Whether in this forum, owning a home, starting a business or pushing a goal, the journey begins with a single step.
Don’t get discouraged by enormity of the goal ahead.
The key is to start,no matter how small and stay persistent.Then, keep believing and you’ll see progress.
The discouragement does not come from the enormity of the goal. Most of the discouragement comes from the difficulty of successfully going through multiple bull and bear runs to finally reach the goal. It is easy to stay persistent when the price shows green or even neutral, but it is progressively more difficult to hold on to your goals when the price starts showing more and more red.
The key is to start, have a goal but ZERO EXPECTATIONS and always think of that money as lost. What would you do if you lost it, would it change your life for the worse? If so, then you need to re adjust your investment.
But even my suggestions, as simple as they sound, are difficult to follow with no experience.