Actual question in my mind was – are we recharged enough? But when I started thinking on that I realized that if I know how we recharge ourselves, I will have the answer to the main question – if it’s enough or not!
So, I reframed the question to – how do we recharge ourselves?
Now some of the obvious recharging options, which I call “direct plug into power socket” type recharge, are:
- Good night sleep
- Morning walk or exercise
- Healthy meals
- Good work environment
- Having a hobby or ‘me’ time
- Time out with loved ones
- Any celebration or festival
- Breaks or vacation
- Prayer or meditation
This list depends on individual’s choice, routine and circumstances. Important thing to notice here is that most of these need some bit of planning or effort from our side. And to make that effort itself, we need some initial charge to provide motivation.
So, in this post I will discuss such options of recharge, which can keep our battery at a ‘motivated’ level. I call them “fire-fly moments” type recharge options. Just remember this analogy of a person collecting fire-flies in a glass jar to have enough light on a dark night.
To give you an idea, some of the “fire-fly moment” examples from my own experience are:
- Getting up beside a loved one and exchanging sleepy smiles
- Looking at the morning sky, trees, birds and absorbing the enthusiasm of the atmosphere
- Saying hello with full excitement to fellow morning walkers
- Exchanging smile or a little chat with a neighbor’s kid going to school
- Exchanging greeting with a neighbor going to office
- Acknowledging someone’s effort with a little chitchat; like a traffic police officer, road side vendor, bus conductor or a cab driver
- A simple act of chivalry in the bus by offering a seat or space to someone
- Sharing some light moments during lunch or coffee break with colleagues
- Sincerely appreciating a colleague for a job well done
- Surprising loved one by carrying their favorite snack item in the evening
- Listening to loved one’s day experience
- Listening or humming a favorite song together with your loved one, kid or a friend
- Dancing on a favorite song with your loved one
- Remembering a good old time on a telephonic conversation
- Even recollecting or discussing such experiences with your loved ones
We can see that we don’t even need to create them, these”fire-fly moments” are constantly happening around us. All we need is to open ourselves for these real “social connection” experiences with people around us and the environment.
So simple yet so powerful, isn’t it?
Above list can easily run into pages depending on our willingness to recognize, consciously experience and creatively convert even the faintest of such “fire-fly moment” into a powerful recharge option.
Just by living in the moment and enjoying these simple experiences to the fullest, we can easily get enough energy for making that extra ‘conscious’ effort and achieve more in life.
And the best part is that most of these experiences are two-way recharging option, so not only we get recharged; we recharge others around us.
Just imagine how much joy we can spread in the process of keeping ourselves recharged!
Think about it…
Stay well and live in the moment!
~ Piyush