Ed Mylett

Because what happens externally does not control what happens internally in this theater.

And here's the story.

Same with your life.

It's not the external things.

It's not how other people are treating you or events going on in the world or events going on in your life or circumstances outside of your control that dictate your life.

What dictates your life is that thermostat setting, your identity.

Let me give you an example, and you've probably seen this before with yourself or friends of yours.

See, you have multiple thermostat settings, by the way.

You have an identity setting, a thermostat setting for your happiness, your finances, your success, your relationships, your physical body.

You have multiple ones, your faith.

Let's just take a few of them.

Maybe you've had this happen before in your life, but if you have a 73 degrees success thermostat setting, right?

And all of a sudden your business is growing, you're at 80, 90, 95 degrees.

Maybe you've got a promotion at work or you own your own business and it's growing.

But somehow a year later, it comes right back down to what it was before.

Was it all the external conditions?

Like if you go, oh, it's supply chain, interest rates went up, the economy changed.

It always seems like those things, but it never is because even in those conditions, some people are winning, some people are losing.

What's happened is your success started to get higher than your thermostat setting.

And it becomes unfamiliar to you.