Are You Patient Enough To Be Wealthy? These 6 Dividend Stocks Will Help You Wait

For most people fortunate enough to be born in the U.S., or any other industrialized country, they have access to the two main ingredients to achieve financial success: 1. Opportunity and 2. Time. Unfortunately, very few people are able to take advantage of the situation enough to even build a secure retirement. Here are some of the reasons people fail, and what you can do to not fall into that group...

Understand The Goal

There are two main subsets of the population have never given serious consideration to their financial future. The first group includes the altruistic dreamers that are trying to build a better world for society, and the second group is their counterpart, those consumed with living for today.

If financial success was never your goal, the inability to achieve it is technically not a failure. However, there are certain innate outcomes that are so universal that they don't have to be explicitly listed as goals; and I would put the financial wherewithal to meet your family's needs in retirement as an innate goal.

Define A Plan To Accomplish The Goal

This is actually the most difficult step. One could easily infer that everything a person needs to know to succeed financially, is out there freely available. This is true, but it is also true that there is a lot of miss-information that is freely available.

An individual must sort through what is good and what is bad information. If you don't have someone you trust to help you define your plan, it could involve some lessons from the school of hard knocks. The good news is that these lessons are rarely fatal, but create lasting experiences.

Use Time To Your Advantage

Time is your most valuable wealth building asset. Everyone is born with it. Few realize its importance until they lose most of it. The asset is so valuable it can’t be bought. As a value/dividend investor, I have learned that time can cure many mistakes and provide enormous investment leverage.

When you are young time is your fiend. It allows to recover from mistakes. It educates you and provides you with valuable experience. However, time is a double-edged sword that can also work against you. When you are young it is easy to say, 'I will start investing tomorrow - I have plenty of time.' Time can also create a false sense of urgency -' I held this stock for over a year and its price has gone nowhere.' Use time to your advantage start young and be patient.

Dividend Growth Stocks For Building Wealth

There are many valid ways to successfully build long-term wealth. Some involve more risk than others. Being relatively conservative, I have chosen Dividend Growth Stocks as a significant part of my financial plan. This is not a new strategy. Many of today's dividend growth stocks have provided investors financial security for decades. Here are a few of them, including their yield and years of consecutive dividend growth:

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is a leader in the pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer products industries.
Yield: 2.5% | Yrs of Growth: 56

3M Co. (MMM) provides enhanced product functionality in electronics, health care, industrial, consumer, office, telecommunications, safety & security and other markets via coatings, sealants, adhesives and other chemical additives.
Yield: 2.8% | Yrs of Growth: 60

Genuine Parts Co. (GPC) is a leading wholesale distributor of automotive replacement parts, industrial parts and supplies, and office products.
Yield: 2.9% | Yrs of Growth: 62

The Procter & Gamble Company (PG) is a leading consumer products company that markets household and personal care products in more than 180 countries.
Yield: 3.1% | Yrs of Growth: 61

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), formed through the merger of Exxon and Mobil in late 1999, is the world's largest publicly owned integrated oil company.
Yield: 3.1% | Yrs of Growth: 36

PepsiCo, Inc. (PEP) is a major international producer of branded beverage and snack food products.
Yield: 3.2% | Yrs of Growth: 46

Obviously, no one can definitively say what any stock’s future will bring. At one time companies such as General Electric (GE) and Bank of America (BAC) had long strings of consecutive dividend increases. In building a long-term portfolio, it is important to follow a sound asset allocation model and continue to monitor your investments.

Full Disclosure: Long JNJ, MMM, GPC, PG, XOM, PEP.

Related Articles
- What's More Powerful Than Compound Interest?
- Dividends vs. Stock Buybacks
- 5 Lessons Learned About Investing In Dividend Growth Stocks
- 4 High Rated, Lower Debt Dividend Stocks With A Reasonable Payout
- 8 High-Yielding Mega-Cap Stocks

(Photo Credit)

This article was written by Dividends4Life. If you enjoyed this article, please subscribe to my feed [RSS] or have future articles emailed to you [Email].