The conqueror mindset of the Sith will view pretty much anything as potentially a tool for developing strength, acquiring power, or achieving victory
Few tools are as useful as time!
Think of yourself as a warrior and a blacksmith, heating and hammering your own sword on a forge, and that forge is the inexorable passage of time!

In actual, literal blacksmithing, several different fuels may be used, each best suited to a particular class of object to be made
On the forge of time, these are the three fuels:

1: Incubation
2: Repetition
3: Preparation

Incubation
I use “incubation” as my term for allowing some process of germination or gestation (figuratively speaking) to run its course in its own way, but with my protection and often my nurturing
One example (of many) is the incubation of a creative idea, like my idea for this essay, which wasn’t fully formed when it first tickled my consciousness, so I incubated it for a period of time, holding it in my mind but not acting on it until it achieved a complete gestation and could be born healthy and strong!

Repetition
Simply doing something again and again has great potential for developing strength, acquiring power, or achieving victory
Every karate sensei who ever lived has instructed their students to perform key movements again and again
This repetition over time builds muscle, evolves skillfulness, and implants the movements into the region of the brain where instinctive, reflexive motion is stored, readily available for sudden high intensity scenarios

I recently bought a street bicycle and started riding it
I hadn’t ridden in many years
On the first day I could barely keep the bike up, and in fact almost fell - plus my thighs, which I hadn’t challenged for years, burned!
As the days passed, I kept getting on the bike
Over time, my sense of balance has greatly improved and my thighs are getting stronger!

Preparation
As the saying goes, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity!”
I’m sure we’ve all spent days preparing for an exam, which is an example of precisely targeted preparation, as is purchasing salt for the driveway in autumn (when stores still have it) instead of procrastinating until the day of the blizzard, an example of properly timed action
Convincing key decision makers, one by one, in private meeting after private meeting, to view a situation the same way you do, is shrewd preparation for when the decision makers are scheduled to vote on what to do about the situation in question

Some preparations are more general and therefore more versatile
Setting a portion of your paycheck aside each week (or whatever your pay period is) for “a rainy day” is an example of general preparedness, and very prudent
Helping out at neighborhood activities is fun for me, but additionally it cultivates good will among my neighbors, which will surely yield unexpected dividends over time, a non-supernatural form of good karma that accrues to wise and benevolent preparation

Having discussed all three fuels you may use to ignite the forge of time, let me close by asking you -
What sword, O Blacksmith, will you next heat and hammer in the smithy where time is the forge?

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