ENERGY
Your life choices determine how much energy you have on any given day. Success is more likely to follow if you are able to focus more concentrated energy on your trading when you first start. After you are initially successful, you can decrease the time you spend trading. Nevertheless, it is important to maintain focused energy when you are making trading decisions.
If you want to increase your ability to maintain that concentrated, focused energy for trading, you should commit to decreasing the energy sappers mentioned in Chapter 6. A quick cheat-sheet is as follows:
- Make healthy eating choices
- Drink plenty of water
- Keep away from substances like coffee and alcohol
- Sleep at least seven hours at night
- Exercise every day
- Resolve the conflicts in your life
- Heal emotional issues
- Monitor your energy level when making trading choices
- Ask yourself if you are in a peak performance state when you are trading—physically, emotionally, and mentally, and if you are not, quit for the day
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