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PROGRAM D-7691
Have you ever tried to take more out of your bank account than you put in? Well, if so, you know the meaning of the term “overdrawn.” If you look around you, you’ll see lots of examples of the problems that arise when we take out of something more than we put in it.
The national debt is a result of the government spending more tax dollars than it has collected. Often people try to take out of relationships more than they put in, usually with a disastrous effect. I’ve seen employees who want to take out of their company more than they invest in it. They expect their employers to provide security, good pay, great fringe benefits, but they aren’t willing to put in loyalty, hard work, extra effort, etc. And it works in reverse. Many employers try to take more out of their employees than they invest in them.
And you know, lots of us are living emotionally, physically and spiritually in the overdrawn account mode. We don’t have enough in our inner banks to cover the checks we draw on them, and so we fight burnout, fatigue, discouragement, depression. Until we stop and solve the underlying problem of spending more than we take in, we’ll never find the end to this “bounced-check” way of life.
Well, what’s the answer? I would suggest that we need to know what it is that feeds energy and strength to us and make certain we’re depositing into our lives the right resources and the right amount. Then we have to determine what uses our resources and drains our strength, so that we can balance the two.
I’m going to take a look at the things which we do to deposit energy into our inner accounts and what we do that uses those resources. Maybe it will help you see why you seem to be out of balance too often.
Frankly, this is one of my greatest challenges and I have to relentlessly pursue the balance of input and output, physically, emotionally and spiritually. I think many of you share this frustration with me, so I hope these messages will be helpful to you.