 everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swoosh and today I wanted to talk to you about making sacrifices. A lot of times I talk to people, they are working full-time, they have a family, everybody has obligations, things they have to do. They find it hard to make time to learn how to trade, to take a class, to even make time to actually spend in the trading room money through Friday, at least a minimum of two three days a week to train and to focus on trading even in the morning. A lot of times people say, oh I don't have the money to spend or I don't have this, I don't have that, I don't have time, I don't have money, all of these things. At the end of the day, you know, when I look back when I started out, which was gosh the end of 2008, at the end of 2008 was when I began trading. When I think about that, that time in my life, I had no idea at that point what I was getting myself into and it took a huge level of commitment for myself to be able to get to this point in my life. Commitment, work and really what it took was sacrifice. So, you know, I say to the people out there that want to trade, if it's something that you really, really want to do, if you really want to do this, if you really want to do this full-time, full-time meaning as your career, if you really want to make money, even if it's part-time in the market, even if you're only going to do it two days a week, say, no matter what the level of time that you're going to put to it for your job, whether it's part-time income or full-time income, in their way, there are sacrifices involved in order for you to get to that point. It's everybody wishes they could just, you know, wipe away a year of their life if they could have free to do it with money coming in or have a year's worth of income. They could just quit their job and trade and not have any worries and no bills and all the time and not have to worry about family obligations and everything else or learn how to trade for free. That's not realistic. Anyone who's program, okay, my program costs $7,000 right now for the two-day course. Anyone whose program is worth their salt that actually works charges money for the program. You will not learn how to trade the market watching free videos or going to free webinars. That's not realistic either. So the sacrifice involved in getting to the point in trading is what? Time, money, effort on your part, work, okay, work in your brain to understand the concepts and do it and learn it and ask questions to be engaged. And all of this takes motivation. When you're motivated, you will make the sacrifices. Like back in 2008, when I started trading, I made the sacrifices that I needed to make because I was extremely motivated because I wanted to change careers. I wanted so badly to get out of the mortgage industry and I wanted to get involved and have a new career and something that I could still do from home and have unlimited income, which I had when I was doing a mortgage job. But things started to change in the industry and I wanted out in 2007, 2008. I made a lot of sacrifices to get to this point. I sacrificed years of my life and lots of money that I lost in the market before I figured out my system and I sacrificed years of my life where I didn't go out and have fun. I worked a full-time job and traded. I saw my family and that was about it. I didn't date, I didn't go out with friends, I didn't spend money on things, all the money that I had, I was using to trade in the market to figure out and develop a system that I do right now, the Golden Gap system. I made so many sacrifices over a number of years. You do not have to make as many sacrifices as I made because you can come and learn my system in a two-day weekend class, but you will still have to make sacrifices, time, money, engagement, all of these things. Don't, you know, spend a weekend with your family. Take a weekend and say, I'm going to take this weekend to myself and I'm going to spend this time in Melissa's Glass to learn how to trade. I'm going to take it seriously. Whatever those things are. So I think a lot of people out there think everything comes easy. When they see someone that's successful like me, they just assume that it came easily to me. It did not come easily to me. I made many, many, many sacrifices during those years. And, you know, I think about it and I'm still single. And at that time in my life, I would have had to make sacrifices if I had a husband and if I had kids. I would have had to make sacrifices then. But really, I made sacrifices in several years of my life where I didn't really have a social life. And that was, that was, you know, something that was very unusual at that time, you know, because most of my friends were going out all the time and having fun. I wasn't having fun. I was at home and I was working and I would trade in the morning. I would work late at night doing my mortgage job and I would work every single weekend. So if you want to become successful, if you want to become good at trading, if you want to really master my system, okay, if you really want to become successful like me, you have to be willing to make sacrifices like I did. But again, like I said, the sacrifices that you have to make are a lot less than I have to make. They don't have to be years and years and years of your life because I figured out the system which you can come and learn from me. And also I'm helping to mentor people to learn my system. I've known a lot of mentoring on Skype, but it's really helped make a big difference in people and how well they've been doing in the last few months since I've taken on some of these people as mentoring students private, private mentoring 101. So if you'd like more information to learn more about my method, I teach it in the class once a month. Email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day, everyone.