Is Your Battery Charged?

When we break down the different types of labor, it quickly becomes clear that everything in life requires effort and work. Even fun requires a certain amount of work. There is nothing in life that, when we look at it closely is truly free. Because everything has at minimum an energy cost to us, shouldn’t we be protective of our greatest resource? Our energy is not magically replenished: we have to do certain things specific to us to recharge our batteries. Something that I always find interesting is how most people treat their phones better than they treat themselves. A quick test of this is to ask yourself when was the last time you checked on your phone? Now, when was the last time you checked on yourself?

Where’s your battery at? Have missed any of your own notifications that you need to attend to your needs? When you think about the way that you treat your phone, can you say you treat yourself better? If not, why not? All of the things our phones need, we need. We need to be charged daily, cleaned, kept in a protective space, and have our notifications turned on. Do you even know what your notifications are for emotional fatigue? For me, if I find myself being short, I know that I have reached the end of my emotional tether. What are your notifications for needing to take some time for yourself? I think right now is a great time to shift your focus away from your phone and back to you.

What would you do if today was the first day you got yourself and you had to set yourself up as if you were a phone? What would you want to download from your life today to take with you into your life tomorrow? What would you want your factory settings to be? The cool thing is that you are your own factory, and you can decide what your default settings are and what new programs and apps you want to download. Just as it takes time to set up a phone properly, it takes time to set our selves up to be the most successful and happy we can be, but I promise it’s worth it. Think about who you want to be and what you want to take forward in your life tomorrow, next week, next month and so on. Start weeding out and letting go of what does not serve you. I promise you can have more good days than bad, but it is a process. The first step is to know that you are more precious and valuable than your phone and deserving of more time attention and care than setting up a phone.