Speaking of heat and cold, I decide to move on to the second part of the chapter. The iron is forged while it's hot.
"Yes, but I don't want to forge it now.", "I feel like there's something else I need/want to do." If in 5 minutes you put down my future book and for some unconscious or obvious reason go near your sink full of dishes, will you miss the opportunity to wash them, or will you wait for them to dry and get moldy?
You're within arm's reach of the dishes and you know that at some unknown moment you'll have to wash them ANYWAY, so why not when you're closest to them? There will NEVER be a better time and you know it deep down in your heart. Alas, you can't see deep down because your laziness or waiting for the *PERFECT* moment blurs the clarity and you reach the surface of your heart, of your spirit.
Why waste seconds and soon minutes at some other point in your daily life to go to the sink when you are at the other end of your room or apartment and wash the dishes with more dislike and with more effort because they are dry? Answer yourself with an adequate answer because my question is adequate.
If you choose PROXIMITY TO THE OPPORTUNITY, to being able to do this task, you will be more satisfied than if you put it off and do it with more effort and with more reluctance (paradoxical, right?) because you will have exercised instant discipline, and the procrastination you are aware of is broken. And what else? This satisfaction is addictive and you will want to feel it AGAIN.
The iron is forged while it's hot. And imagine hammering the hot iron while your tea cools?
Live with greatness, so you can be ageless.
- Van Lov