It's Thursday Morning. How are you going to kick life's ass today?

[Atom Smasher]

Your past is a tyrant. For most people it actively works to keep you stuck in endless loops of inefficiency, and for many, hopelessness. Hopelessness can be total or it can be in one or several areas of an otherwise effective life.

Your history is like a MASSIVE, heavy steel flywheel that rotates with a crushing ruthlessness. Your history is a relentless machine which can be altered and redirected by one means only...

Awareness of that which you fear.

Fear is the fuel that your history consumes. It desperately tries to keep you where you are, in a safe and sound homeostasis.

Find a place in your life where you feel like you're failing. The thing that you keep on doing over and over and you have no idea why. When you ask the right questions, you will find that you are fearful of something. Same thing with the things that you know you should be doing, but just can't get yourself to do.

I have found that for every instance of procrastination in my life, fear is at the very root. For example, "What will happen if I venture out of the status quo? I will have new responsibility. Can I handle it? I'd better not try."

Fear is the lubrication that keeps the engine of your history subjugating and crushing you. Identify an area of your life where you are not as effective as you need to be. Ask yourself what is behind this counterproductive behavior or lack of action. Keep on drilling down with questions, and you will eventually get to the fear that paralyzes you.

Your history and fear are the two biggest enemies you will ever face in life. You can crush them with the awareness that is born of effective self-questioning.

Grab that heavy, massive flywheel that has kept you on losing rails for so many years. Decide to kick life's ass for a change today. Ask again and again, what is it that I fear? The mystery of self-defeating behavior always leads to something that is feared. Identify the fear, and you can devise a process of daily baby steps to eradicate your fear and the momentum of the past.

This post isn't meant to be profound, it's nothing new and it's poorly written as I'm dashing it off right before bed. I thought I would post it just in case it might be a useful reminder to even one person who needs it.

As for me, today I'm going to NEUTRALIZE the momentum of my past and begin anew in the areas I've identified as needing adjustment. The past, if left alone as a mechanism, will always work to keep us static and acting in self-defeating ways. Never let your past define your "today". Every day is a new beginning, an opportunity for renewal, if only we decide it to be.

I've trained myself to associate each morning with renewal and the license to wipe my slate clean and start over. Screw the past with its mistakes and poor decisions. It's gone and there should be no remaining residue. Today, ANYTHING is possible.

 

[MillionBillionaire]

I'm going to wake up happy as fvck because I'm a bad azz mofo that goes around all day getting what I want and I don't give a fvck...

I will be the happiest.. most centered mofo and I will eat sh1t tests and disrespect for breakfast..

Carry on.

 

[blind_one]

Had a great morning for 3 weeks straight, even on Mondays I was resolute as fvck. Clean slate is a good idea as I see myself regressing into fear of approaching for fks sake ...

Eat lighting , sh!t thunder !!

 

[zekko]

Your history is like a MASSIVE, heavy steel flywheel that rotates with a crushing ruthlessness. Your history is a relentless machine which can be altered and redirected by one means only...

Awareness of that which you fear.

Fear is the fuel that your history consumes. It desperately tries to keep you where you are, in a safe and sound homeostasis.

It's not only about fear, it's about momentum and inertia. Like you say, your history is massive. If you have been lazy and inactive in certain areas of your life, inertia will work to keep you there. On the other hand, if you are actively working and moving towards a goal, momentum helps to keep you going.

 

[BrainDamage92]

Dude this thread is like a headline from a female magazine pls... still some deep **** there, but change the title pls :}

 

[Tenacity]

A couple of points:

- People need long term, mid term and short term goals. For me, I have 30 year goals which get me until age 60, then I have mid term goals which are goals I need to get done every 3-10 year cycle between now and age 60, then I have short term goals which are goals I need to complete for the year, then for the month, then for the week, then for the day.

- By doing the above, your day should be aligned with your long term plans.

- Fear isn't your enemy, I know that it's positioned as such, but I believe that Faith and Fear are two sides of the same coin. Both are based on a way of viewing something. I don't think you should operate in "Fear" or in "Faith," but instead let your decisions be based on a Cost/Benefit Analysis. What are all of the risks and things that can go wrong? What are the things that can go right and be attained? Is it WORTH going through the risks to get the benefits if the risks can be reasonably mitigated?

- Don't deny your Fear. If you are afraid of something, it's for a reason, try to figure out why you are afraid of it instead of trying to "talk yourself out of it." I'm afraid of snakes, why? Because they can kill me. That's a reasonable reason to be afraid of something, thus, based on that Fear, I keep my a.ss AWAY from snakes lol. But some people are afraid of Public Speaking, why? Because they can embarrass themselves in front of a lot of people in a way that they might never be able to recover from. However, that Fear can be mitigated through proper preparation of your speech or performance, as well as acknowledging the fact that most of the time even when you "mess up" with a Public Speech, unless you SHOW IT with your facial expression...nobody even knows you fvcked up.

- So Fear can be mitigated, but it should never be ignored. Your "Fear" is just as important as your "Faith". Both reveal to you what you need to mitigate, need to work on, and also what you need to CHASE after.

 

[guru1000]

Decisions motivated by fear, and not reason, are poor decisions. Reason will maximize coherency in weighing the risk/reward ratio toward any feat. Conversely, fear, a deleterious emotion, will cloud your best judgment.

The stock market is fueled by emotion, thus a layup for those who operate by reason, not fear. Accordingly, when the market crashes as everyone is selling fueled by fear, I am buying; and as everyone is buying fueled by fear of losing the "golden opportunity," I'm selling. Selling into strength and buying into weakness--the practical application of operating by reason only--distinguishes the affluent from the impoverished, the bold from the fainthearted.

Operate by reason, not fear.

 

[ImTheDoubleGreatest!]

What if you have an injury? I'm playing water polo, but can't practice as hard as I would like because I my hip flexor is inflamed so my leg keeps popping out of its socket. I discovered that I needed to lift it and twist it a certain way to move it back in.

Anyway, that sport is one area I need to improve in, this you can trust me that I will. The other area is sleep..... But you need to five up some sleep to do good at something. My dilemma though is that I want to get taller, and sleeping is the best way to get taller (HGH is released at the highest amounts during sleep, specifically the 7th hour). So its kinda hard too. Third......I gotta quit wanking. I'm in high school so poon ain't as easy to come when you got parents and siblings with you in your house as well as a paranoid dad who sets up 8 cameras in your house........

Meh, I can live with it.

 

[Atom Smasher]

Decisions motivated by fear, and not reason, are poor decisions. Reason will maximize coherency in weighing the risk/reward ratio toward any feat. Conversely, fear, a deleterious emotion, will cloud your best judgment.

The stock market is fueled by emotion, thus a layup for those who operate by reason, not fear. Accordingly, when the market crashes as everyone is selling fueled by fear, I am buying; and as everyone is buying fueled by fear of losing the "golden opportunity," I'm selling. Selling into strength and buying into weakness--the practical application of operating by reason only--distinguishes the affluent from the impoverished, the bold from the fainthearted.

Operate by reason, not fear.

Fears are a reality of life. Once they're identified and accepted for what they are, an man is freed from that fear and he proceeds on the rational level where he thrives.

The denial of and burying of fears is what keeps us irrationally bound. Expose fear and accept it and it becomes powerless.

I don't see this paradigm applying to your example of trading. My focus is on personal, deep-seated fears that have been buried for years and that so many men have difficulty escaping.