How Are You Measuring Success?

Are you successful ?What defines success to you ?
Is it what people say about you, or what you think about yourself ?

It seems that we are all in pursuit of what success represents to each of us individually. But what does it look like, feel like, and more importantly, when do we know we have it ?

You can’t manage what you can’t measure.

Ask yourself these two questions,
1) What motivates you?
2) What incentivizes you?

If money isn’t a primary driver, it wouldn’t be wise to start playing the comparison game and looking around at what cars people are driving or what size houses they are living in, would it ?

It’s important to measure success the right way because it informs how you spend your time and effort. If you don’t measure success in terms of what’s truly important to you, you can’t work towards getting there.

Discover your values

Highly motivated people often focus too much on execution without spending enough time to think about what to execute in the first place. Being able to achieve a success metric is hard, but knowing which metric to achieve is important.

Discover what you value and choose your own metrics for success. If you don’t choose for yourself, you’ll end up flowing with the current of the culture around you, which may or may not be fulfilling for you.

Compare yourself only to yourself


We have a tendency to measure our success in comparison to other people. If your friend (insert your friends name) is making more money than you, you might feel like a failure.

Measure what’s hard to measure


It’s easy to measure financial success. You can see a number in your bank account and compare it to others’ bank accounts.

Measure results over the long-term


Success doesn’t happen overnight. It usually takes a lot of failures to get there. Don’t just measure immediate tangible results to define success. Consider what you’ve learned and how it will help you achieve success in the future. Don’t define yourself solely by your current circumstances. Consider who you are becoming.

Measure outcomes, not proxies 


It’s easy to measure proxies for success. Secondary metrics, such as the number of social media followers you have, might be a proxy for marketing success, but Instagram followers don’t always translate to business results.

Learn and iterate


Sony measured success based on profits from playstation consoles  Netflix measured success based on subscriptions for streaming movies/series on the Internet. DVD rentals were yesterday’s metric for success. Streaming subscriptions is today’s metric for success. You know who won that battle.

Success is an ongoing process of one’s personal striving to become MORE in life, whether its improving your one or all of the 4 Pillars To Mastery (Health, Wealth, Relationships & Spirituality)
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Never Say This Word Again!

It keeps lots of everyday people from reaching their goals, or even blowing right past them.

It’s not crazy voices, though you know I’ve seen a lot of that in my time. And it’s more than just bad (was sloppy) investing, which is a totally avoidable problem.

The thing that keeps GREAT performers from being LEGENDARY in their field… is HESITATION.

Delay. The art of letting opportunities pass you by because… you’re afraid.

The instant I know that something works, I HIT THE GAS

I Started Writing books at 18 years old. Before that, I was in high school learning and discovering what schools offer to say is a way to financial freedom. And most recently, in the past few years, I published my first Book that produced some dollars to my bank account in just a few months.

Now, I know that I’m not normal. Not everyone is comfortable with this kind of risk. But then again, not everyone thinks that $10,000,000 is an average year.

But no matter what your goals are – and they should be very high – hesitation is the enemy.

When I am presented with a great opportunity… I make up my mind in seconds.

When you are presented with a great opportunity… How long do you take to make up your mind?

Do you hesitate? Do you drag your feet while the greatest moments of your life pass you by?

Are you afraid to take the leap? Does the fear of one instantaneous decision… that will change your life forever — and for the better — keep you from acting right now?

This is not the time, friend. Do not drag your feet. Especially for those of you who are a TOP LEADER… because the opportunity is HERE.

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How Can You Improve Yourself?


1:-Stop discussing your personal life with every second person. Tell them what’s necessary, privacy is everything.

2:-Stop wasting your time on PUBG . It doesn’t Feed you.

3:-Stop trying to please everyone. Give importance to yourself.

4:-Stay away from negative people . Make yourself as your best friend.

5:—Stop worrying about what people say. Tomorrow morning if you disappear, world will go on perfectly fine without you.

6:—Spend time with family more rather than social media.

7:-Make your own rules and boundaries. Don’t let anyone to break them .

8:—Always keep smile . And don’t waste your time on those people who don’t cares about you.

9:—Polish your skills and don’t let society to take advantage of them. Do whatever which helps you to polish your skill.

10:—The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.

11:-Learn something new every day which helps you to improve your skills.

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What is the best Money Advice You can Ever Receive??

What is the best way to make money?


