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Oil Your Clippers

  • Posted by Paul
  • Categories Featured, Wisdom
  • Date September 26, 2010
  • Comments 14 comments

My hair clippers stopped working about two weeks ago.

They buzzed but the blades didn’t move and so didn’t cut my hair. It was a little annoying since they were quite expensive. I kept meaning to go out a buy a new set but kept forgetting and meanwhile my hair kept getting longer and longer.

I was about to learn a very important lesson in life.

I paid for a new pair of the same make and the label stuck to the new pair said “Oil before every use.” Arggggh.

I went upstairs and applied oil to my old trusty set and they sprang into life. I am not permitted to return the new set due to the nature of the product.

It reminded me that we must add regularly oil if we are to get the best out of anything.

Oil can be:

  • Quality time into our relationships
  • Healthy food into our bodies
  • Exercise into our day
  • Reading into our week
  • Learning into our lives
  • Holidays into our year
  • Savings into our bank

If we miss the oil out then we will save time and effort up front but it will come to a grinding halt soon enough.

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    14 Comments

  1. Ben
    September 26, 2010

    Good analogy. Not only does it convey the importance of maintaining our things/beings, but it also reminds us that preventative measures are the best to keep things running smoothly.

  2. Art
    September 27, 2010

    It is very easy to get caught up in day to day life. Maintaining our health and happiness unfortunately fall aside and it does take effort to include those activities each day.

  3. Dale
    September 28, 2010

    For me, regularly “adding oil” means that I work out. I find that I feel so much more energetic and better about myself. I make the time to do it, even though it can be difficult to fit it in my schedule. It’s worth it for me.

  4. Abby
    September 30, 2010

    Absolutely.

    Without maintenance, things simply won’t work anymore. We have to maintain our relationships, our physical bodies, our minds, or else we will lose our vitality.

  5. Felix
    October 3, 2010

    Taking care of yourself will make you not only happier, but more productive.

  6. Rod
    October 3, 2010

    I tend to forget to “oil” my friendships. They do tend to break down and need regular maintenance just like my career and spouse.

  7. Nathan
    October 4, 2010

    Very true. It’s so easy to forget to take care of yourself and of others. I value my family and friends so much, and I should make sure that they are taken care of.

  8. Beth
    October 20, 2010

    I agree with Ben, this was a great analogy. I too think that when neglected certain parts of our lives will come to a grinding halt. If we all could remember to “oil” different aspects of our lives everyone in them would be far happier.

  9. Ranier
    October 23, 2010

    As with anything, we really need to give attention to things that we have the intention to last and grow. Just like relationship, work, sports, and all aspects of Life.

    “whatever ye shall sow, ye shall reap”

    The Opposite is equally true,

    “whatever you do not sow (maintain), you shall not reap ( will go way)”

  10. Clyde
    October 28, 2010

    everything can be done slowly and gradually, most of the time people do this spontaneously. choking themselves, forcing only themselves to be stingy for the next time effort is needed. change takes time. Good things take time as well

  11. cleveland
    November 1, 2010

    Everything needs maintenance. its already written in the Bible, We lose whatever we don’t value or use. If your good at something now and your not maximizing that skill, tomorrow you’ll forget all about it and someone would have been better than you.

  12. Kel
    November 2, 2010

    Practice makes perfect. Perfect practice though gets perfect results. I used to be music student, A lot of times other kids would ask me why I played differently and got rapid results in my practice. I told them that breaking wrong habits during practice was the critical part of training, that’s why your practicing in the first place. There is no profit doing the wrong things as it only stagnates your growth.

  13. Jim
    November 5, 2010

    I think reading the manual should have been considered. I really shouldn’t talk big on this since I myself hate reading manuals.

  14. Lawrence
    December 4, 2010

    Good comments everyone. With the new year approaching, this is a great time to commit to regularly taking care of all aspects of our lives, so everything continues to run smoothly.

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