Your phone shows you the battery percentage. Life doesn’t. Don’t wait for the low battery warning to charge what matters.

With no gauge to read, depletion is easy to miss until it is severe. Energy, friendships and health all drain quietly, and none of them announce themselves at twenty percent. By the time the warning arrives as exhaustion or distance, recharging takes far longer than it would have earlier.

Put the charging in the calendar instead of waiting to need it. Sleep on an ordinary night, the call to the person you have not spoken to, the afternoon with nothing in it. Maintenance done while you feel fine is the cheap version.