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Intro song: (Modified) “Thunderhead” by The Native Howl.

Podcast E3 Blacksmith Idiom- Strike While the Iron is hot

Intro music/SFX- Blacksmith audio clips, maybe add music with/into it? Gotta see how it sounds.

Welcome- Hello, and Welcome to the Anvil Podcast E3!

Blacksmithing Idioms.

Last week we talked about having Too many irons in the fire- Check it out.

Strike while the iron is HOT.

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Intro to Ep- This weeks episode is about…

Blacksmith idiums- Strike while the iron is hot.

So with that lets get into it…

Topic-

Strike while the iron is hot.

Owning opportunity.

Our meaning today vs. what this means to a blacksmith.

When Forging – heat, hammer, repeat.

When forging something – HARD WORK. Pounding steel into a meaningful shape.

Striking while the iron is hot is critical because your work is MUCH more EFFECTIVE. For the exact same amount of work you get much better results.

Not about “work smarter, not harder”- Smarter, and Harder. – Mike Rowe.

This is all about moving quickly because there is an opportunity to be seized.

Iron cools quickly. Right out of the forge, and onto the Anvil.

Striking the iron also cools it, from the hammer, and from the anvil.

Doing work when conditions are ideal, vs the same amount of effort when conditions have deteriorated. If you don’t strike while the iron is hot, don’t expect to get the same amount of work done.

Not talking about necessarily seizing an opportunity, but creating them, and seizing them.

The blacksmith heats the iron. He creates the opportunities to make his work, and efforts effective.

As men, we are not usually very good at this. Usually because we are more reactive, the proactive.

Blacksmith walks by, and finds the iron to be hot, runs and grabs a hammer and starts to work.

Neither should we.

As men we typically react to the things in our life, and often times with great surprise to things that should not be surprising.

Things like slacking off at work and getting let go. Having sex and having a kid. Not spending anytime with God and not being close with Him.

So my encouragement is to start living proactively. Expectations, and looking ahead with God are a great thing. Not in a way that promotes anxiety

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:34‬ ‭ESV‬‬

In a way that takes responsibility for your own choices, and actions.

Proactivity starts with taking responsibility…

You are where you are today because of the choices you have made.

Being proactive is about actively choosing how you want to respond or react to something either before it happens, or creating the situation before you may need to respond to something.

Let me give you an example-

Say you’re driving in a car and a child’s ball suddenly rolls out infront of you. You quickly have to react to that situation, do you just go ahead and run it over? It’s just a ball. Do you slam on your breaks? Do you swerve out of the way? It all depends…

The reactive choice isn’t really a choice, its a reaction.