We crave expansion, growth, increase and all what not, yet we block our own doorway.
What do I mean by that?
We ask life for more, but subconsciously fear the weight of receiving it and of letting go of what will create the soace to receive it.
Your space(mentally and...
...physically) is a mirror of this internal struggle. Imagine it this way; A museum of outgrown identities. Holding onto old threads and leaves no room for the person you are becoming(The Overflowing Closet).
You cannot step into your next chapter while...
When it comes to trading or being a successful trader, if any trader wants to develop into an effective and consistently successful trader, "here are some boxes he will have to tick for him to begin his journey of success:"
He will need to engage in some self improvement.
He will need to understand that the market is always right and that he can profit from that rightness if he doesn't impose a rigid mental structure on its behavior(therefore flexibly flowing with the bias and current state of the market).
He needs to release himself from his fear of being wrong so that he can observe the market's behavior from an objective perspective(based on analysis and not on his feelings or other peoples feeling or bias of the market), Otherwise his fear of being wrong will have the effect of making him wrong.
He will also need to establish some definite trading rules to guide his own behavior and learn how to adhere to those rules. If he had been operating out of a definite set of trading rules he would have never let the loss accumulate sufficiently that his pain would take him out of the trade. If, however, he refuses to acknowledge and accept his current state of development by blaming the market for his losses or trying to convince himself that somehow he wasn't responsible for what he ended up with, then he would be indulging himself in illusion. He would be denying who he is and, in effect, cutting himself off from the information he needs to become who he wants to be.