Even after almost ten years of investing, I still haven’t quite gotten used to how far we’ve come.

Some single days this year, the value of our portfolios has moved up or down by as much as our entire dividend income for 2017. The numbers are getting ridiculous.

I still don’t see our investments as money. To me they’re more like little workers — some days they do a great job, other days they disappoint. Their main purpose is to push the bars higher in my Google Sheets. The competitive part of me is very grateful, but she is never, ever satisfied.

In previous years I mostly focused on the spreadsheet itself and didn’t watch daily performance that closely. A pure dividend portfolio felt more stable and didn’t require constant attention.

But now that the Google Sheet is finally complete, I suddenly have more time — and because we’ve shifted from 100% dividend investing to including growth stocks, I feel a much stronger need to follow the portfolios in real time.

On red days, it’s an advantage not to see the numbers as money — just fluctuating bars. The same strangely applies to the black days.

I’m not sure if that makes me emotionally detached or just slightly broken. Probably both.

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