Have you ever forgotten to charge your phone before leaving home, so you plug it in for 10-15 minutes, hoping it’ll have enough juice to get you through the day?
When in low-battery mode, we only use our phone for essential activities, such as navigation or important messages.
This may work for a day, but if repeated day after day, we end up with 2 problems: 1) we don’t get to use our phone’s full capabilities, and 2) it harms the long term health of the battery.
A phone is replaceable, but when we apply this concept to our lives, specifically our minds and bodies, it takes on a new meaning.
Consistently refusing rest and rejuvenation by getting “just enough charge” is unhelpful and unhealthy in the long term.
It’s not sometimes, it’s regularly, that we need a full recharge.