If I Started Investing in 2026, This is What I'd Do
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The people who lose their money are the ones that are looking inside the crystal ball, always trying to predict the future, making investments on trends, speculations, or emotions. That's why I wanna share with you the best investments you can make today to actually get ROI so you don't eat shattered glass.
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I discovered the best investments you can make in 2024.
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are the ones that are looking inside the crystal ball,
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making investments on trends, speculations, or emotions.
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to actually get ROI so you don't eat shattered glass.
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At 26 years old, one of my mentors told me to take half of what I'd made at the time
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and I've earned and put it into a stability bucket,
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essentially an investment where I wouldn't lose my money.
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So what I did is I dollar cost average myself into the index funds.
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You know, a long time ago, I was reading books on investing.
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I came across like John Bogle's book on index funds and many others.
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And the whole idea is that if you can get a low cost fee structure,
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but it's definitely the way for you not to lose your money
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I'm building my wealth fund, it's gonna compound,
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then I can't think of a better investment than index funds.
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and my family had to take over the money let's get out of active management let's just take all
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that money put it into an index fund and then my family can live off of the dividends every year
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this investments is for people that are unwilling to learn where they don't want to think they've
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got their main business they got their main job and they just want to invest in things they don't
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want to be emotional about it there's nothing better than low cost fee index funds you don't
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want to do mutual funds i mean if you look at a long game over a 25 year period you might lose 40
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to 50 percent of the value of your investment as a bucket just because you're paying other people's
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fees and that compounds over time index funds have some of the lowest fees because you're not paying
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for active management whereas in a mutual fund you're paying somebody to manage it and they got
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all these little hidden fees they say oh no we're low fees no you're not if you look at the actually
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fine print they can raise their fees lower like over the time that you deploy money into their
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fund and if you move it around it's not the right way to do it you know i like vanguard index funds
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you can choose whichever ones but you want to find stuff have a decent portfolio and just set
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it and forget it the second vehicle is real estate i bought my first deal when i was 21 it was a
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duplex i think i paid something like 121 000 for it i had my five percent down and i got into real
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estate game since then i've done a ton of deals and the reason i like it is because it allows you
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to build wealth at a bunch of different ways you know recently i had one of my top sales guy this
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kid named wendell come in and he wanted to invest in real estate so i gave him some advice and he
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turned all of his extra cash into investments in multi-units with his partner and ended up building
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a really sizable portfolio my brother did the same thing him and i started martel homes to help him
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get into real estate to move away from being a mechanic and he ended up building one of the
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largest home building companies in eastern canada because real estate's one of those investments
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that has some very unique properties to it pun intended real estate is an investment where you
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can drive around and touch it it's not a fun and you own real estate that has purpose not your
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primary home that is not an investment in real estate see real estate has this thing that a lot
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of people do called the burr method right which is buy rehab rent refinance and repeat method it has
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tax advantages for a lot of places it's an asset that produces cash flow so it pays off the
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investment it hedges against inflation and it appreciates as it pays itself down how cool is
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that those alone the inflation part right now where we have some of the highest inflations
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we've ever experienced is a beautiful reason to consider real estate as an investment vehicle
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the third vehicle is collectibles this is probably one of my favorite ones because if you do it right
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the things that you enjoy to purchase can become the vehicle for investment for example my buddy
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mike brown he teaches this framework at his unbreakable wealth seminars where you can look
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at cars and watches and art and wine and all these different collectibles you know whatever your thing
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is you can be into comic books and you could either put your money into index funds or rsps
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or whatever or you could actually put them into the collectible that you are passionate about that
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that you love, that you, you know, think about this.
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I think supercars are beautiful, beautiful works of art
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I mean, I'm inspired by a guy like Steve Hamilton
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that have these multi-deca million dollar car collections,
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Now, it does require you to put the time and energy
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to study it, but you don't make money when you sell,
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you make money when you buy, you have to be patient,
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so you have to have access to inventory in deals
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to make this work, but it could be one of the funnest things
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Who are the other people that have private collections
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that might be looking to liquidate some of those assets?
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You want to get somebody who's already doing it
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that doesn't have more time or the ability to invest more
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and you could be the person that gets some of their release valve of collectibles that you
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could buy and start building up your collection. So the money could either be in the bank and an
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investment, or it could be in a beautiful object that you get to look at and enjoy on a daily
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basis. It's up to you. The fourth vehicle is intellectual property. It's taking everything
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in your mind and putting it into a format that people can purchase, right? Like a book, a media
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company licensing models coaching other people consulting those frameworks become incredibly
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valuable if you learn how to put them together in a way that other people can purchase there are now
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a ton of youtubers from justin welsh ali abdahl dan ko all these people that are making millions
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of dollars online by learning getting really great at something creating a course intellectual
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property and then using the media side to get distribution so that they can sell people that
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is that the better you get at it, the better you get in life.
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Most people don't package their intellectual property
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I know a lot of people that know a lot about stuff.
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So he's just the most interesting man in the room,
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The reality of it is the best investment you could ever make
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is in your skillsets and becoming more valuable
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over a three year period to teach me everything
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I've invested probably 1.5 million plus in myself,
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I've paid consultants $30,000 for one hour of their time
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I can translate into different businesses that I own
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Get around other people that are gonna keep you positive,
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Then try to figure out where you wanna get better at
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in any category of information you wanna learn.
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Then try to invest in, if you got a little bit more money,
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when they just like learn stuff just for someday, maybe.
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I call it just in case learning versus just in time.
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that's gonna have the biggest impact on your life today.
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People that go learn and then just put it to the side,
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into anything that's gonna make the money, right?
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not the whiz bang wizardry of the current world,
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but like these core principles about being a better person,
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and really understanding business fundamentals.
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Investing in yourself allows you to bring you with you
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and every opportunity for the rest of your life.
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Those are the best investments you can make today.