Use Your Emotional Thermostat

Your people crave a dependable, non-emotional leader.

It’s sometimes difficult to regulate emotions and respond with choice, rather than react with reflex. Our body regulates our temperature and does not take on the climate of the environment around it. If it’s 110 degrees or 25 degrees outside, for the most part, our body temperature stays at 98.6.

How can we regulate our emotional thermostat to remain that steady?

• RELAX: take regular times of relaxation. Maybe a 5-minute meditation break or a 20-minute walk at lunch; something to give your nervous system a break.
• PLAY WITH PERCEPTION: realize that 5 people could participate in the same experience and have a wildly different perspective about what happened. Rarely will you ever find someone who fully agrees with your perception and vice versa? Let this be okay!
• LIMIT DRAMA IN YOUR OWN HEAD: don’t let your thoughts wander away from you into a negative story. If you make a mistake, spend that time thinking about how you could change it or make it better and fail forward, not how it will ruin your life.

Your team will thank you and look forward to being with you. And, who knows, maybe they will become more of an emotional thermostat too, rather than emotional thermometers infesting each other with their bad attitude.

TAKE A BREAK! 😉