Do not listen to idle talk and its tale-bearing;
mornings and evenings, keep to your own steady practice.
If you take wild words for solid fact —
a painted cake: how would it stop hunger?
Morale is a real resource, not decoration. The dry stretch you’re crossing needs a vivid, credible destination repeated often. Paint it for yourself and anyone marching with you — just pair it with actual water stops, or the story turns to dust.
Waters the march with anticipation — and names what that is worth: the trip booked together is the plum grove on the horizon, relief for a stretch, not the well. Let the looking-forward land on a departure date.
Marches to a picture — the number taped where eyes land daily. Vivid, credible destinations pull harder than discipline pushes.
Opens with the vivid end-state and pairs it with water stops: vision plus milestones. Thirst obeys imagery, and morale is a real resource, not decoration.
Write tomorrow’s "orchard" tonight — the reward, specific and sensory — and one real stop before it.
