A mindful approach to investing advocates buying and holding mostly low - cost and reasonably diversified index stock funds as soon as long - term money is available for investing. (mindfullyinvesting.com)
Although you won't ever see Chipotle - like returns by investing in index stocks you also won't ever see Blockbuster - like (get it?) (thecollegeinvestor.com)
If your long - term investing is mainly through your company's 401K plan (or similar), you can usually have a set amount automatically deducted from each paycheck and then automatically invested into a diversified set of low - cost index stock funds. (mindfullyinvesting.com)