Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 106

Five More Approach

A method is a promise: do these steps and something improves. Five More Approach keeps its promise if you keep yours.

Try it for a fortnight before judging it. Most methods die in the court of first impressions, which is the least competent court there is.

The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.

Consider the farmer. He does not argue with the season; he arranges his work inside it. The city man does the opposite — he argues with every Monday and is surprised every Friday.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. And when you forget it — you will — the world will remind you. It is a faithful tutor.