Searching for your Balance E-Book

JOAN PONT GALMÉS

• Herausgeber: JPJOHNSON BOOKS
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

In 2019, after two decades of professional stock market trading and because of a single decision, Joan Pont lost all his capital.
That money was for his family's future, so the psychological blow was terrible.
Financial or material loss is equivalent to the loss of a loved one, and the mourning can be just as long and difficult to overcome.
Joan needed psychological help, but she did not have to go to more than two sessions.
Why?
The answer is that his work had, to some extent, shielded him against failure, he had found a balance and knew how to use it to overcome problems.
Stoic philosophy has a maxim:  You cannot control everything that is going to happen to you, but you can control what you think about those events.
This book is a vital journey through the great uncertainties that affect human beings: death, love, children and health. Facing them with serenity and balance is something that will lead to a fulfilling existence.
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our concept of security as a species and has caused great imbalances in our expectations for the future, but a stoic outlook will help you to regain your balance and your enthusiasm for moving forward.
CRISES ARE A STOIC'S PARADISE.
Joan Pont lives on the island of Mallorca. A former bodyguard for military authorities and a stockbroker, he now devotes himself exclusively to literature.
JOAN PONT'S WORKS AVAILABLE ON KOBO/FNAC
Serie "Yes, I want it. Yes, I can". (Translated into many languages)
1- How to write your first book and publish it online.
2- Essential advice on how to prosper economically in life.
3- Help, my child wants to be a youtuber!
4- The 12 commandments of independent self-publishing.
5- Searching for your Balance. Keys to stoic thinking.

Youth series:
A Pet for Tom (translated into multiple languages).

Find Joan Pont at:
Email: [email protected]
Website: pontailor2000.wixsite.com/jpjohnson
Twitter: @J_P_Johnson
Facebook: facebook.com/pontgalmes
Instagram: j.p.johnson1

Leseprobe

SEARCHING FOR YOUR BALANCE

Keys to Stoic Thought

Joan Pont

For Mamen

SEARCHING FOR YOUR BALANCE. Keys to stoic thought.

© Joan Pont Galmés [2021)

All rights reserved.  

1-THE ONLY GOOD DAY WAS YESTERDAY.

Dear friend, in 2019, after two decades of being professionally involved in the stock market, I lost all my capital because of a wrong decision.

That money was for my family's future, so the psychological blow was terrible.

Financial, or material, loss is equivalent to the loss of a loved one, and the mourning can be just as long and difficult to overcome.  

I needed psychological help, but I didn't have to go to more than two sessions.

Why?

Stock investing is a dedication that requires a high level of mental preparation. During trading sessions, brokers' moods experience a myriad of ups and downs throughout the day. Good and bad trades alternate, but there is no stopping.

This emotional chaos, however, shields you from the feeling of failure.

There are times when you win and times when you lose, but there is no worse feeling than losing when you think you are going to win.

I remember saying to the psychologist: "I'm used to losing", and that came as a great surprise to him.

Although I was not used to losing everything, nor is anyone else, of course. However, my armour worked and, as I said, I didn't have to go more than two sessions to be able to continue with my life and try with all my energy to recover the lost capital.

In this book I want to teach you the keys to survive the ups and downs of life from a stoic point of view and to enjoy a fulfilling existence

 FINDING YOUR BALANCE

Stoicism is a philosophical school founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early third century B.C. Stoics believed that everything around them operated according to a law of cause and effect, resulting in a rational structure of the universe. They believed that "we cannot control what happens around us, but we can control what we think about these events".

WE CANNOT CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.

Navy Seals, one of the most demanding elite military corps in the world, have an axiom which is: The only good day was yesterday.

This means that all things will always tend to get worse and should never be accommodated, and it causes a lowering of expectations in their minds. In this way, the soldier accepts events (which can be very dramatic, such as the death of his comrades or serious injuries to his own body) in a stoic way, i.e. he knows it will happen and accepts it, but he doesn't stop trying to accomplish his mission with all his might.

That is the key and that is the BALANCE.

2- BE A CUSTOMER WHO EXPECTS NOTHING FROM A HOTEL.

The worst hotel guests, the ones that managers and all their employees fear the most, are those who arrive with too many expectations.

Too much expectation always leads to disappointment, and a disappointed customer is unlikely to return to the hotel or recommend it to friends.

However, a customer who doesn't expect anything special from the establishment or who has read bad reviews and yet has booked his or her holiday for an economic reason (an offer or a discount) or hasn't found another place to stay, and discovers a fascinating hotel with details he or she didn't expect (excellent personal attention or very good food) will become a loyal customer and will probably repeat many times.

This example is perfect to identify our position in life.

Am I a customer with high expectations, perfect to suffer the consequences of discouragement if things are not as I expected?

Or am I stoic and, despite maintaining my enthusiasm for a holiday, retain the possibility that the room may not have a good view or the food may not be of the highest quality?

 

Everyone would choose the second option, of course, because no one likes disappointment, especially when expectations are exaggeratedly high.

But this is not easy.

If it were easy, there would be no bad customers in hotels, and there are plenty of them.

Many people live on the wrong side of life until they reach old age.

And it should be the opposite.

THE ONLY WAY FOR LIFE NOT TO HIT YOU IS TO LIVE IT IN A STOIC WAY.

Nature around us is based on chaos, on destruction.

If we consider that we live on a fragile layer of solid rock on a planet whose core is molten iron and nickel at a temperature of four thousand degrees and that our species exists thanks to the heat provided by the sun, a ball of nuclear fusion with a temperature of fifteen million degrees centigrade... IS INCREDIBLE THAT WE ARE ALIVE! 

In fact, we are like ants living between two rings of fire. The slightest disturbance in either of those rings will kill us.

Demoralised?

Noooooo! It's this knowledge that has given us the quality of rational beings. Ants don't care about living between two rings of fire, but neither do they care whether their children will be sick or whether the world economic situation is good or bad.

Humans are victims of their own intelligence. We have to pay a high price for asking: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?

And that price is FEAR. 

Fear is the antithesis of balance, the balance we all desire.