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Can you have a lot of money and still want to kill yourself? Yes or no? We talked about several examples today. Is it whether you're famous or not? No. Lots of people, famous people, want to take their life. Is it politicians? No. They can have an influence, but they don't control how you feel. Is it the weather? Clearly not.
What controls every quality of life and every person in this room is what emotions you feel consistently. Remember I said a billion dollars and you're worried all the time. That's your home. Worry is the quality of your life. So, back it up. There are two forces that get you to that emotion. And the forces really are whatever you focus on, whatever meaning you give things, that's going to determine how you feel. Write this down. If you would write down focus and meaning equals emotion. Focus and meaning equals emotion. And emotion equals life.
Whatever I focus on, whatever meaning I give it is going to produce the emotion. If something happens and you go, "That's the end of my life. My life will never be great again," the meaning you gave it is what's going to make you be in a lousy state. And that lousy state's the quality of your life. So, two people can have the same experience. One person goes, "That destroyed my life." The other person goes, "That pissed me off and made me more determined, and now I'm going to make it happen." It's not the event, it's the meaning.
So two words that control your life, meaning and emotion. If you change the meaning, it will change your emotion. And when you change your emotion, you change the quality of your life. Remember I said you don't experience all of life. You focus the part you experience the part of life you focus on. Now some people are always finding what's wrong. What's wrong is always available. True. Is there always something could be wrong? Yes or no? >> What's wrong is always available? So is what's right. It's just a matter of your habit of focus.
So if you want to have an extraordinary quality of life, that comes from extraordinary emotions. That means you got to come up with better meanings. Write down I'm going to become the master of meaning. If you become the master of meaning, you become the master of your life. Some people have an experience. They go, they're dissing me. They're disrespecting me. They're hating on me. Well, someone you could say they're disrespecting you or they're challenging you or they're coaching you. or you could actually see they're loving you.