This is a lesson that will be crucial for many of you. There is a big, big difference between making actual progress versus putting in time and work: Progress = taking the challenging action steps necessary to make real, incremental improvements over time. Problem avoidance = putting in time that's related to your goal, but doing so in an attempt to make things easier or get to your goal faster. Here's examples of the differences... - What you do: Go through the course for a 4th time, or watch a bunch of videos on a completely different strategy hoping to discover some new revelation. (Problem avoidance) - What you should do: Create daily and weekly habits of going back through your detailed trade log to find the single biggest factor you can improve the following week. This could be your profit factor, your quantity of trades (in relation to over or under trading), or your win rate (in relation to where you're creating your plan areas). You then focus on only that thing, keeping everything else equal. Measure the result over a period of weeks. (Progress) - What you do: Increase your risk size or try to copy trade multiple evaluation accounts in an attempt to reach your income goals as fast as possible. When you get close to renewal, you take on more risk to make sure you pass or fail. (Problem avoidance) - What you should do: Focus on building a single account at a time until you have proven you're responsible in managing money like a fund manager would. This means you protect capital, make incremental gains over time, and work your way to a payout before you try to scale. You recognize that with real money you don't just "get to start over." (Progress) - What you do: Lose a trade, or a streak of trades, go on tilt, and then turn to the community to vent. Then you post screenshots of the trade asking "what you did wrong." (Problem avoidance) - What you should do: Accept that losing is a necessary and unavoidable part of the trading process. There is no right answer or solution for losing. Instead, you create daily habits around mindset and emotional control. You don't skip days working on those habits and judge your success or failure on the trade not by whether you won or lost, but by whether you did what you said you were going to do. (Progress)

Guys, what a way to close this week for me. I finally passed two of my three Apex evaluation accounts today! It took two months for one account and a month for the other. 😄 Have a good weekend, everyone!

Just want the groups opinion. I plan to take off the month of December to study the course. Does this sound like a good idea? I can afford it financially. Do you think it's worth it?

I am happy to report that I have a funded account thanks to this platform! @Kyle Henris and team thank you so much for providing me with the tools I need for success. It was not an easy road and I still have to continue to put in the work, but for now I am celebrating this victory. I conquered the technique much faster than the mindset. This journey has taught me so much patience that not only benefits me as a day trader, but it has helped improve my personal life as well. So excited for what's to come!!

Building an extraordinary life (by its very definition) requires an above ordinary effort. Some of you though have a pattern of behavior that will prevent you from ever achieving it. That pattern goes like this: 1) You pay for a course 2) You don’t get the result you wanted as fast as you’d like 3) You call it a scam and bounce to the next shiny object One of the back door benefits of being in this community is you can’t use that excuse here. All of the information is free and you’ve seen week after week your peers having success with it. That means you have no one to blame but YOURSELF. Ultimately that’s a good thing. Excuses, valid or not, will never lead to long-term success. If you’re being honest with yourself, they’re really just a way for you to avoid admitting you failed. BUT…failure is a 🔑 part of the success process. You only achieve extraordinary goals by embracing your failure and learning to overcome it. I’m no different. I’ve failed countless times to get me where I am today: - I got fired from my first job out of college (I didn’t like it so didn’t put in the work necessary to add value to the company) - I never really made a ton of money working for my large financial advisor firm (I wasn’t willing to make cold calls outside of my network) - I struggled for years with day trading before I ever made any real money (I lacked the mindfulness required to be consistent) - I put off building an online business for a whole year before I got it going (I didn’t have any sales or marketing skills) Notice how I never blamed my circumstances or someone else? All of these failure were MY FAULT. Just like yours are all on YOU now. That can be a scary thing… But it’s also liberating! It means you have complete control to shape your own destiny 💪