Why do People Wish They’d Started Investing Earlier

Why do people wish they’d started investing earlier?

What a stupid question.

Yet it’s one that I recently read on Reddit.  And of course, was followed up by a fair amount of mockery and vitriol.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized this is a valid question for beginners.

Indeed, the answer seems obvious.

Why do people wish they’d started investing earlier?

Because they hate the fact that they missed out on opportunities to create significant wealth.

Certainly we talk about these opportunities a lot here at Energy & Capital.  After all, some of the stocks we recommended over the years had the ability to turn many of our readers into millionaires. 

There was Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), which we recommended right after it went public.  A $6,000 investment in that one would be worth $1.04 million today.

Or Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX: WEED).  A pot stock I personally recommended when it was trading for $1.60 a share.  The company was still young, and the stock was considered a “high-risk” penny stock.  But those who followed my advice made a fortune.  In fact, an $8,000 investment in Canopy Growth Corporation was worth nearly $250,000 when we sold it.

When investors see gains like that, of course they opine about how they wish they’d started investing earlier.  But that’s just because they see the “big” gains.  Not the failures.  And while I’ll put our track record up against any of those Wall Street trend chasers or hot shot hedge fund managers, we’ve also had a few laggards.  Hell, even Warren Buffett’s track record isn’t perfect.  And that’s why I think this question about “wishing you had invested earlier,” only seems to come up when we’re lured by the huge successes of the past. 

The trick, of course, is to get in early on the right stocks, so you don’t wax poetic over lost opportunities, but instead, celebrate your huge gains.

Why do people wish they’d started investing earlier?  Because we all want to be rich!

While I understand the draw of looking back on missed opportunities, the truth is, it’s just a waste of time.  The past is an illusion.  It no longer exists. 

Indeed, we can look to the past for guidance and knowledge.  But questioning why you didn’t invest earlier accomplishes nothing but aggravation and bitterness.  Neither of which are qualities that can help you create wealth.

The truth is, if you want to create wealth, and you’ve never invested, you really only need to do one thing…

Get off your ass and do it — now!

And as luck would have it, we have dozens of opportunities that are already gearing up to deliver similar gains that we saw in the past from Tesla and Canopy Growth Corporation.

We even have a small basket of artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities that provide a steady stream of income — month after month, year after year.  They’re called AI Equity Checks, and thanks to a little-known legal code known as Public Law 81-774, you can actually claim as many as 17 of these checks from a giant pot of money valued at $5.42 billion.

And these are the real deal.

In fact, Elon Musk said payouts like these can create “universal high income” for everyday people.  And OpenAI founder Sam Altman calls one source of these AI Equity Checks, the “American Equity Fund.”

Two of the richest men in the world are profiting from these AI Equity Checks.  And you can, too.  In fact, we even put together this short Beginner’s Guide to AI Equity Checks, which you can download for free, right here. 

To a new way of life and a new generation of wealth…

Jeff Siegel

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