The morning routine I've never shared until now

Setting the frequency thermostat and my 59 daily reminders

Every morning, before I do anything else—before I read anything, respond to anything, or consume any information—I listen to a recording.

This recording anchors me into my own truths. It’s how I set my frequency for the day.

But before I share about the recording and reveal its contents, there is a fundamental concept for us to cover.

It’s about being like a thermostat instead of a thermometer.

A thermometer passively reacts to its environment, reflecting the temperature of whatever surrounds it. In contrast, a thermostat sets the temperature, creating and maintaining its own environment regardless of external conditions.

For years, I, like many, lived like a thermometer, allowing my mood, energy, and mindset to be dictated by the world around me—by what happened, what others said, and whatever challenges the day threw at me.

But at some point, about a decade ago, I realized that I didn’t want to be at the mercy of external forces anymore.

I wanted to be the one setting my own state, like a thermostat, determining how I think, feel, and act regardless of what’s happening around me.

I wanted to be the conductor of my internal state.

This led to decade long tour of learning how to do that. Books (so many books), podcasts, therapists, coaches, courses, traveling, meditation, writing, coaching, training, etc.

And here we are.

What I set out to experience has come to fruition. I am no longer the thermometer I once was. Today I take complete responsibility for the way I think, feel, and act. I also take complete responsibility for everything in my reality. And I’ve learned to exercise this responsibility more and more masterfully along the way. In other words, my inner state is more like a thermostat I’m able to set and maintain.

Along the way, I’ve developed my own life philosophy, a philosophy that continues to take shape.

This life philosophy has come from my own learning and exploration. It’s made up of my realizations, insights, discoveries, and revelations… many of which are at odds the beliefs that were installed by my environment and early life experiences and conditioned over time.

Those early beliefs, they weren’t my own. They were given to me. Yet, through my repeated exposure to them, they became my default. They became automatic.

When our brains tell the same story over and over again, we forget it’s a story at all. We begin to treat our thoughts as truths. They aren’t.

The new realizations, insights, discoveries, and revelations that became the foundation of my life philosophy weren’t my default. They weren’t the automatic way my brain fires.

They were powerful, yet so easy to forget.

We are conditioned by repetition—by the thoughts we think, the beliefs we hold, and the stories we tell ourselves day after day. When you hear or learn something once, it’s rarely enough to make a lasting impact on the way you live.

Reconditioning requires consistent repetition.

That’s why I developed a simple but powerful practice.

This practice allowed those novel beliefs, the foundation of my life philosophy, to become automatic.