My late grandfather lived a complete life. He died as a very happy man an 87. He was the most respected on our family.

He was an epitome of planning. He planned his life so well that even major surprises which sprung up in front of him was dealt with relative ease.

How could he do that!!!

That was the biggest myth considering he had 4 children(3 daughters whom he had to get married), 11 siblings to take care of with absolutely no support from his parents.

When I started working, i got my first salary of K2000 which I spent till the last paise. He called me one day to his room and asked me what all did I do with my first salary.

I told him that I got presents to everyone at home and spent the rest partying.

Then he told me something which I’m following to this day.

Plan every $ dollar you get extremely carefully.
Save 30% of your total salary no matter how hard it is. Just keep the money aside as though it’s never yours. This saving is after the PF and other standard deductions.
Pay off your loans no matter how hard it is for your survival. This will build the trust and people trust us more. Go hungry but never default on a loan. If you go hungry once then you will learn the lesson.
Insure yourself. Keep some amount aside which can be used to pay the insurance premium once in a year.
Ensure that the above spends does not cross 70% of your total income. If at all it crosses then you are not planning financially well. Bring down the fixed expenses.
With the remaining 30% of your income, don’t keep a single paise. Spend it till the last $ dollar. This is completely meant to spent. Finish off this amount.
I had argued that 30% is not sufficient at all. After 2 years of following his advice, I understand 30% is more than sufficient.

I religiously followed his advice. The result, I was able to support myself, wrote and promoted a Book, started a business and I thrived, all within 3 years of working. And I My salary is nominal.. Of course I earned some money with my on-site work contracts. But even with this money I followed the same advice which he gave me.



Some other gems from him

Don’t take a loan it if it exceeds more than 35% of your total income.
Give highest priority to family spends than personal spends. This way your family bonding is stronger.
Save always in the traditional way. It is always government savings like NSC or KVP and FD/RD. No investment in stocks or anywhere where there is risk to the principal amount.
Last but the biggest gem of an advice which he gave me.


Instead of spending myself for all household things, my grandpa told me to give my wife a “salary”. Increase it as and when my salary increases as well. This made me completely free of thinking about household expenses as my wife started to take care of everything. Believe me she started saving some money in the”salary” which I used to give her.

She even buys my clothes with her saved money. And gifts me on my birthday as well.

By now I understood his secret. It was nothing but financial discipline. When you are financially disciplined everything else falls in place.

I still miss my grandfather. He was a great man with responsibility and deeply connected to his family.

He passed away peacefully in September 2011. I’m very lucky to have spent a lot of time with my grandfather. He was a visionary in his own way.

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What is Stress?

What is stress

Stress is the body’s response to physical or emotional demands. Emotional stress can play a role in causing depression or be a symptom of it. A stressful situation can trigger feelings of depression, and these feelings can make it more difficult to deal with stress.

High-stress events, such as losing a job or the end of a long-term relationship, can lead to depression. Not everyone who experiences these situations becomes depressed. Biological factors may explain why one person facing a stressful circumstance experiences depression while another person doesn’t.

Causes of stress


Losing a family member, divorce, and moving are all major life changes that can cause stress. Some studiesTrusted Source link an overactive stress system and high levels of cortisol in the body to depression and other health conditions, including heart disease. When the mind feels threatened, the body produces more stress hormones — such as cortisol — to help the body fight or run away from the threat. This works well if you’re in real danger, but it doesn’t always benefit you in your daily life.



Other examples of events that can cause stress include:

getting into a fight with your spouse or significant other
losing your job
major natural disasters, such as earthquakes or tornadoes, that can damage your home or destroy it altogether
getting into a car accident, which can cause physical, emotional, and financial stress
being robbed, mugged, or attacked
Certain lifestyle choices can also contribute to your stress levels. This is especially true if they affect your overall health or if you become dependent on unhealthy coping mechanisms. Lifestyle choices that can increase your stress include:

heavy or excessive consumption of alcohol
not getting enough exercise
smoking or using illegal drugs
working for long periods of time without taking a break, or being a “workaholic”
not eating a well-balanced diet
spending too much time watching television or playing video games
looking at a smartphone in bed, which can keep you from falling asleep
Sometimes the constant stresses of daily life trigger your fight-or-flight response. This can lead to complications, including depression. In other cases, the development of depression is unrelated to stress.

Depression can make experiencing and coping with events in your life more challenging. Big and small stresses still occur, but with depression, you may not feel as equipped to deal with them. This can make the symptoms of depression and the stress of certain situations even worse.

