GRATITUDE.
Gratitude is a healing force.
Often times, many cases of our depressions, anxieties, and problems can stem from an unfair comparison of ourself to others. You feel as though you should be "keeping up" with your peers, or doing that key thing that the other family is doing. They look so successful, so why aren't you doing it??
When I first got involved with the markets, I went too deep. It was easy to get caught up in feelings of FOMO, not just about money, but about life.
"Ahhh if only I could invest X amount to have X much saved later on, so that I can do more of Y and less of Z"
Does this sound familiar?
If you've ever actively traded, invested, or otherwise spent a lot of time with financial markets, you especially can understand the emotional rollercoaster that comes along with it. Hence why many bitcoiners wisely opt out of that nonsense altogether.
The problem is: you're aiming for a fictitious reality rather than living in your present one. You've created a misalignment between your mind and your environment. Since you prefer to keep your mind on what's coming rather than what is, you paradoxically never achieve "what's coming", as once it's here, your mind is not trained to appreciate it.
I've covered this before: we bitcoiners definitely tend to be more predisposed to the future, for obvious reasons.
At the end of the day, from what I've observed, these woes can stem back to a lack of gratitude about your present.
So then: how can you foster more gratitude?
- See your family more often
- Spend time with friends
- Support your local vendors
- Pick up hobbies that keep you in the moment
- JOURNAL
- Join a community (of any kind)
Anything that can bring you mentally back to the present. Engage with it more. You can't magically tell yourself to feel more thankful about your life; You can try "reminding yourself" of all you have, but ultimately you have to do things that make you feel thankful about life. You have to fill your life with reasons to love it. And that takes WORK.
"Waiting for the money to come" only solidifies to yourself that your happiness never will.
If you haven't in a while, or ever: Take a moment to consider what percentage of your day-to-day actions are oriented around the present vs. the future. List them out if you have to. See the imbalance, if you feel there is one.
If you find yourself too future-leaning or you're trying to stay more present and connected with your close ones, consider the gratitude that full presence in those moments require. It makes more of a difference than you may think, cliché as it sounds.