The Guns N’ Roses catchet song ‘all we need is just a little patience’ is on my mind this Christmas.
Talk about the whole year, and it just gracefully passed by. I’m so much in love with this moment’s existence that I have stopped festering over my past – both in work and life.
This is the time of the year when we all imminently reflect over what has to come by to greet our anticipating and curious eyes.
And, I have learned, that when you have patience – though not the one where you are shooting in the dark – but rather what the eminent consultant Dorie Clark says: that, is strategic patience mentioned in her book ‘The Long Game: How To Be A Long-Term Thinker In A Short-Term World’, things look a little easier to endure for us to reason.
The sighs and gasps of our patience in our system helps us become more resilient in times to come.
That blog you wrote, or the book you so such endearingly want to write manifest when you wait with wise learnings not just of yours but also other’s experiences. The best way to build the capacity of lasting patience that yields you with meaningful outcomes over a period of time?
Read.
And, read a lot.
You see, when you read a book, you develop curiosity and sensible endurance for the pages unread (the Tsundoku appeal?) yet waiting to come into your aperture.
Patience is predicated on how well you deal with adversities and how well you accelerate what works for you in the long-term. It turbocharges you to see the bigger picture and not wallow in your restlessness when things don’t work out as per your expectations.
I love the stoicism analogy here in the context of having just a little more patience to have a more nuanced gratification in the future. By definition: stoicism teaches the development of self-control as a means of overcoming destructive emotions.
As with patience: When we are patient with the right, long-term outcomes, we enjoy when even a sliver of hope greets us in this enduring time. We savour more and when we are patient.
So: this Christmas, pledge for wise patience and see how beautifully your life unfolds in front of you!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
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