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Effects of stress on depression


While stress can generally have negative effects on your physical and mental health, it can be especially harmful if you have depression.

Stress can make you feel less able to maintain positive habits or coping strategies, which are important to managing depression. This can make symptoms of depression feel more intense. Interrupting a healthy routine can result in negative coping strategies, such as drinking or withdrawing from social relationships. These actions can result in further stress, which can then make depression symptoms worse.

Stress can also affect your mood, as anxiety and irritability are both common responses to stress. When a stressor causes you to feel anxious, the anxiety may result in more negative feelings or frustration, even if the stressor is only temporary.

Tips

Tips on managing stress
Stress management techniques are useful in coping with depression. Stress relief can also help prevent depressive symptoms from developing. Some helpful stress management techniques include:

getting enough sleep
eating a healthy diet
getting regular exercise
taking occasional vacations or regular breaks from work
finding a relaxing hobby, such as gardening or woodworking
consuming less caffeine or alcohol
doing breathing exercises to lower your heart rate
If lifestyle choices are causing you stress, you may consider changing the way you approach your personal or professional life. Some ways you can help decrease this kind of stress include:

putting yourself under less pressure to perform at work or school, such as by lowering your standards to a level you still find acceptable
not taking on as many responsibilities at work or activities at home
sharing responsibilities or delegating tasks to others around you
surrounding yourself with supportive and positive friends and family members
removing yourself from stressful environments or situations
Activities such as yoga, meditation, or attending religious services can also help you deal with stress. A combination of these techniques may prove even more effective. It’s important to find what works for you. And no matter what you choose, it’s vital to have close friends and family members who are willing to support you.

Talking to a counselor, therapist, or other mental health professional can also be a useful way to deal with stress and depression. Talk therapy alone or combined with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or medication is a proven solution for both depression and chronic stress. Medications for depression include:

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as citalopram (Celexa)
monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), such as isocarboxazid (Marplan)

What the expert says


“A depressed person is compromised in dealing with problematic situations,” says Stacey Stickley, a licensed professional counselor practicing in Ashburn, Virginia. “When a person is dealing with depression, things may seem more negative than they really are. Events that would have been taken in stride may seem more problematic or impossible to handle. The idea of taking action on things may require more of a person’s resources, resources that are already compromised due to the depression.”

“Talk to your doctor about pharmacological options, or go talk to a counselor about evaluating and managing your symptoms,” she says. “Don’t wait. Being proactive is important so you can maybe stop the downward slide sooner. It’s easier to climb out of a shallow hole than one you have been slowly digging and tunneling into for several months.”

Takeaway


Stress can result from many personal, professional, and environmental causes. The best way to cope with stress is by managing the stressors that are within your control. For example, you could walk away from toxic relationships or leave a stressful job. You can also practice accepting or coping with the stressors that are out of your control, with actions like meditating or drinking less caffeine and alcohol.

Depression can make it much more difficult to control or cope with stressors, but seeking out counseling or therapy or taking medication can allow you to better confront stressors and deal with them in a positive, constructive way.

What is Liquidity?

What Is Liquidity?

Liquidity refers to how active a market is. It is determined by how many traders are actively trading and the total volume they’re trading. One reason the foreign exchange market is so liquid is because it is tradable 24 hours a day during weekdays. It is also a very deep market, with nearly $6 trillion turnover each day. Although liquidity fluctuates as financial centres around the world open and close throughout the day, there are usually relatively high volumes of forex trading going on all the time.

What Are Liquidity Levels?

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For big institutions and traders with a need to fill large orders, finding pockets of enough liquidity is absolutely essential. A market’s liquidity has a big impact on how volatile the market’s prices are. When these big players take positions in the market, they obviously aim to be filed at the best possible price. However, given the size of their positions, they need to find enough counter-forces to fill their orders, and here is the key, with the minimal amount of slippage. If a big player were to enter the market at an area of low liquidity, the volatility it would create would have a negative impact on the average price it gets. Lower liquidity usually results in a more volatile market and cause prices to change drastically; Alternatively, if the same trader were to enter a trade at an area of much higher liquidity, it usually creates a less volatile market in which prices don’t fluctuate as drastically, therefore ensuring a better average price for the entire position aimed to enter.

