Hey Guys... "philosophical" question for today, LOL - hope it's still enough 'speculation' related not to get deleted off topic 
What's the best way you guys have all found for yourselves to deal with the psychological trap of "what-if-itis" disease, or "If-Only-Ism" thinking patterns?
For lack of a better term, this is the phenomenon of looking BACKWARDS too much at whatever number/quantity or type of other crypto coins that you may have USED TO HAVE, but for whatever reason you DON'T HAVE any more... and now after they've mooned, and you're kicking yourself saying, "Oh man if only I'd not sold or lost or given away XXX of my YYY" etc etc etc.
I'm SURE we all have this disease to some degree or another. Seems impossible to me that *anyone* involved in crypto at all for any middle to long-term length of time could EVER totally avoid it, right? Nobody ever gets all the decisions correct 100% of the time.
Overall I'm still way, WAY ahead of where I'd have been, financially in my life, from getting into bitcoin at first over 4 years ago now. Compared to having just left the money sitting in a bank CD deposit, there's no question it's a huge WIN overall.
But IF ("if only!" LOL) during those 4 years I'd have just HODL'ed more, not traded much (or at all), kept more of certain coins and less of others... I can't shake the thinking that I'd be even *further* ahead today. Like, pushing on upwards of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars further ahead...
I ain't complaining, really... most times when you catch me in the correct frame of mind I'm happy to be where things are. Life is good, overall... no problemo.
But... ya know... goddammnit... sometimes that fucking "what-if-itis" or "If-Only-Ism" disease just *creeps* back into my brain. It's annoying LOL
So what do you guys do when it comes? Any quick tips mental gymnastics to banish the demon shadow there? LOL
What's the best way you guys have all found for yourselves to deal with the psychological trap of "what-if-itis" disease, or "If-Only-Ism" thinking patterns?
For lack of a better term, this is the phenomenon of looking BACKWARDS too much at whatever number/quantity or type of other crypto coins that you may have USED TO HAVE, but for whatever reason you DON'T HAVE any more... and now after they've mooned, and you're kicking yourself saying, "Oh man if only I'd not sold or lost or given away XXX of my YYY" etc etc etc.
I'm SURE we all have this disease to some degree or another. Seems impossible to me that *anyone* involved in crypto at all for any middle to long-term length of time could EVER totally avoid it, right? Nobody ever gets all the decisions correct 100% of the time.
Overall I'm still way, WAY ahead of where I'd have been, financially in my life, from getting into bitcoin at first over 4 years ago now. Compared to having just left the money sitting in a bank CD deposit, there's no question it's a huge WIN overall.
But IF ("if only!" LOL) during those 4 years I'd have just HODL'ed more, not traded much (or at all), kept more of certain coins and less of others... I can't shake the thinking that I'd be even *further* ahead today. Like, pushing on upwards of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars further ahead...
I ain't complaining, really... most times when you catch me in the correct frame of mind I'm happy to be where things are. Life is good, overall... no problemo.
But... ya know... goddammnit... sometimes that fucking "what-if-itis" or "If-Only-Ism" disease just *creeps* back into my brain. It's annoying LOL
So what do you guys do when it comes? Any quick tips mental gymnastics to banish the demon shadow there? LOL