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What Makes Traders Successful? Anmol Singh Shares His Secrets

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What Makes Traders SUCCESSFUL? Anmol Singh Shares His Secrets

In this powerful episode of the Starter Girlz Podcast, trading expert Anmol Singh reveals what truly makes a trader successful. From mastering mindset to building long-term financial growth, he shares the hard truths about trading, investing, and wealth—and why success is more about discipline, psychology, and habits than any fancy strategy.

If you’ve ever wondered how to trade successfully, what separates top traders from the rest, or how to develop the right mindset for long-term investing, this episode is for you.

🎯 In This Episode, Anmol Breaks Down:

  • The psychology of trading and why mindset matters more than strategy
  • How successful traders handle losses and bounce back stronger
  • The difference between self-worth and confidence in financial decisions
  • Long-term investing advice to build wealth and beat inflation
  • Daily habits that keep traders focused and consistent
  • Avoiding the learning trap and taking bold, effective action
  • How to build discipline through consistent effort
  • Letting go of past mistakes to move forward with clarity
  • Practical mindset tips for beginners entering the market

💡 Key Takeaways: ✓ Success in trading is driven by mindset, confidence, and discipline
✓ Letting go of past mistakes is key to growth
✓ Long-term wealth comes from consistency—not chasing trends
✓ Self-worth grows when you keep promises to yourself
✓ Write your goals, plan your day, and show up every time

This episode isn’t just for traders—it’s for anyone focused on growth, resilience, and long-term success in life and business.

Anmol Singh:

You know, when I was new to the stock market, it was kind of a challenging way to navigate because, you know, I didn't come from a finance background or I didn't, you know, work on Wall Street or anything like that. So it was like, ok, how do I get into this? Like it's pretty hard. Nobody taught us this language. You know, you graduate with a nice business degree but you're like they never taught anything about stock market taxes or investing the main stuff that we really need to use these days. So, you know, I learned I spent a lot of money on like coaches, mentors, really like learning this craft, and then I had a lot of, you know, pitfalls in the early career, like I lost money my whole first year. So I was like, okay, how does this thing actually work?

Jennifer Loehding:

So when I finally figured that out, Welcome to the Starter Girlz podcast, your ultimate source of inspiration and empowerment. We're here to help women succeed in every area of their lives career, money, relationships, and health and well-being while celebrating the remarkable journeys of individuals from all walks of life who've achieved amazing things. Whether you're looking to supercharge your career, build financial independence, nurture meaningful relationships or enhance your overall well-being, independence, nurture meaningful relationships or enhance your overall well-being, the Starter Girlz podcast is here to guide you. Join us as we explore the journeys of those who dare to dream big and achieve greatness. I'm your host, jennifer Loehding, and welcome to this episode. Welcome to another episode of the Starter Girlz podcast. Wherever you are tuning in today, we're so glad to have you. I'm your host, jennifer Loehding, and we're going to get this thing started. So let's open this up. Success isn't just about strategy. It's about mindset, discipline and the ability to navigate challenges with confidence. My guest today spent years helping others master not only the markets but also their own psychology, turning obstacles into opportunities, and so I'm so excited to get to chat with him today. I know you guys are going to be in for an awesome treat, but before we welcome him on, I do need to do a quick shout out for our sponsor.

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Jennifer Loehding:

And with that, I want to make sure to tell you to head on over to startergirlscom. I say this every week make sure you use a Z, not an S. I don't know where that's going to take us right. Head on over there. You can catch up on any episodes that you can miss. You can subscribe to our community newsletter. Keep up with what's going on. But also we've got something fun on there. We have a quiz on there now, which is fun. So if you're an entrepreneur, creator, whatever you want to call yourself. You can find out what your number one success block is that might be hindering your success, and so head on over to startergirlscom, click on that success block quiz and you can take that. It's a two-minute free quiz, all right, so let's talk about my guest today.

Jennifer Loehding:

Excuse me, Anmol Singh made his mark as a high-paid consultant in the trading and investing industry, later launching Live Traders in 2015. Through his work, he's coached and trained over 1,000 traders and investors, some of whom have gone on to run their own hedge funds. Recognized as a leading expert in trading psychology, Anmol has helped thousands worldwide overcome the mental and emotional barriers that come with high stake decision making. Beyond trading, he's a published author, angel investor and entrepreneur involved in multiple ventures. His book Prepping for Success 10 Keys for Making it in Life offers insights into success and productivity beyond the financial world. So, whether discussing business, investing in personal growth or even spirituality, Anmol brings a wealth of experience and insight to that conversation. So, Anmol, welcome to the show. I am so thrilled to have you here today.

Anmol Singh:

Thanks for having me. Looking forward to chatting with you this is going to be great.

Jennifer Loehding:

So before you jumped on here, I was going through your website and looking at all of your stuff and, oh my gosh, you've just done a lot of great things, and so I want to, I guess, maybe open this up. Let's start and let's talk a little bit about Live Traders, what that is and how you're helping your clients in the world right now.

Anmol Singh:

Definitely so you now Definitely so. You know, when I was new to the stock market, it was kind of a challenging way to navigate because, you know, I didn't come from a finance background or I didn't, you know, work on Wall Street or anything like that. So it was like, ok, how do I get into this? Like it's pretty hard. Nobody taught us this language. You know, you graduate with a nice business degree, but you're like they never taught anything about stock market taxes or investing the main stuff that we really need to use these days.

Anmol Singh:

So, you know, I learned I spent a lot of money on like coaches, mentors, really like learning this craft, and then I had a lot of you know, pitfalls in the early career because, you know, online you go, everybody's talking about how great it is, how much money you can make. You know, look at all of this. And then reality was very different. Like I lost money my whole first year. So money my whole first year. So I was like, okay, how does this thing actually work?

