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ALWAYS RECYCLE

 


I wanted to start a series on “Life - Make It Count” but something happened to me last night that taught me some lessons worth sharing. So here we go.


I have been using my phone for over a year now; yes, there was significantly adequate storage space, (at least 64GB is not that bad). However, last night, the phone began to misbehave so badly that I had to reset it to the factory setting; fortunately, I was able to retrieve my important files but I lost the rest.


If you are the kind that works remotely, you can relate to how useful your phone is, especially if you work online. Truth be told, it hurts to lose important documents that will take you time to recover, well thank God for technology, the damage can be minimized.


Throughout the night before sleep came for me, I was thinking about the process and the take-home lessons for me from the unfortunate incident. I was able to come up with a few that I want to share with you.


Watch your system closely

Our lives can be likened to a device or a digital system that has a storage capacity, what we let into our space largely determines our efficacy and impact. What I mean here is, the applications we install in our lives can occupy up our space or equip us to occupy relevant positions in life. Just like devices have different storage capacities, so are our life’s systems; some have larger capacities than others and can take in more information than others. However, if we fail to watch our system and what is filling the capacity closely, we will realize too late that our system is filled up and on the brink of crashing.



Do not be careless - filter information

Life will treat you with the same amount of carefulness as you accord it. How could I not be careful enough to observe that my phone was running out of space? Why didn't I filter out information that is not important and can do without? Truth is, I have realized that it is not the amount of information you have that counts, but how you arrange, understand, and apply the information you have that matters. Hence, little needful information that is properly understood and applied is far more important than large needless junked-up space-cluttering information that is not being used.


More practically now, what kind of information do you have occupying the space of your life? Do you still have the capacity to take in more useful information or are you running out of space because you have filled up your life with needless information that is cluttering you up? Are you on the brink of crashing because you are running out of space?


You need to recycle

Scan your life, check all the unnecessary information you need to let go of. It could be expensive habits and addictions, toxic friendships and relationships, unhealthy cravings and desires, or even seemingly insignificant patterns creeping into your life that have harmful aftermaths. If after the scan your results shows you need to recycle, please do not hesitate to do so, if not, it won’t be long before you will crash 


Yes, I lost my files, I am still trying to reset the phone to suit my preferences, but I have learned and I will not let my phone crash because of this reason again.


You will only live once, therefore, do not let your life’s system be cluttered with anyhow information. Watch your system closely, filter out every information you don’t need, and always recycle. Make your life count.

Comments

  1. BlackWords22 August 2021 at 16:02

    Beautiful

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  2. Busolami Adenigba22 August 2021 at 16:26

    Thanks

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  3. St.ephens22 August 2021 at 17:41

    Hmmmmm! This is timely and Very important, infact this is self evaluation for...

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  4. Unknown23 August 2021 at 00:05

    Wonderful piece of advice. Really efficient Sir.

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  5. @Mish_SN23 August 2021 at 10:57

    Interesting. I've been that road once, and since then I find the clouds friendly.

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