Some people argue for patience. Others, intensity. But, this life requires both.

You need the patience to wait for the opportunity to appear. Then, you need the itensity to seize it.

Think of the heron with its arrowed beak fishing the banks of some long, winding river. Embody that creature.

At an instinctual level she knows the easiest way to catch something that doesn’t want to be caught is to remain still.

She does not chase. She does not rush. She does not thrash. She is patient. She is patient until the very moment patience no longer serves her.

Then, she strikes. All at once, she strikes. She crashes through the water’s surface like a bolt of lightning; like a guillotine.

And, it is done.