Your temperature (your attitude), your work ethic, your interactions with family, friends, clients, colleagues, and staff - it all dictates the temperature of your life. Your attitude also has the power to affect others – especially those who are young, inexperienced, or who are simply watching and learning from you.
How you react to pressure, to people and to unexpected setbacks (or joy!) says a lot about your wellbeing and leadership abilities. Whether you asked to be a mentor or have been assigned to this role, remember that “life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” The pastor and author Charles Swindoll understood and wrote about the importance of attitude.
You can be a thermometer and absorb everything life throws at you. Or you can be a thermostat, set your temperature to a certain setting, and radiate peace or joy no matter what life throws at you.
The beauty of free will is having the choice - every new day - to decide! Even when you know no one is watching you, you have the power to either absorb the current temperature (thermometer) or change it (thermostat).
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