Anmol Singh:

So when I finally figured that out, you know and I've been doing it for 15 years now, about, you know, five years into my career I was like I'm just going to put everything that I learned, like the way I learned it, like all the mistakes that I made, all the good things that I want to do, and let's create a curriculum that can help newer people who are coming into the stock market so they can learn how to do this themselves. So at LiveTrainers we do coaching, mentoring, all that stuff, but then also I do it live every day. So, before even getting on with you, I would be training live and I stream myself doing it. So, win or lose, people get to see it in real time what's happening, and I think that's the best way to learn. So, yeah, I try to mimic the environment that I learned under and put it for online people so they can learn it as well. So they can learn it as well.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, no, and I agree, and I think that's what you know, you and I are doing similar things and different things, because obviously I'm not in investing and stuff, but I kind of share, I guess resonate with what you're talking about when you learn from the mistakes and then you take that information and you help other people Maybe you can curve it, you know, shorten the what is it?

Jennifer Loehding:

the learning curve for them just a tad by helping them pick up.

Jennifer Loehding:

I do think you know, as humans, we have to learn. You know we have to go through these things ourselves, right to learn. And that's why you picked up on all of this stuff, because you went through and you realize, hey, what's not working, what is working, and you're able to share that, so I love it. I think that you know, when you walk the walk, you're able to talk about those things freely. So good for you on that. So and so. Livetrader has been around since 2015, correct?

Anmol Singh:

Correct. Yeah, we started 2015 and yeah, now on the 10th year, now, yeah.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, that's great. And so you guys have curriculum and then you do live and you have a book out as well, and I'm assuming the book is tied to this too.

Anmol Singh:

Yeah. So the you know, one of the things with trading and investing was like it was the biggest personal development journey I've ever embarked on. When you're risking millions of dollars of your own money, you need strong psychology, you need a strong mindset. It could really affect you. So I think a lot of the pitfalls with trading was not the learning part. I think learning trading, investing people can learn it in a week, but then can you get yourself to do it? Can you get yourself to follow through when you're supposed to get out for a small loss? Can you take that loss? Or are you going to hold on? Maybe the stock's going to come back, maybe my crypto is going to come back, rather than just taking a small loss? And then same thing with the winning side People you know their stocks or their Bitcoins are going up, but they never sell it right. And I think a lot of the pitfalls as traders, you realize that investing and trading is more about the psychology and the mindset. So it's kind of like the biggest personal development journey I've ever embarked on.

Anmol Singh:

So the book that I have, prepping for success, is nothing to do with trading or investing. It's all to do with the psychology and the mindset which are universally applicable. Whether you're an investor, you're an entrepreneur, you're running your own podcast, you're doing anything online, you're running a physical business, like the success keys are pretty much universal across the board. So I wrote this book originally for myself. It's like notes to myself Okay, here's the things that I need to do in my own life to achieve the success. And then when I actually went out and applied it, you know I got to the next level of my life and I was like, okay, I need to put this in a book format because it basically is just a book that I wish somebody gave me 20 years ago would have made life so much easier.

Jennifer Loehding:

Right, right. So I'm curious because you mentioned early on and I think this happens a lot with entrepreneurs like you think you're going to go one direction.

Jennifer Loehding:

you kind of sort of end up going somewhere else and I'm sure when you started this journey you had probably no idea that you would be training people at some point, right Like you're in this.

Jennifer Loehding:

I'm curious to know, like, what led you to get into the investing to begin with. Like, did you go to school to? Were you in a different like you know, like I studied accounting oddly enough, I tell people that, and they're like you studied accounting.

Jennifer Loehding:

I'm like, yeah, and then I switched into marketing and here I'm doing, you know, podcasting and coaching and other things Right. So I'm curious to know your background. What brought you to the investing?

Anmol Singh:

Yeah, so this was the last thing I ever thought I would do. Growing up I was horrible with numbers, horrible at math, so anything to do with numbers it was not even in my radar of things that I'll end up doing. I went to college for business, just a regular business honors degree, no-transcript. Know what I'm going to make, there's no ups and downs and that's what my original plan was. And out of college I applied to a lot of different jobs for BMW, marketing, all these kinds of things and I, you know, got through the interview stages but that never really got the job. I never really got it.

Anmol Singh:

And there was a time in my dorm where, you know, everybody had to apply for internships. I went to college in London, so there you had to do like one years of work experience before you can graduate. And that was a year where I just couldn't get a callback, couldn't get a job, and I was like, well, what am I going to do? Like I got to do something. I'm not going to waste a year just sitting in my dorm room. And you know, that was the time where I mean I'm a typical introvert still am, you know, but I was much more introverted back then and I would always be on my Xbox. It was just a natural transition. I just substituted my Xbox for a computer. It's the same thing, but I do it online and I think the reason I chose that because in this business there's no boss, there's no colleague, there's nobody influencing my results If I do my job the right way.

Anmol Singh:

It's the greatest meritocracy. There's nobody else who's going to decide what I'm going to make, I'm not going to make. There's no office politics. I don't have to talk to people and that was kind of the reason I got into it. But, more importantly, the biggest reason I got into it was through a lot of pain. I've never really shared this story with people, but because I felt like very like, I felt like I'm not good enough because I didn't get a job All my friends I'm seeing them get great jobs. And then at that time I was dating this girl. I thank her now for everything. I was kind of dating her, madly in love, and then she ends up, you know, I walk into my kitchen in the dorm room and her friends are talking about oh, she's on this date with this guy, you know, whatever. And I heard that.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah.

Anmol Singh:

And they were talking about how he's such a successful like soccer player, plays for English Premier League football, how much money he makes, and that was the time I felt like, wow, the money I put it like money is the reason why I didn't you know, she chose somebody else.

