To clear your mind of the fears you have picked up from the world around you, you will need to go back to a simpler time of your life when you had none and examine the source. When we were younger and carefree we didn't have many fears at all. Over time other peoples fears were instilled in you rightly or wrongly. You can work through your fears so that they are now longer affect you and become the person you want to be. Anything that is holding you back is a boundary like a prison fence, a barrier to you becoming all what your dreams can imagine. Facing these fears down can produce a quantum leap in you as a person. Confidence, freedom, excellence.
Fears are future projections of something that might happen. Might. Is it ever so bad as you imagined when it does happen? Not usually. Our puny minds amplify and give us negative feedback that tricks us into not living our life as we should and this is not a way to go through life. You have to keep running towards these fear barriers and burst into the limitless expanse of possibilities of your life. You can choose how to live your life and seeing as it is the only one you're got, it makes sense to live it in a way that makes you happy. One of the greatest regrets a person can ever have is getting to the end of their life and realizing they did not follow their dreams or take the golden opportunity. Don't be a timid soul, don't have a failure to try something that scares you. This is where the essence of life comes from. These moments are where you as a person can grow, learn and can feel truly happy.
The picture here is one of my favourites from this past season. It shows me in perfect form about to drop into a fucking seriously steep section. It's not one of those "you fall, you die" chutes but it has to be a sustained 65 degree angle. The effort to ski 2 hours into here, camp out overnight, and kick steps up the steep face are all like they never even happened they are so far buried by the 100% focus I feel in these moments. This is living for me. I never feel more alive than at times like this. Senses are heightened yet in the background. Total joy is the outcome. Sublime.
In trading the common fears of losing money and being wrong can be conquered by using the same techniques. Question what you want to do, what things you will no longer tolerate and what standards of excellence you will hold yourself to, on a go forward basis. Staying with your plan and staying true to yourself even if it means not trading and simply observing the markets until you absorb the necessary skills will get you there. The markets are a limitless space filled with unlimited opportunities. Prepare yourself to operate without boundaries. When you have the attitude and calmness that fears are nothing really but wisps of misguided imagination, the courage to overcome can be easily found. Mark Twain said- "Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
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Curious what stocks you played today (Mon)? Thanks in advance.
Great example of where fear will get you killed. It is amazing how things like skiing have so much in common with trading.
BTW I love listening to the trading affirmations you have posted. Unfortunately the 2nd link is dead.
B-I traded LULU DGIT BTU ANR BIDU and the usual ETFs
LT- I'll look into the link,
I once knew a guy who killed himself by falling down the stairs as he went to get some toilet paper. He was doing the penguin walk with his pants down around his ankles tripped and broke his neck.
i'm sitting here thinking, what is scott talking about, "the penguin walk" and then i pictured it. laughing my ass off
Thanks Scott. That's a deep perspective. I agree that it is easy to discount the risks of living a "safe" life, while we avoid life's great opportunities.
I def. do not want to die during an "OH SHIT" moment in and or around my house. Falling down stairs? Negotiating lawn furniture and drowning in the swimming pool, tripping over the dishwasher door and breaking your neck on the kitchen floor, slipping down a hiking trail falling into a reservoir and drowning 15min from your house?
If I go I want it to be from falling off the top of Mount Fucking Everest while hiking my Dad's ashes up there. That's my goal if I have to go. Fortunately my Dad is still alive. I'll go one day if it doesn't turn into a lame Disneyland-like vacation. Anyone can go up there with $40,000 and the ability to walk, but how far they go and if they come back is another story.
blue, that may be one of the greatest comments ever on the blog! awesome.
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