"Siempre Adelante" I have been thinking a lot about my mantra since I read your post yesterday. I think mine is... "I need a miracle everyday"
Ok you just need to concentrate on your trading, forget about the cats (cute cats btw), forget about your wife, forget about the guy next door, forget all that. You need to FOCUS on your trading, the PA, the setup and your trading plan. That's what you need to do. When you are trading, you should see nothing but the PA on the screen in front of you, everything else around you should just melt away and do not exist. If it helps you, try to trade in an empty room, just you and your computer and the screen with the keyboard and the mouse and maybe some pieces of paper and pen for you to make notes on an empty desk and nothing else. I think that should help you bit more. The mantra is good. Keep doing that. TP is the most difficult part of trading I find. Tp'ing early is very very common because you are caught up with fear that the profit is going to go away and you need to seize it before it goes away. It helps to think that to ensure you always book profits instead of losing profit and worse letting a profit turn into a loss but it unfortunately also makes you tp too early. So you just adjust according to the PA that you observe. As long as you are booking profit, hopefully not too early, you are fine.
I see it really is true that math teachers tend to be astute. You are right on the money. I appreciate all the responses.
Well I hope you've the experience to back up that statement. Trading futures definitely is not as simple as it seems. In fact, it's really hard to be consistently profitable this is why there are so many future prop firms out there offering you a chance of a funded account to pass their simulated evaluations.