Anmol Singh:

I was like money will never be the reason why I'm never going to be chosen again. And that was when I just hunkered down in my dorm room I was like I'm not going to party, I'm not going to socialize, I'm going to sacrifice a lot of that to build this business. And I just basically put myself in the room and I was like I'm just going to learn everything I can about this craft, so I'm going to make that money, I'm going to get that sorted, that part, because that should never be the reason. So I think, yeah. So that was kind of my journey into like just hunkering down and reading as much as I can get my hands on and spend the whole couple of years on that.

Jennifer Loehding:

It's crazy to me how, like you know, when we make change or like when something like that happens, like that pivotal moment where it and it can be in anything it could be. In your particular case it was, you know, the situation with a girlfriend and where you were in your career and you're in trying to move into something and, like I had, my pivotal change came when I had this crazy health thing, like this nerve condition thing, that forced me to have to reevaluate everything I was doing and take on a new, a new normal you know what I mean and navigate that. But your story is so completely different but so oddly it reminds me of somebody in a different way that came on one of my shows. It's like funny, I will tell you this, I'm all I remember bits and pieces. I've done over 500 episodes between my shows and it's crazy because I remember little pieces of everybody from the shows. And so right now I'm thinking about this.

Jennifer Loehding:

This kid. He's now I say kid, he's young, he's young but he's married and he's got it and he's got, I think, a child, it's a little girl or boy, but he kind of grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and he decided. He said he went. I don't know what this turning point was. I think somebody, maybe his father, ended up in prison or something.

Jennifer Loehding:

But he went in and went on the internet and he was like what is the best paying job? And he went into real estate and this kid and his wife they both got married very young I'm talking like 16, I don't know, they were young had a kid. They are doing phenomenal now because he just hunkered down and learned what he needed to learn. But it's like he just made this decision. One day he's like I'm going to go on the internet and I'm going to look and I'm going to see what's out there and he's like I'm going to become a real estate agent and they agent and they they've just done phenomenal and so completely different story from yours, but it's just that whole idea that he made a decision to learn everything that he could about that craft and has just they've done phenomenal in this amount of time. And they're so freaking young like I think, golly, when they're like in there, I mean they're not even in their 30s.

Jennifer Loehding:

I don't think when they get them by the time they're 40, they're gonna just be like Maybe I'm going to retire you know what I mean, it's just crazy.

Jennifer Loehding:

So, and I'll say that because I love seeing even young entrepreneurs, you know that, that run with things and just really move. They just kind of grab onto something and just take off, you know.

Anmol Singh:

Yeah, it's refreshing successful person at some point has had some level of either adversity, either health challenge, either relationships or either something that-.

Jennifer Loehding:

Or all of the above right, or all of the above yeah.

Anmol Singh:

That pinches them enough to be like you know you can do more, maybe not playing full out, but you know you're made for more and I think those things teach us a lot about ourselves and give us perspective on things and in the moment it feels like it's the worst thing ever, but looking back you can attribute a lot of your success or where you're at now to a lot of those challenges.

Anmol Singh:

And I think those are important. But then at some point you got to realize, okay, if you built your success through a lot of pain, at some point you got to let that go. I think I've, in that journey of the last I would say even recently like three, four years of still carrying that, like what happened like 20, 30 years ago and all the other experiences, and like building money through a lot of pain, like I'm going to make this happen, I'm going to prove it to the world. And eventually you realize, unless you prove it to yourself, it doesn't matter. Any external validation can never get you there. So I think, yeah, once you do it for yourself, it's a whole different ballgame. You've achieved levels of success that you could never even imagine.

Jennifer Loehding:

Once you start doing it for yourself, yeah Well, and you touched upon something about the letting go of things, which I think is so huge because I think so often, especially for high achievers like us. Right, and it's taken me a long time. I'm in my fifties now, so I can actually say that I feel like I've learned a few things. Some things, not everything. I'm still growing, but I feel like I've learned some things and I will tell you that letting go is so huge because when you get to a place where you know let me just say this Most times, like when I'm going to do something, I never tell people like I'm not scared because I am.

Jennifer Loehding:

I think we're human and we're always afraid to do things that force us to step out of our comfort zone, but I always sort of go in with this mindset that what's the worst that's going to happen? I'm probably still going to learn something. Even if it falls completely, you know, on the ground and I got to pick I'm still going to gain something, because you're going to either learn what not to do next time maybe don't do that again or you're going to pick up what you need to change for the next time. And so I think when we go in with that, you know, embracing that mentality of it's okay, you're going to survive and you're probably going to gain some knowledge, I think combine that with the letting go. I think you get better at both of those right. The more you let go, the better you get at embracing. The more you embrace, the better you get at letting go.

Anmol Singh:

Exactly Cause if your cup is all full, like you're not able to receive anything more because your cup's full, like you're full with all these thoughts, emotions, all these things. Like you're full with all these thoughts, emotions, all these things, you're not open to achieving more. So at some time you got to empty that cup so you're able to fill it up with the stuff that you do want. But sometimes you have to let go of the stuff that you don't want. So I think it's really important aspect of that. And, yeah, sometimes it's like you realize things that you could have done better, more of, and I think that's a lot of what I focus my attention on these days. It's not about you know, what did I do wrong and all of that, but, okay, what did I do right in this scenario and how can I do more of that? I think focusing a lot on the strengths as opposed to weaknesses, but again, they both have their healthy place and when you do the self-awareness exercises, yeah, self-awareness is good.

Jennifer Loehding:

You need to know what your weaknesses are. But, yes, you're right, we want to focus on the stuff that you're really good. I think it's good. You know, like I was telling somebody the other day, I like to talk about this whole idea of the difference between confidence and worth. Right, because I don't know about you, but for I've said this on several episodes, so I know people that follow me are like man, she talks about this stuff all the time, cause I think it's so important.

