Reflection
Look back to see, not to judge.The pattern is in your history.
- Memory
- Your written reasons
- Quietly edits itself
- Show what you thought
Looking back honestly at your own past financial decisions, not to judge them, just to actually see them, is usually more useful than any new piece of financial advice, because the pattern is already sitting right there in your own history.
Reviewing a year of closed trades or purchases and actually reading back your own stated reasoning at the time, not your memory of it, often reveals a pattern that no outside advice would have caught as precisely.
Rereading old diary entries about a decision usually reveals more about the real reasoning at the time than memory alone ever would, because memory quietly edits itself afterward.
What would my own past financial decisions tell me, if I actually looked back at them honestly?