I was watching The Nightmare Before Christmas the other night with my daughter.

She got a little scared halfway through so didn’t finish the movie but the next morning she was very curious and was asking me how the movie had ended.

Trying to explain a Tim Burton movie to a five-year-old is not an easy task.

This is what I told her, and you will understand at the end why I am sharing this with you…

In the movie Jack The Pumpkin King got tired of doing the same thing over and over again every Halloween and decided he didn’t want to scare people anymore, he wanted instead to spread Christmas joy.

So he had Santa Clause kidnapped and hidden away and decided to do Christmas himself.

He gathered everyone around him to make their version of presents, build a sleigh and even create skeleton reindeer to fly him through the clouds. 

On Christmas night he took to the sky and delivered all these ghoulish presents.

But he couldn’t understand why people were so upset, that the kids were crying and the parents are screaming and finally the military comes to shoot him out of the sky.

He is overcome by regret for his arrogance.

Immediately Jack looks to fix his mistakes and frees Santa Claus to put Christmas right.

Now, this is the most important part of the story and one where I think there is a lesson for all of us.

He finally understands his mission in the world and what he does better than anyone else.

He understands that his calling is not to spread Christmas joy, it is to terrify people on Halloween night.  

And with this, he reclaims his throne as the Pumpkin King, now with a renewed determination.

Why am I telling this story?

Because I see it all the time with business owners and investors. They do something very well and it works for them, but they get bored of what works and instead decide to throw it all away for something new and shiny.

I am even seeing it now in the crypto space. People want to spend all day trading and going in and out of positions, always chasing something new. 

When the best strategy is to just buy the 10 positions with the brightest future, then sit on them until it’s time to sell. 

I’m in Colombia right now visiting my friend Marco Wutzer, in Marco’s newsletter, he correctly predicted the 1st, 2nd, 6th and 8th biggest performers of the last year (out of over 13,000 projects), he told me at dinner last night that his strategy is simple, he spends countless hours researching the project, then buys into the ones with the highest upside potential and…

...waits...

He doesn’t day trade, he doesn’t chase every new thing that comes out. He picks the best projects, then waits for them to deliver.

And you know what, his returns are over the top, enough for someone to retire on.

If you want his research on the best projects so you can do the same thing as him then sign up here https://expatmoneyshow.com/serenity

Talk soon,

Mikkel