April 2013 Dividend Income Update

Time for my favorite article, a dividend income update. Here is the dividend update for April 2013:

My blog hit 1,000 visitors since installing the Globe Tracker!

I'd like to take a moment to thank you. Today my blog hit its 1,000th visitor. That's not pageviews, but individuals who take time out of their day to read about whatever I write.

I started this blog for two reasons:

• To track my progress, so I can read it years from now to see how I started out investing.
• Just a place to put some thoughts, what ever is on my mind. Sometimes I'm just staring out of the window, thinking, I really want to make a habit to put those thoughts on paper. Again, so I can read them years from now, to see what I was thinking. 

When people find it interesting to read what I have to say, that's just an extra! I know that there are some blogs out there from other investors who have hundreds of thousands of views, but for me, 1,000 people is still a lot! It's awesome that people from America, Europe, Asia, Australia and all corners from the world read this. Fifteen years ago that would be unthinkable. All hail technology!

Thanks for reading.

The first $100,000 is the hardest

I'd like to talk about how hard it is to accumulate 100,000 from a standstill, a great Charlie Munger quote: