Patience: Actively waiting without frustration.
Patient people exercise restraint while they work through frustrating situations and delays.
Willingness to Wait &Tolerate Delays + Foregoing Immediate Gratification = PATIENCE
PATIENCE REQUIRES:
- Realistic Expectations– Patient people know that challenges and obstacles are a normal part of life. A seed planted one day does not bear fruit the next. In many situations, waiting is an unavoidable part of the process. Accepting the wait can make patience possible.
- A Choice– We will never learn patience until we are willing to choose delayed gratification. Being impatient leads us to take the result and reward we can get now. Patience tells us to forego the immediate for a more enduring result. People who choose to patiently wait for the greater and better goal are more successful with their careers, relationships, health, finances, and other areas of life.
- Repeated Practice– Patience is developed by practicing it before it is comfortable. It takes time to change behavior patterns but consider the process a part of developing patience. You will be surprised by how quickly life becomes more satisfying and how situations can be handled without feeling stressed.
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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