I played 4 seasons of Division 1 college football https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏈" title="American Football" aria-label="Emoji: American Football">

Here is what it taught me about investinghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💰" title="Geldsack" aria-label="Emoji: Geldsack">

Sit back and enjoy!

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Before I explain the 4 lessons that football taught me about investing, here is some proof that I playedhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😉" title="Zwinkerndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Zwinkerndes Gesicht">

(I was a long snapper, we didn’t get many photo opportunities lol)

Lesson #1:

You can’t control what the refs callhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏼‍♂️" title="Achselzuckender Mann (mittelheller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckender Mann (mittelheller Hautton)">

If the refs call a holding, then it’s a 10 yard penaltyhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙃" title="Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht">

Whether or not it truly was a holding call, if the refs call it then yardage is taken awayhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">

What does this teach us about investing?

With your investment portfolio, you cannot control outside factors

You can only control WHAT your invested in and WHEN you decided to buy/sellhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">

Covid-19? Can’t control that

BUT

You can control if you buy stocks that are still undervaluedhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤩" title="Vom Star geblendet" aria-label="Emoji: Vom Star geblendet">

CONTROL WHAT YOU CAN CONTROLhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes">

Lesson #2:

During our conditioning https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏃🏻" title="Person running (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Person running (heller Hautton)"> tests, if you didn’t touch the line or cut corners, you were required to redo it

It didn’t matter if you were on rep #1 or the last rep

If you cheated, you started back at ZEROhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😢" title="Weinendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Weinendes Gesicht">

With Decade Investing, if you try to cut corners and try a get rich quick scheme, it will come back to bite you in the tailhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤯" title="Explodierender Kopf" aria-label="Emoji: Explodierender Kopf">

You may win in the short term and not get caught

BUT

If you consistently do it, it will hinder your growth, in my opinion

DO NOT CUT CORNERShttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes">

Lesson #3:

In college we played 12 games... that is a LONG season

You win somehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands">, you lose some https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙃" title="Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Auf den Kopf gestelltes Gesicht">

BUT

All that matters is having a winning season to make a bowl game

You may lose one week, but you CAN’T give up

With Decade Investing, who cares about the day to day fluctuations of the markethttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷🏼‍♂️" title="Achselzuckender Mann (mittelheller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckender Mann (mittelheller Hautton)">

WE are in this for the long term

If we are https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟥" title="Rotes Quadrat" aria-label="Emoji: Rotes Quadrat"> for the day/week/month, WHO CARES?

DON’T SELLhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes">

All that matters is our money is worth more (hopefully 8%+ YoY) by the time we retirehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Feuer" aria-label="Emoji: Feuer">

Lesson #4:

In football, we NEVER played an opponent without watching hours and hours of film https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎞" title="Filmstreifen" aria-label="Emoji: Filmstreifen">

We would spend a whole week before a game analyzing and breaking down our opponents

All aspects of the game we would watch!

You would NEVER go into a game without watching film!

When it comes to dividend investing (less important with index funds)

You NEVER should invest into a company without doing your research https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔍" title="Nach links zeigende Lupe" aria-label="Emoji: Nach links zeigende Lupe">

What’s the yield?

What’s the payout ratio?

What’s the dividend growth?

You MUST “watch film” on potential stocks to invest inhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🗣" title="Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes" aria-label="Emoji: Silhouette eines sprechenden Kopfes">

I hope this thread was informative and opened a new way of thinking about investing in the stock market!

As always, if you ever have questions, send me a DM!

Much love and I appreciate you sharing thishttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands">

@DecadeInvestor