Dinner Decisions and Your Trading 

One of the unexpected banes of adulthood is figuring out what's for dinner. 

Every. Single. day.

I've attempted to plan things out before, but I think I finally cracked the code in a way that's actually going to work. As I was putting it together, I realized the same idea applies really well to trading.

Reducing Frequent Decisions

When it comes to meal prep, groceries, leftovers, and deciding what days you cook versus what days you eat leftovers, there are all these little decisions to make. I've figured out that if I make those decisions one time during the week instead of every single night, the whole thing becomes way less stressful.

So think about where you can do this in your trading.

What are the decisions you find yourself making over and over again that really don't need to be?

Is it the time of day you trade? Do you just trade depending on when you wake up and what the market happens to look like? Try changing it to a fixed time with a beginning and an end and see how that goes. That's one less decision on your plate, and you can actually focus on trading your plan and finding your setups.

Or maybe it's deciding what markets to trade. Are you opening your charts every day and choosing between this futures market or that one? Pick one.

I know that can be alarming for people, but if you can't trade one market well, it's going to be really hard to trade five different markets well. Simply reducing the number of decisions you make upfront might really help relieve your stress.

For me, when it comes back to dinner, I've now decided that by Sunday night I'm going to make the plan for the week. That's a start.

Communicate the Plans

For dinners, this week I actually wrote out on a whiteboard what days I'm cooking, what days I'm not, and what days I have meetings or events that will interfere with our usual dinner time. This has reduced stress for both my husband and I as questions about food don't come up every time we pass each other in the house. And of course there’s flexibility built in. If something changes, I just erase it and update the board.

So think about who you need to communicate with to stay on top of your trading.

It doesn't necessarily have to be someone in your personal life. It could be me as your educator, someone on our support team, or even colleagues who want to schedule meetings or events that interfere with one of your trading activities.

Try to be proactive about letting people know your schedule. That alone can reduce a lot of the unnecessary decision-making stress that creeps into your day.

As you can see, this isn't some big list of ten things to do. It's really just making your decisions once, following through on them, and communicating the plan.

For me, fingers crossed this new dinner plan is finally the solution and keeps us both happy and healthy for years to come.

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