Do I have a hum dinger for you today? So I was talking with a client who admittedly had gotten really comfortable, and this is something that happens in life and this happens also. If you look at any wirehouse, you walk into any financial advisory firm, I don’t want to mention any names, I really don’t. I’m not picking on anybody, but this is what happens. There’s growth in the first anywhere, 2, 3, 4, 5 years, and then they plateau out and they kind of service their book and there’s not a lot of growth and they get comfortable. They can pay their bills, they can raise their family, they can do that, but they don’t. They’ll take referrals, they’ll be attrition. Some will die, some will move. Maybe it’ll be because of bad service. It oftentimes isn’t because of bad results. It’s oftentimes because of bad service or double talk.
I know that community pretty well, but it’s gotten so bad that even if they’re going to the office, if you walk in the office and kind of take a stroll around just to get a tour, you’re going to see most folks sitting around watching tv. There are times of course, when they’re on the phone servicing their clients asking this and that, doing paperwork, but they farm that out. And so the decision makers are kind of coasting, and that’s a tough spot to be because you can’t really make any growth if you’re not doing the work. Now you can take that. This particular client is at a big hedge fund and they’re making good money. They have a big line of credit. They made a few good trades, actually a handful of trades that made 95% of the money, which is kind of how it works.
But with that, you can get used to making a certain amount of money and then being super comfortable because face it, I mean after you have one or two cars, a couple of houses, after a while you’re just kind of collecting toys. So then the question is, what’s the motivation? Well, I can’t really divulge into that here because I think I’d be betraying the trust. But the point is that it’s all relative. Whether you’re upper middle class, whether you’re upper class, whether you’re 1%, whether you’re the top one, 10th of 1%, you always need to have a goal. Once you start to what I have written down here, when you get comfortable doing nothing, taking action can invoke fear of failure. And if you’re making big money, seven, eight figures a year, what’s there to complain about? Life is good. So you just have to keep doing more of the same. The problem though, just like any endeavor, sooner or later, the style of clothes that you wear, your haircut, the shoes that you wear, the car that you drive, they’ll all go out of style. So you need to constantly evolve. Doesn’t mean you have to turn your trading rules upside down overnight, but you do have to maybe give the quality of money that you have in your world a different meaning. For
Me, when I started making money, it became important for me to want to give some away and help some of the things and the causes that mean a lot to me. So that was a big motivator to help me earn more because then I could give away more and have a bigger impact on the people that I cared for. And the things like I said that are important to me in my life, it also allowed me to peel off some time and work more efficiently in a Pareto efficiency kind of manner where I could get the same results for putting in less time. So anyway, be careful about plateauing and then standing still a lot of life to live. Even if you’ve made it and you’re making big money, you can still dream big dreams, dream bigger dreams. How do you get it so that maybe your name is on the front door?
How do you get it? What happened at Commodities Corporation? A lot of those guys broke off and started their own company. Bruce, I mean, Bruce Covner, one started Caxton I think in 83, and I’m almost certain he was Grubs staked to a degree from Commodities Corporation. He built his own company and then he evolved and he did a lot of things with the American Enterprise Institute. He may have been involved or at least aware of what’s going on at reason. I know Bill Dunn was big at reason. He played a big role at Julliard and in Lincoln Center as well, and he acquired very valuable artifacts in and around music and this and that. And then I’m pretty sure donated them or put them up somewhere. So you can continue to push into new strata, if you will, without being egomaniacal or greedy and serve the greater good you see.
