What if while you were watching this video, suddenly it cut and on screen appeared a film
of yourself.
You recognised it was you, but things were different. Things were better.
What if that person you saw, that you recognised to be absolutely yourself was doing the things
you wanted to do. Achieving the things you wanted to achieve. That person was living
your vision of your ideal life.
What would you feel?
Envy?
Excitement? Depression?
Imagine what it would feel like.
For sure, you'd be confused about what the hell was going on.
So now it would be my time to explain.
And I would say. What you are seeing on screen is your life in 5 to 10 years time.
It's the life you want.
Success in trading. The flexibility to travel the world, to work your own hours, to have
the things you want and more importantly spend more time with the people you want
to spend time with.
Imagine that version of your life.
You can achieve everything you want.
But here's the catch...
You have to work for it solidly for the next 5 to 10 years
You have to stop seeing each day in isolation and realise there's a bigger picture. Rather
than getting hung up on your trading results today, instead think to yourself what steps
can I take that move me closer to that 5 to 10 year goal.
Stop seeing setbacks and losses as failures. A failure is just a signal that there's an
area of your trading you need to work on.
So guess what? You need to get to work improving that.
And that doesn't mean spending two hours tomorrow morning addressing the problem. I mean going
over it again and again and again until you get it right and then again
and again and again until it's boring as hell and then keep going again and again and again
until it's second nature.
Stop trading your profit and loss and start trading your vision for your future. The moment
you switch your focus from day to day account balances to instead focusing on what life
will be like in 5 to 10 years if you work hard, then your trading will get better.
Suddenly the revenge trades stop. You don't over-trade anymore. You don't force things.
I don't need a trade in the next 2 hours, I'll wait for the right one to come along
whenever that happens. I've got 10 years to achieve this.
The problem is, everyone always wants everything NOW. But that's not how success works.
People talk about patience in trading and having the patience to wait for trades, but
the real patience is about how you imagine yourself succeeding.
How can you become a profitable trader in a matter of weeks? That doesn't give yourself
enough time to fail and learn and fail and learn enough times to even deserve the success.
What you want something on a plate? Well guess what, I'm sorry to burst your bubble but life
doesn't work that way.
Prioritise your development. Take a step back from trading the markets and realise that
maybe you're not ready yet. Spend that time on practising instead. How many hours this
week did you spend going over individual skills and trying to improve them. Perfecting your
technique and form?
Whatever you answered... it's not enough. Do more.
Two years of trading as an optimised professional, world class trader will bring you better results
than 10 years of mediocre, hit and miss, inconsistent trading. I've seen both sides. Trust me, if
you want that life in 10 years, rather than being stuck in the same situation you're in
now. It's time to get to work.
It's time to practice, it's time to grind. It's time to put up with the boredom and the
frustration and the emotional strain and it's time to get on track.
Your success in trading won't come from just opening trades. It will come from being
a great trader.
So that's what you need to start working at becoming.
So suck up those losses. Stop complaining. Stop giving up on yourself. Get your head down
and just start working.