I’m Backing Out From My Previous Public Declared Goal

If you have read about my goal in my previous post HERE, you would have known that I’m challenging myself on achieving the USD 55K return in a single trade.

Well, I regret to announce that I’m retreating on this goal and I’m really sorry about this.

I want to thank you all who saw this before and gave me all your encouragement. You are my true friend.

Perhaps you would ask why do I need to do this, right? It’s just a goal and no one will care whether you gonna achieve it or not. There’s no need to do any public declaration here. Further, it doesn’t seem nice to set it and retreat it few months later.

Yes, I understand it doesn’t look nice and it’s a bit kinda unprofessional and doesn’t reflect good on me but I feel better to voicing it out here. At least I need to be responsible to myself, right?

Am i regretted of setting that goal? Yes, i gotta admit. It’s my deepest regret and I’m sorry about it.

What makes me backing out from my goal, perhaps you would ask…

Ya, let me tell you a story that happened on last week that prompted me to realise how wrong was I setting this goal.

I did mention I WAS a top challenger from Freely and YES, the record of my 4,034% was broken. A new record of 4,133 was set to replace me as the top.

But weird, I thought I would be down but no, I felt excited and didn’t know why. Then later on Sunday, I watched the movie, “300″ and I found my answer.

If you have seen the movie, the “300″ means the 300 soldiers going for a war against millions of enemies. And when the Spartans saw their enemies actually out numbered them, they didn’t get disappointed but they felt excited. And exactly that’s the same feeling I had when I heard my record was broken and I realised how wonderful it was.

You know, I used to back off when i encountered challenges and i always feel bad about it, yet doing nothing to overcome it and that had held me back in achieving the thing i want in life. Never i have expected that challenges could make a person so excited until I saw the movie “300″.

They were the true warriors and true warriors never backed off. They would rather fight till their last breath and died in pride.

Given a choice, I would rather live with no regrets than living in shame. Shame makes me feel bad when i see myself in the mirror. Shame actually preventing me in achieving personal excellence.

So, TODAY, I’m revising my goal here….

This is not about breaking the 4,133% and this is not about breaking the USD 55k also as achieving either one independently seems to be rather, simple.

This is about breaking the 4,133% TOGETHER with the USD 55K simultaneously on a single trade and this would be my revised goal from today onwards.

This will be the goal I’m pursuing from today onwards and I feel so good about it and this will be the stretch goal that will continue to push me towards excellence.

I did say that i regret to have set my previous goal and yes I still feel regretted. I regretted for not pushing myself enough by setting such an easily attainable goal. I feel unfair to myself for not setting a quantum goal to stretch myself further.

And yes, I’m gonna test my endurance and perseverance this time to the limit. You guys be my witness.

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5 Comments so far

  1. Kenny on March 28th, 2007

    Great post and great goal I must say. Great lesson from “300″ too. Btw, how about a time for your goal? A goal isn’t a goal without a specific time, right? ;)

  2. Wei Ping on April 4th, 2007

    Kenny,

    The deadline remains the same, before end of 2007.

  3. Kenny Tran on April 4th, 2007

    I also have a trading goal by the end of 2007: To earn at least US$3000 per month as a trader. Not a stretching goal for you? It is for me ;) .

    Hope we have good news for each other by the end of this year.

    Kenny

    kenny-tran.com

  4. Bee Stung Lips on June 8th, 2007

    Wei Ping,

    I’m a beginner, and so far my trade profits hover around 100% only. What is it that I’m not doing to achieve phenomenal profits? I follow all the rules and strategies. Can you shed some lights and perhaps share your experience when you first started out?

    Thanks!

  5. Wei Ping on June 13th, 2007

    Hi Bee Stung Lips,

    Thank you for passing by. I had already replied your questions via email.

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