Whereas the Mental Health and "New Age" field has turned the idea very "woo-woo" over the past few decades, the idea that we "create our own reality" isn't exactly new.

I believe it was industrialist Henry Ford who famously said "Whether you think you CAN, or you think you CAN'T, you're right!" long before more contemporary versions stole the scene.

But Seriously, it's a Really OLD Concept:

“You are what your deepest Desire is.
As your desire is, so is your intention.
As your intention is, so is your will.
As you will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
-The Upanishads (6th to 7th century BCE)

That would be 2,700 years ago, in a Sanskrit text.

So what's my point here?

These days — particularly in the Cryptosphere — a lot of people run on so-called "Hopium."

And it is often mistaken for setting an intention. It's not. Simply believing and hoping that being in crypto is going to make you right — because "it's crypto!" — is not actually based in reality.

To wit, we don't want things like the Lazarus Project hacking the Bybiy exchange to be true and possible... but it is, and it just happened, and maybe most of the air went out of your Hopium Balloon.

Navigating our way to success is about successfully dealing with what is true, not what we want to be true. And we have very little control over external variables... we are best served by dealing with those things over which we do have a measure of control and influence.

Getting back to the "quote soup" above, getting to where we want to go — financially, physically, spiritually, emotionally — is all about what we give our attention to.

It often holds true that whose who succeed at something difficult are not necessarily the most brilliant, nor the most insighful, but instead the most focused.

So — presuming that you actually believe crypto and blockchain will be a major part of the future of the world — such things as market setbacks, exchange hacks and macroeconomic turbulence are really not an excuse to suddenly take your eye off the ball!

I'll be the first to admit that when the news broke and everything started heading south in the markets, I thought to myself "Whoa, this is NOT good!"

So I had a second cup of coffee and went back to what I am doing... continuing with the plan.

Microinvesting and stacking up all those tiny "dust" amounts until they eventually amount to something.

One of the important aspects of "sticking to the plan" is that I am also not being reactionary and running out and overextending myself financially in order to "Buy the dip, buy the dip, buy the DIIIIIPPP!"

It's not part of my long-term plan to rush around "chasing dips." Besides, most people — myself included — are notoriously bad at predicting both bottoms... and tops.

And now... I am going to head back to the daily grind and collect my few cents, which likely still happened!

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