It’s easy to forget just how powerful our subconscious minds can be. We are often completely unaware of how our actions (or inactions) are affecting our lives. We may complain that things never work out for us, we have bad luck, or we just don’t have what it takes to be successful. What we fail to realize is that we are actually creating our own circumstances through subconscious self-sabotage. In order to overcome self-sabotage we first have to use conscious awareness to exp…
Mr. Mafioso Does Emotional Intelligence
I love Mr. Mafioso on AskMen. Look, college boy, he writes, there are certain lessons that all the books in the world couldnt teach you.
Trading Psychology – Why Traders Knowingly Make Bad Decisions
“To Err is Human”, but in trading it often happens that traders will knowingly make decisions that create losing trades. Now we’re not talking about losses that come about because of testing out a trading plan or a specific indicator. Nor are we looking at simple errors committed purely by accident. If our goal is to profit, then why would we do these things that are clearly against what we know to be right? This phenomenon has many very undesirable consequences that are expe…
Cultivating Intuition
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American philosopher said “The primary wisdom is intuition.” It is not just a theory, it is part of who we are. Without training we can happen upon it occasionally and we usually like the results when we follow our intuition. What would happen if we learned to tap into our own innate intuition on a daily basis? Why don’t we? As Carl Jung said “intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.” It …