A Strong Trading Mind

Sometimes you have to believe in someone else's belief in you...until your own belief kicks in!

The people you are with can have a huge impact on you. Choose wisely and courageously. Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life. You have GREATNESS within you!

Les Brown

Lions do not have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk do not work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.

Avoid the energy draining practice of telling people what you're going to do. Instead, spend your time and effort in doing the things that are necessary to accomplish your goals. Keep your focus. and stay determined in order to pursue your dream. Let your work, not your words, speak for itself. You have GREATNESS within you!

Les brown

50 universal truths that will make you more successful
https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/50-universal-truths-more-successful-155148784.html

1. You don't have to turn your favorite hobby or pastime into your full-time living, but you do need to have a passion for your work. If your work is meaningful to you, your work life will be a joy.
2. If you can't be passionate about the work itself, be passionate about the reason you do it. Maybe you don't love your job or company, but the money and benefits are good for your family. Be passionate in your choice to do right by your family while also taking steps to find a role you do love.
3. Surround yourself with positive people and you'll have a positive outcome.
4. If you spend most of your time using your talents and doing things you are good at, you're more likely to be happy.IBM CEO Ginni Rometty almost turned down a career-making promotion for fear she couldn't handle it. But her husband encouraged her to try.
5. If you spend most of your time struggling to improve your weaknesses, you're likely to be frustrated.
6. Practice is the only true way to master a new skill. Be patient with yourself while you learn something new.
7. The only way to stay fresh is to keep learning new things.
8. To learn new things means being a beginner, and that means having a "beginner mind" and making mistakes.
9. The more comfortable you grow with making beginner mistakes, the easier it is to learn new things.
10. If you think something needs changing, be the one to lead the change.
11. Start small and build from there.
12. Do the obvious stuff first, then progress to the harder stuff. (Otherwise known as going for the low-hanging fruit.)
13. Always try to get better at your craft, from the technical aspects of your job to your leadership skills.
14. The hardest lesson to learn is when to keep going and when to quit. No one can teach you that. At some point, you have to choose.
15. The definition of crazy is to do the same thing the same way and expect a different result. If the result isn't good, change something and then try again.
16. No one succeeds alone.
17. Ask for help. Be specific when asking. Be graceful and grateful when help comes.
18. People experience the world differently. Two people can attend the same meeting and walk away with different impressions. Don't fight that. Use it.
19. Embrace diversity. The best way to compensate for your own weaknesses is to pick teammates who have different strengths.
20. You don't have to like someone to treat that person with respect and courtesy.
21. Don't "should" all over someone, and don't let someone else "should" all over you.
22. No matter what you do or how much you achieve, there are always people who have more.
23. There will always people who have less, too.
24. You will never have all the resources (time, money, people, etc.) that you want for your project or company. No one ever has all the resources they want.
25. A lack of resources isn't an excuse. It's a blessing in disguise. You'll have to get creative.
26. Creativity and innovation are skills that can be learned and practiced by doing your usual things in a new way.
27. In the early stages of a company, career, or project, you'll have to say "yes" to a lot of things. In the later stages, you'll have to say "no."
28. Negative feedback is necessary. Don't automatically reject it. Examine it for the nuggets of truth, and then disregard the rest.
29. Ditto for positive feedback. Don't automatically accept it (or reject it). Examine it for the nuggets of truth, and then disregard the rest.
30. Don't let other people's opinions (good or bad) shape your opinion of yourself. Treat them as you would any other feedback, looking for the nuggets of insight.
31. When delivering criticism, talk about the work, not the person.
32. Think big. Dream big. (The alternative is to think small, dream small.)
33. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff became a role mode for equal pay, handing out $3 million in raises to women and talking publicly about it.
    
34. Treat your dream as an ultimate road map. You don't have to achieve your dream right away, but the only way to get there is to take many steps toward it.
35. If you think big, you will hear "no" more than you hear "yes." They don't get to decide. You do.
36. As you achieve successful outcomes, you will be pressured to do more and do it faster. Be prepared to grab that golden ring if it's offered and trust you will learn how to handle the added responsibilities.
37. If there is one secret to success, it's this: communicate your plans with other people and keep communicating those plans in every way possible.
38. Grow your network. Make an effort to meet new people and to keep in contact with those you know.
39. No matter what technology or service you are creating or inventing at your company, it's not about the product; it's always about the people and the lives you will improve.
40. No matter how successful you get, you can still fail and fail big.
41. Failure isn't a bad thing. It's part of the process.
42. Take risks. Not wild risks. Calculated ones.
43. Don't expect failure, but do plan for it. The best way to always win the big game is to have alternate plans for losing various battles.
    Porch founder Ronnie Castro launched a startup while fighting brain cancer in 2013. He now has 400 employees, and raised nearly $100 million in funding.
    
