3 Ways to Funnel Funds into Your Investment Portfolio Continuously

There are techniques that you can use to put money into your investment portfolio: payroll deduction, moonlighting, and starting a small business.

One way to put money into your investment account is to have a percentage of your paycheck deducted from your check each time you get paid. That is to say that before you receive your check, a certain amount of that money is placed into your investment portfolio. It's not a whole lot, but it is something. And this something can-over time-build up to a great amount. If you started doing this early in life, say, when you were in your twenties, upon retirement your small investments could be worth millions. Of course, this depends on a number of factors such as what was the average rate of return on your investments, whether you were in a hot industry, did you stand firm during and throughout the various twists and turns of the market.

Another way for you to put money continuously into your investment portfolio is for you to moonlight after work, that is to say, for you to work a second job. The money from your primary job, of course, goes to pay the bills and take care of your family. The money from your second job is used to fund your investment account. For example, you might be a teacher during the day and an independent security analyst at night. You use the money from your teaching job to take care of the bills, and you use the money from your security analyst job to fund your investment portfolio.

Still a third and final way of funding your investment portfolio is to start a business. You no longer have to put your nose to the grind to get money to invest into your portfolio account. Your business does that for you. You continue to make money even though you are vacationing in Portland, Oregon. Unlike in the previous two instances where you are actively earning money through the sweat of your own labor, in this instance you earn money to invest passively through the labor of others or through the "automatization" (i.e.self-running) of the business itself.

To conclude, there are three ways for you to fund your investment portfolio over a lifetime. You can fund it by having a certain percentage of your earnings deducted from your paycheck each time you get paid. Or, you can work a part-time job with the sole purpose of using that extra income for funding your investment account. Or, last, you can start a business and let the money from the business itself fund your investment portfolio without you having to do an ounce of work.