The Tempering

The Practice

Name the single objective that, if it moved this week, would make the week count — and write it where you will see it at every desk session. Before you start, press your feet into the floor and feel the weight of yourself settle; that is the signal to begin. When competing demands arrive today, hold them against the one objective and let most of them fall away. A tempered week has one edge, ground sharp, not ten kept dull.