New Year’s Resolution: Get Invested! And Ignore the Market Drop

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.5 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

If your New Year’s Resolution for 2016 was to get into the stock market, you might be worried that you made the wrong move. Fear not! A little historical perspective and a long-term point of view will set you right. Get invested, stay invested, don’t start judging your investments until at least 2019.

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0:00.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:07.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. I'm David Gardner. I'm going to keep saying it, happy new year. It's not that far into 2016. I'm so glad you've taken a little bit of time this week and joined in with me fellow rule breaker.
0:23.5	You know, every new year brings thousands of new members to the Motley Fool.
0:27.4	My services, in particular, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, Motley Fool Rule
0:30.7	Breakers, and Motley Fool Supernova, which is opening this month, which is a rare and special treat,
0:36.7	and I'm going to talk about that at the end of the podcast, but those services are brimming,
0:42.0	positively brimming with newcomers.
0:44.3	I love it of course because the goal of the Motley Fool is to help the world invest better.
0:48.5	And when we say the world, that means we want everybody to be investing.
0:52.2	We think everybody should be
0:53.3	invested to the extent everyone has capital, everyone should own at least one
0:57.8	stock or fund get invested. So it's very purposeful for us. But why does it happen in January? What's so special about
1:06.3	January? For example, why did Simon and Schuster for every book that we published with
1:10.0	Simon and Schuster over the years always insist that we publish it in January.
1:15.0	Well, right, because many of us somewhere around January 1st, every year resolve to do some
1:21.4	important things better in the year ahead and I understand that. year
1:23.4	resolved to do some important things better in the year ahead and I understand that I do the same
1:25.3	thing too in last week's last week's podcast focus was in part an homage
1:31.5	to resolving to be more awesome with the new year.
1:36.9	What other month out of the year do we ever actually think 12 months ahead?
1:40.4	I can't think of any other month where we all together say you know I'm really going to think longer term and have some goals for the whole year ahead.
1:48.0	I think most of the time we're down on the runway it's hard to get up even 1,000 feet up above and see what's going on and we have to consciously
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