Sparks from the grate
Two minutes of air: start before you feel ready
The secret is not more time. It is a start so short the mind cannot argue.
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Spoken here — nothing leaves this device.
Readiness is a story the mind tells to delay the match. Two minutes cuts the story off. Put on the shoes. Open the book. Fill the glass. If you stop at two minutes, you still kindled. Often you will not stop. Either way the coal is warm.
This is permission, not a loophole. A two-minute walk is a walk. A two-minute prayer is a prayer. Kindling will take the check. The streak does not ask if it was Olympic. It asks if you showed up.
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
When the mind says later
Answer with a clock, not a debate. Two minutes. Then you may rest with a clean conscience. The bellows is allowed to stop. The pride is in the strike, not the inferno.