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The Minimum Viable Fire
What if resilience isn't about trying harder, but knowing exactly how low you can go and still keep going?
When crisis hits, your morning routine fails apart. Your meditation practice becomes impossible. Every self-help book feels like it was written for someone whose biggest problem is choosing between yoga styles.
This book is different. It teaches you to identify and protect your absolute floor—the bare minimum that keeps you functioning when everything else burns away.
What If Your Minimum Is Enough?
The Truth About Tending Fire Through Life's Storms
The secret to resilience isn't trying harder. It's knowing exactly how low you can go and still keep going.
When crisis hits—grief, burnout, loss, the slow erosion of hope—you don't need a bigger bonfire. You need to know your Minimum Viable Fire: the absolute floor that keeps you functional when everything else has burned away.
This book teaches you to find that floor, defend it without shame, and rebuild from there. Not through willpower, but through the oldest human wisdom we have: the craft of keeping one coal alive until morning comes.
Long before humans had language, we learned to keep fire. Not just to light it—lightning could do that—but to tend it through rain and wind, to carry it across impossible distances, to bank it overnight so dawn found embers still glowing. Keeping fire alive became humanity's first sacred practice, the skill that separated survival from extinction.
The same wisdom applies to your inner fire—the life force, attention, and energy that animate your days. Like any fire, it needs protection from wind, steady fuel, and skilled tending. Neglected, it dies. Fed frantically, it burns out. But tended with the keeper's craft, it can sustain you through any storm.
This book teaches that craft through five essential phases: learning to strike your first spark even when motivation is cold, building sustainable fuel systems that don't depend on perfection, tending your flame through the inevitable storms, sharing your warmth without depleting yourself, and eventually becoming a steady source of light for others.
You'll discover how to find your floor—your Minimum Viable Fire—so you always know how low you can go and still continue. You'll build reserves during calm seasons. You'll learn to witness others' struggles without burning yourself out trying to fix them. And you'll understand that keeping one coal alive is sometimes the only victory available—and that victory is enough.