For me, reflection is necessary to organise my thoughts and understand how I am feeling. Yesterday, I took time to reflect on my investing journey that I started around two weeks ago. The picture below is an accurate representation of the series of emotional phases I found myself. In the beginning, I was very excited about learning about investing and learn about the stock market. I believed that it would be a fun and engaging way to understand money and financial ideas; I had this mindset for the first week.
It was not uncommon for me to gain some new ideas about psychology and technology which I enjoyed as it kept me engaged. However, I reached a point in the second week where I become more overwhelmed with the content; words and data I didn’t understand made me realise that this would be much more difficult than I anticipated. Hence, yesterday I came to the conclusion that in order to gain something from this experience I had to put in more work and effort. Otherwise, I would inevitably become trapped in a phase where I see all the tasks ahead as impossible and quit.
After crossing the bridge, success becomes much more attainable as the most difficult stage is overcome. My goal is to cross that bridge and make my way up towards my goals, after all, the greater effort I put in, the more rewarding the outcome will be.
