Productivity is something that when you have an opportunity to deliver it you feel so proud. I watched a video yesterday on Instagram that was talking about having the same 24 hours and accomplishing your goals. I felt like “this motivational speakers are here again”. How do you feel when you watch all these motivational post about making money or watch any of these social media trading influencers. Most times I feel they are fake, how are do you get time to socialize on social media and also find time to analyze trades and say lots of motivational things. I know we all have 24 hours in a day but you working like you have more than 24 hours in a day.
Well short answer is, while some of them are truly trading for real, some of them have personal assistants that manage their social media pages. While some of them actually make more money being a social media trading influencer than trading. It’s social media, some of them live a fake life.
These days, I feel 24 hours is not enough anymore to achieve our goals, but that’s only when you have a goal and you are productive. But when you don’t have a goal and you are less productive, you realize that 24 hours is so much when you have nothing to do. But when you have things to do, you absolutely lose track of time. This is what I go through when trying to create content, trade crypto and play splinterlands.
My Splinterlands play has come to an end as I don’t have time to play it, trade and create content on Hive.
I have been in situations where I was constantly busy, trading Forex, trading crypto and trying to look for the next thing that will give me that big money break. At the same time I have also been in situations where my productivity is zero, and you know how that feels? I feel useless when am not being productive, I guess it’s because I have listened to lots of Instagram motivational speakers. This is why I entered wrong trades in the past. It happens like this, I check my charts, I see that the market is consolidating or rather, the market is in a state where i can’t interpret it. One of the best advise you need to take as a trader is “sometimes, the best trade to make is No trade”.
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Don’t trade when you think the market is not productive. But after watching motivational videos, I found myself going to trade because, motivational speakers said we should be productive and not waste our 24 hours.
You find yourself guilt tripping your own self because you don’t want to be unproductive and waste your 24 hours like the motivational speakers said. You place a trade when you are not supposed to and end up losing that trade and regretting. This applies in other aspects of life, we guilt trip ourselves because expect everyday to be a productive one, even when we are tired and our body needs rest. This is the area we end up over working ourselves,it’s all in the mind. We need to learn to take rests and learn to give ourselves a break when needed.
One thing I have learnt in productivity, trading and guilt trip is setting a daily realistic goal. This way I don’t have to over work myself and also know when to rest. And when it’s time to rest, rest and don’t guilt trip yourself.