My mother played a huge role in my life, which I’m sure many of you can relate to. From a young age, I spent every waking moment with her.
I was an only child until my first sister was born. You could imagine how I was not a happy little boy to share with mom.
But I quickly grew to love my first sister, and my second another handful of years after that. Family became and remains very important to me.
Like many middle America families, my folks both worked really hard to provide a life for our family.
After we all did our thing everyday, we would gather every evening around the dinner table, say grace, eat a meal and share our day.
Of course as we got a little older and our directions continued to go further and further apart, our evening gatherings kind of dissipated.
But we never fell short of Sunday dinner — that was a must. My girlfriend would come, my sister’s boyfriend would come, our random friends would show up… heck, even some extended family every once in a while.
We created wonderful memories. In fact, the older I become, the more meaningful those memories are to hold on to.
Through the hustle and bustle of all our lives, the chaos one day came to a complete standstill. Yep, it all just stopped like a moment in time.
The matriarch of our family, the one single person it all revolved around became terminally ill. That 5 letter word we all hate: C A N C E R
By the time it was found, it was simply too late. The doctors told us we were on pace for about 2 years or so of time left with our mother.
2 years goes by in a blink of an eye, especially as you become older. But through my father’s efforts and my mother’s willingness, she outlived the 2 year expectation, passing away about 4 1/2 years post diagnosis.
Heartbreaking isn’t the word, in fact it still brings tears to my eyes as I talk about it or write about her 10+ years later.
But they’re not tears of sadness, nope, I’m not sad at all. She’s no longer suffering, I could never be sad about that!
They’re tears of joy because I know how much happiness she brought to other’s lives.
We all want to believe that we have the best mom on the face of the earth, and truth be told we do. Because every mom is perfect for their child.
Not because they’re perfect human beings, but because they love their child like no one else ever will. And that’s why they’re perfect!
I don’t tell you all of this so you become emotional reading it, I tell you all of this because it’s the foundation of my WHY.
I started trading so no matter what happens in my life, I can focus on what’s most important: my faith, my family, my loved ones, my clients.
I’m able to put all of those most important people in my life ahead of myself because trading has laid the financial foundation for me to do just that.
I knew I could work 7 days a week for the rest of my life, struggling to never get ahead … but from that position I would struggle to serve others.
There’s an old saying, you must help yourself before you can help others.
I’ve helped myself through trading which has allowed me to help others: my faith, my family, my loved ones, my business partners, my clients and even my community.
This example was set by my mother, one of the most selfless people I’ve ever met. It’s my place on this earth to do just the same as she has.
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