New Blogs Added to the Blogroll!

Admittedly, its been a while since we have updated our blogroll. So we recently decided to utilize a little downtime, courtesy of the COVID-19 Stay At Home orders, to look through our blogroll. We found a few blogrolls that no longer are actively posting and have purged some of them from our list. At the same time, we also added a few new, up and coming bloggers, that have been active in our dividend investing community.  We plan to continue refining our blogroll in the coming weeks but thought we'd at least share with you the six new blogs that we have added to our blogroll. 

Without further ado, please help us welcome the following new blogs:

Dividend Power

Dividend Power is a self-taught individual investor who has been investing in stocks for close to 20 years. Dividend Power focuses on dividend growth investing with a long-term horizon and through undervalued large-cap stocks with sustainable dividend growth and capital appreciation potential. 

More Dividend

Jason began investing in early 2015 with his first brokerage account with TradeKing. After doing his research, he decided that the best investment strategy would be a combination of value and dividend growth investing. Since opening that first account, he has opened several other accounts including a RothIRA, Loyal3, and Robin Hood. Along with these accounts, he also has a Roth401k and HSA account but I do not currently list those assets here on MoreDividend.

Dividend Cultivator

Jimmy is an entrepreneur father with four boys and a software engineering background. His blog was born out of an elusive problem: generating passive income. Like many people, Dividend Cultivator earns a salary. However, he was looking to build a passive income stream outside of traditional retirement accounts like 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and the vast assortment of IRAs (Traditional, Roth, SEP, etc.). He has dabbled in blogging, building apps, and selling products online, but nothing has really stuck, nor has any of those side hustles provided him with the “passive” income stream that he is striving for. 

Seeking the Dividend
Seeking the Dividend is an engineer in his early 40s who recently decided to get serious about finance. He starting his journey in 2014 and similar to our family's blog, Seeking the Dividend uses his platform to document his journey.  As he continues to invest and growing his money, the blog provides his readers with many insights into his DGI journey, both successes as well as lessons learned.

Dividend Farmer

Dividend Farmer is a husband and a father of two. He is a technology product manager but also an occasional pilot and educator. The is striving to learn as much as possible about dividend investing and the blog is a place where he shares what he's learned to his readers. The blog is based on the tenets of Value Investing fathered by Ben Graham and made famous by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.  Researching dividend-paying firms using conservative fundamental analysis rather than technical analysis, momentum investing, or day trading techniques is at the core of Dividend Farming. 

Capturando Dividendos

Nandy, also known as Capturing Dividends (or Capturando Dividendos), is in his early 30s. Before starting his blog to document his path towards Financial Independence, he was living paycheck to paycheck. His blog documents both the achievements and failures throughout his FI journey, which began in August of 2014. Through hard work and maintaining a frugal lifestyle, which Nandy documents through his income and expense posts, he hopes to continue improving his passive income and one day be financially independent.

We always welcome new dividend bloggers. So please feel free to leave a comment and we would be happy to add you to our blogroll.   

Mid-Year UPDATES from Around the DGI Community!!

I recently posted our family's mid-year progress report, and specifically, where we stood with each one of our 11 annual goals.  And although we don't post our progress here each and every month, we actually review our progress each and every month. After all, goals mean nothing if you don't periodically look at them to see where you stand, right?! 

With the above said, I thought I'd share a few links of mid-year progress reports from fellow DGI bloggers that I follow:

1. Roadmap 2 Retire - R2R recently provided an update on his annual goals in his quarterly update.  He has 5 goals listed and has already achieved one of his goals!
2. Pollies Dividend - Pollie recently provided his readers with a mid year review of his annual goals.  He has 5 goals and seems to be on track to accomplish each one of them.  He even raised 2 of his goals. 
3. Dividend Diplomats - 
• LANNY - Lanny recently provided a 2nd quarter check-up on his annual goals. He has 7 goals, 4 are monetary goals while 3 are non-monetary goals.
• BERT - Bert also provide his readers with a 2nd quarter review of his annual goals. Bert also has 7 goals but only one goal in non-monetary.  As a sports fan myself, I can appreciate his non-monetary goal. :)
4. Dividend Mantra - Jason recently provided his readers with a mid-year goals review. He has 4 goals and well on his way towards meeting each one of them.
5. Dividend Growth Journey - Ryan provided a update to his 2015 goals back in June. He has 4 goals to help him stay on track with his investment strategy and well as his current and forward dividends.
6. I Want to Retire Soon - Adam recently provided an update to his annual goals along with his June Summary. He has 5 goals and is on track to accomplish them all.
7. The Dividend Drive - TDD provided their readers with a progress report for the first half of the year. They have 7 goals and one goal is already achieved.  They are on track to accomplish at least 6 of their 7 goals.
8. DivGro - FerdiS provides an update on his goals in his recent 2nd quarter review. He has 4 goals: financial, health and an awesome goal to climb the world tallest building. 
9. Financially Free by 40 - Huw recently provided a 6-month goals update for his bloggers. He has a multitude of goals that are broken into Financial goals, Business goals, Employment goals, Physical goals, Emotional goals, Relationship goals, Contribution goals, and Blogging goals.
10. Leigh's Financial Journey - Leigh recently provided a 2nd quarter update for her readers. She has 11 goals and has already accomplished one.  She is on track to meet at least 8 of her 11 goals.

Although, a recent update was not posted, I thought I'd also mentioned that the following bloggers also provide annual goals on their blog:

1. My Dividend Pipeline
2. Young Dividend
3. Dividend Dreams
4. Dividend Legion
5. Dividend Empire
6. A Dividend Dream!
7. Dividend Vet
8. Financial Freedom
9. Passive Income Mavericks
10. Dividend Beginner
11. Dividend Quest
12. Dividend Life
13. The Dividend SWAN
14. Dividend Dreamer
15. Frugality to Financial Freedom
16. Forward Dividends
17. Anha Investing
18. My-Dividends.com
19. Dividend Mongrel
20. The Financial Unicorn

As you can see, many bloggers have annual goals for themselves.  What do you think, is there a possible correlation between having goals and success? I don't consider us a success story just yet, but I can tell you that what our family has accomplished thus far has been with the help of having annual goals for ourselves.  Whether you decide to public announce your goals or not, we encourage everyone to set goals for yourselves.  Even one goal is better than none!