Hot Water in the Toilet.
My hubby, Darrell, serves the planet as an energy consultant. He helps people understand their homes and how they can fix energy wasters that are costing them money and the planet its precious non-renewable resources. We are an interesting pair because I do that for people and businesses. I help people understand what their life currency is being spent on and help them identify the energy they are expending on their life’s purpose and the energy they are wasting being plugged into the busy mindlessness that does not serve their calling. So, very similar, right?
In his line of work, he is always coming across the most interesting people, places, and things. He has enough stories to write his own blog because there are as many circumstances as there are people. He speaks with seniors whose HVAC’s are running inefficiently, only to find out through his consultation that they were ripped off by someone who sold them a used unit as new. He consults with people who have never once changed their air filter, didn’t know they needed to change it, and do not know where their furnace is located. I know. I know. There are the clients who do not know that if they do not close their chimney flue, that their heat will leave their comfy living room and drift up and out of their house, resulting in waste and drafts. Some people do not clean their dryer’s lint traps ever. Some never thought to reverse the direction of their blinds on a sunny day. There are so many learning opportunities.
This week though, he told me something I’d never heard before. The thought had never crossed my mind. And frankly, I never thought this was a possibility. He told me through a series of questions that he asked a family after discovering they were experiencing high electric bills…. that… a customer…. had…. hot water…. in their toilet. See, sometimes, toilet water, depending on the level and execution of your bathroom activities, can um, splash a wee bit and kinda um, hit your butt. So, the customer was curious as to why the uh, water in their toilet was flaming hot.
As he told the story, I was tickled, yet intrigued. Tell me more. “Well,” he continued, “I had to inform them that whoever hooked up their plumbing during the rehab of their home, hooked the water line supplying the toilet to the hot water line.” The customer was stunned. I was stunned. I didn’t even know that was a thing. So the next thing Darrell, who has a southern preacher’s voice and cadence, said was, “The wrong connection will cost you.”
So here’s the disclaimer: I grew up in a black, Pentecostal church where preachers whooped, perspired, and threw handkerchiefs when they knew in their sanctified souls that what they just said resonated with the congregation in a huge way. (If you’ve never seen this, Google it.) So while Darrell is not a preacher, he began to tune up. Tuning up in the black church means that his voice began to crescendo and become more pointed and punchier with a little hum underneath it. (Again, if you’ve never witnessed this, Google it.)
The wrong connection will cost you.
The wrong relationship will cost you. You believe you are happy, but the truth is you are bound up because you simply believe you are more valuable in a duo versus being single and free.
The wrong job will cost you. You might think they are paying you, but you are the one paying the price with time you will never get back.
It’s like flushing hot water down the toilet. What is it costing you? The customer said that sometimes they don’t have enough hot water to shower. They run out of hot water. When they need hot water, they don’t have it even though they should, because the energy in their home is being misappropriated. You are using hot water, a resource that costs money, to flush excrement out of your house, when the intensity of that resource is not even required! You are pouring the hot water of your life into relationships that don’t appreciate it and into places where your power is being wasted.
You may not want to hear that. Because you may not want to admit it. So I will confess my sins. I have been a hot water waster. I had to pull focus and pull my mindset together. And when I didn’t, THAT began to cost me. See, you are going to pay one way or another. But do you have to overpay? Do you have to overdo it? Do you have to put resources where they do not belong or where they are not required? The answer is no.
Love, Peace, Focus, and Progress,
Tracey Alexandria Lynch
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