Welcome to The Ember Walk, a daily reflection where curiosity meets motion. Each short episode invites you to walk, think, and craft with intention. Join David Dysart as he explores the lessons of The Forge, including heat, patience, rhythm, and care. All through stories and insights from the world of enrollment and beyond. Step into the quiet work of building something that lasts.

Every conference, someone says, “Here’s a best practice you should use.” It sounds safe, tested, universal. Most best practices are stolen tools.

They worked somewhere else, for someone else, under different heat, pressure, and alloy. When you copy them, you’re taking metal forged for another climate. It might shine at first, but it won’t hold.

The Forge doesn’t deal in best practices. It deals in proven processes tempered by your context. The smart smith studies others, but they make their own hammer.

Today’s reflection: stop asking, “What’s the best practice?” Start asking, “What’s the best for our fire, our metal, our hands?” Context, not imitation, makes the craft.

You’re walking The Ember Walk. The forge is yours now. Go make something worth the heat.

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