Hi steemians,
I recently figured out a method to achieve my goals more efficient while also improving my life quality that I'd like to share.
All I had to do is to grab a white paper and write down everything I can imagine that is necessary to reach my goals.
A few points were clear like "take your time to work on important projects" or "stay disciplined". Some points got me thinking. "Reduce headache" for example. More deeply it came to "how to reduce headache" and the answer is: eat healthy, do sport, yoga, meditation, get fresh air, don't sit on the computer too long.
Because I trade the markets every day I suddenly realised one important thing: You can always do something for your goals. It's sunday and the market is closed? You can take a walk outside and get fresh air. You can sozialise more, you can cook something special. Or just look at your list with things you can do to achieve your goal.
It's that simple. The cool thing is that I feel like I trick my mind. Before that I was often waiting for the things to happen, not making things happen by my own behaviour OUTSIDE of trading. Whenever there's nothing to do I tell my mind: you can go jogging, you can get fresh air: It will result in positive trades next day. It activates my achievement system.
And that is another point to consider: your own achievement system. I know from playing a lot of computer games that in every game there are game designers who actually work on building an achievement system that makes sure you have fun in each state of the game, you earn experience points, you unlock shiny itmes etc. But hey, these games only consume too much time, it's far better to build a real life achievement system that focuses on improving clarity within yourself, keeps you healthy and gives your real life energy. The long term results are worth it.
That's it for my thoughts for today,
have a good one ;)
Niclas