{"id":1607,"date":"2023-06-30T05:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2023-06-30T05:17:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T05:17:01","slug":"the-secret-to-financial-freedom-persist-while-others-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/the-secret-to-financial-freedom-persist-while-others-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201csecret\u201d to financial freedom? Persist while others quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;font-family: ff-primary;line-height: 1.2;font-size: 2.8rem\">See what it means to persist in the face of market volatility.<\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/acctweb.com.au\/images\/ch-house-sept22.jpg\" width=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Investing can be emotional because we&#039;re human. Our feelings can pull us in all kinds of directions in response to what the markets are doing. That&#039;s tricky because sometimes the best thing to do may be the\u00a0<em>opposite<\/em>\u00a0of what our instincts are telling us.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understandable that heightened share market volatility can be unsettling. Yet, making emotional investment decisions in response to day-to-day movements on markets may have negative long-term consequences.<\/p>\n<p>This video plots the returns of a high growth portfolio and shows us that, particularly over the long term, persistence is the key. Stick to your plan, no matter what anyone else is doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Successful investing isn&#039;t about reacting to what happens in the markets day to day. It&#039;s about setting goals and putting a long-term plan in place that you&#039;ll be comfortable sticking to.<\/p>\n<p>A clear assessment of your goals and a long-term plan is what allows you to face market volatility with a greater peace of mind and the determination to achieve financial freedom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Vanguard<br \/>\nJune 2023<br \/>\nvanguard.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;font-family: ff-primary;line-height: 1.2;font-size: 2.8rem\">See what it means to persist in the face of market volatility.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actinvest.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}