And that will kind of propel you forward and keep you growing. It’ll also help ensure that you don’t let the world kind of catch up to where you are because it’s all about the pace of the race, right? The race is a marathon, but there’s also a pace to it. And what you don’t want to do is get used to coasting when someone’s behind you, when you have a two minute, if you run a 26 mile marathon and you have a two minute, three minute lead, there’s someone in the back who might want it more than you. So you don’t want to get lazy and start to procrastinate or get comfortable or too satiated with your reflection in the mirror and keep moving forward. Have a goal. It could be personal goal, could be a business goal. You can always evolve your goals to the next step. Paul Tudor Jones and Peter Boris founded Robinhood Foundation, which has given away over 2 billion over the course of its existence. And that’s quite something. And they show no signs of stopping their annual events and their programs are getting bigger and better every year. So you can just keep dreaming
Bigger dreams if you’re creative. If not, give me a call. I’ll help you process your feelings around that. But at the end of the day, remember that if you start to stagnate, the rest of the world’s going to catch up to the market is going to change. It will evolve. There’s no way around it. If you would’ve told me when I started where we were making so much money in commission dollars that one day commissions wouldn’t even exist like in the world we are now, for the most part, I would never have believed it. I didn’t have a vision for it. Luckily for everybody that evolved. So for the very, very active traders, that is no longer an issue. But don’t be afraid to dream big dreams because once you start to apply yourself, you never really know until you try. And the response from this person was, well, who the heck am I to even think about something like that? And I said, well, who the heck are you to not?
Where’s the judgment in there? Okay, to use your judgment, I think. But you can oftentimes hurt yourself if you try to be a judge. So you have to study in your life. Where do you see the difference between being a judge and using one’s judgment? Because you can carry limiting beliefs no matter what of the strata that you exist in. There’s always some other person who might be doing better or has a bigger name or has a bigger mouthpiece, but that doesn’t mean anything. It has nothing to do with you because you don’t have to compare yourself. You can just be the best version of yourself and dream the biggest dream. Carve it out. Maybe start a family office. Maybe start an art collection. There’s a whole bunch of stuff you can do. You can endow a school. You can look at estate planning using insurance to leave big gifts upon your death. That can put a lot of wind in the sails of smaller operations that could use a lot of help. There’s a million things that you can do. And along the lines of think and grow Rich, the more you give, the more you get. So think about it. If you need any help, reach out. I don’t kiss and tell. And other than that, I appreciate you all being here. Please like and subscribe and I’ll be here tomorrow with Ganja. Take care.

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Everybody, it’s Michael Martin, thanks for being here. Happy Monday. Hope you had a great trading week. A lot of volatility out there. So that might help some of you. It might hurt some of you, but either way, I hope you’re weathering it. I get a lot of great feedback from folks, and I just want to give a shout out to everybody who’s making comments and writing in it means a lot that some of it right, I can’t be perfect, but at least some of it might be resonating with you and helping you evolve in your trading game. So I want to talk today about trading and progress in your trading game. One of the expressions that you hear a lot around coaching is progress, not perfection. And folks seem to be like to be saying, get 1% every day. Well, again, at 1% every day, you’re going to more than double your money by the end of the year if you think about it. So if you can do that in your personal life, you’re cooking with gas. I mean, that’s incredible. Now, I started thinking about this. We talked about ganja and I talked about a question that had come in about a person who was trading, I think a micro contract for a year and hadn’t shown any progress. And so I think we answered that in this coming Wednesday’s video, which is already recorded.
And I started to think about it again, there’s two sides to every trade. So you might not show financial progress, but maybe you’re coming more to terms with who you are as a trader and what it is that you can do, right? I mean, you can’t make it any smaller if you’re trading a micro contract. But the main thing is, and I’m just looking at my notes, you can track how you feel like if you were in constant and utter fear when you started, but now at least you understand the dynamics of the market. It might be a little awkward to have made some emotional or maturity style progress but not financial progress. Well, that kind of kicks in because sometimes the stuff doesn’t work or evolve at the same time. You can learn things intellectually about the marketplace and how to trade trading tactics, trading chart patterns, this and that.
