Trading on Target: How to Cultivate a Winner's State of Mind

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First, we had to discover how Don constructed his thinking. We needed this information to reprogram and reanchor the associations that were blocking his pathway to success. What were the beliefs, attitudes, values, decisions, and experiences that built the foundation of his perceptions and created the weakness that sabotaged his performance when he needed it the most? Everything he said about his background looked supportive of success in life. In fact, the success he experienced in his business life before choosing trading as a career confirmed the soundness of his qualifications.

Don had difficulty in completing one homework assignment. The task had been to recall unhappy life experiences. Except for losses in trading, Don could only recall one single life event that was not positive. He remembered a childhood experience where he was playing with matches and started a fire in a haystack next to the family barn. As the flames leapt toward the barn and the family home, he could see them being consumed by flames in his mind’s eye. Rushing to his mother in a panic, he found that he could not speak. His mother shouted at him to focus, but he could only verbalize one word: “FIRE!”

Fortunately, his mother reacted quickly enough to avert a major disaster. The vision in Don’s imagination of the barn going up in flames was enough to impress upon him the importance of making choices in life that would not result in dire consequences or major loss. ...