How is your emotional state? It doesn’t matter what’s going on in your environment now or what happened to you in the past. You have the ability to take control of your emotions, and you should take control of your emotions. It’s almost never a good idea to react based on pure, raw emotion. Not only does it have a negative impact on other people, but it has a negative impact on you. Successful people understand this. They are able to harness their emotions so they don’t dictate their life.

4 Tips for Transforming Your Emotional State

If you want to go to the next level, by definition you’re attempting to do things you haven’t done before. That may mean you need to change your mental state. Frustration is inevitable. Hardship in life is inevitable. You can’t control that, but you do have the ability to control your reaction and make sure it’s not grounded in unpredictable emotion. Here are some tips on how to do this.

• Find a way to re-frame your circumstances. We all have some level of tragedy or trauma in our stories. But if you re-frame those events. they don’t have to affect your emotional state and hold you back from success in the future.
• Be goal-oriented. Set goals for yourself, achieve them, and reward yourself. Why would you bother working toward a goal if you aren’t going to reward yourself?
• Don’t sweat the small stuff. If you let the little frustrations get to you, you’ll quickly find yourself fin a negative downward spiral.
• Don’t forget to have a little fun in life. Every day should include a few hours of productivity and a few hours of fun. Shane and Rachel’s first rule for business is “If it’s not fun, it shall not be done.”

From Pessimism to Optimism

It’s time to shift your mindset! It doesn’t happen overnight. But once you can make the switch, you’ll notice a big difference in your life. Having the right emotional state can compensate for a host of other obstacles you might have standing in your way on the road to success. After all, the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is how they view the future.

Optimists believe they can create their own futures. Pessimists believe they can’t. They think they are hopeless. Thus, it makes no sense why a pessimist would be trying to change their life by pursuing financial success. By definition, they believe they can’t do it. Believe in yourself! Transform your emotional state and success will naturally follow.

Highlights from the Episode

• Successful people are immune to having a negative emotional state. They’ve experienced just as much hardship in their life as you have. They simply are able to control themselves better. 4:15.
• Every single one of us just wants to achieve an equilibrium in our lives where we can be happy. 9:30.
• Choose power over reacting emotionally. 21:50.
• Controlling your emotional state is a lot of faking it until you make it. When you approach life as if you’re winning, you’ll end up winning! 25:55.
• Rachel explains her switch and paradigm shift in her emotional state and how success quickly followed that shift. 28:00.