The Three P’s – Patience, Persistence, Perseverance + MORE

A new article of mine has been published on the investing website Seeking Alpha. The article is entitled Dividend Growth Investing: A Strategy For Young Investors, Too. It examines possible investing outcomes for young people who start with an aggressive growth investing strategy and then switch to dividend growth investing, compared with a person who follows a dividend growth investing strategy from the start.

Let’s jump into the links…
1. Bank of Montreal – Dividend Fact Sheet @ Dividend Engineering.
2. An Investment in Diebold @ DGSI.
3. Can You Retire Comfortably On $31,722 per year? @ Retire by 40.
4. How To Use Trailing Stops @ Brick by Brick Investing.
5. Net Worth of $160,000,000 and Working in Food Service @ 1500 days…

I’m not a huge baseball fan but I’m happy to see the season being just around the corner, I’m hoping to get to see some action this year before the NFL season kicks in:) I hope all of you are doing well, have a great weekend!!
General Readings
-Stock Picking…Just do it @ StockTwits
-Calpers considering going all passive? @ BusinessInsider
-The wealth tax contagion is spreading @ ZeroHedge
-Transaction tax is not the solution to HFT’s @ PointsandFigures
Dividend and Passive Income Readings
-You are poorer than you think @ TheDividendGuyBlog
-How to invest when the market is at all time highs @ DividendGrowthInvestor
Tech Stock Readings
-Walmart (WMT) follows Amazon’s (AMZN) lead @ TechCrunch
-You’re doing it wrong Blackberry (BBRY) @ TechCrunch
-iTunes store is becoming wildly profitable @ Asymco
-Is buying math the next bubble? @ NPR

I often say that growth and income growth are two major items in wealth creating. Another criterion is the debt level. A company with indebtedness has many more possibilities to grow or to create something special. Companies with a huge debt load must create management teams to handle this debt and look for new finance rounds…

Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/AT%26T+%28T%29+Declares+%240.45+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+New+300M+Share+Buyback/8220102.html for the full story.

I’m doing something very different in an otherwise ordinary world. I’m trying to become financially independent and retire early in life – before my 40th birthday, to be exact. This journey to early retirement started just before my 28th birthday, making this a road about 12 years long. Keep in mind that I started with $5,000…

I have a serious spending addiction – any time I find myself with some extra cash on hand, I end up spending it. This is particularly troublesome, as I tend to salivate when I see an item that I really want.

Anytime there is a big sale, especially one with large markdowns, my spending problem comes out on the surface and I sometimes go through all of my cash on hand and sometimes even borrow money to spend…