Use your power to spread #love not hate
Use your power to #protect not harm
Use your power to #provide not deprive
Use your power to #create structure not chaos
Use your power to #help not hinder
Use your power to #reconcile not alienate
There are 100x more people living in mediocrity because they were told they couldn’t than those who used that same doubt as fuel to rise.
“You can’t” isn’t guidance.
It’s usually projection, confession.
The spiral starts when people who never took the chance try to protect themselves from discomfort.
Watching you attempt, and possibly win, forces them to confront their own inaction. Your ambition can trigger their inferiority, so they try to shrink it.
But here’s the truth most overlook:
The biggest achievers in the world are often those who faced the highest levels of adversity, and turned it into work ethic, resilience, and relentless output.
Even envy, misunderstood and mislabeled as purely negative, can be one of the most powerful driving forces when redirected toward growth instead of the negative jealousy.
Most negativity pushed onto you isn’t about your limits.
It’s about someone else protecting theirs.
The strongest resistance often holds the greatest fuel potential.
Greatness doesn’t come from avoiding adversity.
It comes from pulling back the curtain, stepping through it, and using everything you find on the other side.
The world is a web of push and pull mechanism designed by our drive to conform to social norms.
Arguably the most important skill is controlling your attention. This goes beyond merely avoiding distractions. The deeper skill is finding the highest and best use for your time, given what is important to you. More than anything else, controlling your attention is about being able to figure out what you should be working on and identifying what truly moves the needle.
Don’t focus on making money in trading.
Focus on executing a profitable strategy.
Don’t focus on having kids.
Focus on building a strong, loving partnership that could naturally lead there.
Don’t focus on losing weight.
Focus on implementing sustainable ways to reduce your daily calorie intake.
Don’t focus on the result.
Focus on the daily habits, systems and discipline that lead to it.
Focus on what’s within your control.
@BrianLeeTrades@jfsrev What specifically helped you reduce your losses? Is it something you dismissed earlier that would prove your trade is going the other way? Or more related to position sizing and scaling in?