Low Battery Blog
I brought my laptop to the ballgame to write during the time between games. Jonah is in the band, so I get to stay through all of them.
Can you feel the joy here?
Four junior high football games in a row! Oh, the joy! Somebody hold me down. I might float away from the joy!
And OK, I won’t lie. I brought my wireless card so I could surf between games too. That’s a lot of football goodness, y’all! My people can’t sit idly for that long. We’re not wired that way. We’re just wired!
But when I fired it up my laptop, I realized my son had been using it at home sans plugging it in.
I had only 27% battery power left to make it through four games.
And so I had some decisions to make.
What becomes the priority when you only have 27% of your power but 100% things you need to do?
I could go answer those two facebook comments I’m dying to reply to.
I could check my E-mail.I could look for a recipe for homemade protein bars or check what’s going on at MD.
Or….I could write my Blog. The thing that makes me happy and starts my day off right.
There’s always choices.
Kind of like whether or not to do to the gym every day.
Some days are just 27% days.
Some days you only have time to get in 27% of what you need to do.
And well, during all this thinking time, my circumstances have changed.
I’m now down to 24%!
Oh…no!
I’m still thinking at this point…
Then I start weighing things out.
If I choose to do search and look, I’ll be thinking about my Blog and wishing I had done it.
And if that battery goes out, I’ll wish I did it.
But…I just looked and I’m at 24% still.
And you know, I can play on my Blackberry once I get this written.
Because…
If I don’t do it, I’ll spend all my battery time thinking about it.
I’ll end up thinking about it for longer than it would take to actually do it.
And then where would I be?
No battery and no Blog.
Because I’m at 23% now!
Time is wasting.
And…wait…it’s done!
Hmm…
Like with so many other things, it’s best to do what needs to be done first.
Because I still have battery power left to do other things.
And I won’t look back and wish I had played first when I go to bed with it done.
After you do all the things you need to do and have to do, there is usually plenty of play time left. Maybe not every day, but on most.
You just have to stop thinking everything takes so much of your battery…because some things that seem so big only take 4%.
And if you add up the 24 hours in a day…an hour at the gym is right at 4%.
And don’t we all have that?
