 everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swoosh, and today I wanted to talk to you about setting goals. You know, I think it's very important to set goals. I do that for myself a lot. In fact, maybe I do it a little bit too much, but I'm one in a million actually, but I find that most people really don't set any goals at all or don't set enough goals for themselves. Setting goals is very important. Why? It gives you something to think about, something to work towards, something to look forward to, something to get up and do each and every single day or weekend or week or month. If you don't have any goals at all or any aspirations for the future whatsoever, you're probably going to tend to be on the side of laziness. And I'm talking right now specifically not just about trading, but other things that we may want in life. But getting back to trading, I think it's really important to set your goals realistically at the beginning. What do I mean? I mean, take the amount of money that you have and say, I have this much. I can turn my money into this much by this amount of time frame and they're on the side of conservative. Then if you exceed your goals, you're going to feel a lot better about yourself. What happens is sometimes people set these crazy goals for themselves in too short of a timeframe, then they're depressed, then they get upset, then they get angry up with themselves because they didn't achieve their goals. I'd rather see you set very low bar goals, realistic goals, you know, and then exceed them and then you'll feel great and then you build on that. There's nothing like being positive to be able to build on the energy for you to take money that you have. I'm just going to say, say for example, you have $5,000. If you can take $5,000 and double that to $10,000 in one month's time, which I think is very realistic to do, at least trade my system with the golden gap. You can take that money then and double it the next month. And every time you grow it, then you're doubling and doubling and doubling that. That is something to look forward to. So even though you may wish that you had $100,000 right now today, that you could double to $100,000 a month, you know, you don't if you don't. And that's what it is. You have to take your money and you have to make it work from you and you have to be realistic and conservative. So you get the program, do the right thing and take the right actions. I'd rather see someone take $5,000. It ended up making $15,000 in a month and then exceed their expectations and feel good about it, feel great about it and take that forward to the future. Having goals is very important. Knowing where you want to go is very important. Set realistic expectations for yourself so that you can meet them. And if you need help, I'm here to help you. I mentor my students. I help answer their questions. I talk to them on the phone. I do Skype sessions with people. I try to make myself available to people as much as I can given my schedule and the things that I do that keep me busy. But the fact is I really, really want people to make it. I do my best to try to help people. You can reach out and I think that's something that really sets me apart from a lot of other trading educators, especially people that run their own business like me, and they don't make the time for individuals. I mean, I have a busy schedule, but I juggle it pretty well, quite frankly. And I don't mind hard work and I don't mind being busy. In fact, I like being busy. So for me, it's fulfilling to be able to help people reach their goals and achieve them. And so if you're interested in more information about what I do and teach you people how to trade, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day, everyone.