Success and Happiness

What are your top two goals in your life at this point of time ? Security and Sex ? Health and Security ?

Success and Happiness for me at this point of time as a trader. Many traders never achieve success and happiness simultaneously. Key reasons are :

• We worry constantly about losing in the markets. Fear and confidence factors.
• We need to feel excitement , which tends to create losses. Many people pay to get excitement from the market.
• We set conditions on our happiness. Do you do that too ?
• We focus on what we do not yet have. Day dreaming too much …

As traders become more successful , they have more to lose , more to worry about and more to achieve before they can become happy. Misery-thinking too often becomes a way of life for traders. Then they can never be happy …

Yes , this potent combination of trader success and trader happiness is rare. That is because so few traders understand the underlying forces in their profession which work against their happiness as they propel themselves toward success.

The story is different for those traders who learn how to break up their patterns of misery-thinking and let go of their conditions for happiness. Instead of focusing their attention on what they do not yet have , these traders focus their attention on each moment and on appreciating what they do have. The result of this transformation in thinking is a trader whose underlying happiness supports and improves his trading in ways he could never have imagined.

Cheers to your Trading Success ! … and do not forget to be Happy …