💰 $12K in 120 Months — Week 5, Month 17: The Quiet Moves Powering My Next Dividend Jump

💡 MaxDividends Mission: Helping people build growing passive income, retire early, and live off dividends.

Every Friday, I share what I’m buying — real moves, no fluff. The plan is simple: mix high yield with dividend growth to build income that grows year after year.

My goal is $12,000/month in 10 years. This journey is open to anyone — it’s about creating a legacy, taking care of loved ones, and leaving behind a stream of income that outlives you.

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My Weekly Dividend Moves — Build Your Own Paycheck, One Week at a Time

This week’s headlines say a lot. In one place, leaders talk about lifting retirement to 73. In another, they’re floating taxes on unrealized gains. Tomorrow it could be somewhere else. The message is clear: take more, give less. And here’s the truth nobody will say out loud—no one cares about your income more than you do.

That’s why I chose a different path.

Seventeen months ago I set a simple, concrete goal: $12,000 per month in dividends within 120 months. Clear plan, clear rules, no drama. Week after week, I follow the same routine: I open my Dividend Eagles list, sort by MaxRatio, sanity-check the leaders, and buy the businesses that earn their spot. That’s it.

No hype. No gimmicks. Just great companies, tested by time, doing what they do best—pay, raise, repeat.

The results? From zero to almost $10,000 in yearly income in year one—$1,000 of that came from raises alone. My top three payers have increased dividends 30+ years in a row through every kind of market weather. That’s the kind of consistency you can lean on.

And the “macro noise”? Honestly, it helps. This week’s tariff back-and-forth handed us discounts on quality names. I bought more income for the same dollars. While I was at the beach with my family, another +$400/year landed on my future checks—automatically. 17 months. 74 straight weeks of income growth. One deposit at a time.

Today I’m closing in on $800/month, a fresh all-time high. From the UK to Canada and beyond, the playbook stays the same: build a machine that drops checks into your account—month after month—for you and your family. That’s how we keep our freedom of time, work, and pace, no matter what new rules show up tomorrow.

Inside this issue: the $3,000 I put to work, the new raises, the two additions to the snowball, and the next bills I’m aiming to replace—for good.

👉 That’s the MaxDividends way: no gambling, no hype—just patience, consistency, and the quiet magic of compounding.

— Max

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