One way to avoid such a personalized limit is to find a cause you truly care about. Find something larger than yourself and begin tithing your trading profits to this cause. The more you make, the more you can give. The more you give, the more you can make.

In advocating an abundance consciousness, I'm not writing about easy come, easy go. No. That's the inability to value wealth and let it grow. A spendthrift doesn't honor the accumulation of wealth. Those who divest themselves of their wealth as soon as they get it don't see wealth as something good which they deserve.

We need balance. We need to save money and let money flow. We earn. We save. We spend. We invest. We risk. We give. We wisely enjoy our money even as we make it grow.

With a sense of abundance we can allow ourselves to invest, to trade and to risk. We can afford to risk-in a calculated and controlled way-because there is more out there.

Balance is vital to the equation. It's important to value wealth and to value opportunity, and not to squander them. You don't want to squander and you don't want to grasp.

How do you value opportunity? By being alert to it and by taking advantage of it. By selecting carefully. You don't want to take an opportunity that doesn't exist and you don't want grab too much of it either. Nor do you want to treat an opportunity with indifference or casualness. As a trader, you take trading seriously and you trade consistently knowing that the rewards can be even greater than you dreamed.

If, however, you do miss a trade or leave a trade too soon, there's no need to stress over it. Learn from it and vow to do better in the future as you sustain an optimistic view of your future abundance.

Now, I know it's easy to focus on lack and poverty and homelessness and the genuine suffering in the world and fail to notice that opportunity is all around us waiting to be discovered and utilized.