Trading systems. The list goes on of all the crap that’s out there, but you might be the hardest nut to crack yourself. In other words, how do you acquire self-knowledge? You see, that’s the tougher ball of wax, and that’s kind of why I focus on that part of it on the show because to be frank, anybody who’s looked at a chart for six months can record a video and put it on YouTube. It’s free. You can use your phone, doesn’t cost you anything but the time you put into it and give you their 2 cents on a chart. But what you have to understand that chart patterns are a lot like human beings. And there’s people that, they’re acquaintances, there’s some people that you’re friends with and you actually, and then there’s other people who you might have something more formal like a business relationship. You might have romantic relationship.
And then even in that dating, you might have folks that you like to spend time with or hook up with, but there’s varying degrees of chemistry. And so what I’ve been trying to educate everybody on is that those chart patterns and those setups have an emotional output as well that is either going to resonate with you or not. So we talk about that compatibility in people. We call it chemistry. So I think that you’ll end up having a relationship with that type of chart pattern of that setup. And so going back to the original question, progress not perfection. You might be a very, very loyal person who doesn’t like to quit. I’m one of them. I wouldn’t say I’m stubborn, but I know that my goal can be the same, but the way that I get there can change. So don’t be afraid to shake things up a little bit and try another instrument. You might be trying to guess the headlines every morning and pick a direction in one of the indices, which is really, really difficult to do.
Whereas I do advocate trying to understand what the crowd’s going to do, trying to understand that behavior within any short term aspect to me is very, very difficult even for the best of them. Now, there are a handful of traders that can do it and I applaud ’em, but I also know that the greatest number of people who fail are the ones who are trying to sit there and kind of hammer over their heads with these trading stock index futures, intraday, trying to catch the emotion of the day as opposed to what are the forces going on during the week. So just be kind to yourself and realize that as long as you’re making an attempt, you look, if you took you another year to answer the question, you still would’ve completed or gotten to a place of confidence and the ability to execute in half the time that in less than half the time that it took me.
So if you look at me as some kind of harbing or then by all means do it. I feel like everybody is as unique as their fingerprint, so there’s no one way to do it. But I just know that if you’re struggling and you’re not putting any points on the board, it might be time to shake things up a little bit. But also remember, the main takeaway from today’s discussion is that there are two ways to progress. There’s your emotional and psychological progress, and then there’s your tactical progress. I suppose there’s a third, which we can take tactical and talk about the analysis because if you’re running a system, you have to know enough to build the set of rules that are robust across any number of instruments. It could be five, it could be 60 futures contracts, it could be the 100 securities in the NASDAQ Index, for example. Or it could just be a
Basket that you’ve put together back test that make sure that you’ve included at least 10 years. And I’d be so bold as to say, make sure that you know what happened to those types of names in oh 7, 0 8 when the market was under duress. You see what I’m saying? Because that’ll be very telling on what you might face going forward. If you’re a chart reader, the same type of a deal, pick one or two chart patterns and just stick to one of them as opposed to trying to trade all 12 of them. Very confusing for the newer mind. It’s very difficult to build confidence if you’re all over the place. So kind of bifurcate what you think your progress is. Is it on you, the person, or is it on you? Your trading in the analysis system or discretionary stuff? And then tactically, because then you have to pull it off. And there might be nuances in how you create alpha when you look at how you actually deploy the trade, you see. Anyway, I appreciate everybody being here. Please like and subscribe to the channel. If you haven’t already gotten a copy of the audiobook version of my book, the Inner Voice of Trading, you can get that over at Martin Chronicle, top right corner of the page, and it’s all yours. Thanks for being here, folks. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Hey everybody. Happy Friday. Hope you have had a good week and you have exciting plans for the weekend. I know I’m going to see, lemme just check the date here. Yeah, I think I have good plans. Lemme see. Yeah, none other than my good friend Sean McLaughlin, Chicago Show is going to be in town, so we’re going to have a bite to eat, a bite to drink that we go hard on Saturday night. So I’m looking forward to seeing him. Great guy. And there you have it. So I want to talk to you today again and kind of summarize some things we talked about this week, especially from Tuesday and yesterday’s episode in that as far as your career goes and your aspirations for trading, even if you’ve been in the business 10 years and you want to expand, you are both at the same time, the pilot and the navigator of that process.
