Battery Life

We took our kids to their first concert last month and had an absolute blast. As you well know, I’m a huge fan of live music. And like any responsible mom taking her two 12-year-olds to a concert, I waited until the last minute to remind everyone to throw their phone on a charger. No going into a chaotic night without fully charged phones around here. As I let the family know, it was interesting to hear the differing percentages of battery life available on each device.

And, based on everything we had already done that day, I almost think the battery life sounded a bit more like our differing energy levels going into the night.  

As much as we use our phones for pretty much everything right now, what if we took a little bit more notice of battery life as an actual measurement of how much left we have to give at that moment, that day, or that situation?

What if before you went into a tense conversation or an emotionally deep situation, you checked your own battery life? What if you got better at expressing this to your partner? Would it help set more realistic expectations? Or what if you even checked your own battery life as a way to remind yourself to rest?

As you walk into this particularly busy time of year, be sure you’re noticing your own battery life. Work to not only communicate it but catch it before it runs down to zero. Create a ‘stop point’ for when you need to get charged up. And don’t be afraid to signal to your mate when you really do need to slow down and plug into each other a bit more.

You got this,

-A