Have you taken the time to really think about your life? Like truly put thought to paper on what it is you really want to achieve?  Now I know this is a trading platform, but I know we are more than just our trading.  Our life is much fuller when we can see everything we ever wanted come true, by our control.

 

Now if you remember my blog that related to the balance of our life, this ties hand and hand.  Imagine you are 90 years old and you are looking back at your life.  Looking back at all your accomplishments.  What do you wish to see?  I ask you these questions is because I believe what you focus on you can make come true.  And that's when goals come into play.

 

Goals is not just in trading, don't get me wrong that is important, but it is only one aspect of our life.  Lets take a look at other areas in your life.  What do you want your Physical health to look like?  What do you want your knowledge, emotional and mental state to be?  Your spiritual walk, how does that look in your future? The kind of relationship you want, do you want a marriage filled with LOVE and HAPPINESS, Friendship that are deep as oppose of shallow, connection with your family like no other.  What I am trying to say is you can have it, you just have to choose.  I believe life happens for me, not to me.  So as you read this I hope maybe it can strike an idea into your mind to help you think further about your future.  Even if you just takeaway 1%, its still better that what you were 10minutes prior to reading this haha.  I like to say its the 3rd idea.  You have one way of thinking, I have one way of thinking, and by sharing we both all of a sudden have a new way/idea of thinking.  Let begin:

 

Physical, do you want to have more energy.  In trading, I can guarantee you that your physical strength will help you think clearer.  Handle more of the stress that is demanded by this profession.  When you look good you feel good.  Imagine the confidence you will exude that can overflow into your confidence in a trade.  To trade better and more confidently can reflect in your success.  Exercise help increase blood and oxygen flow throughout the body.  This is important for your brain, especially if you are trying to learn trading, your brain is demanding more for you to intake the education.  So take the time to think of what you want your physical life to look like, and put a plan in place to achieve it.  Repetition is the mother to mastery.

 

Mental, do you want to be positive? Or Happy? Or have a well round knowledge in trading?  You can, by controlling your thoughts and controlling your decisions.  Ever fall into the trap of getting frustrated for the littlest things?  For example, when someone cuts you off, do you curse and wave your hands in anger thinking that will get your point across to that driver?  I bet that driver can care less on what you are doing, since he/she just cut you off.  But look at your state, you just grew a gray hair in that ordeal for no reason.  It does your entire system no good for getting pissed off.  By controlling our mind and how we portray messages of daily life, we can control how we feel.  I am not promoting positivity here, I am promoting effective living.  Sure positivity helps but there are moments that requires effectiveness and by handling our mental state we can overcome any obstacles.  I hope I haven't lost you.  What I am trying to say is this, if you want to learn, you can choose to learn, you will look for ways to learn.  When a student is ready a teacher will appear.  But if you continue to tell yourself, this is hard, I can't do this, or any limiting belief, than consider yourself lost because you already decided in your mind to lose.  Decide and act on what it is you want your mental state to be.

 

Spiritual, I know not everyone have a belief in something.  But imagine something is far greater than just yourself.  Spirtualality can be doing more for other, feeling compelled to reach out.  Look at Sykes, his heart so filled with kindness to help the world, from environmental care to building schools in many remote location that is lacking.  He proclaim he is Jewish, but I know he does more for other out of his kindness of his heart.  So determine your spiritual side, how do you want that to look like, are there more than yourself that you want to achieve.  This can be the driving force to keep you moving towards your goals.  To contribute more to this world, we have to think further than just ourselves.

 

Relationship, 50% of relationship fails... why is this a statistic.  Sound stupid to me because its giving people the idea that relationship fails and it is okay.  Look a relationship is what you define it to be.  Ask yourself what do you want in a relationship?  Do you want someone amazing, uplifting, funny, charismatic, goal oriented, handsome/pretty, kind, gentle, encouraging?  Define it, list it all out and reflect on it.  This helps you figure out the type of person you want to attract and avoid the person that you don't.  Also I don't want you get twisted, if you want to attract a type of person into your life, what kind of person must you become to have that person be attracted to you.  Relationship is more than attraction, look at it like a muscle, if you don't put time in training that muscle it will become weak.  Like a relationship, if you don't put any effort to make it passionate, or challenge one another, or grow in experience with each other, how do you expect it to last?  When you first meet someone, you are head over heels for each other, because you are experiencing something new with one another.  But as the relationship grows and moves further down the time line, new experiencing must be created to keep the spark alive.  Do you follow, Determine your goals in relationship will help you determine the type of people you want in your life, and what you must continue to do to keep them there.

 

Career and Finances, now we are getting into why we are trading.  If you are a challenge student, I know your goal is to make trading your profession.  I am there with you.  But for some, its a side hustle, to make enough through the market so you can pay off a home, or to retire, or to do anything we desire.  We all want to have financial freedom.  So lets get clear with it.  What does your goals look like to keep you in the game?  If you are looking for this to be your profession, are you putting in the time to learn the market.  Are you keeping a journal so you can reflect on your thought process and track your wins and losses and figure ways to improve.  Have you clearly defined what success means TO YOU.  Don't look at others, look deep into yourself and give yourself a grade.  Are you doing what you need to do to become the person you want to become.  Get clear and get focused, I promise you once you feel clear about something, the certainty of you achieving it will drive you.  So lets put in time to figure it out.

 

These are just a few, items.  Everyone is different and everyone have different goals.  Ones goal can be to create a life free of worries and to send children off to their desired college.  Another can be to own a multiplex creating passive income so they don't have to work anymore.  Or one can say I want to have a lambo. Or another is to help feed all the hungry children in the world.  We all have different goals, the questions is do we have a plan in place to achieve it.  And are we utilizing all the time that we are blessed with to work towards achieving it.  It is up to you to decide and choose what you want to do with your life.  As my favorite mentor always say "Live with Passion".  I hope this lengthy write up helps spark something in your soul.

 

"Living Forward" by Daniel Harkavy & Michael Hyatt really helps drive this home.  If you are interested, check it out and take back control of your own life.