Jennifer Loehding:

You, for so long I associated self-worth and confidence as unanimous words, like they meant the same thing, but they're very nuanced and they're different. And then I read this book and in the first chapter of the book she talked about the difference of those and it was like, oh my gosh, I thought I knew everything and then I had this light bulb moment go off and I realized no, they're very, very different. Because, for saying this, for high achievers again, those of us who, especially if we're like, perfectionists I don't know about you, but I do not like to claim that I'm a perfectionist, because I am and it makes me crazy, it makes me so mad. There's goods and bads in that. But for those of us that are like that, like we get hung up on. You know, I forgot where I was going with this and I'll say this is how my brain goes. Sometimes I get on a really good tangent and then I lose where I'm going with this, high achievers.

Jennifer Loehding:

I was talking about us, high achievers, getting so focused on our past. What was that? What were we talking about before this? Oh, my goodness, we'll come back to it. This happens to me. This is why.

Jennifer Loehding:

I love this show is because I could just be Jennifer sometimes. Man, I had a good thought there and then all of a sudden my brain just went on man, this, it came back. I knew, if we talk worth and confidence, so for us that are high achievers we place our worth a lot of times with our confidence right, so meaning we gather all this knowledge and these skills right, but it doesn't always change how we view ourselves and how we think other people view us right and isn't so. Go back to that letting go that you were talking about. When we learn to let go right, we start recognizing also our value. And those two play together too, because I think when we know our worth, we're able to let mistakes go and the things that we're not, we're able to relinquish that. And I think that goes with everything. When you realize, like right now I'm going through I don't know you may have been through this I tell people I have this love-hate relationship with social media.

Jennifer Loehding:

I have to do it because I have a podcast and I got to be out there. But, like you, sometimes I want to be an introvert. I do not want everything out there. And if you go, look my name up on the internet.

Jennifer Loehding:

Right now you will find me everywhere, and sometimes I do not want it there, I just want to be alone, you know people are calling me all the time Right, and so I wrestle with this whole idea of being out there all the time, and I think what happens is, you know, with us as being these creators and having to put all this work out there and being perfectionist, and we gather all this knowledge and we try to have everything together, right? And no amount of that really can replace the worth that we have in ourselves, right? And so I think when we have that, we're able to let go of all of these things, push all that stuff aside, and we also going back to what I was saying about this social media thing is that I'm having somebody help me work on that now, like, help me take some of that over, because I'm realizing that I spend way too much time thinking this through.

Jennifer Loehding:

Too many hours going. This isn't good enough. This doesn't look right. We got to change this this is they're like don't overthink it. Stop overthinking it.

Jennifer Loehding:

Right, but I recognize that I'm. That's not an area that I have a strength in, but it doesn't have anything to do with my worth. I don't care. I don't care that I have a strength, I don't care. Somebody could take it If they can do better than me.

Jennifer Loehding:

Have at it, take it away from me, do it. So that was where all that was going. So my brain's just all over the place this morning.

Anmol Singh:

No, all good, but I mean no. I think self-worth is really important and I think, yes, it has some element to do with confidence, but I think that your self-worth is really tied to like two things, right? So one of them is the integrity piece. Right, you honoring your own word, because a lot of times, the self-worth issue happens when we say we want to do something, we say we're going to do something, and then we don't do it. Right, right, like.

Anmol Singh:

It could be, like I don't know how many people in you know, just like probably me. You know, during COVID, they said you know, I have another job. I would really love to start my own business, I'd love to start this side thing, I'd love to start, maybe, my podcast. And then they're just like I just don't have the time. I'm always at my job and in 2020, they had all the time in the world to do all the things that they wanted to do, but they didn't Right, they didn't even though they had the time. So they said they want something, but they didn't take action on it, and then that lowers your self-worth. So when we to do this from Monday, and then Monday comes and we don't do it Right, then we're like oh well, I'll give you my example.

Anmol Singh:

So this happened to me. You know, a few years ago I was traveling around the world like living my you know, nice bachelor lifestyle and then I gained a lot of weight. My health was a complete mess because I would always be out, right. So I said to myself, oh, I'm going to start working out on Monday and then're like oh, it's not from the 1st, it's 1st of November. Yeah, I'm just going to start new years. Forget it, we'll just start new years. Yeah, we keep moving the goalpost forward on our own goals and then that lowers your self-esteem and your self-worth because then a part of your brain's like you're not going to do it.

Anmol Singh:

You always say you're going to do it, but you never end up doing it and those voices keep repeating ourselves. That's like a vicious cycle. So the way to break that cycle and build that self-confidence and self-esteem and the self-worth is through honoring your own word. When you say you want to do something, make sure you do it and do it when you said you're going to do it. Right. That's the biggest key with integrity is like that's what integrity really is. And a lot of times you know you like me probably. Somebody called you and you said I'm in the middle of something, let me call you back. And he never did. He had no intention of doing that.

Anmol Singh:

Or if you ran into an old friend at the airport or a shopping mall, you're like, hey, so good to see you, we should totally catch up. And then you make no attempts to ever catch up with them, right, never follow up. So think about it. We're saying something we don't actually mean and we don't notice it. Unconscious brain takes us as, like you're full of it. You're not going to follow through on anything you say. I think that's one of the biggest pieces.