We live in a paradigm of personal responsibility. If something’s not working, you haven’t put focus on it and it’s kind of your fault, and I’m not putting a stick in your eye, but as soon as you start to accept responsibility for what is either working or not working in your life, in your career, the sooner you can say, I am the solution. Right? I am the solution and I need to ask better questions of myself. Open-ended questions and find those answers. And it’s okay to feel stonewalled. It’s okay to feel like you’re not making any progress if you can’t push through this barrier. But if you’re persistent and you ask yourself good, open-ended questions, I believe that you can take a little personal inventory and figure it out. And I use that analogy because it’s something that’s very, very important to me. It doesn’t allow me to become a victim ever.
I don’t get the poor me because I’m insulated from that bullshit just not going to happen. If there’s something I want in my life or there’s something that I don’t have, I haven’t dreamed a big enough dream, you see? And so I always say to myself, I’m always sitting at the head of the table no matter what seat I’m in, and I am the pilot and the navigator, and I have to make it happen. And if I’m lazy, it’s probably not going to happen. If I don’t put the work in, it’s not going to happen. If I’m not motivated, it’s not going to happen. But ultimately it’s on me. If I act intentionally, typically good things will come my way. Now, the way I get to be pilot and navigator is with the stuff that I spoke about this week, especially yesterday, and asking people who are very successful, maybe even more successful than me about how to achieve certain things. So I get additional insight because I’ll try anything once. I’m not afraid of failure. And if someone comes up with an idea that seems completely out of left field, it might actually be the gem of gold that I’m looking for and what it cost me, $200 bottle of Joseph Phelps Insignia wine or whatever it might be, that could end up meaning a couple hundred thousand dollars to me over the years. You see? So again, you get what
You pay for, you get people to appreciate you. It also keeps you in a good mindset that you’re absolutely in control, and there is no chance in me becoming a victim. I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said, successful people look for the right circumstances, forgetting in what they want in life, forgetting what they want in their life, and if they can’t find them, they create ’em. So this would be very, very empowering for you. You can do it. Someone had to think about an online marketplace in an ideation that we now know as Amazon. Then they had to go fill in the pieces, right? Didn’t it start as an online bookstore or something like that? I remember watching Amazon and books, A million come up around a similar time, so I might be a little bit off, but again, it starts with the idea and then it was the evolution.
And so as far as I’m concerned, if we’re not evolving, it’s not like we’re dying, but there is a stagnation. So I always like to have some goals. I went to that art class on Thursday nights. It’s a graduate class and some very, very talented people who do things very, very differently from me. And at first blush, it’s a little intimidating. Some of these people are doing portraits. They look like Rembrandts stuff from the Renaissance period. It’s almost like they took a four K camera and took a picture. And I’m like, I don’t even know how long it take you to do that. And one of the young women said, oh, it took me about three, four weeks. And I was like, wow, that’s pretty remarkable to have that much detail with a brush, an oil paint. It’s quite remarkable. So we started sharing ideas and she’d look at some of my stuff and said, I’m very intimidated by your stuff.
