Mental Capital

Mental Capital

Trading Time

Your beliefs about time might be the real reason you keep breaking your rules.

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Mindie Kniss
Nov 06, 2025
∙ Paid

After Sean died, my entire perception of time shifted.

One minute, my husband was there.
The next, he wasn’t.

That kind of loss creates a fracture not just in your heart, but in your sense of how the world works. 💔

I remember thinking, If something like that can happen without warning, ANYTHING can happen any time.

And from there, my brain made a jump I didn’t catch until much later:

You don’t know how long you have… so you better make ALL the money today.

Every trading session felt urgent.
Every setup carried the weight of needing to work right now.
Every loss felt catastrophic—not just financially, but existentially.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was trying to race the clock.

I’d sit down to look at my charts with panic simmering just below the surface.

And when you bring that kind of energy into the market, you start grasping. Forcing. Overtrading. Ignoring your plan.

And then you wonder why it’s not working. 🤷🏻‍♀️

If you’ve ever felt behind in life…
If you’ve ever felt like it’s taking too long...
If you’ve ever sat down to trade with something to prove...

This post is for you.

👇🏼 Paid members, keep reading for the deeper psychology behind this, plus how to finally shift your relationship with time and start trading from peace, not pressure.

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