If you want to stop impulse trading, a quick hack is to just go date people. I’m not joking. This actually works. (unless you’re married then just ignore this) I discovered this by accident during a phase where I was making absolutely dogshit trading decisions. Since then, “go date someone” has basically become an external part of my trading system. Because impulse trading isn’t really about charts or setups. It’s about getting trapped inside a sick mental tunnel against yourself. Your attention locks onto one anchor, usually the chart, and your emotions start looping. Greed, anxiety, hope, regret, all feeding each other. Once you’re in that state, using pure mental power like “discipline” or “strong willpower” to pull yourself out is almost impossible. It's like trying to tell yourself to stop thinking about a pink elephant. The more you try NOT to think about it, the more… you think of a pink elephant! I tried everything to break the cycle. Strict rules. Trading journals. Even stupid sticky notes on my desk screaming “DON’T DO IT”. Obviously, getting brutally liquidated multiple times did toughen my mentality. But that’s NOT something you can strategically repeat or rely on. It’s too destructive. Anything lighter, anything that doesn’t seriously fuck up your life, never worked consistently for me. Then something unexpected happened. A friend set me up on a blind date right in the middle of a trading day. I was pissed at first. I was still pulling out my phone every 10 minutes, checking charts like a maniac. Then she casually asked, “btw, are you into techno?” My brain just stopped. For the first time in weeks, I completely forgot about the charts. 3 hours straight. The dopamine hit from human connection completely overrode my trading obsession. Think about it like this. When you try to suppress trading urges (aka human nature), it's like pushing a beach ball underwater. It ALWAYS pops up with more force. So instead of trying to FIGHT human nature, you GO WITH IT. STOP trying to kill the desire. STOP trying to erase the energy. You REDIRECT the same energy to something else. JUST CHANGE THE TARGET. This isn't about willpower. It's about understanding that your brain needs something engaging to focus on. And faces are literally more engaging to our brains than charts could ever be. I started scheduling dates strategically during my most impulsive trading periods. My trading account literally grew more when I was actively dating because I made fewer emotional trades. The best part is you don't even need successful dates. Just the act of getting out and connecting with someone new (and someone you like😉) breaks that obsessive cycle. For married folks, maybe schedule intense social activities instead. Anything that FORCES you out of your trading bubble works. The truth is, we all know WHEN we're entering that dangerous trading mindset. We just IGNORE the warning signs. So next time you feel yourself getting sucked into chart-watching obsession, close the laptop and go on a date. Your portfolio will thank you. And hey, you might just find someone special in the process😉 Trading discipline through dating might sound ridiculous. But it's literally become an essential part of my trading system.

Happy Birthday @itstonybennett! You hold such a special place in my heart. Whenever I think of you I always Smile, just like Charlie Chaplin wrote. You're beautiful inside and out and the whole world loves you. I celebrate you today from home. But I wish we were Cheek to Cheek 😘

Um ok this is unreal?? I just wanted to say to anyone who listened to my music this year, anywhere in the world, thank you. Getting named Spotify’s Global Top Artist in 2023 is truly the best birthday/holiday gift you could’ve given me. We’ve seriously had THE MOST fun this year out there on tour and now this. Are you serious. So I was trying to think of a way to thank you, and a lot of you have been asking me to put “You’re Losing Me (From The Vault)” on streaming... so here you go! You can finally listen EVERYWHERE now 💋

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Friends… we lost Sharpie. It’s been emotionally heavy over here. We all knew from the beginning that this outcome was still a strong possibility, even with all the work I’m doing to try and avoid it, but this news still feels devastating to have to share. Even though intakes like Sharpie are wild animals who are only with me for a few short weeks, the loss of these hydro babies always breaks my heart. I think part of what makes these losses so difficult emotionally is that these babies are often some of the sweetest patients. You wouldn’t normally want to encourage a rehab patient to bond to you, however, these babies don’t process the world quite the same way as a typical fox kit. Their lack of normal fear - which is always part of how a human was able to get their hands on them in the first place - and their inability to really distinguish friend versus foe means they seek out comfort and affection and express excitement in a way that makes it almost impossible not to become attached. Sharpie was arguably our hardest hydro baby loss yet, because he was SO “good”. He was so much more like a “typical” kit than most cases. I really thought he might “be the first one” because of his encouraging mentation and ability to function. His sudden decline was a blow to the chest, to say the least. Some of you may remember the hydrocephalic baby we named Coconut from a few years ago; he wasn’t with us long, as usual, but that loss really stung for my daughter, Ella. I still remember coming home from the vet without him in the carrier and watching her young, knowing eyes instantly fill with tears. Well, Ella has been more involved than ever assisting where she safely can with my wildlife rehab work this year, prompted both by her maturing and showing genuine, personal interest in my work, and also by my fractured foot forcing me to heavily rely on loved ones for help. Her true involvement this year led to Ella really viewing Sharpie as “her intake” in a way. Even though she understood from the beginning that this outcome was still likely - because we haven’t quite “figured it out” yet, & because I’m VERY transparent with my children about the realities of this line of work - it still shattered her heart. So, grieving Sharpie’s loss while simultaneously empathizing with my own blood and mini-me as she experienced her first truly excruciating rehab heartbreak, seeing silent tears fog her glasses when I acknowledged that it was time… that was a very unique kind of pain. Sharpie was playful, curious, and full of personality. He happily ran around carrying toys in his mouth, activated his little “Porsha ears” every time he heard someone approaching, loved cuddling with Apple, and genuinely just seemed happy to exist. He was also able to stay with us a couple weeks longer than most (and again, he was not just “alive” - he appeared comfortable and maintained the ability to perform most normal functions), which was very encouraging. And that’s exactly why I will continue pushing back against the idea that every one of these babies should automatically be euthanized upon intake. Because Sharpie’s life mattered, and I have absolutely no doubt that he ENJOYED life right up until his sudden turn for the worse - which, unfortunately, is a spontaneous reality that can occur with the delicate brains of these babies, especially in these early stages while we’re still fine-tuning medical management and seeing if they may someday become appropriate candidates for surgery. But because of all of you, his story became bigger than just another loss. We were able to officially confirm severe obstructive hydrocephalus via MRI. We gathered advanced imaging while he was still with us, more data, & more firsthand experience managing this condition than we’ve ever had before. We learned from him, documented it all, and even though his loss feels like a smash to the heart, his life ultimately moved this mission another step forward. CAPTION CONTINUED…