Success isn't what you think

I subscribe to motivational emails, cuz it helps especially when ur at a losing period in your trading and it uplifts my spirit to stay the course. Anyways I came across this one today, and decided to share it. Hope you get as much out of it as I did!

Stay Cool, Take it easy.

Success Isn’t What You Think

We often think of success as winning the big game,
getting the promotion, making a ton of money, and
so on.

Yet, success is much more than winning.

Success is about rising above mistakes, failures, hardships,
heart aches, setbacks and pain.

Success is about pursuing what truly matters to you when
others think you’re a fool.

Success is about staying the course and coming out on top
AFTER others have doubted you, told you that you cannot
make it, that you’ll never succeed.

Success is about raising the volume of the Inner Voice that
believes in you and knows you can win - and lowering the
volume on the “no can do” voice that only knows failure.

Success is about creating a bright vision that places your heart
in flames of fire. Success is about feeling, deep down in your gut
that you are on the right course - even if it is difficult. It is
about sticking with your objective even when times are tough.

Success is about moving away from a zone of comfort and into
a zone where time doesn’t exist.

Success is more about the journey of becoming than the fulfillment
of a goal. Success is understanding that after you accomplish a goal,
your brain looks for another and if you don’t give it one, peace of mind
ceases to exist.

Success is about figuring out a way to win by rising above circumstances.

Today, you are a success when you decide to be BIGGER than your problems,
heartaches and mistakes; when you figure out a way to bring your BIG SELF
into the picture and have him guide you where you want to go.

Do this and you are a success long before you win the prize.

Matt Furey

Thx Shadow, that is an amazing letter.

Happy Pippin:)

In my good opinion the you should define your own terms for success and also time frame. In forex trading its easy to get sucess in short time frame like being consistently profitable for 3-6 months. But its much more difficult to be consistently profitable for 5-10 years. So in forex trading always keep your feet on ground and keep in mind that real success is long term and temporary success is nothing because what you make in 6 months can go away in 6 days if you get hyper with the temporary success and make wrong decisions. Real success is to hold the success and not only to achieve the success. Short term success has destroyed more people than short term failure in Forex trading.

So keep it cool, always keep your feet at the ground and retire a millionaire in 5 years time - Now that’s what i call is real success “achieving the long term goal”.

Success in forex trading is not easy thing and not as easy as we think. We must have strong mentality and willingness to learn in forex. We also must improve our trading skills. And for mes, success in forex if when i can minimize the risk and make profit consistently with my account.

I think plenty of people have a different definition of success which is why it is important that you meet your own definition rather than chase something someone else thinks is right for you.

Very well said!

Thanks for sharing this, shadow!

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
Truman Capote:60:

Everyone requires a good dose of motivation, more so if they happen to be traders. Thanks for sharing that great post…

This is a good motivational letter for all of those who forget what success it is. In my opinion success in forex trading is reaching the consistency in a long way.