The Insurmountable Task

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Because of a reflex I thought I should buy the DOW last night. Missed near to 200 Points. What threw me off was it was below the PP more than usual. I recall telling myself “Don’t limit yourself, it’s still “around the pivot””. Still, I didn’t act.

It’s not some insurmountable task to get money out of the market. Some guy in the comments section is right, resilience and confidence. My saying is “balls and persistence”, same shit I think.

If it does seem like some gigantic insurmountable task, I feel this leads to a ripple effect in life. I know most of you work jobs, and trade. Picture yourself having to pay for everything with your investing earnings. Now picture it with a smaller set of dough. Your reaction is to rush. But deep inside you know something is not right.

That kind of living situation leads to fighting, depression and loss of real estate. Avoid it. Your vision of your plan must have the clarity of a crystal. Or the difficulty of your task will nag you while you sleep.

6 years ago, a dark period. I had the same dream every night for a week – no visual, just the feeling of being “hooked up to a machine”, + the feeling of losing money… Addiction forming anyone?

Coming from a skateboarding background, I always sort of felt I approached the market like I was performing tricks, in a calculated way. Hows the wind? Hows the ground? Is there lots of rocks? Cracks? Dangers? Rewards? Setups. If you miss a trick, you don’t get so mad that you hit yourself in the head with your deck, putting yourself into a hour long coma. No, you really don’t. In fact even though you bleed when you fall, and regret when you chicken out, for some reason you love this skateboarding. To the point where it’s fun at times. And you don’t mind the supportive pressure of your peers.

Some of my friends who are pro skaters literally just fly all over the world, trying to film everyday. They can’t use every take. They know there will be wipe outs, but that doesn’t stress them. Here’s the kicker: THEY KNOW THEY HAVE TO GET THEIR TRICK… and that doesn’t stress them, because they are trained for it.

Skateboarding is calculated risk. All you need to do is hit your head on a sharp corner, and you are dead. Are you thinking about that when you’re doing it? No. You thought about it in advance. Even though they seem reckless, they consider everything they can.

That’s just old school real life shit. Love it or leave it.

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