Anmol Singh:

Then the other piece which you referred to a little bit was the values portion, right, so there's two types of values the values that we want to cultivate in our life, the values that we want to live by right. But the values that we have right now and bridging that gap is the key to building that self-esteem is the values you say you want but your actions show you have right now is a completely different ballgame. So, like a lot of people you know would say you know, I value financial independence, I value financial freedom, and I'm like OK, how much are you investing in the markets right now? What's your monthly income? What's your budget? Look like I don't do any of that. I'm like, okay, so that's the value you want, but your actions are saying you have a completely different value right now because you're spending money on random stuff. So what you say you want, once you bridge that gap, that's when you create self-esteem and self-confidence, because then you start living congruently to what you say you want and your values and your word and your integrity.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, no, I agree with you. Good stuff, absolutely no-transcript. Lot of people struggle is because, you're right, they have an idea of what they think or they want to be doing, but what they or, let me say, think and should think where they want, but what they really want right now ain't lining up with that, and so they're in this constant internal struggle. And then they have the self-fulfilling prophecy, like you're saying, of saying, oh well, I didn't make it to the gym, I'm a loser, I didn't go to the gym again, I'm a loser. And they just keep. That's the repetitive cycle that goes in there. And so I'm with you. We have to stop that. You've got to honor yourself and then we've got to reduce some of the emotion on that so that we can get you in the right place. Right, I love it, good stuff.

Jennifer Loehding:

So I don't know anything about investing. I'm not. That is not my forte at all. I'm a I'm a good math person, but that was just never my thing, and I can't balance a checkbook. If I have to, I can do all those things, but you know, somebody listening to this right now might be in that place where they're kind of wanting to start that out and or maybe they're kind of at the beginning of that. What would be something they would need to know, like what are some important tips for them, or maybe something they can do to help them aside from all this mindset stuff we're talking about be successful in that area?

Anmol Singh:

Yeah, definitely. So I'm going to just say give something that is universally applicable, wherever you are. Because you know what I do, like trading and investing, like I'm very active in that. But I'm active because, well, that's my job right.

Anmol Singh:

That's what I do every single day, right? That's my business. So for me, that's my full-time thing. But I realize a lot of people listening. They're going to have their own entrepreneurship, they're going to have their own businesses, and they don't necessarily want to do what I do, which is sit in front of my computer and do this every day. So investing is completely different, though. Right, trading is what we're doing in and out every day. That's like a full-time thing.

Anmol Singh:

If you want to do investing, that's something anybody can do, which is basically a rule of thumb. To follow is like you take the money that's coming into your account, whether from your job, whether from your business, whatever sources your money is coming in and then first thing that I suggest people to do is take 40% and just put it aside as soon as the money comes in. Now, at least your taxes are taken care of, you never have to worry about that again. So now you have 50% or 60% remaining. So now, first you pay all your bills, pay all the expenses, rent, whatever you have, mortgage, pay all of that, and then, technically, whatever is left over, a percentage of that should automatically be invested into the stock market without you even looking at it. And I'm not even saying pick individual stocks. Don't pick like, oh, I'm going to buy this stock that I read about online.

Jennifer Loehding:

That's all gambling.

Anmol Singh:

Or I'm just going to buy this random stock. Again, that's gambling, because you could buy the greatest stock in the world, but if you bought it at the wrong price it doesn't matter. So the key is just to put your money in the S&P 500 or the NASDAQ, or just like using a total market index fund like Vanguard Index Fund, vti, voo. All of these are available on your brokerage account. You don't need a financial advisor, you can do it yourself. Now, if you do that typically, you're going to get about 10% as the average you're going to get over the course of 10 years, which basically means your money is going to double every six to seven years by you doing nothing at all. You're not even looking at the stocks, you don't even have to look at what the stock market's at. Money comes into your account. Take 10% of that automatically invest in the markets. Do that as a discipline every single month and then, over the course of six, seven years, your money's going to double. And now what happens after six years? Right now, you're going to double on the increased amount and the compounding happens really fast that people don't even think where they're going to be 20, 30 years from now.

Anmol Singh:

Right, and people always worry about the short-term generations. But you know what about the markets? Now it's going to be recession, this new administration there's always going to be something to keep you away from investing. Before it was like, oh, but what about the election? Or what about the Russia war? What about the Ukraine war? What about Palestine? What about the Greece threat crisis? There's always going to be some reason to get you to not invest.

Anmol Singh:

But if you take a look, the market's never been higher than where it was. It's always higher than where it was the last 10 years, every single time. Sure, it's going to have a short-term downturn, it's going to have a short-term pullback, but every 10 years, the market's higher than where it was the last 10 years. So, just based on that, where do you think the market's going to be 2042? Much higher, regardless of where we're going down recently.

Anmol Singh:

So if you do that every month, you set up a discipline you're going to be really, really happy, right? Because inflation is roughly about 6%. So even if you're earning 4.5% in your bank account, you're still losing a percentage and a half 2% every single year, and you have to get ahead of inflation because what a dollar was worth in 1970s is worth 10 cents now, because what a dollar was worth in 1970s is worth 10 cents now. You're going to need $4.81 of today's money to get what you could buy for a dollar back in 1970. So, again, dollar is going to continue to lose value over the next 10, 20, 30 years. So the only way we could beat that is by investing in the stock market.

Anmol Singh:

So I think since 1970s, the stock market's up like 65,000%. Okay so, and we've gone through everything. We've gone through the COVID crash, we're much higher than even the COVID crash. So markets are designed in a way to always go up in the long run, not in a smooth up line, but they're always going to go up. So I think that is one thing that anybody can start without even needing any more information. You don't even need to take action.

Jennifer Loehding:

No, that's good. Thank you for sharing that. Well, and I think you know, listening to this, I'm kind of an abstract thinker. So I'm like you need to be a long-term thinker. You need, you're not going to be. I mean, if you're looking for immediate, immediate, you're probably not, probably not going to be happy because nothing really game happens in the quick like that. You know, for you got to be thinking long term, so that's good, I love it. Thank you for sharing that with us. So so, very good, very good. So I guess I got a couple other questions I want to ask you. This has been good. I think we had.

