This
year I finally achieved a goal I have wanted to do for many years now, which
was invest in the stock market. I first
became interested in investing after a high school teacher spoke to the class
about it one day. He said that
realistically investing was the only way we could achieve a happy life without
money problems. Like most teenagers, I
always assumed that after university I would be making thousands and wouldn’t
care about saving for the future. But
that talk the teacher made really hit home, and I looked at my future
differently. Shortly after I started a
savings account at my bank, and started to read books about investing. As the years passed I did keep to a well
managed credit balance on my savings and credit cards, but I never invested in
the stock market. The reason for this
was because I was too intimidated to do anything. I felt I didn’t have enough money to invest,
or I wasn’t knowledgeable enough to know where to being.
Over time, the years passed and I kept feeling
awful that I never did anything. Then
this year I told myself that I needed to get off my butt and finally jump in
head first, and learn about investing along the way through trial and
error. I booked an appointment with a
bank consultant, and she helped me with my questions and doubts. That meeting led me to finally invest in my
favourite company, NKE (nike). I chose
Nike because I know it’s a company that is run well, that has room to grow, and
that is always on a buy list. Now that
it’s been a few months since I bought my stocks, I am finally getting annual
reports from this company as a shareholder (booklet pictured). This was exactly how I wanted to learn about
investing, because it being Nike keeps me involved in my investments because I
am interested enough to read everything about this company and how it
works. My advice for anyone else who is
also interested in investing is to invest in a company that will get you
motivated enough to want to know everything about that company so that you’ll
always be involved with your investments.
Nike
Biz:
http://www.nikebiz.com
