08/06/2026
THESE LIGHTS DON’T WORK!
I recently bought some solar lights for the garden. Very enthusiastically, I put them into the ground and waited for a sunny day… I waited, and waited … and waited for days!
Nothing happened!
Not even a glimmer of light at night time!
“These lights are rubbish! They don’t work!” I thought.
Then I thought I had better check that I had followed the instructions and set them up properly.
Inside each light was a button - on and off - and I had not turned the switch on! So the batteries were being charged, but this energy was going nowhere!
Straight away, I went to every light and made sure the switch on each one of them was turned to the “on position.”
And last night, every single, one of them lit up - bright and beautiful in the darkness!
This got me thinking …
How often, every day, do we experience things that give us energy and recharge our batteries, but we are not “switched on?”
It might be a compliment, praise, a sunny day, a clear run in traffic on the way to work, your favourite song on the radio…
But instead of storing up these positive experiences, they pass us by and we are left feeling empty, exhausted and flat?
One thing I have learned is this…
If we are “switched on” and learn to notice and maximise these positive, energy- giving experiences, then we too, will be able to shine bright … even after a long hard day!
