Success Requires Focus
Today I’d like to share an email that I received from one of my members, and the All-Star of the Month for March. He’s name is Kenneth Maillet and he’s about to graduate from college. You will be able to find out much more about Kenneth in the near future, as I will post his complete bio soon.
Ken’s dad purchased my course for him two years ago as a Christmas gift (wish my dad would have gotten me this kind of information when I was 21).
The reason I bring this up is Ken would appreciate anyone’s input to his dilemma. There are thousands of successful people reading this, so take a moment and share your thoughts… I’ll be sharing mine at the end of this post.
Here’s what Ken said in his own words.
I have been using your guidance and your system for about 8 months now with my own money and have had good success. I truly feel that I have the right skills and the right attitude to be highly successful in this game.
I started doing more and more research on technical analysis and refining my ability to locate opportunity. But this leads me to a crossroads of sorts.
Being a few weeks from graduation, and finally deciding that technically trading options is what I want to devote my future success to, I need to attempt to balance continuing growth in the options field with my ability to survive on my own. (aka. I need to find a job, but I want a job that is a true learning experience)
What I am ultimately asking of you is if you have any recommendations of potential jobs or spheres of influence that you feel would set me on the path to one day being able to trade full time on my own.
From what I have heard from many other successful finance people is that I should work as a paper pusher in an investment office, go to grad school, then look for a job with a top trading firm.
That just doesn’t seem to fit my entrepreneurial way of thinking. I believe that if I devoted all those years to studying, practicing, and trading, I would be light years ahead of where I would be if I went to grad school.
Also, while your course and materials have been absolutely fantastic for me, I want to continue growing even farther with my knowledge of markets and how to technically trade them.
Do you have any additional recommendations of where I can take those next steps towards becoming the best that I can be. I am always searching the internet for nuggets of useful information but as you know most of it is fluff or is dead wrong. In your experiences, what other resources do you feel would be extremely valuable to me.
Thank you for taking the time to read my email, and I want to express how much I owe my past, present, and hopefully future success to your program, your attitude, and your inspiring approach to introducing me to the world of options trading.
My dream in life doesn’t seem to be much different than yours. Become the best options trader I can be so I have the time and the flexibility to devote my life to my family and giving back to my community. Any words of advice or wisdom that you may have to help me reach this goal would be absolutely invaluable to me.
Thank you,
Kenneth Maillet
JZ: Kenneth…you are a lucky man indeed. Having this type of information at your finger tips at such an early age will put you light years ahead of your peers. I love getting emails like this because most young people that I talk to now days have more of a wishbone than a backbone. Most are unwilling to do the work necessary to really master anything.
I want you to know that I would give my own son this counsel.
First off…Success Requires Focus.
So many people that I train come to me in desperation because they’re trying to do ten different option trading strategies without ever mastering one. You can only imagine how scatter brained these people are and how uncertain they are to pull the trigger on anything.
Keep your eyes on the goal and have the courage not to quit. If you want to be a full time trader, then go for it regardless of those who tell you it can’t be done. For every one person that tells you that you can do it, there will be 99 right behind them saying it can’t be done. So prepare yourself mentally for the nay-sayers because they will come like a tsunami.
Make quitting unbearable. Paint a vivid picture in your mind of the pain you would experience if you were to quit… write that out. This will give you the courage to continue because you will not want to see the picture become reality.
Don’t be an island! Teach like minded people what you know and care about their results. This will make you better…you don’t really know something until you teach it.
Kenneth, the vision you have for yourself seems intact to me. Now come up with a game plan to build a monster sized trading account and get it done.
For everyone else, leave a comment below with YOUR advice for helping Kenneth get to his ultimate goal of being a professional trader… and also ask yourself “What is my end Goal?”
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Whats funy is that poeple always want some sort of advice to where they should be or should not be in life, well you are axactly where you should be right now, just keep fowllowing the path your on now. Look for all opertunities that will lead you to your financial goel and follow that path to financial freedom, do what you love and the money will fowllow.
Never stop studying; there is always sometingg new to learn
Something I’ve often told college students recently is that both of the industries I’ve worked in during my career DID NOT EXIST when I was in school (Fiber Optic communications and Networked Computing). Graduate school will give you more tools, but your imagination and enthusiasm will allow you to apply the tools in any field you find yourself in. As Jeff said, keep trading to hone your skills, go to grad school in finance/business or whatever only to help you with the analysis of opportunities to bolster your trading.
And finally, look to “a job” right now following a passion, hobby, or talent. Your trading is the goal, you can set aside money from whatever you earn, small amounts or large. If you can “sharpen your saw” as you work through your career, you will have a fulfilling life and no regrets to look back on.
All the best,
Brian
Kenneth,
Great going on your trading, don’t quit. Here is what I follow and it works every single time. “Follow you passion and money will come.” I love trading and have become very good at it. Jeff is right, master one strategy. Know it forwards, sideways and backwards. One book that really helped me is written by Mark Douglas “Trading in the Zone” Stick with it.