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Thoughts & Musings
We have been talking a lot about hacking our mindset lately, but perhaps you are not ready to go through the whole journey of self discovery or perhaps you feel it is not necessary that you pretty much already know all of this information. For whatever the reason is that you don't feel prepared to go through this journey at the moment it doesn't mean that you have to bypass the whole training. There are plenty of quick and easy ways to identify problems in your mindset…
Our first step in the journey of improving our mindsets is to first assess what our mindset even is to begin with. For me, the most effective way to do this is to have you write out your origins. This can be a writing or speaking exercise, though to analyze the text later, the speaking will require…
For a first look into Trader Wellness we are going to focus on coping mechanisms. We have touched a bit on bad habits in the past in our articles, and while coping mechanisms can be a bad habit, they also can be used in a way to improve our lives. Simply defined by the APA (American Psychological Association) a coping mechanism is “any conscious or nonconscious adjustment or adaptation that decreases tension and anxiety in a stressful experience or situation.” They can be…
The first thing we need to do when assessing our Trader Wellness is to make a baseline assessment. So before we begin, take this short quiz to help you pinpoint your weak places in your armor. There is no shame in having weak places, we all must have them to be human, but it doesn't mean we have to suffer on them. By learning where our weak places are we can start reinforcing these areas of our lives instead of letting these areas take us down. To begin, grab…
As we learn to trade in the markets we learn many other side skills along the way that we may not even realize. You learn how to control stress and anxiety, you learn how to build a daily schedule, you learn how to get control of your thoughts and set intentions for your life. Perhaps you don't see these things happening, but trading requires us to learn all of these things in order to become better, more rounded traders. But what do you do if you find out you…
I was reading an interesting article from Deepak Chopra the other day that has been with me for a few days now. It is not really what he said, it is the same sort of thing we often say and know to be true for our well being even if we aren't necessarily the best at following it, but it was the depth of damage he believed could occur. In the article he was basically advocating for the importance of well rounded wellness, the importance of social, mental, emotional, financial, and…
It really is amazing how much mindfulness can change your life and bring you so many new perspectives to the world. I have always considered myself a spiritually aware person and in general, in touch with the feelings and emotions in myself and around me. Though I may not always show my emotions freely, I am heavily guided by them, as many of us are. Sometimes being strong and silent is our safety net, not letting anyone know how much they or something means to us is a way to protect ourselves. Much of this is personality and trying to force a change is likely…
A lot of what we discuss on Bullionite is how to improve your well being and health. While we are wanting to build our wealth and create money through smart investments, we know that wealth is only part of the puzzle for contentment and true satisfaction in life. If anything, wealth is the easy part! We know how to create money and maintain our finances but what can be challenging is how to improve our mental well being. The wealth of wellness is a much more elusive thing to strive for for many reasons. For one it is not as easily measurable. We can't open up an account and look…
I love aligning myself with the seasons. Even if you live in a place without many discernible changes between seasons, you can still feel the subtle differences in temperature, plants blooming and just the feeling in the air. For me, moving with the seasons makes me feel connected to the earth and the cycles in life. I like to compare myself to where I was at this time last year, for better or for worse, as a way to make sure I am on the track I want to be. It happens almost naturally at the first feeling of the shift in the air between seasons. I will experience a deja vu that will bring me…
Happiness is an elusive idea. What is happiness? As maybe as frivolous as the question can sound, there is actually a lot of science going into trying to answer the question. Is happiness simply a release of chemicals in the brain? Is happiness coming from money or success? Is happiness coming from your relationships? Perhaps happiness comes from inner peace. Everyone has their theories and all are based in partial truths, yet what makes us truly happy is something that we still can…
