What is the secret behind every tragic misstep on the path to success?
It happens right here: People believe their emotions have an external cause.
That’s it. That’s the only real problem.
– Steve Chandler
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Your emotions create your experience, the visceral, palpable real part of your experience.
You create your emotions.
(By what you think.)
Therefore . . .
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* Trust me, I make this mistake all the time too, but, mostly, I catch myself.
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