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I am getting a better feel for how a mentorship will work, and it is changing the longer I think about it. To me, it is not as easy as a checklist. It might include some, but those lists do not mean as much when they are still required in writing. There needs to be a "shift".
I mentioned to @Private Banker something that included the word "ricochet", and that word came up again today with my wife after I went over my 3rd official week's performance with her. "Happy" was also in there. "Graduation that you never knew was coming, and did not recognize until later..." was more that just came to mind this afternoon, but not really nailing it.
I wanted to send a letter of thanks to a few people, for things they did but may not have realized, but in no hurry. The words will come when they come. "Urgency" is not real.
I went through all of the PMs, emails, Skypes, etc related to the mentoring, took all relative correspondence from each trader and made a Word document of it, including photos, etc. This will become your permanent record with me.
I also made a spreadsheet as a summary view, includes contact information, location, markets traded, checked off completed items, special notes, how many live calls we have had together. So far only two have heard from me, so I have a ways to go. There are a total of 13, feels lucky already.
I am thinking about this a lot, as I am in the gym, driving, biking. How does something like this work? You think it is going to be a very mechanical set of rules, and maybe it is, maybe not. But more important after any of that is a state of mind. And if it seems tough to change your own, imagine the challenge of changing someone else's. Turn that table around, and if I don't have complete trust in that person, I am out of there.
Just as there are so many versions of meditation, there are so many ways to look at a market. No one thing will save us, any more than selecting the right club makes that shot in golf. Put the same set of clubs in everyone's hands, put them all on the same course... then what makes the difference?
Now get to the top 3 of those, now what is going to do it? And that is just the futures.io (formerly BMT) version, the world is a big fucking place...
I called my wife over to look at a photo I took recently. "Don't you love how the blue of the Asian session brings out the blue in his eyes?" She just looked at me...
Another one of my favorite old posts I read again this morning. Roughly a year and a half ago. Cleaned up a few typos as I read. This was a milestone in my psychology. Not necessarily the turning point, but definitely an important realization that has stayed with me.
This was THE One Post that haunted me for many many days after I read it... almost as if you had sealed it with a tag 'Important' and labeled thus so that it found the same amount of importance in a reader across continents and far apart from you.
There were many subtle, grave, spirited teachings in that one single post; and the conveyance was poetic.
You have come a full circle, Gary and journaling starts and ends with you. For to read your journal, for every trader, nay, me, is almost to get into that subtle stream that is undergoing change, seeking direction but not finding it really, and then WHAM!ming it with your impactful post to drive home some point - some solutions rise out of your 'ramblings' to questions that have been haunting me for days, perhaps years!