What's Really Going on in Your Life?

The model that you're operating under works like this. You have some sort of circumstance out in the external world that happens to you, then that generates the emotion that you feel. So let's say you get a raise at your job. That makes you feel then happy. The raise was an external circumstance which made you feel happy. Now you have that happiness from the emotion, then you start taking some sort of action. Emotion leads to action. And those actions, of course, lead to results in your life.