My dad is a poker player and not long ago he explained life to me in poker terms.
He said, “sometimes you’re winning and everything is going well, and other times you can’t get the cards and nothing goes your way, but if you’ve built up enough chips you can make it through.”
I listened to him and compared life to the stock market because the stock market is really just a pattern of people’s behaviours. Even as a collective whole we can’t always be on the upswing.
The thing about not having the cards go your way is that you find out who you are and what you can handle. The more you make it through, the more you trust yourself to be able to make it through.
I used to live full of anxiety because of the 3 things that Tony Robbins says trigger fear: loss, less and never.
I worried constantly about losing something/one, having less, or never having again.
The more times you get stripped down, the more you realize that sometimes you don’t get dealt the cards, and when nothing is going your way, you can still choose to allow happiness into your heart.
“I could tell you my adventures – beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’ – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland