Do you treat your car better than yourself?
June 23rd, 2010 | by Leanne
You should treat yourself better than you treat your car. I’m going to say that again…you should treat yourself better than you treat you car!
What on earth am I talking about? Well think about it. You make sure your car is fueled up or it won’t run. You even have specific instructions on what fuel it needs to run correctly and you know if you don’t pay attention there’ll be trouble down the road. The same is true for oil changes – every 3,000ish like clockwork. You wash the salt off in the winter, you wax it in the summer. If the “check engine light” comes on, first you curse and then you get it checked out. And finally if it is overheating…you stop! You wouldn’t dream of doing something to jeopardize your car’s performance.
And yet we in the US consume the wrong fuel, a crap diet of chemicals & processed food. We don’t take breaks. We get run down and yet we keep right on going no matter all the “check engine” warning signs we see and feel. And most fascinatingly of all we don’t even stop to fuel up…we just keep right on going while fueling.
I’m suggesting if you’d like to correct some of your work/life strife take a lesson from your local gas station…shut engine off while refueling. Maybe join this “Take Back Your Lunch” movement or maybe just get up from your desk, go to a different location, buy or take out your lunch, sit and relax…treat yourself better than you treat you car…for a change.
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What a great analogy, Leanne. At first I thought, “my car only wishes it had it this good” as it desperately needs a visit to the car wash (this L.A. smog is brutal!). However, you’re right on with this thinking and it’s so true!
We washed ours last weekend – mostly because our little thinks its fun to go through the car wash – I was much worse about making sure that happened before kids…but I do maintain it better some days than myself. Need to work on that.