🎥 I recorded these videos roughly 1.5 years apart.
The first — when I just started trading.
The second — more recent.
And one thing stayed constant: The mindset.
Jeffrey Benson once said,
“In your youth, take the craziest risks — you have nothing to lose.”
Some of you traders put yourselves under unnecessary pressure.🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
You go online and post every single trade at every stage, then your heart starts racing because you feel like you have to prove something to people who honestly don’t even care.
Instead of trading quietly, executing your plan, and focusing on becoming consistently profitable, you turn every trade into a public performance.
The pressure builds, your emotions take over, and before you know it, you’re making decisions you normally wouldn’t have made.
The funny part?
The people you’re trying to impress don’t really give a fuck.
They don’t care whether your trade wins or loses. If you make the money, it goes into your pocket, not theirs.
The goal has never been to impress strangers on the internet.
The goal is to become consistently profitable, make your money, and enjoy the freedom trading can give you.
Focus on the process.
The results will speak louder than any screenshot ever could.
The cause may be found in the fact that: We rise to the height of our ideals and fall to the lowest of lows because of circumstances we can absolutely control.
We often underestimate the time it takes to achieve big things, so we create unnecessary barriers.
“Being realistic” is the biggest one. We think we need to give ourselves “enough time” to fail. That’s rational sometimes, but most times it’s not.
If you think a goal should take 10 year, try to do it in 6–12 months. You might fail — but you’ll rise way beyond what you thought possible.
Time is not promised. You’re not guaranteed success in 10 years. So why not push for it in 6 month? Even if you fall short, you’ll be much farther ahead than someone who plays it “safe.”
Elon knows this philosophy — that’s why he’s the richest man in the world.
What’s one goal you’re going to compress the timeline on? 👇