Jennifer Loehding:

I always feel like we get a lot of. I love talking entrepreneurs because we get a lot of feedback on, you know, the important things, which are mindset and overcoming challenges and all of those. And the great thing about this show is we talk to so many different people in different fields and almost different places in the world too, which is really good. But I will tell you the universal principles, the things that are said, or I should say the things that are said are universal principles. I feel like they apply in a lot of different industries and in in all the entrepreneur space, so it doesn't really matter where you come from. We know that mindset's important. Overcoming challenges, having resilience and knowing your worth are all important things right.

Anmol Singh:

Yeah, and I think a lot of people, as you just said, no, no, the things they need to do, yeah, right, and they don't need more information. I think that's like a learning loop that people get stuck into is like I need to learn more, I need to take another course, I need to attend another event or another seminar, another workshop, I need to, and then they go from one podcast, listen to another podcast, another podcast and then read one book, go to another book. Right, it's not more information. You need 20 years old and if you read even 10 books, you're probably getting the same information again and again in different forms from different people. Everybody's saying the same stuff, right? So the commonalities are very similar.

Anmol Singh:

So it's just about who goes out there and actually executes. Who makes this a discipline? Right, we all know we should be meditating, journaling, breathing we all know that, but how many of us are actually doing it, making it a part of our daily life? I think that is where success is created. It's bridging the gap between your knowledge and your actions, because true knowledge is applied knowledge. Otherwise, you're just hoarding information, and more information is not going to change your life.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, you know what it's so good. I like that. You said that last part about the applied knowledge. You know I heard something. It has nothing to do with this, but I was in Mary Kay for 20 something years and when I first started in that company I was I told people I was both introverted and shy. A very painful combination, because when you're shy and you're introverted, oh and so I realized that a lot of my shyness came like. I wasn't shy when I was young, but then I became very shy and I was like that for a really long time and I'm grateful for Mary Kay because it taught me how to pull myself out of that. I wouldn't even be able to do what I'm doing today with all of this, but my brain is just like a goofy a goofy cell today.

Jennifer Loehding:

I tell you because every time I have a good point to tell you, it like goes into another tangent on another conversation today.

Anmol Singh:

I think it's just my energy.

Jennifer Loehding:

No, your energy is good, my brain needs sleep. I think is what it is. I think I haven't had enough sleep the last few days.

Jennifer Loehding:

It's going stupid on me, but I don't know where I was going with that, but I learned. I'll just say I learned great leadership skills in there and I learned how to get in front of people and talk and I think everything you said today was amazing. It's on point and people needed to hear it. I do want to ask you, because you mentioned you were talking about meditation, all those things. You kind of threw some of those things in there, and those are all things that I'm versed in. I would love to know, like, what is the one main morning thing that you feel like is like just kicks your day off, it's like the most important thing you do to get the day started?

Anmol Singh:

I think my morning routine is not as good as my evening routine, right? My evening routine actually determines and sets me up for success. I love it, Making sure, hey, I got to get good sleep right. That's really important for me because I can see the difference.

Jennifer Loehding:

Because then you get a brain like mine today.

Anmol Singh:

I have worse. So when I get seven, eight hours worse, I get four or five hours. It's a complete difference in how my day goes. So I think that's the biggest thing. But the second thing is like a reflection practice I do in the evening. So I have a journal right At the end of the day. I just write down, okay, what's something that went great today. So I try to get into gratitude at the end of the night what went well today? And then I write okay, what could I have done better today? Right. So that's reflection portion. What could I have done better today? Where could I have improved today?

Anmol Singh:

Maybe you know what, in that conversation with that person I thought I was a little too short or I wasn't really empathetic. So I can write those things down. Or maybe you know what I didn't get my workout in, or whatever. I'll write down reflections and then I'll end with what are the six things that I need to do tomorrow morning when I wake up? That'll make tomorrow a success. So then I plan the day the night before. I write down okay, if I do these six things tomorrow like the big needle moving things, and when I wake up my goal is nothing, I don't worry about the emails coming in, I don't respond to the text message or phone calls. My only job when I wake up is I want to do those six things. Now, sometimes it might take me all the way till 10pm to do those six things, and that's okay. And sometimes I get those six things down at 11am. Now I have the rest of the day to guilt free, enjoy, to do whatever I want to do. I can play golf, I can do whatever I want guilt-free, because I've done those six things and that is my only goal for every single day is those six things.

Anmol Singh:

But planning it the night before, because what most people do is they wake up, they're like, hmm, what should I do today? Gee, well, you already missed the day. Right Now, you're wasting time planning, especially if you get up late. So for me it's scheduled out and then all of those six things are assigned time slots in my calendar. So I know that I'm not going to fall short. I am going to get those six things done. And if you do this every day, needle moving six things, I mean, think about where you're going to be in a month. Most people procrastinate and they delay the big stuff till like much later, like the stuff that you know you need to do right now conversation you need to have with a teammate, or whatever it is like. Do that now and I think you'll you start to see the improvement in that. So set yourself up for the night before is the greatest way to do it.

Jennifer Loehding:

I love it. We actually used to talk about the six most important things to do in Mary Kay. We used to do that and, funny, I kind of got back to what we were talking. My brain came back to this all tie this together no amount of learning is going to change until you make the decision to do something. That's where I was going. That was the thought that I had a while ago and I got lost in everything. But we used to train on this. I used to train my people on the six most important things to do.

Jennifer Loehding:

Like I would be like you need to put that down and don't touch anything until you get those things done, because, like you said, we want to do the easy things and then work up and by the time we work up to do the hard thing, we lose the courage.