So, where do we find these levels? Where stop-loss orders are placed. Where do you think the old fashion concept of “stop-loss hunt” comes from? From the necessity that large players have to enter the market in areas of liquidity as they aim to accumulate major positions. These areas will always attract interest as that’s where pockets of liquidity exist, hence allowing them to get the best average price by reducing the risk of slippage.

The creation of a liquidity level comes as a result of an initial imbalance of supply/demand, which forms what we popularly know as a swing high or swing low. As more players take positions in the market, these are levels where market participants will use as a historical reference to place their stops. When the levels are then re-tested, a decision will be made. The binary outcome here can be a breakout of the level or a reversal back to the mean.

As a rule of thumb, unless the rejection makes it to a [50% retracement](https://www.tradingview.com/ideas/500fibonacciretracement/) of the previous high/low, be in high alert of a low-quality liquidity level; the more vigorous the rejection of a level, the more chances it has of holding on a retest. Personally, I always like to see a rejection that leads to a structure breakout via a new cycle high or low. Other factors such as confluence, market conditions (risk on/off), market structure in higher timeframes, economic data, will also play a role in determining if the area will hold or fold, and you definitely want to account for all these elements too as part of your plan. However, the power of retesting an area of liquidity that had previously resolved into a successful market structure breakout, as I will show in an example below, tends to be a solid edge to exploit.



Other nuances one must be aware of when trading levels of liquidity include factoring in the time. If the separation between the creation of the liquidity area and the first retest comes after an excessive number of days/weeks (depending n the timeframe you trade), the level may not hold the same weight as it used to as the market context evolves and orders get pulled. At the same time, if you find two or more liquidity levels nearby — clustering of multiple levels of interest — , market participants will tend to place their stop loss orders at the most extreme level, so be aware of that.

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How Are You Measuring Success?

Are you successful ?What defines success to you ?
Is it what people say about you, or what you think about yourself ?

It seems that we are all in pursuit of what success represents to each of us individually. But what does it look like, feel like, and more importantly, when do we know we have it ?

You can’t manage what you can’t measure.

Ask yourself these two questions,
1) What motivates you?
2) What incentivizes you?

If money isn’t a primary driver, it wouldn’t be wise to start playing the comparison game and looking around at what cars people are driving or what size houses they are living in, would it ?

If money is a primary driver, understand that it isn’t a complete condition of success. I know plenty of financially “ successful ” people that don’t feel successful at all, much less happy about where they’re at.

It’s important to measure success the right way because it informs how you spend your time and effort. If you don’t measure success in terms of what’s truly important to you, you can’t work towards getting there.

Discover your values
Highly motivated people often focus too much on execution without spending enough time to think about what to execute in the first place. Being able to achieve a success metric is hard, but knowing which metric to achieve is important.

Discover what you value and choose your own metrics for success. If you don’t choose for yourself, you’ll end up flowing with the current of the culture around you, which may or may not be fulfilling for you.

Compare yourself only to yourself
We have a tendency to measure our success in comparison to other people. If your friend (insert your friends name) is making more money than you, you might feel like a failure.

Measure what’s hard to measure
It’s easy to measure financial success. You can see a number in your bank account and compare it to others’ bank accounts.

Measure results over the long-term
Success doesn’t happen overnight. It usually takes a lot of failures to get there. Don’t just measure immediate tangible results to define success. Consider what you’ve learned and how it will help you achieve success in the future. Don’t define yourself solely by your current circumstances. Consider who you are becoming.

Measure outcomes, not proxies 
It’s easy to measure proxies for success. Secondary metrics, such as the number of social media followers you have, might be a proxy for marketing success, but Instagram followers don’t always translate to business results.

Learn and iterate
Sony measured success based on profits from playstation consoles  Netflix measured success based on subscriptions for streaming movies/series on the Internet. DVD rentals were yesterday’s metric for success. Streaming subscriptions is today’s metric for success. You know who won that battle.

Success is an ongoing process of one’s personal striving to become MORE in life, whether its improving your one or all of the 4 Pillars To Mastery (Health, Wealth, Relationships & Spirituality)
 If you’d like to learn the secrets that I implemented for more than 5 years that helped me have a 1st World Psychology 

It may be the best $7 investment you’ll ever make. If you gain absolutely nothing, I’ll triple your investment to $21. What do you have to lose?

If you are truly inspired and shifted by this Post or The FINANCIAL FREEDOM community feel free to take out a second of your precious time and click ” Share and Send to A friend.”
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