Key Points:
- Reflect on your year’s journey by visualizing a calendar and assessing progress toward your values.
- Identify where you’ve moved towards or away from your goals, using this awareness to guide the rest of the year.
- Commit to actions that align with your values, ensuring you can reflect proudly by year’s end.
Summary: In today’s session, Sean guided the SPP community through a reflective visualization exercise focused on evaluating the year and planning for the remaining months. Participants were asked to imagine a full-year calendar, mentally coloring the days to represent how closely their actions have aligned with their core values. The exercise emphasized the importance of self-awareness and intentionality, empowering traders to consider the impact of their daily decisions on their overall well-being and success and making them feel in control of their journey.
Sean pointed out, “It’s not about shaming yourself for what’s been done; it’s about using this awareness to make the last quarter of the year one that you can look back on with pride.”
The session concluded with a challenge to envision and commit to the actions necessary to end the year with a sense of accomplishment, leaving you motivated and inspired.
C.L.E.A.R. Mindset Connections:
Connect to the present moment and enhance your self-awareness with practical techniques. Focusing on your breath and visualizing the calendar can help anchor you in the present moment and enhance your self-awareness.
- Focus: The breathing exercise and calendar visualization helped anchor participants in the present moment, enhancing self-awareness.
Loosen your attachment to thoughts and emotions, and cultivate mental clarity and resilience.
- Detach: Sean reminded participants not to judge their progress too harshly, promoting resilience and clarity in assessing the year’s outcomes.
Embody your core values and align them with your actions to foster authenticity and purpose.
- Align: Coloring the calendar served as a metaphor for aligning daily actions with core values, fostering authenticity.
Accept all the present moment offers, whether wanted or not, and find peace and strength.
- Accept: Participants were encouraged to accept where they are now without judgment and use this acceptance to move forward constructively.
Respond with decisive, informed action, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.
- Act: The visualization exercise was designed to motivate decisive action, helping traders transform the year’s final quarter into a growth period. This emphasis on the transformative power of action will leave you feeling determined and proactive.
Conclusion: This session provided a powerful opportunity to reflect on the year’s journey and re-align with personal values. Through mindfulness and visualization, traders were encouraged to commit to actions that would make them proud by year’s end. As you move forward, remember that each day is a chance to add a new color to your calendar and move closer to the person you want to be. The visualization exercise is a powerful tool that you can continue to use to guide your actions and decisions in the coming months.