Lead With Intention This Week

July 16, 2025

Be the Thermostat, Not the Thermometer

When you walk into a room, what happens to the energy?

Does it shift?
Does it settle?
Does it sharpen?

Here’s something we don’t talk about enough in leadership:
You are always influencing the room. The only question is… how?

It’s easy to be a thermometer, someone who mirrors what’s happening around them. When stress shows up, they get stressed. When others spiral, they spiral too. But leadership isn’t about reflection. It’s about intention.

Great leaders are thermostats.
They set the temperature. They walk into a room and shift the dynamic… on purpose. They bring calm to tension, clarity to chaos, and confidence to uncertainty.

The Influence You Hold

You don’t need a title to be a thermostat.
You just need awareness.

Check your inner settings:

• Are you responding with clarity or reacting with emotion?

• Are you lifting the energy or matching the lowest tone in the room?

• Are you leading with presence, or just getting through the moment?

People don’t always remember what you say.
But they remember how you made them feel.

Leadership starts there.

This week, lead the atmosphere.
Don’t mirror it.
Set the tone others rise to meet.

Let’s build cultures where influence is intentional and energy is led, not absorbed.

Ready to lead with courage, grit, and heart?
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