My phone stopped charging this week. One day it charged to 100 percent and the next day it struggled to reach seventy. 

I turned it off and back on, checked my settings, ran an update, cleaned the charging port and examined the charging cord.

When that didn’t work, I rinsed and repeated. After all, maybe something would work on a second or seventeenth try.

Nothing worked. This is my work phone so I try to take especially good care of it but something was amiss. So I ordered a new charging cable just to be safe and the phone was charged fully within a couple of hours of its arrival.

People are not unlike phones in this situation. Sometimes we don’t feel well and simply can’t improve using the old ways. We need something different, maybe something new, to give us the boost we need to feel like ourselves again.

Albert Einstein told us the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The rational thing to do is to try something else but that’s not always our instinct.

If you’re feeling like you could use a boost or like your battery is running low, consider abandoning the old methods that once worked and try something new.

What harm can it do? You might even find something that makes you feel better than ever.