It seems very aggressive and very, the term she used was B D E, which I’m not going to discuss here. It was a bigger canvas, it seemed. The gestural marks were kind of aggressive and it was very, very different. So we could learn from one another. And so I’m going to try my hand at doing things very, very differently just as an exercise, just to grow my brain. And we’re going to share some ideas. We actually did an exercise in class where she put up three pieces of her work. I put up three of mine, and we each picked one, and we tried to paint in each other’s style, talk about grabbing a brick. It was very intimidating, and I was probably the oldest one there. I mean, I was invited in as a guest. It’s a graduate course, but these people have serious chops sitting there. I’m not a big brush guy. I’m mostly pallet knives and oil sticks, which I do kind of by hand. So a brush doesn’t feel natural in my hand as trying to move color on canvas or make gestural marks. And so I’m like, okay, if that’s the weakest link in my game, I can either continue to say that out loud and own it, or I can actually try and
Practice it and make a change. Whether or not it makes a difference isn’t necessarily important. It’s that I get to grow as a person. You see, I’m challenging myself with something that seems very foreign. It seems a little intimidating. Of course, there’s not really any money on the line, but I’m always interested in going after the things that feel weird and feel awkward. Then everyone’s looking at the work and they’re looking at the original and they’re like, that’s what you think this looks like. You know what I’m saying? So it’s intimidating in its own way. The same way you might feel if you’re talking to a very well established trader about your trading style, same energy. Doesn’t matter how we get to the feeling, the feeling is the same, and we can share that feeling, right? That’s how we can connect with one another. So when you think about life in those terms, it’s true for your personal life.
It’s one of the reasons why I think folks who do some of the one-on-one stuff, they feel like not only did their trading improve, but their lives improved. Why is because we apply the same technology to the things in your life that are important, as is your trading. And all of a sudden everything gets better. And a big part of that is ownership. And I like to say that to myself a lot. And I’m driving in the car, things aren’t going my way. I’m like, look, throw, don’t start pouting about stuff. Doesn’t get you anywhere. Stay in the solution. How can you try things differently? Who can you email? Who can you call? What’s another way? Because life is probabilistic. What’s another possible outcome of this? What’s another approach to help you get to the same point B? So I constantly say in the solution, knowing that there might be five or six attempts at something that don’t work out.
Either they need more time or there was just no interest or it never got any lift. But the main thing is that I say like, okay, I’m still the pilot and the navigator. I need to ideate more, meditate more. Maybe pick up the phone and ask people what they think and then just keep moving forward. The key part to the success though is the ownership and knowing that you’re actually in control, even though you feel like you’re out of control, even when you don’t have any evidence that what you’re working on is coming to fruition, I promise you, if you keep taking the steps sooner or later, you’re going to start panning for gold and you’re going to see some gold flakes in the bottom of your pan. So stick with that and evolve it further. Then that when that stalls, you can pivot and use that as a resource and then build upon it. Now you’re onto step two. You didn’t even know it, but it’s about ownership and it’s about saying, I own the process. For better or for worse, I own the process and the results are going to come from my sweat equity. I am going to write up the flight plan and then I’m going to steer the ship. Anyway, I hope that helps. I hope you have a great weekend. I’ll let you know how things go with Sean next week, and I will see you Monday. Take care.

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Yo. Yo, yo, what do you know? Happy Thursday, folks. So today I want to continue the conversation about environment and talk about the two environments that you have. You have an outside environment, which we touched upon Tuesday, but we also have the internal environment. I mentioned that one thing that you can do is eliminate the noise literally and figuratively from that of which you can see or that you can hear, but also it’s also your consciousness and what’s your self-talk like? How do you speak to yourself when you’re talking to yourself through your conscious, your conscience, right? And my self-talk is actually very, very strong. I didn’t know it when I was starting out. I was also very hard on myself, perhaps like you are too, because I wanted good things for myself and I didn’t know how to calibrate how quickly I should be achieving success for the work that I was putting in.
I thought it would be much more immediate. That seems like it’s a typical guy thing. So I don’t think that I’m terribly unique in that regard. But I’ve come to learn and to understand and hope, share with you here that it’s life on life’s terms. Sometimes it comes in moments and you’ll get some breakthrough and then you’ll plateau, and then things will be like coasting at I’m not making any progress. And then boom, you get a new aha moment and you go up and it looks like your equity curve. So one thing you can work on, aside from building a community of like-minded people who may or may not even be traitors, it doesn’t matter. It’s better if it is. If they are, is what does your internal dialogue look like? And so I was lucky again, and I was born that way, and that I had a strong sense of self.
