Are You a Thermostat Or a Thermometer? 🌡️

I don’t tend to look at people or personalities as binary but this one hit close to home

Theres 2 types of people in this world (emotionally),

Theres Thermostats and Thermometers.

Whats the difference?

Thermometer’s tell you what the temperature in the room is.

Thermostat’s tell the room what temperature it should be.

Its easier to be a thermometer, but when we are, we choose to just react, to the environment, and it will be a direct reflection of everything coming at us.

We’d be doomed to living a life of reacting, and being good at telling people the way things are.

Thermostats set the tone of their life, and emanates that to the room around them, because its a setting that is tuned to do so.

No matter the circumstance, Thermostats choose that no matter how the environment is treating them, it will influence the environment with warmth, joy, happiness, etc.

The Thermostat says, “I can have a good life, a good day, becuase I can choose no matter what, I can always be productive, I can always be of service, I can always do something for someone else and over time have a good.”

We walk around with a temperature of life we’re in

Its our emotional state, sometimes we’re cold and have little motivation to do things

Sometimes we’re on fire and we’re our best selves, we’re pouring into ourselves with working out, being social, loving, hopeful etc.

But as Tony Robbin’s says -

“We don’t experience life, we experience the life we focus on".

Our internal temperature, our emotions, determine the life we choose to focus on.

Being a Thermostat or a Thermometer will make ALL the difference on the experience we have in this life, which makes up our day to day life.

Please don’t look back on the year and realize you’ve been living a life reacting, never in control, completely passive or at worst a victim to the circumstances.