44. Sometimes, you do have to throw caution to the wind and gamble everything on your vision. No one can tell you when to do this. If you feel strongly enough, just do it.
45. Learn how to respectfully, but firmly, say "no."
46. Say "yes" as much as you can.In order to say "yes" often, attach boundaries or a scope of work around your "yes."
47. Getting what you want doesn't mean you'll be happy. Happiness is the art of being satisfied with what you already have.
48. Working with difficult personalities will be a part of every job. Be respectful, do your job well, and cheerfully don't let the difficult person derail your project.
49. Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want.
50. If you truly want to change the world, you've got to earn a position of influence or power and use that influence to change your part of the world. Do it openly and as a role model and you will empower others to change, too.

You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. -Jim Rohn

35 insights that served me best this year…Robin Sharma
http://www.robinsharma.com/blog/12/35-priceless-lessons-2015-taught-me/

Here are the 35 insights that served me best this year…

#1. Ambition is only a dirty word if it’s an unclean ambition. Human beings are built to grow and progress. You are meant to shine.

#2. As you rise in authentic power, craft and impact, some will throw rocks at you. Take the High Road. And trust that the truth always wins.

#3. You can pursue shiny distractions. Or you can do epic work. You just don’t get to do both.

#4. A rare-air dream requires an explosively great team. The smartest way to grow a company is to develop your people.

#5. Generosity is the cure for scarcity. Be the most giving person in every room you’re in and life will reward you with uncommon blessings. Remember: doing good in expectation of some return is no gift–it’s an exchange.

#6. Why worry about a disrupted economy when you can build your own economy via the pursuit of mastery.

#7. Happy people make happy leaders–which create happy teams. So work on your happiness.

#8. A smile to a stranger is a gift of vast proportions.

#9. Creativity breeds amid solitude versus noise.

#10. If world-class was easy, everyone would be doing it.

#11. A monumental vision means, en route to the summit, you’re certain to experience monumental hurts. That’s just the price of bravery. Stay in the game. Longer than any naysayers suggest you should.

#12. Being on time is hip. Keeping your promises is cool. Having good manners is in.

#13. Optimism is a gorgeous contagion.

#14. Busy isn’t productivity. Fake work isn’t real work. Fight for focus. And execute on what counts.

#15. Love is the antidote to fear.

#16. Exceptional physical fitness is a game-changer.

#17. Honor your parents as you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

#18. A fast-growing company is a highly-vulnerable entity. As you scale, it’s so easy to stop doing the special things that made you special. Stay solid on your founding values. Work even harder to be of service. Push even more passionately for mastery.

#19. Never miss a single opportunity to help another human being. At the end, our highest honor will come from our influence on others.

#20. The illusion of safety is always more dangerous than the discomfort of innovation.

#21. You can never give others more love than you deliver to yourself.

#22. The greatest leaders build more leaders.

#23. Legendary performers are generated via their daily rituals more than their inherited talents.

#24. Life’s a series of seasons. We each have our times in the sunlight, and our days in the winters. Savor the easy runs and leverage the challenges to fuel compassion, courage, creativity and decency. All is good. The universe is a friendly place [Thanks Einstein].

#25. Writing of gratitude in a journal allows you to relive the more beautiful parts of your life on a daily basis.

#26. Business is a dialogue. Lose the dialogue with those you serve and you’ll lose the business. Period. And always remember who puts food on your table.

#27. Meditation is a genius practice on your pursuit towards genius. Rewires the brain, releases serotonin and lights you all up. Do it daily.

#28. Mountain biking makes adults feel like kids again. [Thanks to my new Romanian friends who took me up the mountain outside Bucharest in September; I'll always remember that day].

#29. An obsession isn’t unhealthy unless it’s an unhealthy obsession.

#30. A job is only a job if you fall into the trap of perceiving it as a job. All work is a spectacular opportunity to polish your craft, push your edges, transcend your fears and bring greater light into the world.

#31. Just because others don’t live your values doesn’t mean you shouldn’t stand for your values. Martin Luther King, Jr: “Until you’ve found something you’re willing to die for you’re not fit to live.”

#32. The best producers are curious, invest deeply in their growth and adore reading + going to conferences + befriending giant thinkers.

#33. Achievement without joy is failure, not winning.

#34. Watch the sunset every night in acute celebration of the gift of yet another day.

#35. Remember your heroic nature. And lift all those who intersect your life. There are no extra people alive today. You matter. More than you know.