I could envision a different life than the one I had been born into and one that I wanted to aspire to. And it’s kind of like be, do, have. I had to act apart. You had to take the initiative and behave the way you think that person would behave. And let’s face it, it feels ridiculous a little bit at the beginning. You don’t even know what you’re doing, but what you can say is, if I don’t change, things will be the same tomorrow. That’s guaranteed. Very rarely are you going to just step in shit, and all of a sudden things just happen for you. Can’t happen once in a blue moon. My experience, it happens to the folks who aren’t even necessarily hard chargers, but they’re persistent and they’re relentless. And I’m not talking about going hell bent for election or running at a blue streak. I’m just saying that every day they act intentionally with respect to their goals. A big part of that is what is going on inside between your ears and how do you talk to yourself in those moments when you do have the quiet time? Because you realize that you can’t get good trading ideas off the TV screen during the day.
So I used to write out on index cards, not motivating quotes that was very popular. Read all these books
And find motivational quotes. The thing is, is that if I couldn’t act on them, they seemed empty. They seemed invite, they go, oh, that one’s deep. But that’s usually as far as it goes, and the next day it’s gone. So I would try to think of something that was actionable, right? Something like they say, you are the average of the five people that you spend your time with. And so when I needed, I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it seems to be said, it seems like it’s a reasonable thing to kind of study and it speaks to the episode on Tuesday. And so I would say, okay, if I wanted to reach out to these other people and kind of expand my zone, maybe there’s a 10 year time difference between my, I found myself in that situation a lot where the people that I aspired to be with or emulate were older than me, sometimes a generation older than me.
So what do I do at 24, 25 years of age when I’m calling on a 50 year old? What do you do with that person? So you have to be a little creative. What do they like to do? Do they like to walk a cigar? You can’t do that anymore. Do they like to walk a cigar in Central Park? Do they like to go to, it used to be top of the sixes now. I think it’s like a macado kind of cigar bar at 6 6 6 fifth Avenue across from St. Patrick’s Cathedral, near Rockefeller Center. Do they like to golf? Are they big fans of a sporting team? And so you would say, okay, look, maybe they’re Yankee fans. So then you’d go out and pick up two tickets and say, Hey, I got an extra ticket. You don’t even have to be like, I bought you a ticket.
You get three or four tickets. You have two of your buddies come and you had the extra. And now you start to prospect into that group of people that you want to associate with that can help expand your thinking and help, not necessarily mentor you, but expose you to a different level of success than your peer group is used to. And I used to do that all the time. That’s where all my disposable income kind of went to is not necessarily prospecting these people, but just going out, seeing how they acted, seeing how they behaved, what was their mindset? How did they approach the work week? You know what I mean? And ask them not upfront and overwhelm them like they’re on the marathon, man, is it safe?
What could you do to pick their brain and say, Hey, look, I’m working on this business plan. Can you take a look at it? Sometimes they’d say, no, this was before the age of email. So I’d have to print it out and bind it and say, Hey, here’s a business plan that I’m working on. I was wondering if you just, and I’ll give you 50 bucks, or I’ll take you to dinner and I’ll pick your brain on it. It would be important to me. My peer group, they’re not business owners yet. They haven’t gone out on their own. I don’t really have anyone else to go out to. Now there’s all these mentoring places and score and this and that. It wasn’t really available to me either it didn’t exist or I was ignorant and didn’t know it existed.
So in either way, it wasn’t there. So maybe it’s a round of golf somewhere, or maybe it’s like I used to work at golf courses, so I would say, Hey, Jim McLean is a famous teacher and I can get us on for a lesson on a particular Monday after work. Can you get out a little bit early? I can make that happen. And the guy would be like, wow, you can do that. So I would do that and I’d pay a little cash under the table, this kind of deal. So you can be creative and try to invite those people into your world on the outside, and that affects your inner game. Now that you’ve pulled that off, it should fill you with confidence. It’s not because you landed a million dollar account, but it shows that you can go out, set your mind on doing something, execute it, get it done, and boost your confidence a little bit.
