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The treasure was at my feet the whole time
There's a book called The Alchemist. If you haven't read it, and don't mind spoilers, here's the short version: A shepherd boy has a dream about treasure buried near the pyramids in Egypt. So he sells his sheep and crosses a desert to go find it. He gets robbed, nearly dies, falls in love, learns to read the world around him, and finally reaches the pyramids. And there he finds out the treasure was buried back home, under the exact tree where he first had the dream.
He traveled across the world to find something that was sitting where he started.
I think about that story a lot now, because it's mine. And it's probably similar to many of yours as well.
When I started trading, I already understood basic investing concepts. I could read a chart. I 5x'd my very first portfolio to over $50K after a layoff with a nice severance. (I also lost it via a very tough lesson in stop losses - story for another time!) I went back to corporate after I thought I said goodbye forever. And after finding the courage to try trading again I discovered the skill that would eventually fund me was, in some form, already at my feet. But I didn't trust my potential, and in hindsight it was because my early profits came too easily. I didn't know at the time that beginner's luck in trading is a real thing. So I went looking for something else. I collected side hustles the way that shepherd crossed the desert in pursuit of treasure, sure the next stop would be the thing that finally unlocked my financial freedom. Each venture looked perfect on paper. Then I'd put my head down for a few months until yet another epiphany I was heading down the wrong path - whether it was the persistent fatigue, lack of inspiration or excitement after reaching a major milestone - whatever it was it just didn't feel right.
After over 2 years of exploration I too learned the treasure was right there and I had kept walking past it to go look somewhere else.
I was the only thing holding me back. And even when I discovered my "treasure" I needed to (and continue to) put in the work. Trading is 90% you versus you.
But here's the most important part of the story: Yes the treasure was at home the whole time. But the shepherd couldn't have dug it up as the person he was when he left. He needed the journey to become someone who could actually claim it. If he'd found it on day one, he'd have been the same scared boy with a pile of gold he didn't understand.
Same for me. If someone had handed me consistency at the start, I couldn't have held it. I would have blown it, the way people blow accounts and lottery winnings and every reward they didn't earn. The eval losses, the strategy-chasing, the nights questioning whether I should quit, was not wasted time. That effort was the price of becoming someone who could keep the treasure once I finally dug it up. I went Eval to my first Funded in under 90 days, but only after a much longer journey to get ready for those evals.
So here's what I want you to sit with.
What's your treasure? Not the payout. The skill or the truth that's already at your feet, the one you keep walking past because you're convinced it has to be harder, further away, hidden in one more course. What if you already have most of what you need, and the real journey isn't finding it, it's becoming the person who can finally hold it?
Tell me in the comments. What's the treasure you think might already be under your feet?
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The treasure was at my feet the whole time
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