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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

You're sitting there. Reading that email and your blood starts to boil.

Somebody just threw you under the bus in front of the entire executive team.

You feel it rising, that familiar surge of anger, that feeling of betrayal. But wait, let me ask you

something. Who really controls your emotional thermostat? I'm about to share something with you

that might shake everything that you believe about your emotional responses, and it could be

the most liberating truth you'll hear this week, this month, maybe this year. Here's the raw reality.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, can make you feel anything. Hear that again. Nobody can make you

feel anything. Let that sink in. You see, I learned this lesson the hard way.

Picture this. I'm in my office early in my career. The dream client I'd been working on for 18 months

just went with somebody else, somebody less qualified, somebody who'd been in the industry half as long.

I was furious. I was furious. I was

devastated. I was choosing to be both of those things. Yes, you heard that correctly. I was

choosing my response. And that's when it hit me like a ton of bricks. Every emotional reaction

I'd ever had was actually a choice I was making, a choice I didn't even realize that I had.

Think about that for a moment. When your coworker takes credit for your work, when your boss

criticizes your presentation, when that client sends that passive, aggressive email, you're not

just the victim of their actions, you're actually the creator of your response.

This is where it gets really interesting, okay?

Studies show that the average professional wastes two and a half hours a day,

dealing with workplace drama and emotional reactions.

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