Jennifer Loehding:

Right, if you get up in the morning and you're like I'm going to do the hardest thing first, you got up in the morning, you haven't had enough time to think about it, you went to bed, you got up, you get it done, right, when you think all day, then you're going to talk yourself out of doing it. So this is great and I really like that you're talking about this, i're planning, you're talking about that, but also this reflection and then planning the night before, because I think that is so important, and I do that too. I tend to. I do have a morning routine, because I'm up at like four every day right now and that's why I'm not getting enough sleep, but I like this idea of planning the night before because, yes, you know, when you get up, it just gets you set up, you're ready to go for the day and you don't have to think about it. You got your plan.

Jennifer Loehding:

And I don't know about you but also writing things down. I don't know how you do yours. Like I you're going to laugh. Like I'm a note. I'm a paper person. I doodle all over. I like writing my things down and like marking them off my paper, like taking a Sharpie and just cause. To me it's like maybe it's just an ego boost.

Jennifer Loehding:

I don't know, but it's just like I get to look at it and say you're a badass. Today you got that paper done. You know what I mean.

Anmol Singh:

Yeah, no, writing is way. It might be way better than typing it out or writing it on your notes app. I mean sure you're getting it written down in both cases, yeah, but physical writing is different because when you're writing right and you're feeling your muscles are moving, you can feel what you're writing. If you really write down and you can practice it on yourself. If you write down some deep thoughts or deep emotions or how you're feeling, you can feel those emotions as you're writing them. When you type it out, you don't feel it.

Anmol Singh:

So there's some connection between, obviously, our muscles, our brain and us writing and feeling that. And then also spiritually, I think about it. Like, think about it, we had an idea in our head, right, it was just an idea, and now we wrote it on paper. So, technically, we have a physical manifestation of what was once an idea. Now we have a physical manifestation of it in the physical world. Right, that's step one of manifesting. You see, if you're typing it out, it's still an idea in the ether and online in the cloud or whatever.

Anmol Singh:

But bringing that into physical is step one of manifestation. So I think writing it down is absolutely key and, yeah, I write mine down every morning. I have the physical journal every morning, every evening I'll write down. Takes less than two minutes. And now not only do you feel it, you connect that brain pattern with your thoughts, but then, more importantly, you're now just brought an idea in a physical manifestation of that on paper. Now it's just like okay, once you have the physical manifestation, let's break down what I've written down into smaller, chunkable, actionable steps, and that is how you actually manifest what you want to do. It's not just thinking and hoping it's going to come, it's not going to come. You write down and you take action on that and now, technically, you will end up manifesting what you once suggested idea.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, and I think of this kind of like you balance your checkbook. However, you balance your finances right. If you don't look at it, you have no idea what you got going on, you have no idea what money you have, you don't know what's going out the door, you don't know what's coming in, and if you just hope for money to pop in, you're dreaming right Like you don't even know what's going on. I think of this the same way. You're setting yourself up for success and if you're not taking the time to actually pay attention to what you want and what you need to be doing, then you're just kind of you're like the blind leading the blind.

Jennifer Loehding:

You're hoping for things that are going to happen right.

Jennifer Loehding:

So all good stuff. Thank you for sharing all that. This is all things that I do. I feel like they're important to do. I've talked about gratitude journals and affirmations and all of those things. So I'm glad that you're doing all that and that's why you're successful, because you're doing the success habits. I would love one last question I want to ask you, before we type this up, figure out where to find you. I'd love to know, like, what is the best, maybe best piece of advice you've ever gotten?

Anmol Singh:

I mean, I mean.

Jennifer Loehding:

I mean, I mean, I mean.

Anmol Singh:

I mean, I think the most important one is you know, two things that we've kind of already touched upon is like A, it's not more information you need. Stop trying to learn more, right? Because, again, gratitude, journaling, meditation we all heard that for like years, but, like, how do we make that a part of our life? How do we actually apply it so that we don't know about success but we actually be the success that we've read about, right? So I think that's the key. And then that only comes with following through on your own word with an integrity portion, right? So just notice in your life all the listeners notice in your life what's something that you said you want to do or you said you're going to do and that hasn't come into fruition, and tie that back as you do the self-reflection, you're going to notice that the action steps were never taken. You never follow through on your own word. So it was just an idea. So, first, take all your ideas, write them down on a paper. Now we've manifested it. Step one. Now you take those ideas and chunk it down into smaller actionable goals as a form of six things that I need to do tomorrow and don't think about like this big mountain that I have to achieve. Oh, I want to make $20 million. Okay, how do I make a hundred thousand next quarter? How do I chunk them all the way down and just start hitting those smaller goals?

Anmol Singh:

Because here's the thing, like if you look at this, let's say we're in dark alley somewhere, the outcome, the destination that we want to get to, is always going to be not clear because it's dark. We can't see the final destination point. But every single time, no matter how dark it is, you can see the next step. You might not see the whole path, but you're going to see the next step. So just focus on taking the next step and the next step and the next step and you're going to see that path come to fruition as you walk along that path.

Anmol Singh:

So I think that's the best advice I would give people is to sit with yourself, do some self-reflection and brutal honesty right, and when you notice that something you said, you're going to do something, but it didn't come to fruition, you didn't take action on that, don't apologize for it. Say oh. Don't say you know, oh, I'll do it next time. No, no. What are we putting in place to ensure that doesn't happen again? There's a break in integrity. What are we putting in place to ensure it doesn't happen again?

Anmol Singh:

So, with my team, you know they say, okay, we're going to get this thing, we're working on this webinar. Whatever we're going to do, we're going to get this ready by I don't know April 10th. And now it's April 10th. Let's say they didn't get it done. They know that they should never apologize and say, oh, sorry, we didn't get it done on time on this deadline. They will say, okay, here's a new deadline and what I'm putting in her book Mindset, it's not about what happened, what went wrong. Okay, what are we going to do about it now? How are we going to fix it? Like, training your mind to think in that way will get you all the success that you ever dreamt of.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, I know, I love it. I love it. It's, I think, the as I was listening to you talking about, like, implementing these habits, I know for me personally, like I have to get set up on the process. Yes, we want to think about what the end result is, but I don't like to get hung up on the end result. I like to. I, I'm much more effective, being consistent.