Now those people can also give you some very honest feedback. What I used to hear a lot is like, I’ve never had a person of your age group call me to pick my brain on these types of things. And quite frankly, I’m surprised because I feel successful and I want to give back to the community. So you’d be surprised what people will tell you if you just ask them Right now, I’ve already jumped the gun and I’m doing these damn daily videos to give back to the community for free. We might put a course together on it and take it a step further in the future. I’m talking to Ganja about it, not sure how that would work, but apparently there’s something we can do through YouTube and have a membership aspect to it and turn some of this into a more premium kind of a deal. But that helps your self-talk. It’s like, wow, I called this person. It was intimidating to do so it was effectively, maybe it wasn’t a complete cold call, but I was asking something and I was facing rejection. And so when I found, and this is part of my own self-talk, is the more I put myself in those uncomfortable situations where I had to ask people open-ended questions or yes, no questions where they could say, go forth and procreate with yourself in a manner of speaking.
More times than not, people would say yes in one way, shape, or form. They say, look, I’m awfully busy. I got young kids, or I got crap going on with work, but if you call me Friday at three, I got 15, 20 minutes for you on the phone. And that’s a win. It goes right to your mental game because now achieving a goal, you’re, excuse me, you’re executing on a task that goes towards your goal and you get some very, very valuable feedback from people like, this idea seems good, but this one’s not practical. You can change this one a little bit. Or Here’s how I would do this one even better. And it’s like, wow. Then what do you do? I don’t know. Send the person a bottle of scotch, send them one of their favorite long filler cigars. I dunno. You can get creative, do something nice, send ’em a bottle of whiskey
Or a bottle of wine, buy ’em a $200 gift certificate at a restaurant that you think is good. Say, Hey, thanks. I appreciate the effort. It means a lot to me, more than wanted to send you a little something. That stuff goes a long way people remember, and that’s a very Mike Martin way of going about stuff. The Trading Tribe was a little bit different. I lived in Los Angeles, I had to fly on a plane. That was obviously a huge commitment. So that’s kind of how I paid my tuition on some level, is making a gigantic effort to be part of that. And it’s not a subway train. A few stops down on the four train. It was a much more intense deal. Plus there was time away from the desk and the markets. So this is something that you can think about. I think it’s super valuable.
Anything that you can do to improve your sense of self-awareness, your self-confidence, it goes right into your inner dialogue and your inner chatter. And that’s something that you can focus on and you get to do so by asking people for help. Because more times than not, I mean, heck, I get emails all the time from people, what do you think of this? And sometimes I’ll say, Hey, it doesn’t matter. Here’s where I would go do further research. Or Here’s what I know in my own experience, it takes me five minutes not even to respond politely to an email, especially the ones that are clear and concise. I don’t want four paragraphs that are all blurred into one. It’s T L D R. I don’t have the time for that. I don’t need the context to just the question and then I can help. So think about that on how you can improve that in your own life.
Even here, I don’t really have time to go out because I’m busy, but if you send over an email, I’m absolutely happy to respond, point you in the right direction for this moment in time. I am looking forward to, I got a few friends coming into town this weekend. I’m going to see ’em and spend some time with them too. They’re very, very successful. And that’s all good. So that’s all I have for you today, folks. I appreciate you very much being in here. Please like and subscribe. Also, I should say this at the top of the thing, at the top of the show, but forever in a day, I’ve been given away the audiobook version of the Inner Voice Trading, which I own the rights to. So if you go to martin chronicle.com proper, look in the top right corner and you’ll see a link where you can go and get the download for the audiobook version of the Inner Voice or trading. Thanks so much for being here, folks. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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