Goal Completed and First Milestone - Dividend Growth Investing

Goal Completed and First Milestone

Hello everyone,

I want to thank everyone for continued support of my financial independence journey and my little blog.  I find it extremely motivating to continually interact with like minded people on here and through your own blogs, as I draw inspiration from your journeys and simply learn from your experiences.  My posting tonight celebrates a small achievement in the beginning stages of my investing journey.  When I created this blog, I made a small goal of reaching $200 in forward annual dividend income in 2014, as I started from scratch.  While it is a small amount, I wanted to set a realistic goal in the few months that I had remaining in 2014.  Now, I’ve been investing for approximately three (3) months and have steadily added to my portfolio in high quality dividend paying companies.  I haven’t speculated or chased yield.  Rather, I have focused my investment strategy on some of the highest quality companies in their relative sector, such as Apple Inc. (AAPL), Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), The Coca-Cola Company (KO), The Walt Disney Company (DIS) and McDonald’s Corp., to name a few.  My portfolio has increased to a net value of $0 a short few months ago to $7,749.28, as of this posting.  Not a huge amount, but steady progress!  More importantly, my dividend income has gone from $0 to $222.86 in that amount of time, as I surpassed by $200 goal of forward annual dividend income.  Not too shabby!  My goal for 2015 is to obtain $1000 in forward annual dividend income, as I will actively invest on a weekly/monthly basis with new capital and reinvesting all dividends received. 

In addition to achieving my main goal of 2014, my blog, a little over two full months in the making, has surpassed the first milestone.  I have topped 10,000 pageviews, which seems amazing to me!  I was a lurker for the longest, as I religiously read some of my favorite blogs, such as Dividend Mantra, Write Your Own Reality, Roadmap2Retire, DivHut, Passive Income Pursuit, Dividend Diplomats, Tawcan, All About Interest, and many more.  These blogs, among many others, have served (do serve) as inspiration to me, as we all have similar goals and can learn from one another in our journeys.  I decided to start blogging my journey, as I wanted to share with others my experiences, document my journey and simply to motivate me to continue down the path.  It’s not easy by no means, as it takes up a substantial amount of time, but I find it truly addictive and motivating.  Thank you for supporting my journey and I hope to become more active in our little community. 

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