Key Points:
- Reflecting on your trading year with honesty provides crucial data for growth.
- Whether positive or negative, judgment must be set aside to accept the truth of your actions.
- Aligning trading practices with core values transforms behaviors into deliberate choices.
Summary:
In this mindfulness session, Sean leads traders through a reflective practice to assess their performance over the past year. As the New Year approaches, the focus is on looking back at trading habits, outcomes, and emotional behaviors honestly, devoid of judgment, and emphasizing learning. Sean highlights the importance of using a factual, binary lens—profitable or not, rule-following or not—to remove emotional noise and uncover actionable insights.
Sean challenges participants to confront their trading truths: “If you’re not following your rules, what are you doing?” By recognizing successes and failures, traders can embrace their complete trading narrative and use it as a foundation for growth. He warns against self-deception, equating selective memory with missing red candles on a trading chart—vital data is lost. The session concludes by urging participants to reflect on whether their processes need tweaking, overhauling, or reinforcing and to ground these adjustments in their core values.
C.L.E.A.R. Mindset Connections:
Connect to the present moment and enhance your self-awareness with practical techniques.
- Sean guides participants in a simple breathing exercise to help them stay grounded and focused, using the tips of their noses as anchors for awareness.
Loosen your attachment to thoughts and emotions, and cultivate mental clarity and resilience.
- Traders are encouraged to set aside positive or negative judgments about their yearly performance to assess their trading habits objectively.
Embody your core values and align them with your actions to foster authenticity and purpose.
- Participants reflect on how consistently their trading behaviors align with their stated values, such as professionalism and discipline.
Accept all the present moment offers, whether wanted or not, and find peace and strength.
- Sean’s emphasis on accepting successes and failures as part of the truth is not just a reminder but a source of encouragement that can help you find strength in the face of challenges.
Respond with decisive, informed action, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.
- By analyzing the past year’s trading data and processes, participants can identify necessary adjustments to optimize their performance moving forward.
Act Accordingly:
This session is a powerful reminder that trader growth requires more than technical skills—it demands honest self-reflection and a commitment to the process. By embracing successes and failures and aligning actions with values, traders can transform setbacks into opportunities for growth. Sean’s closing challenge to “accept the truth and adjust your process accordingly” offers a compelling roadmap to start the new year with clarity and purpose.