Slow Progress

I have been on vacation for the past week and half and the life of leisure is a wonderful thing. Today, my kids and I headed out to Banff, Alberta just to hike around and I got to thinking how much I enjoy the ability to just go out and do whatever I want. That is really the primary driver for my desire to build a $300,000 portfolio by the time I am 40 years old that throws off an income of at least $15,000 per year. This, along with other passive income that I am trying to build through other business ventures will provide me with the ability to pick up and head out to Banff for the day just because I feel like it.

However, the problem is that I am impatient. I want this now. This is just basic human nature and I realize that it is not going to happen. All I can do is keep tracking to my plan and ENSURE that I meet my financial and personal goals - these goals are set up specifically to allow me to live freely and doing exactly it is what I love - spending time with my kids in the fresh mountain air. Onward and upward...

As a quick aside, I ran across this article in the Globe and Mail over the weekend. I truly believe that most investors would get spooked by such an article and start selling their financial stocks. However, if you read closely, it is pretty clear that the article says NOTHING AT ALL!!! Just that financial stocks went up, and now they are coming down. How insightful. The key is to ignore such drivel as nothing fundamental has changed.