Somewhere, somehow, everyone started expecting everything all at once. This is especially true with millennials who want anything happening tomorrow, yesterday.
But, if we look back at time, this is just not how the world works, and it’s not true in stock trading either.
I’m kicking back, pretty chilled, knowing that I have an entire 12 months to prove myself. Does that mean take the foot of the gas? Of course not. But it’s good to see the big picture.
Sometimes it’s good just to just sit back and reflect. How far have you come in the past 12 months? What do you know now that you didn’t a year ago? How has your journey changed who you are?
Hard work and self -discipline combined produce beautiful results, always. You can never gain nothing from making a sacrifice.
For sure, learning to trade for hours a day won’t generate quick profits. But what you will develop in the meantime is character, confidence – heck, even a little charisma as you begin to love the ‘new guy’ you have become.
I can think of countless examples off the top of my head of people who endured a long journey to become successful.
Walt Disney was sacked from his newspaper job for not being creative enough, you literally cannot make a story like that up. But Walt believed in himself and dreamt big, same applies to you and me.
On Jim Carey’s first stand-up comical performance he was booed off stage. Now who is dumb and dumber? The joke is cheap and irrelevant because Jim had to learn his craft, figure out what worked for him and refine it. We do the exact same thing with our trading.
Before becoming globally famous for her Harry Potter collection of novels, J.K Rowelling was broke, divorced and unemployed – success may be just around the corner – but if you give up you have no shot at all.
The beauty of these three stories is that there are millions of others just like them.
I don’t know about you, but for me, as long as I’m learning, earning doesn’t matter. I just want to get better at the art of perfecting my craft.