Key Points:
- Sean leads a pre-market mindfulness practice, emphasizing awareness of emotions like urgency and FOMO.
- Key questions prompt reflection on willingness to be responsible with capital, accept trade outcomes, and stay flexible in market views.
- Sean underscores the importance of aligning trading actions with core values to achieve mindful, effective decision-making.
Summary:
In this session, Sean guides traders through a powerful pre-market mindfulness routine, focusing on cultivating awareness, responsibility, and willingness. Emphasizing that mindfulness in trading isn’t about avoiding feelings but becoming better at feeling them, Sean reminds participants to start by checking in with their emotional state, especially scanning for urgency or desperation. He encourages participants to consider their “willingness” to engage mindfully with their trading day, challenging them to reflect honestly on questions like, “Am I willing to be responsible with my capital today?” and “Am I willing to accept when trades aren’t there?”
This practice helps traders acknowledge the natural human inclination to make predictions and attach hopes to trade outcomes. Sean suggests that traders can avoid self-deception and make more precise, value-driven decisions by staying aware of these tendencies. He reminds traders to “put on their big boy pants” and take full accountability for their actions in the market rather than attributing outcomes to external forces or biases.
“Mindful trading is a choice to accept what is – not what you want it to be – and to let that acceptance guide your decisions.” – Sean Sawyer
C.L.E.A.R. Mindset Connections:
Connect to the present moment and enhance your self-awareness with practical techniques.
- Sean guided participants to start with deep breaths and a body scan, promoting awareness of any internalized urgency or FOMO.
Loosen your attachment to thoughts and emotions, and cultivate mental clarity and resilience.
- Traders were encouraged to examine any lingering expectations or anticipations, practicing detachment from future outcomes.
Embody your core values and align them with your actions to foster authenticity and purpose.
- Sean urged participants to consider whether their trading actions served their values or were driven by ego or impatience.
Accept all the present moment offers, whether wanted or not, and find peace and strength.
- Reflecting on willingness, traders were reminded to accept when trade wasn’t favorable and to let go of attachment to specific results.
Respond with decisive, informed action, transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.
- Sean emphasized that mindful trading involves proactive responsibility for one’s actions without blaming market conditions or external factors.
This session offers a valuable reminder that mindful trading starts with honest self-assessment and an unwavering commitment to align with one’s values.