 Welcome. This is Melissa Armell and I am the Stock Swoosh and today I wanted to talk about motivation. You have to be motivated if you want to trade and I don't care if you want to trade for a living, you want to do it phone time, if you want to do it part-time, if you want to do it on the side, if you want to do it for your retirement, whatever. You still need to know what you're doing in order to make money in the market. It doesn't matter how many hours a week or how many trades a week you spend or take, you still have to know what you're doing. So guess what? You have to be motivated. You have to be motivated to understand why you're doing the trades that you're taking. You have to be motivated to learn from someone who's experienced, professional, someone like me who knows what they're doing that can help mentor you through the process of learning a strategy. You have to be motivated because you will have a learning curve, ultimately whether it's at the beginning, middle or towards the end after doing it for a while and then you have some hiccups. You have to be motivated if you want to trade the market in any shape, form or fashion because ultimately every person, every person out there comes up to the point where they have a bad day or they have a hiccup and they're trading and then in order to push through that to get to the next point and to continue and to be successful, which is ultimately what you want to do, you have to be motivated. I was extremely motivated when I started trading in 2008 that I had no idea what I was doing. I took one class, I paid a lot of money for that class, which again, that pushed me then to be really motivated to get it as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, I didn't learn in that class how to make money. And then I realized I had to teach myself how to do it and even took motivation because it took me three years to figure out the golden gap system, which is what I trade now and teach to people. So, and even now, even today, even 12 years plus later, I am still having my ups and downs when I have a bad day, which I mean, what do I mean? I call it amnesia. If I have a bad day where I lose money or if I take a trade that I lose, I try to wipe it off and wash it off and get up the next day, really super-duper motivated to come back huge then the next day. And that's really what it takes. Now, that's my personality. And I think if you don't have the personality where you're really a positive upbeat person, it may be hard for you to push through those ups and downs. But you got to be like this, where the curve is going up. Your learning curve is increasing your learning more. You're getting better over time. You're making money over time. So think of it that way to help you instill and continue with the motivation. And I also think it's really important to know where you're doing this. Because again, if you're doing this for the purpose of making money, if you want to change careers, you got to keep it going. Think really why you want to do this. So you stay on top of it. So many people right now in 2020, they're either they've lost their jobs, they're in danger of losing their jobs, or they're not making as much money. And they really are feeling certain about the future or the retirement or whatever the case may be, and everybody wants extra money right now. Whether they're rich, poor or somewhere in between middle class. Listen, you can do this if you learn how. I'm teaching regular people how to trade the market. Some of them are extremely motivated. And sometimes people come and I have to give them a little boost. But I think for you individually, if you really want to do this, if you really are motivated to do it, you can do it with the right system and the right mentor. And so you found the right person, which is me. I can teach you how to do it, and I also can help you through those times when you need that extra boost of motivation. And again, I have to give it to myself. I have to give it to myself. I mean, there's not every single trade that I take works. I mean, there are some trades that I take that lose. And I have to motivate myself and push myself on those particular days as well. And that's how you get to the next step and the next level of making more money and getting better at trading as well to achieve ultimately your goal of doing this, whatever that happens to be. Good luck, everyone. And if you're interested in more information or want to learn my system, sign up for the Golden Gap course. Email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day.