Batteries
My daughter recently celebrated her 3rd birthday party and between that and Christmas I should have bought stock in Duracell. Like many parents I began to hunt through the house for batteries only to give up, go purchase some more, and then find the stash from last time once I got home.
Life isn’t so different. How many times have we searched for motivation or energy only to realize that we could have done it all along if we had just started. Taking the analogy further, how many times have you taken the batteries out of a loud toy to avoid a future headache. This is no different from not trying something difficult because you don’t want to deal with it.
A battery left alone in a drawer for long enough time will drain itself and become useless. If you leave your batteries, your skills, your techniques, your specialized talents unused for long enough you’ll lose them. You paid good money for the trainings you’ve gone to, your college education. Your employer and team has invested time and money and effort into you as well.
Don’t wait until your batteries are dead before you use them. Take a change, plug them into that noisy toy with lots of flashing lights and go have some fun.
