The Philippine stock market index has rallied to a new all-time high today, rising by 24.78 points to close at 6,192.42. (6,377.75 as of October 9, 2013) – [UPDATE: PSEi closed at 7,236.38 on October 23, 2015]
This good news and those numbers mean almost nothing to you if you’re not yet investing in the Philippine stock market.
I have received quite a few good number of inquiries from my blog and through our forum sites and pages on how to open a stock trading account so that they can finally start investing or trading. Most of them are Filipinos working or living abroad (OFW’s and migrant Filipinos).
Out of 20 people who asked for help on how to start investing in the stock market in the past two months, only less than half (7 to be exact) have opened their stock trading accounts until now.
While these 7 people committed to achieve financial independence by buying shares of the best and biggest Philippine companies through stock market investing/trading, each of the other 13 have either:
1) Bought the latest smartphone model
2) Bought a brand new DSLR camera
3) Shopped for the mid-season/end-of-season sale at malls out of impulse
4) Been procrastinating
What is Procrastination?
The 13 folks who have not yet opened their stock trading accounts really wanted to invest in the stock market. They even have this favorite motto:
“I promise to stop procrastinating…starting tomorrow.”
But what does procrastination mean?
According to Wordnet, procrastination means “the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time.”
It’s quite puzzling though that some people can easily decide to buy the things that they don’t really need but could not decide to save and invest for their future.
Two months (more than a year since this was written) have passed and so many opportunities to grow money have been wasted.
Friend, if you’re reading this now (am I starting to sound like a network marketer?), don’t procrastinate in terms of growing your money.
Today is the best day to invest. Think about the future of your children. Think about your retirement years.
Don’t let your money lose its value by just keeping it in your bank account. Don’t let inflation eat up your savings.
While we’re making our money grow in our portfolio, you’re just watching.
Don’t postpone your opportunity to grow. Stop procrastinating.
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Nice article… This is a direct hit! Hope people change their money behaviour
And I say let’s start inspiring our relatives first to change their money mindset first. It’s a bit frustrating sometimes, but persistence works.
A good one Burn! What saddens me now is that a lot of people now are jumping into the stock market because they think its easy money:WRONG. Stock market is a risky business if you are yourself risky. Always learn and know first to what are you diving at. And good thing we have fellow bloggers like Burn to help us out in this seemingly out of reach world of the stock market. Learn, invest, be profitable, and share.
Thanks Louis for the kind words. You are one of the new heroes of our nation through your blog.
You are right, education plays the most important part when preparing for anything. Especially in investing.
Spread the good news! 🙂
I agree. Lots of people don’t know what their priorities are. And if they got hit by “bad luck”, they’ll blame everything else except themselves. Luck comes more frequent to those who work smart. And we call this luck “blessings”. Thanks for this post, Burn.
Exactly. Lots of people blame the church, the government, their neighbors, their schools, even their pet dogs. But won’t blame themselves for the woes of life.
You’re welcome, Rogie. And thanks again for visiting. Your blog posts are powerful!
Thanks for the compliment as well. 🙂
Online trading, mutual fund, VUL, UITF are really good vehicles to park your money..
That’s right, Jea. People should learn more about these investment vehicles. Savings and most time deposit products should be used for daily transactions and for emergency fund purposes only.
Procastination= “manana habit”, bad filipino trait inherited during spanish times(?) later bacame mamaya na habit or saka na.