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How I Overcame My Fear of Investing in Stocks

If you're anything like me—risk-averse and cautious—you probably dread the thought of making a financial mistake and losing your hard-earned money. The idea of investing used to terrify me. I didn't know where to start, how to learn, or who to trust for guidance.

After all, it took a lot of sacrifices and hard work to reach a point where I could even consider investing. The fear of taking the wrong steps and setting myself back was daunting. But the more I learned about money, the more I realized that many millionaires are self-made. If they could do it, why couldn't I?

Throughout my life, I've been surrounded by supportive, hardworking, career-driven, intelligent, and generous people. Yet, despite their strengths, none of them had the financial education needed to build generational wealth and achieve financial independence.

I wanted to change that. Not only because I refuse to rely on my kids when I'm older, but also because I want to give them a better start and a stronger financial education than I had. So, I set a goal: to become financially independent and to build generational wealth.

I began reading books, listening to podcasts, and watching videos about investing and wealth-building strategies. The sheer volume of information was overwhelming, but I knew that mastering the art of investing was crucial to my financial success. So, I took it one day at a time.

My determination to achieve my goals outweighed my fear of investing.

Yes, I made mistakes. I trusted the wrong advice and spent time and money learning through trial and error. But that journey transformed my life. I went from being buried in debt and needing help to becoming the one who offers help and support to others. I became one of those self-made millionaires, achieving this in less than a decade—a feat that could have taken 60 years with basic investing.

Luck played a role, but so did the knowledge I gained, which allowed me to seize opportunities when they presented themselves. I wouldn’t have recognized those opportunities if I hadn't taken the time to learn the basics of investing.

The truth is, none of the steps to learn how to invest in stocks were difficult. The hardest part was sorting through the information and overcoming the emotions tied to money.

You will never feel entirely ready, but you can reach a point where you know enough to start. In this day and age, the challenge is no longer a lack of knowledge, but an abundance of it. Save yourself time and money by letting me guide you through the process. Spend 10 sessions with me for $1,490, and if you're not satisfied with the knowledge you gain, I will refund every penny.

As George Addair said, "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

Written by:
Raquel Gumabon
Financial Coach
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You are NOT too dumb to invest.

If you know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using a calculator, and you are able to read and Google words that you don’t understand, then you have enough education to learn how to invest.

But you’re probably feeling insecure and overwhelmed because you have to learn something new, and that is perfectly normal. It feels like the first day of preschool again, where you really don’t know what to expect and whom to trust.

If you didn’t brave up, you would have missed out on all the lessons and adventures that helped you get to where you are today.

You have to take the same little steps with financial education, which includes investing. It’s only scary because you have never done it before.

You are probably scared to lose your money while you’re learning what to do and what not to do. That is perfectly normal. Well, that’s exactly how I felt when I was starting out, but I went for it anyway.

And I was right; I did lose money while I was learning because at that time, I couldn’t tell bad advice from good advice and good information from bad information until after I gained experience.

What nobody told me was that I could avoid losing MY money while I learn by “paper trading” first. Paper trading is done in the stock market. It’s a way to gain investing experience by practicing with real stock market data but with simulated transactions of buying and selling of stocks.

Learning how the market works first and practicing how to invest in a simulated environment would have saved me from making unnecessary mistakes that most new investors make.

Yes, it’s true that how we act when we’re playing with fake money will differ from when real money is on the line, but it doesn’t mean that investing without practice is a good idea. That’s like competing in a poker game without knowing how to play poker or giving an inexperienced doctor a scalpel to operate on a patient without any training.

Just like with everything else, practice and proper training are crucial to successful performance.

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Why are you still living paycheck to paycheck?

If you work hard, have a decent salary, and still find yourself broke, it's probably because you lack financial education.

Schools taught us many things, primarily preparing us to become great employees and showing us how to make money. However, traditional school curricula do not teach us how to keep our hard-earned money or how to make it work for us. We have to learn that elsewhere.

It's true that you can learn a lot from YouTube, but the problem is the abundance of conflicting opinions, ideas, and strategies. There's just too much information to sort through, which can be overwhelming for beginners who don't know where to start. When you're just beginning, it's hard to distinguish good recommendations from bad ones.

I know because I've been there. It took me years to learn what I know now. I had to read many books, watch numerous videos, listen to various talk shows, follow multiple gurus, and I lost money and opportunities testing all the different knowledge I acquired.

I don't want my kids to experience what I went through, but they're too young to learn these financial lessons right now. So, I've recorded them in case life happens and I'm not around in the future. That's me, always planning for the worst but hoping for the best.

Then I thought, if my kids can learn from them, why not others? So, here I am, stepping outside my comfort zone, willing to teach whoever wants to listen.

The lesson on how to keep our hard-earned money is simple—just make sure to spend less than what you make. Easier said than done, of course, but it's the only way.

Learning how to make your money work for you takes a bit more effort, but it's a must-learn if you want to achieve financial success, generational wealth, and financial peace.

There are many ways to invest, but the fastest to learn and the one requiring the least capital to start is investing in stocks, which are portions of publicly traded companies.

I teach five stock market tools that are essential for investing in the stock market. I discuss these five stock market tools in the video below.

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