This episode is the audio edition of my article, Why Putting Money on a Pedestal Blocks Your Trading Progress.
In this episode, I discuss how attaching your sense of peace and security to a future financial milestone can undermine your trading long before you ever hit that number. I unpack why multimillionaires and struggling retail traders alike so often share the exact same scarcity mindset, why the specific dollar figure is almost always irrelevant to how safe you actually feel, and what it really means to treat money as an amplifier rather than a destination.
I also make the case for prioritising the experiences you're chasing — joy, security, presence — in your life right now, rather than deferring them to a number that may never deliver what you expect it to.
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Créde Sheehy-Kelly is a Chartered High-Performance Psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland, and a Trading Psychology Consultant. She specialises in mental conditioning and the psychology of consistent trading execution under pressure.
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