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Investing in Yourself: Better Late than Never
It’s never too late to wake up from a slumber, or to change your habits or your mindset.
I say this as someone who long avoided paying attention to the stock market or investing. I thought doing the bare minimum was enough, and particularly in my early 20’s, I was too busy living in the moment. I felt both daunted by the idea of obtaining wealth, seeing it as an impossible and unobtainable goal, and yet also reasoned that I’d at least be able to *eventually* receive some generational wealth. In hindsight, of course, I can see how both of these lines of thinking were incredibly, naïvely erroneous.
It is never too early or soon to begin learning about investing, or to learn about financial management and wealth accumulation. In fact, of course, the earlier one begins to learn and build toward financial literacy and wealth creation, the more that one sets him or herself up for success. While of course we can mourn lost time, as I do, the only productive path is the one forward.
It is easier to learn about investing and financial management more now more than ever. I believe I was also trepidacious and avoidant regarding investing for so long also because it was largely another language to me, inaccessible and not entirely decipherable. Now, with fee-free investing, including automated investing, and sites like Yahoo…
