Trading on Target: How to Cultivate a Winner's State of Mind

MAKING THE DECISION

There is a lot to be learned by traders from this story. Letting go of any resentment allows a person with a terrible loss to move on to a new life, to future happiness and success. Rather than being stuck in a destructive emotional loop that simply consumes you with each new cycle, the act of letting go allows you to drop all the emotional baggage in a single act. But, how do you do such a simple, yet difficult thing when you have paid a terrible price for the actions of others?

Looking at the process of letting go from the end instead of the beginning, the last step in letting go of resentment is the decision to do so. That decision comes from an attitude. And that attitude comes from a philosophy, which is based on your beliefs. You cannot simply make the decision to let go of resentment. That decision, in order to motivate you to follow through on it, must be based on something stronger than the desire not to feel a certain way. Depending upon what you say to yourself about life and what it means to you, you will find it easy or hard to make that decision, and then to stick to it.