{"id":316,"date":"2024-02-05T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/portfolio-tracking-spreadsheet-feelings\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:00:00","slug":"portfolio-tracking-spreadsheet-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/portfolio-tracking-spreadsheet-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"My Portfolio Tracking Spreadsheet Has Feelings."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I maintain a personal spreadsheet because typing numbers by hand keeps me awake\u2014not a recommendation for you, just my study habit. Tabs for holdings, dividends, notes, questions for next week&#8217;s reading. Purple for things I do not understand yet.<\/p>\n<p>I update it on Sunday evenings with tea, not during market hours when my pulse gets theatrical. I am learning to separate education from emotion. The coursework calls that discipline. I call it not texting my wife about a one-day dip.<\/p>\n<p>This is practice for analysis skills, not a template for your life. Hire professionals for your money if you need guidance. I am in the library with textbooks, not on a billboard.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity plus structure beats fear plus headlines. That sentence is not on the exam. It should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Color-coded tabs, manual checks, and the discipline of looking without panicking. Not financial advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-chapters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}