Learning to invest online was a learning experiment in and of itself. As I’ve mentioned before, it helped me take charge of my financial future, let me feel as if I was setting myself and my kids up for longterm success, and helped bring my family closer by bonding around one goal and hobby set. But since I started investing with Try2BFunded and my own accounts I’ve noticed that there have been many positive results in my life outside of investing, too. 1) Discipline I don’t want to mislead you: trading, even with something as intuitive as Try2BFunded, is not walk in the park. It’s not that it’s outrageously difficult, it’s that it takes continual focus and dedication. As a mom, I know about keeping a tight schedule. But I’d gotten bad at bringing discipline to the factors in my life beyond keeping my family in check. With investing, that wouldn’t fly. I had to be putting in work every day if I wanted to stay successful. Try2BFunded is helpful in this—if you slip too much, you’ll be knocked down back to the qualifying round. This helped guarantee that I was putting in regular work. 2) Confidence Before I started trading online, I had no financial confidence. I’d been out of the workforce for almost 10 years, and, while I am a killer mom, being a mom doesn’t pay in anything beyond satisfaction. I’d lost my way when it came to taking charge. But investing was really helpful in becoming confident in my business skillset again. By managing a portfolio of my design and building a strategy that was meant to last, I was surprised at how good I was at building longterm finances, which made me feel more confident in my day-to-day. 3) Assessing Risk and Reward Being a parent can make you pretty risk averse. It makes sense: my priorities became all about protecting these precious little creatures, not about striking forth my own path into the world. But risk has its rewards, as the saying goes. Try2BFunded insists on building risk, but safely. That might sound like a conflicting idea, but it goes back to loss. By taking risks that kept me within their parameters, I was able to see how much risk I really wanted to take.