Patience Will Help You Develop These 4 Life Skills
If you’re pursuing goals that have significant meaning to you, then you will no doubt have had to call upon copious amounts of personal patience. But this little word, to some extent suggests a passive attitude, whereby you are born with this virtue that others may not possess.
Whilst of course some of us are more patient than others, patience itself is anything but passive. Indeed, if you were to look up the meaning of patience, you would find these words:
the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious.
Now that puts a completely different spin on the idea of patience!
How often are you able to tolerate problems and suffering without getting at least a little bit annoyed or anxious? I know I’m not that great at being patient.
But maybe this is just how it is and we therefore need to cultivate and really appreciate the part that patience plays as we slowly edge towards the achievement of our goals. Indeed, there’s no doubt that pursuing big and meaningful goals for the long term will develop our patience and with it our chances of actually achieving our goals.
But, there’s more to patience than just getting a grip and keeping a stiff upper lip, because the more we work on our ability to remain patient, the more we will develop other life skills such as the four below… [Read more…] about Patience Will Help You Develop These 4 Life Skills