Discipline - Why is it so hard?

Why is it so hard to just STICK to your plan.
Once I set my orders I should just leave it there and wait for results.... But the anxiety to look at the charts, or moving the SL a little bit, or the need to "close" a trade soon before it moves in the wrong direction has made me leave some perfectly good trades with mediocre earnings.

Ok, I needed to get that out of me.
Let this thread be a place to promise to leave all those bad practices and just STICK TO YOUR RULES.

Hereby, I declare I will never break the rules of my trading plan!!!

The harder you try the worst it gets. All the declarations and promises are in vain.

one has to get discipline unconsciously.

We are just human ...

Just like anything mate, it's a skill that needs to be developed with practice and time.

A tactic I've found very useful is simply writing down everything I'm feeling when in a position. Just write it down on a notepad in front of me and once I'm aware of how I feel and why, it tends to reduce anxiety and therefore the likelihood of a silly decision based on my emotions.

Give it a go. Don't doubt yourself too much though, like I said, it's a daily practice and you can do it.

Thanks for your inputs.
I was a little whiny there... :-)

I just got a little frustrated, but I understand keeping your head cool is key...

what I do is I simply have a SL and TP. so no rules for managin SL. So after Im in I close metatrader and do something else...it works

first of all, have faith in your plan. not all trading plan that bad, we just stick with it enhance, made improvement , and an honest continous evaluation.

It's hard because there is no challenge and that's the problem.

How can you be disiciplined and professionnal when you're trading with demo or low-capitalized accounts?

In the same time, you can't trade with well-capitalized account because you need practice. So that's why it's difficult in my opinion.