Be Patient

Patience is a virtue. A virtue I'm not anywhere close to having. It's a punch line of mine that I may in fact be one of the most impatient people on the planet. I have this "I want it now" way of thinking, and needless to say it pretty often gets me into trouble, or gets me to quit something out of frustration. 

Working on finding patience is an every day chore for me. I actively work on this issue every single day, which I usually find annoying, but I still do it. One of the ways I go about being a more patient person is I try to reflect on all the millions of ways I'm actually very patient. I think about how I helped teach my friend Diandra to drive when she moved here from NYC. I remind myself of how caring I am with my young nephews, and so on and on. 

Then I look at the frustrating problem in front of me and I try to find one tiny piece of gratitude for the situation or problem (because if you know me you know I believe gratitude to be the magic elixir of life). So this looks like instead of going bonkers in traffic- which is my biggest trigger for impatience- I express gratitude I left the house early enough, or if that's not true, maybe that the person I'm meeting will be totally understanding that I'm a few minutes late,  or that it's not me that just got in the accident thats holding everyone up. It calms me down to think this way.