend time, resources, and especially the money to invest to get used to this level. If I can help any of these things, then I would not be surprised that my hobby is just that - something that gives me joy from time to time, but that costs money eventually me.

What does this have to do with our investment? Well there are clearly many features that Tiger is his golf to reach its yield, which we will make our investment approach.

We're going to treat investing as a profession and put the necessary time and effort to apply this passion and discipline is enough? Or are we to be a "weekend warrior investor and deal with what we do as a hobby money? Of course, both approaches can produce very different results.

Let's put this back to your investment. I would say that your investment, because I do not treat my investment as I treat my golf. You see, check out Australian Stock Report me to write this column and present in their stores, my investment is what pays the bills. I simply can not afford to take that for granted. If I succeed, it is to beat the markets and develop my wealth so that I rely less on other forms of income, which then allows me to spend more time doing what I love most - to spend time with my family (not golf), so I must be professional in my approach to investing. It is simply too important "not to be. My investment simply can not be a hobby if I want the results I'm looking for ...

That means I have to do all the movements of my investment as Tiger uses for its golf. Discipline to devote the necessary time to do my analysis and research. To create a marketing plan well documented and robust. To implement this plan by religious and continuous feedback and response improved. I must take the time to do it all happen and not be so arrogant that I do not know with those who have gone before me and have even been successful as I want. I must take it seriously.

Now, my question is: "How seriously you take your investment?" Is this a hobby? If you're too "gamblers" talk about their investments that they say things like: "Yes, I have some people ... I do believe that far ..." which is more often "Oh, yes, I read the financial section newspaper and a couple of financial news sites and try to chip stocks recover;. then I get hit in the bottom drawer and maintain "When you click on the time spent developing its approach, the answer is always" Oh, yes, keep an eye on things. "

Remember what I said about my lack of time for practice, and that leads me to practice my playing time to drive? It 'similar to your investment? Do you feel you are learning on the job? Or you should learn and hone your skills before you put your hard earned money at risk in the market?

If you feel that you feel your way you go, it looks more like someone talking about a hobby is a serious matter! There are too lucky! Where is the discipline? Where is the perfect practice? Where is the incessant demand and efforts to improve, succeed and excel?

Let me make one thing very clear here. If you treat your investment as a hobby it will definitely give you some fleeting pleasures from time to time, as my golf, but also as my golf is going to cost you money. Whether the advance in the form of severe losses in a bear market or if it arises from a poor performance index in a bull market - it will cost.

So how to get good "for investing? Remove leaf book Tigre. A coach is a good place to start, the coach of the investment in this case. Someone who knows the rules of the game that can make objective decisions about where to go right and wrong - and how you can improve continuously.

Not enough to say: "I just hit it out until I realized, I'm fine - I do not need help I can get this from you ..." Remember what we said: It is the practice that makes perfect, but perfect practice makes perfect. If you have no idea what the right approach is, first, it can take many years and a small fortune before it broke.

true professionals spend many years and very little luck at the University to study for qualifications. I am looking for information, construction, tested and proven information. I am not so arrogant to say that they understand themselves. Imagine if your brain surgeon said: "Do not worry, I read some books, cracking his head and has been a hobby for ages now - I think you get the hang of the board," Why should I invest to be different? Get help, go to college instead!

Here are our workshops go into these meetings, my colleagues and I at the heart of what makes you tick as an investor and how we can do better. More importantly, we give you the number of tested systems and processes through before, during and after each investment you make to improve the consistency and results. Remember, however, that even if we can show exactly when and where to invest, we can not give you the discipline and the passion to follow such a plan! It is up to you.

We want all the advantages of greater return on investment. Rewards of this improvement may be a change of lifestyle. However, we are prepared to work hard to get these benefits? Most investors do not. Your biggest obstacle to become a better investor is just starting, and a commitment to improving its increasingly professional in their approach. The hard work starts now.

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