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5 Lessons I Learned About Dividend Investing In 2022
And how I’m making changes in 2023
Investing in the stock market always seemed like a complicated thing to me in the past.
It all seemed over my head. After all, how do you pick stocks? What if I lose it all? How do I actually turn it into something worth having?
These were all questions I had for years.
Two years ago, something changed in me. It was probably during a season of life when I was reading finance books that I learned a thing or two.
So, I jumped in. A little at a time. And then, I came across an investing strategy called dividend investing.
When I started getting those first dividend payments, I was hooked. The amount of passive income through dividend investing became addicting.
This year I learned some valuable lessons with investing I want to share with you before we jump into 2023.
YOLO, anything will end up in failure.
Okay, so I am long on STAG Industries. They are a REIT that focuses on real estate for commercial properties. They pay a monthly dividend, and they have never been overly expensive.