| This story is about a farmer who received a calf from a rich man. Hopeful that the calf will be able to help him have a better life, the farmer did his best to take care of it. But as the calf grew, so did the farmer’s expenses.One day, he said to himself, “I don’t want to wait anymore for this calf to become an ox. I’ll just sell it and buy several sheep which are easier and much cheaper to take care of.”And so he did just that.After several months, he realized that breeding sheep were not as easy as he thought. And so he said to himself, “It takes too long for these sheep to give birth. I better just sell them and buy myself several hens which can lay eggs for me everyday.”And so he did just that.The plan worked very well, he was earning good from selling all the eggs. Life improved for the farmer. But after several months, the hens started to lay less and less eggs until one day, the hens couldn’t produce anymore.The farmer was devastated. In his anger, he cooked all the hens and had himself a feast.Later that week, he remembered the single calf that started it all and realized that after all his hard work, nothing had changed in his life. |
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“You are the sum total of ALL your experiences in life.
And if you discount ANY of them ~ you negate and discount your very ability to be a consistent and successful trader.
So ~ what IS your definition of CONFIDENT?
If we look up the definition of the word “confident” in Roget’s Thesaurus as you know I like to do, we can find the following:
“…believing, undoubting, unhesitating, without a doubt, convinced, satisfied, assured, unafraid, courageous, unscarred, undaunted, daring, venturesome…”
Is that you? Is that your definition? Or, is this your definition:
“…hopeful, expecting, try to reassure, hold out hope, make promise to…”
Or do you know? Right now, if someone were to ask you what your definition of confidence is ~ what would you say? Right off the top of your head? (more…)