Recharge Your Batteries

Take time to recharge your batteries. It's hard to see where you're going when your lights are dim.
Robert H. Connelly

How often do you stop and take time to recharge your batteries. To behave like a child. To explore the world and just play. To smell the roses and enjoy the trees. To discover new friends. It is not healthy to behave like an adult all the time. Too many responsibilities is exhausting. Feeling like we are always "on" just wears us down in the same way that a flashlight will wear down and eventually go off if it is left "on" all the time.

We all need some "alone" time where we don't have to do anything but what we feel like doing; when we don't have to answer to anyone else and we can remember who we really are as opposed to who other people want us to be. When we have no obligations and can finally do what we want to. Hobbies are a great way to recharge your batteries, or even just taking the time to learn more about our favorite subject. Or taking a walk and enjoying nature. Whatever fits into your budget and lifestyle. Whatever expresses your true interests and values.

Take time to recharge your batteries. It's hard to see where you're going when your lights are dim. Sometimes we will need to make an appointment with ourselves to do "nothing". The busier we are, the more often we need to "take a break". If we are going to be truly successful, then we must remember what our true interests and values are, who we truly are, and we can only do that when we take the time to recharge our batteries as frequently as possible.

When we start to define our worth by how well we can do what other people want, how we can take care of our adult responsibilities, when our lights are dim, then the only way we can feel successful is to do what they want. But that is not really success and we know it on a deeper level. The only true success is to live up to our own potential, to support our own interests and values, to be the person God meant us to be. We can only do that when our batteries are charged and our lights are burning bright.