We all think we are patient.
That is until someone irritates us or makes us angry then the whole patience thing goes out the window because someone else or something else has given us the permission we need to let go!
The truth is that we can only control ourselves. No matter what anyone else does or what situation we are in we are still responsible for our own actions. It is always easier to place the blame or point the finger at something else that justifies why we have “lost” our patience.
The situations we face in life and the people we deal with are all things we cannot control. Success in life is not an overnight process. It is not something that just happens. Success requires work and a lot of it. Success requires pain and a lot of it. Success requires patience and lot of it.
Why patience?
Because you have to make a decision before you ever try to be successful and acknowledge that this process is going to take a while to complete. It is going to take some mistakes. There will be set backs and frustration. There will likely be failure.
But if you are patient and can look at the long term goal and keep going, having patience with yourself and allowing yourself to continue working with a level head in spite of everything that is screaming at you, then you have a much better chance of achieving your success.
We tend to think of success and breakthrough as these swift one moment in time actions. Almost like the military. The military breaks through a wall with a missle, thats what we tend to envision our breakthrough being. BANG – the wall is broken down and I am on into freedom, success, money, or whatever.
Most of the time the breakthrough you experience will be on the inside. It will be in the way you think. The interior of who you are can be a violently quiet place. The breakthroughs that happen there are not loud, or audible, the do not come with a massive shift or change externally like the picture of breaking through a wall.
These breakthroughs are quiet moments where you make a different decision than before and in that moment you are on a different path. This is where you need patience. Because those moments of change usually happen in the midst of a storm.
Massive life change doesn’t explode with a bang, often it simply comes into being with barely a whisper.
That whisper leads eventually to massive external change, but the breakthrough moment itself is a quiet whisper of strength that no one knows about.
Patience is required to wait for those moments of quiet strength because in those moments your life is changed and your success is ensured. `
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