When I graduated college, my first job paid me about $3,000 a month. I worked full-time, sat in traffic, juggled deadlines, and waited two weeks for each paycheck to hit.
In May, my portfolio paid me $4,127.53. Automatically. No clocking in. No meetings. No burnout. Just deposits.
This is the highest monthly total I have ever received. What makes it even more powerful is that every dollar was generated by assets I own, not hours I traded.
This is the power of building income instead of just collecting paychecks.
I call it owning your time. Every time this portfolio grows, I buy a little more of it back. If you missed last month’s report, you can see that here.
April 2025 Dividend Report
The market started to see a rebound over the course of April as Trump dialed back the aggressiveness on some of the tariff policies that were going to be implemented. Whatever ends up happening, I continue to collect my dividends month after month, which I can then allocate towards discounted stocks. This month, I initiated a position in ASML Holdings (AMSL) and I plan to accumulate $10,000 of that position over the next quarter. I
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Inside, I break down:
Which holdings paid me
How I allocate between growth and yield
What I am buying next
And how this strategy compounds month after month
So here are all the dividends that I received for the month of May.
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