Short YouTube monologue by Russ Lowry emphasizing that maintenance is essential across all areas of life — vehicles, property, professional work, education/knowledge, and relationships (including parenting). Argues that proactively maintaining things and relationships prevents failures and reduces stress; recommends setting reminders/tasks to stay on top of upkeep.
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We'll call today's video maintenance. I was just going to do kind of a cheesy little PSA about maintaining your cars and your property and your stuff. But really maintenance goes a long ways and everything in relationship, you have to maintain the relationship. You can't just put it on autopilot and say, I'm not ever going to do anything. So you have to work at it professionally, your business. You have to work at your business as well. Maintain your professional status, your cars. That's what kind of prompted this. We're always having to ask, when is your oil due? You know, or one of you will say, there's a light came on on my dash and it says maintenance due. And I'm like, what's probably your oil? You know, we have to rotate your tires. So going through life, a lot of people don't think about this, that everything requires maintenance. So again, relationships, professional work, education, knowledge, you know, your cars, your house, and it sucks sometimes, but these are things that you just have to do as you grow up and be an adult to get along in society and to have a better productive life. I'll have see people that'll say, you know, my engine just blew up. They don't know what happened to it. Well, he didn't put any freaking oil in it for like two years, so that's what happened. Or my tire blew out. I mean, so as cheesy as this video might be, I just think it goes without saying, just to remind you guys that maintenance is a way of life. You can't blindly go through life with anything. You have to constantly be looking to maintain everything in your life for balance, for success, you know, especially as you have kids. Everything gets tougher when you have kids. Some people think it gets easier, I'll just have a kid. It'll help a relationship. No, no, that's, that's not how it works. It's, it just adds that level of stress and another person that you have to take care of. And then sometimes you take your eye off the prize and your spouse gets left out. And that's what causes problems. So you have to work on that relationship as well as your kids and stuff. So again, just a little short video to remind you that everything in your life, every area of your life requires maintenance if you want to succeed and have a more stress free life, you know, not have things pop up to where you say, oh, gee, I didn't realize that I put oil in my car. The better you get at this, the more you pay attention to it. I mean, you can lots of ways. You can set tasks and all that. The easier and the better your life is going to be.