Trading is arguably the single most challenging business venture on the planet. It challenges your character flaws, personal issues and weaknesses at every turn. It is for this reason that persistence and perseverance are crucial to your ability to not only bring your A-Game to the trading platform but to sustain it over the long haul. How often have you found yourself at a “fork in the road” of your trading and faced with a choice to either go to the left and violate a rule thereby doing something that is not in your best interest; or go the right and bring your highest and best trader to focus attention on what matters most. Tapping into this type of energy is what can make a distinct difference in following through with you plan and your rules.
The definition of persistence is basically never giving up. Perseverance is going on despite hardships, opposition and setbacks. Don Bennett is a mountain climber and he climbed one of the highest mountains in the world, Mt. Rainier, in very demanding conditions that may have broken the average climber. But Don went on out of sheer desire to do what he had set out to do. When he had finished a reporter asked Don how he did it. Don told him that he saw every move along the way on the mountain about 100 times per day. The reporter then asked, “Yeah, I hear that all the time from people that they are able to imagine the goal, and that’s good, but what I want to know is how did you do it with one leg?” Don, took a breath and said, “One hop at a time.” Some people do not allow obstacles, setbacks, opposition or hardships get in their way when they want something bad enough.
Don Jackson is a black man who was dyslexic in the late forties and early fifties at a time when most professionals didn’t even know how to spell the term much less what it was. He grew up labeled as retarded in special school systems. But, Don knew inside that he was not retarded, he had a light emanating from his Spirit into which he plugged his heart and decided that he too wanted to learn like everyone else. When he decided to go to college everyone… Continue Reading
