After listening to multiple billionaires and talking to many succesfull individuals the past 4 days there has been one pattern that just kept on repeating.
A sentence that every single person had mentioned in their journey to incredible success:
All change starts with honesty.
The moment I heard it it immediately clicked.
Why?
Because it is THE exact reason for my current success and something I have struggled with for a long time.
The sentence sounds relatively simple but it is more complex than you might think and since I am in the plane on a 12 hour flight right now I would like to open up and tell you guys more about my journey related to this sentence.
When I started my trading journey at the age of 16 I was simply getting to know the markets just like anyone else. Trying different indicators, strategies and getting familiar with the execution platforms.
Any mistakes that you make in this era do not really take a mentall toll on you since you are just starting out and I was convinced that over time with more experience it will all get resolved.
Two years later and I am getting more comfortable with my edge and trading system but I am yet to see any actual compounded results
In the mean time I always felt like I was going to be remembered as the greatest trader to ever walk this earth. I truly lived and still live from the mentality that if someone else can make a 100 million trading the financial markets I can do it too and if nobody did it before I could be the first.
This delusion had it’s pros but it also started blinding me from the truth. Instead of humbling myself and facing the areas where I was weak, I used this dream as an excuse to hide behind. I convinced myself that my losses were temporary setbacks, that my discipline issues didn’t matter, that my risk management was “good enough” because one day I’d be the best.
But the reality was this: I wasn’t good enough yet. Not because I didn’t have potential, but because I wasn’t willing to face the brutal truth about myself. The truth that I was reckless. The truth that I avoided responsibility. The truth that I preferred comforting lies over painful honesty.
6 months further into my trading journey and I am still yet to see any acceleration. I was not losing money but I was also not making money. I would look at my trading performance and truly ask myself the question why I wasn’t where I wanted to be and I could not seem to find the answer.
Not because there was no answer but because subconsciously I was afraid to face my imperfections.
I started watching trading psychology videos and realized I had to properly start journalling my trades so the imperfections could directly look me in the eye, black and white on paper.
And guess what?
I STARTED TO LIE IN MY OWN JOURNAL.
You know how crazy that sounds now? Lying to no one but myself. No one was seeing my journal and still I lied. Imagine lying to the very place that was supposed to hold my rawest thoughts.
That’s how deep the denial went
It wasn’t until I was absolutely sick of losing financially, emotionally, mentally, that I decided enough was enough. I had to strip away the delusion and look my imperfection directly in the eyes. That’s when things started to shift. That’s when I realized that success doesn’t solely come from pretending you’re already great —> it comes from having the courage to admit you’re not there yet, and then putting in the relentless work to close that gap.
3 months later I made my first $10.000 in a month, 12 months later I made my first $100.000 in a week, 24 months later and I am seven figures deep into profits
That’s how fast it went.
What changed?
I started being honest.
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