Have Patience

Kekich Credo #74 - Patience is profitable. Achievement comes from the sum of consistent small efforts, repeated daily.

Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting upset or angry.  Patience can involve perseverance in the face of delay, or being able to wait for a long period of time without getting irritated or bored.  Patience also involves tolerance when being provoked without responding in disrespect or anger, or forbearance when under strain especially when faced with long-term difficulties.  Patience is the quality of waiting calmly without complaining.

Patience is a vital quality in the workplace.  It can reduce stress and conflict. Having patience can help you avoid becoming irritated, defensive and saying hurtful things. Patience helps you develop the relationship skill of empathy which is the ability to understand life from someone else’s perspective.

Many of us struggle with impatience.  Impatience is counterproductive.  Feeling and showing hostility are by-products of impatience. Impatience is a negative action towards people who frustrate, obstruct, or delay your goals. We lose patience when our mind races ahead and doesn’t want to accept the moment that we are in right now. Our mind decides to resist being here and wants to get us somewhere else very quickly.

Patience on the other hand, enables you to analyze situations and things beyond their face value. The resourcefulness and calm, empathetic behaviour of patient people can make them very popular. Patience also gives them inner peace and the ability to keep smiling despite challenges.  

Patience is both an emotion and a skill.  When we are patient, we give ourselves time to choose how to respond to a given event, rather than get emotionally hijacked by our emotions of fear, anxiety, and dread. 

Patience is a virtue you can work on, but it is not a skill that can be learned.  You can learn to hide your impatience.  You can learn what triggers your impatience and learn to manage your emotions.  

Often the most difficult thing about being patient is being patient with yourself.  No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes.  Being patient with yourself can lead to success.  No matter what difficulties you face, you should keep on trying to succeed.  Success does not happen overnight.  It takes months, years, and quite often decades to become great at something. 

Have patience.  As this credo statement says, ‘Achievement comes from the sum of consistent small efforts, repeated daily.’ And that takes patience!

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