Psychological Rule #6: If it's Self-Sabotage, the Problem/Cause is Not What You Think
Whenever I work with a client who is having problems with self-sabotage -- such as a psychological ceiling, a lot of fear, procrastination, perfectionism, etc. -- I always know that the problem is NEVER what the client thinks it is.
Usually, I run through a check list of things such as:
1) Does the client understand Tharp fundamentals?
2) Does the client have a business plan?
3) Does the client have a decent system, with an acceptable expectancy?
4) Does the client have a have emotional reactions?
5) Does the client follow the ten tasks of trading?
6) Any trading trauma?
And the list goes on and on. And for some people, I need to check everything.
My experience always is that something like not executing trades properly is the result of some emotional trauma that usually happened in the first five years of life. And most of the time the client has totally forgotten about it. But when the experience is relieved of its charge, then he or she can do the things necessary to correct the problem.









Comments
Van, Please offer an idea of how we can remember or discover any emotional trauma that might have happened between ages 0 and 5. If I have an experience like that, I would love to remove its potency. Thanks!
Posted by: Alan Jaquith | January 9, 2007 05:19 PM
Dear Van,
dear Alan,
as far as I know the expert on this is Ed Seykota. He created a process to remove emotional traumas called "Rocks Process".
Seems to be similar to NLP which Van is an expert in.
Greetings
Gabriele
Posted by: Gabriele | January 11, 2007 10:13 PM