Cheers! Fill Your Cup.
How do we really feel about a glass-half full? The last time I checked…we don’t celebrate or make toasts without a full glass.
Metaphors are like a love language to me. I love reading them, speaking in them and writing in them. Metaphors have the power to break down complex concepts and deliver perspectives or solutions in a thoughtful, constructive and creative way.
Let me convince you how metaphors could be a “love language” of yours too with a new approach on a “glass half-full”...
The Concept
What and where we are draining ourselves in our lives vs. filling it with what brings us purpose and real happiness.
The Metaphor
Back to the glasses…but I’m going to keep it classy with red solo cups
You have a stack of red solo cups…
One cup is just YOU. Everything you love and do for yourself and are necessary - hobbies, travel, physical and mental health, etc.
The other cups represent everything fundamentally important in life - work, relationships, friends and family, etc.
Each red cup is “half-full”. This represents the already and well known analogy being a positive outlook. A “half empty”, negative outlook, not being an option.
We choose what we pour, when we pour and how much into each cup. There is not a time limit on when, but each cup has an end goal of being filled.
Some cups can be trashed or replaced but the YOU cup never goes anywhere and must stay a number one priority.
What happens a lot of times is we over pour into cups (work, relationships, etc.) that have a crack in them. Neglecting the others, including the YOU cup.
When we constantly pour into a cup that has a crack, we are never going to be satisfied or “filled”. Even if you pour everything you have into it and get close to filling the cup, the crack will always be leaking. You loose purpose and will always be drained. You have to remove or replace the cup or cups that are draining you.
Give it some thought…
Are you pouring heavily into a cup with a leak? What’s the purpose? Maybe it’s time to throw that cup away.
What cups can you focus on filling more that truly bring you a sense of purpose and happiness?
Never forget the YOU cup. Do you have an opportunity to make pouring into it more of a priority?
Don’t settle for living a life of half full glasses or red solo cups…You have toasts to make. Fill those b*tches up!