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You are all free to NOT take advantage of the potential of the market. I won't lose sleep over it. I shared my thoughts on why I do it and I'm sure millions of other people are investing in individual stocks for the same reason. Potential. Why so many of you get upset is ridiculous...

An individual stock has given me an unrealized gain of over 600% in a year and a half's time. Not typical, yet not unheard of. Out of curiosity, I wanted to know how long it would have taken to grow to the same amount if I had invested that initial amount into a reasonable index fund. @8.5%...

Was listening to Peter Lynch audiobook "One Up on Wall Street" and I really liked this statement: "A share of stock is not a lottery ticket. It's part ownership of a business."

My suggestions are TSLA, TQQQ and the new ETF soon to come out ARKB. The potential of Tesla is enormous. They are scaling quickly, innovative and disrupting the car industry. TQQQ seeks to triple the daily return of the Nasdaq 100 so is very aggressive. The past five year return is...

Currently own: TSLA (long-term), FUV (Arcimoto), BTBT (Bit Digital), SLI (Standard Lithium) and HMLP (Hoegh Lng).

When I first got to my FI number, I wasn't mentally ready for the transition, so I decided a slow transition would help. It's very overwhelming to go from getting a paycheck from a job to getting your paycheck from yourself via your savings and investments. I dropped from 40 hours to 32...

I use sodium bicarbonate (Baking Soda) for heartburn and acid indigestion. Even says that's one of its uses on the side of the box, never noticed that before. Half a teaspoon in a glass of water does the trick in 30 seconds. Some problems we have as we get older are due to decreased stomach...

A few years ago, I told a coworker that I would be retiring early and she said, "well, won't you get bored?" I said, "I don't come to work to keep from getting bored." And I thought to myself, "who does that??", although I do know some people actually do, I can't see myself doing it. I told...

I think a lot of things, tasks, etc. get overlooked, neglected, put off while we are busy working a job and balancing family. So I think it's normal to have clutter tasks become more apparent after slowing down. There's always something that COULD be done... perhaps in little time, all that...

Unless I found an even better investment or needed the money, I would not consider selling an investment that was doing well and that I believed in over the long term. It appears that Roku has already gone up by over 20x since IPO in 2017. Could turn out to be a 100 bagger eventually. I'm a...

Like I originally stated, I was curious. Not enough talk about stocks in here. Thanks to all of you for your responses!

Was just curious if anyone bought into the market yesterday or is planning to as the Dow has fallen? What have you got on your radar?

Just recently watched Downton Abbey for the second time. What a well done series. am in the middle of Virgin River now. I am really enjoying it. Great scenery in both series and both on Netflix.

One of the best feelings in the world is waking up and realizing you don't have to go to work. It never gets old. It's in my top ten for sure.

I haven't started the blow that dough phase yet. I think I can comfortably do that when I reach millionaire status. I hope to make a large purchase then. In the meantime, I'm working on my health so that I can actually enjoy it when I get to it. I'm 57, just retired 7 months ago.

For the financially savvy daughter, I suggest Rich Dad, Poor Dad and all the books in the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series. In that book he makes the distinctions between being an employee, self-employed, a (big) business owner and an Investor. There's Retire Young, Retire Rich and Increase Your...

It took me about 2 and a half years to pull the trigger from the time when I knew that I actually could, that I had achieved financial independence. It was very difficult to wrap my head around going from a paycheck to withdrawing from my own resources. So, yeah it took over two years to...

The typical general target is to get to a minimum of 25x your annual expenses in terms of reaching basic financial independence. That is the amount for a 4 percent swr. $100K (annual expenses) times 25 equals $2.5 mil needed, at minimum. Most seem to add a cushion to that before retiring by...

The Millionaire Next Door was one of the first financial books I ever bought in 1996, along with Your Money or Your Life. TMND was very influential to me and helped to shape my mindset about money, frugality and building wealth. I became a PAW -prodigious accumulator of wealth after reading...

In the Millionaire Next Door Book, the author points out the research shows doctors are notoriously some of the most under accumulators of wealth (UAW), btw. They typically don't spend much time learning financial matters and rely much on their incomes.

I've been tracking my net worth on a monthly basis since 1999--the first year in which it first went positive. I had been investing in my company 401k for a year and saving money aside from it, too. I have found tracking NW to be a simple yet effective exercise that kept me motivated and on...

Same here. I'm actually astounded by it because I've been living here almost 40 years and home prices haven't really moved all that much until the last year. So, just recently I noticed that homes that are small like mine are for sale and the owners are asking almost double what they would...

Since I don't believe that allopathic doctors have all the answers to pain and chronic pain, I personally would exhaust the internet for information concerning natural cures to my problem. There are many functional medicine doctors and naturopathic doctors with you tube channels now and they...

Had an issue two years back where most of the circuits on one side of my house were not working. I live in a small house of about 1,000 Sq feet. The central air was out, too. So, one side of house had power and the other did not. Turned out there was an extra breaker box on the outside of...

Got to 9x with TSLA during 2020 but it's down since the beginning of this year. I'll get to 10x soon enough!