It was a matter of time before this happened. A drop in the equity markets due to trade war fears (despite our automated and manual monthly investments) translated into a lower investment portfolio value. As a result, the growth in our total asset and net worth for Aug 2019 was less than half that of Jul 2019.

It’s tempting for us to find a way to increase our total monthly income to make up for it. Either by investing more to generate a higher dividend income or by doing a side gig to make some extra money. For the first time in the past 2 years since setting it up, I logged into my GrabHitch Driver account. Just to see whether I can monetize any of our car trips over the weekend. I even considered changing my investing strategy into higher yielding dividend stocks.

Look at how I got drawn