Quote from Gordon Gekko:
after all the shit I've tried, it wouldn't surprise me if just about any idea can give you a profit
Gordo,
I don't know if you will understand what I am saying in this reply, but I wager that if you copy it and look at it down the road, you might some day understand fully the point that is being made.
Being an old fart, I grew up in the era of human potentials movement. EST, Esalen Institute, turn on/tune in/drop out, I'm Ok/You're OK, Re-birthing, Power Animals, Sweat Lodges, Crystals, Pyramids, TM, Astral Traveling, Eckankar, Inner Child Workshops, etc, etc, etc.
I would visit friends who were on the same journey, and they literally had thousands of self-help books and quasi spiritual techniques. They would go to weekend seminar after weekend seminar, return from each seminar with an "I understand fully now" attitude.
I called them seminar junkies.
You are probably too young to recall the network marketing boom, the multi-level path to riches. Every month or so, there was some new multi-level program, and a chance to work your down line for fun and profits.
What I observed was that NEVER, NEVER did anyone just stop and master one of these techniques, programs, or business ventures.
They gave it a half hearted shot, and then went on to the next.
I have seen the same with people in relationships, preferring a serial relationship process-----moving from one person to the next, and when it got tough.....simply finding someone new to focus on.
This process doesn't work. This is your problem. You have a resistance to finding one proven trading process and just sticking with it and making it work.
Here is a story that helps to illustrate the point from a different perspective.
The story is from the wise ones in India:
<b>One day a man traveled a far distance to visit his brother. Both he and his brother were of the Hindu faith, which includes many different forms of the One God. The traveling brother had a very deep relationship with one form of God, and had devoted himself fully to the development of that relationship, forsaking all other forms of God in the process. He had obtained a very close relationship with his Beloved God, and had attained peace and tranquility that never left him.
He was traveling to see his brother to share his good news.
When he arrived at the house of his brother, he was greeted by the servant who told him that he had to wait, as his brother was doing Puja to Vishnu (Puja is an act of worship, and Vishnu is a form of God).
The traveling brother waited and after some time the servant came up to him and told him that he would have to wait as his brother was now doing Puja to Ganesha (Ganesha is another form of God).
The traveling brother sat and waited patiently and again the servant came to him and told him that he would have to wait, as now his brother was not doing Puja to Siva (Siva is another form of God).
This pattern repeated for hours and hours, and the traveling brother was informed time and time again that he would have to wait while his brother did Puja to Lakshmi, Ram, Durga, and many other forms of God.
Eventually, the brother finished all of his Pujas, and went looking for his traveling brother.
He could not find his traveling brother anywhere. Finally he found his brother in the back of his estate.
They exchanged greetings, and the traveling brother asked his brother, "What took you so long? You kept me waiting for hours and hours."
The brother answered, "I was doing my worship to all the different forms of God. What did you do while you were waiting?"
The traveling brother replied, "I have been digging a well, come see."
The two brothers walked for some distance, and finally came upon an area of land that was full of holes about 1 foot deep.
"What have you done!" the brother yelled. "Why have you dug all those holes on my property."
The traveling brother calmly replied, "I have been digging a well."
The brother was angered. "Don't you know that in order to dig a well you have to pick a spot and dig deep until you find water."
The traveling brother smiled. "Yes, I understand, do you?"
The brother thought for a moment. He stepped back and looked at his traveling brother, and he saw that there was a glow about him, a radiance.
"You have found God, haven't you!" The brother cried.
"Yes" the traveling brother said.
"How did you find him?" the brother asked.
"Well, I didn't find a well with many shallow holes, and I didn't find God in many different paths, and I didn't find God in many different forms.
I found one form of God, and I surrendered to him and looked for no other's Grace. I single mindedly, and wholeheartedly perfected my surrender by focusing on only one solution, and when my surrender was perfect my beloved God appeared and embraced me."
The brother had learned from his traveling brother. To dig a well, you dig deep until you find water, you don't give up until you have done all that you can. To have success in material or spiritual world, you have to make commitments and keep them.
And most importantly, like the wise men of India say, "The well doesn't go to the thirsty."
Dig deep Gordo, you will find what you are looking for.
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