Jennifer Loehding:

So if I and that's the way I, you know, I I tell people is that you find that one thing that you can do consistently and do that for a little while and then you can build, because when we're you and I are sitting here talking, we're talking about, you know, gratitudes and the six most important things to do and all these things, all these things that you and I are meditation, breathe, all these things. I know what you're talking about, cause I do all this stuff. This is stuff we do every day and we don't think anything of it anymore because we're conditioned to do it. But we probably weren't there. We had to work up to that, right, and so I always tell people when they look at people like you or myself or other successful people that are implementing all these things don't try to take all that on at one time, because you're not going to succeed.

Jennifer Loehding:

You need to figure out the one or two things that you can do consistently right over time and focus on that process and then the outcome will happen. You want to look at the big goals. We don't want to not have goals, but if you stay consistent you know I used to say this in Mary Kay all the time you can't. You're not going to fail if you keep moving. If you keep moving, you will not fail. You have to keep going. You fail when you stop. Right was the biggest thing I had to learn every time I was working because I was in sales is that I would have these crash and burns where I would go really hard, and then I'd have the success and I'd stop and guess what happens Another two weeks to build back up again.

Jennifer Loehding:

We've all been there right and here we go again Another two weeks in the valley, then we're back up. Got the success again.

Jennifer Loehding:

Then I'm overwhelmed and then I stop and I learned that no, we focus on the consistency, just being consistent day in, day out, day in, day out, because that over time is like what we're talking about the interest compounds, right, it compounds in our efforts and all those things. So I love everything you said.

Anmol Singh:

I think it's like the childhood fable, you know, the tortoise and the hare. You can sprint really, really fast as much as you want, right, but you're going to have to slow down and you're going to get tired, whereas a slow person even just keeps moving slowly at a time, at a time, at a time, he's eventually going to win, right, and warren buffett and at least in investing terms has proven that. Yeah, right, not looking for big winners or anything, just small, steady gains and all the investors have come and gone, but he's like still moving up like this. So the you know tortoise beat the hare classic fable in childhood story. But that has a lot to do with how we should look at our lives.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, I think that a lot about that, about the people they, about the people they get on, the influencers that get on the Internet and they start going on about a lot of things. I'm like they're going to be gone in a little while. Don't, don't worry about it. The rest of us are going to be around for a while because we're just steady. We're steady with what we do and the work that we put out, and consistency. I'm a big. I'm a big consistency person, so I love everything you're talking about today. It's great, great, I'm going to say. I wish you much continued success. I do want to ask you one final question. If our audience wants to get in touch with you maybe there's somebody in this, you know that they want to get your book, maybe they want to follow you. Maybe they want to learn more about your work, what you're doing when would you like us to send them?

Anmol Singh:

Yeah, I mean I'd love to give your listeners a free copy of the book. They can just, you know, put in their info and we'll cover shipping and then I will get that sent to them. So that's the probably the best way to start, because that book is universally applicable, like if you don't believe in the thought process or everything that kind of the how, think about yeah and forget about writing all the other stuff.

Anmol Singh:

So let's start here and then, yeah, instagram and twitter are kind of the places where I'm the most active on in terms of social media. But I'm just like you, you know, I like to just post and I like to get out.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, I know, I tell you I'm it's a love hate. I've got two workers, I got somebody helping me. I'm like I'm excited because I have somebody helping me with the YouTube now, because we've got about 20,000 followers in there now. I've been growing that thing and I'm like, okay, finally I got a little bit of help in there, because I just can't do it all. And then I finally got somebody on the social media. But I'm telling you, talk about that Perfectious. They're sending me these things. I'm like I don't like those colors, I don't like the way that looks. It's too, it's too artsy. I need it to be. No, you know, I'm like so I'm with you on the social media.

Anmol Singh:

It's just a love hate definitely, but you know, done is better than not done. I think it's been almost done, so, but yeah, instagram, twitter my username on both of them is uh, delta 90. Okay, d l t a n I n e t y spelled out. Uh, don't ask me why. I was like 16 or something when I got the username, and I still have it.

Jennifer Loehding:

You just don't have it, huh.

Anmol Singh:

Stick with that forever. But yeah, Delta 90 on social media and unmoldnet for my website.

Jennifer Loehding:

That's where they can learn more about it. Yeah, We'll make sure when we get the show notes together, that we get some content in there so people know how to find it. We'll get you tagged all those good things. So this has been awesome. I want to tell you thanks for your time. I appreciate it I know you're busy and all the information and the knowledge you sent a lot of takeaways from this, so hopefully you know somebody listening to this will be inspired and make some good decisions. Right, that's what we want 100%, Absolutely yeah.

Anmol Singh:

They should stop listening to the next podcast, the next podcast, and just act on all the stuff that you and I just talked about today.

Jennifer Loehding:

Yeah, you can keep listening. Just act on it. Don't just listen forever. Right? That's what we want, right? We want you to listen to those shows that they inspire you and they motivate you, but definitely act on it, because it doesn't do any good if you just keep soaking it in and not putting it out there. So we did all right and, of course, to our audience, we appreciate you. Thank you for tuning in today. We hope you found this episode both inspiring and informative, and I'll say thanks for putting up with my silly brain today, because jenn Jennifer definitely needs to get some extra sleep and heed her own words. And, of course, do all the things that we tell you to do right. Share like comment so we can keep spreading all this fabulous content out there. And, as I always say, in order to live the extraordinary, you must start, and every start begins with a decision. You guys, take care, be safe, be kind to one another and we will see you next time.

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