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    Searching for your Balance. Keys to Stoic Thought.
    Searching for your Balance. Keys to Stoic Thought.
    Searching for your Balance. Keys to Stoic Thought.
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    Searching for your Balance. Keys to Stoic Thought.

    By JOAN PONT GALMÉS

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    Stoic philosophy has a maxim: You cannot control everything that is going to happen to you, but you can control what you think about those events.
    This book is a vital journey through the great uncertainties that affect human beings: death, love, children and health. Facing them with serenity and balance is something that will lead to a fulfilling existence.
    The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our concept of security as a species and has caused great imbalances in our expectations for the future, but a stoic outlook will help you to regain your balance and your enthusiasm for moving forward.
    CRISES ARE A STOIC'S PARADISE.
    Joan Pont lives on the island of Mallorca. A former bodyguard for military authorities and a stockbroker, he now devotes himself exclusively to literature.
    JOAN PONT'S WORKS AVAILABLEs
    Serie "Yes, I want it. Yes, I can". (Translated into many languages)
    1- How to write your first book and publish it online.
    2- Essential advice on how to prosper economically in life.
    3- Help, my child wants to be a youtuber!
    4- The 12 commandments of independent self-publishing.
    5- Searching for your Balance. Keys to stoic thinking.

    Youth series:
    A Pet for Tom (translated into multiple languages).

    Find Joan Pont at:
    Email: pontailor2000@gmail.com
    Website: pontailor2000.wixsite.com/jpjohnson
    Twitter: @J_P_Johnson
    Facebook: facebook.com/pontgalmes
    Instagram: j.p.johnson1
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJPJOHNSON BOOKS
    Release dateMar 18, 2022
    ISBN9791221312164
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      Searching for your Balance. Keys to Stoic Thought. - JOAN PONT GALMÉS

      SEARCHING FOR YOUR BALANCE

      Keys to Stoic Thought

      Joan Pont

      For Mamen

      SEARCHING FOR YOUR BALANCE. Keys to stoic thought.

      © Joan Pont Galmés [2021)

      All rights reserved.  

      1-THE ONLY GOOD DAY WAS YESTERDAY.

      Dear friend, in 2019, after two decades of being professionally involved in the stock market, I lost all my capital because of a wrong decision.

      That money was for my family's future, so the psychological blow was terrible.

      Financial, or material, loss is equivalent to the loss of a loved one, and the mourning can be just as long and difficult to overcome.  

      I needed psychological help, but I didn't have to go to more than two sessions.

      Why?

      Stock investing is a dedication that requires a high level of mental preparation. During trading sessions, brokers' moods experience a myriad of ups and downs throughout the day. Good and bad trades alternate, but there is no stopping.

      This emotional chaos, however, shields you from the feeling of failure.

      There are times when you win and times when you lose, but there is no worse feeling than losing when you think you are going to win.

      I remember saying to the psychologist: I'm used to losing, and that came as a great surprise to him.

      Although I was not used to losing everything, nor is anyone else, of course. However, my armour worked and, as I said, I didn't have to go more than two sessions to be able to continue with my life and try with all my energy to recover the lost capital.

      In this book I want to teach you the keys to survive the ups and downs of life from a stoic point of view and to enjoy a fulfilling existence

       FINDING YOUR BALANCE

      Stoicism is a philosophical school founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early third century B.C. Stoics believed that everything around them operated according to a law of cause and effect, resulting in a rational structure of the universe. They believed that we cannot control what happens around us, but we can control what we think about these events.

      WE CANNOT CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS AROUND US.

      Navy Seals, one of the most demanding elite military corps in the world, have an axiom which is: The only good day was yesterday.

      This means that all things will always tend to get worse and should never be accommodated, and it causes a lowering of expectations in their minds. In this way, the soldier accepts events (which can be very dramatic, such as the death of his comrades or serious injuries to his own body) in a stoic way, i.e. he knows it will happen and accepts it, but he doesn't stop trying to accomplish his mission with all his might.

      That is the key and that is the BALANCE.

      2- BE A CUSTOMER WHO EXPECTS NOTHING FROM A HOTEL.

      The worst hotel guests, the ones that managers and all their employees fear the most, are those who arrive with too many expectations.

      Too much expectation always leads to disappointment, and a disappointed customer is unlikely to return to the hotel or recommend it to friends.

      However, a customer who doesn't expect anything special from the establishment or who has read bad reviews and yet has booked his or her holiday for an economic reason (an offer or a discount) or hasn't found

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