Life Balance as a Day Trader
When a person falls head first into a massive project, journey, or world, it can be all consuming. The urge to pour all of your time, energy, money, and passion that you have into this new endeavor can be strong. But that type of focus and dedication is not sustainable for very long. There are downsides to that pressure and devotion.
In this podcast episode, we dive deeper into figuring out how critical our life balance is and what we do daily to have busy but happy and healthy lives along this adventure. Check it out!
The normal requirements between family, relationship attentiveness, intellectual and creative work, physical strengthening and health maintenance, loving yourself, work and home management… It can be a lot at baseline!
And then if you find that you have a deep passion for one particular thing, such as day trading, maintaining that balance can be tricky. There are some key ways to manage this pressure. We’ve all heard the saying - it takes pressure to create diamonds. We do believe that holds true for creating a successful day trading career - continuous pressure that you learn from and persevere through. But continuous pressure like that can be dangerous to your heart and body if you never let off some steam.
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop.”
~ Confucius
We have found that we have to prioritize life balance as we grow and evolve as successful day traders to keep our dream pursuit sustainable. Maybe we wont achieve our larger goals as soon as we might have dreamt at first, but that does not mean we wont when it is meant to be. Finding our balance has not been simple, but essential for us as mamas and dedicated day traders.
How do we choose to infuse some balance into this mix? We are all going to feel a little different about what takes top priority for us. But we’re all human with similar needs for our bodies, minds, and spirits. Some of the best outlets are pretty common knowledge but bear repeating: exercise, outside time, hobbies, social time with friends and family, spirituality, meditation, reading, intimacy with your partner… One thing we have learned from our few years in the trading world - Life balance is essential to longevity.
Here at Market Mamas, we feel our best when we take purposeful time to devote to building our trading foundation and experience every day. But also each day shutting that part of our brains off temporarily and feeding our other life needs.
This is our deep dive into figuring out how critical our life balance is and what we do daily to have busy but happy and healthy lives along this adventure.