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“Oh! my god, how can they do this to me?”

“See I’m alone, and what shall I do now?”

Why don’t you just shut up and do something worthwhile?

The most important lesson I learnt from Bible was this, no one can save you if you cannot do it yourself. You do not earn anything from BEING  anxious,you don’t get any interest if you deposit it in a savings account.

So what is the use of being anxious? Of course you  can increase your precious stress level and hence  contribute to raised  Blood Pressure and tension headache!

Tension can cause tension headaches which doesn’t go away even on taking medicines or taking a bath ( Taking a cool bath will relieve most of the headaches).Cooling off the stress is the only treatment for headaches of stressful etiology.

I used to get anxious over a whole lot of things, I cannot count them, the list is endless. What a WORRYBOY I used to be!

I don’t know why I ever got so worried over such trivial matters, but the matter was serious those days.

So what do,I do now, when i get anxious or worried, as people spell it? I don’t draw in a gulp of air, i don’t sigh, I don’t show it on my face.Then what do I do?

I just do the work I am doing, may be just sit there. At this instant the thought crosses my mind, do i gain anything from it? Absolutely nothing, I even lose my concentration. I just leave everything to god( See this is where god comes into the play!) and just leave the subject as a whole. It has become something like a habit now, now I feel I am just COOL!

I learned this from my friend at school and college, who used to be very cool. So cool that he would never bother about anything. Nothing could make him worry.How the hell did he do this? He was so cool that everyone wanted to be like him. But there is only one man like him, but you can learn something from him.

This is what I learned

“Please don’t worry about being worried!”

It was a tough day for me. This day I understood something, why I should maintain my cool, control my emotions.

I have been doing this market game for over 1 year, I made some profits at first( What people call beginners luck). At that time markets were good and went up every day, and I made neat profits. Now things are a bit different, if one day the market is up, next day it is down.

As it is human nature, to go for more profits within a short time, I decided ti jump into option. I took index option( nifty option). Today was a bad day, ahead of the inflation numbers. I had a put option, and could have made a lot of money, but I couldn’t handle the pressure and had to give up the profits and ended up with a call option in a market which is going down.

So my next aim, is to learn to maintain my cool, whatever the matter is.Losing money is something which everyone hates, I too hate it. So I am planning to do something about it.

1. Don’t take advice from others which jeopardize your chance to win.

2. Learn and be updated with the market moves

3.Don’t forget key dates

a. Inflation numbers announcement date.

b.SEBI meeting date.

c. TRAI MEETING

d. Futures and options expiry

and many more….

So learning to live with the markets is a matter. learning to live life is another matter. I experienced the anxiety, fear, greed an everyday trader experiences. I could feel my heart pumping hard, beating fast. If I cannot control my emotions and stress I wouldn’t live enough to enjoy all the benefits life has to offer me!

Some tips to manage stress

• Try to identify your own stress triggers
• Adopt techniques which work for you - we all cope with stress differently
• Be aware of your own symptoms of stress
• Accept yourself and don’t try to be perfect
• Take action to tackle your problems
• Look after yourself physically and mentally
• Be positive

So waiting to see whether market beats me or I beat the markets. Hopefully I suppose I would beat the market!

I found this article interesting:How to Maintain Your Cool When What You Really Want to Do is Smack Your Husband