{"id":357,"date":"2010-02-14T21:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T03:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:09:48","slug":"finished-my-taxes-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/14\/finished-my-taxes-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished My Taxes Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I filed my taxes a lot earlier this year. Primarily because I did a poor job in tax planning and withheld too much money. I ended up with refunds from both the federal and state. I always got a weird sense of enjoyment in owing every year and filing right before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I need to do a much better job with investing. Bank account interest is incredibly low. I missed out on the big recovery from the bottom last year. It&#8217;s time for me to become less risk adverse. My irrational fear of losing money prevents me from making any real money. It&#8217;s odd that I can identify my problem but have yet to find a way around it. It is getting to be very bothersome. I start to invest, then bail out after a couple trades. And it&#8217;s not like they were bad trades. I made money and still didn&#8217;t keep doing it.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what makes someone a good trader psychologically?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I filed my taxes a lot earlier this year. Primarily because I did a poor job in tax planning and withheld too much money. I ended up with refunds from both the federal and state. I always got a weird sense of enjoyment in owing every year and filing right before the deadline. This year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[386,60,59,57],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bills","category-life","tag-investing","tag-mental-blocks","tag-risk-adversity","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}