Mindful Monday - All We Need Is Just A Little Patience
Happy Monday Steemverse!!
My apologies for missing this past Monday. This time of year doesn't really go how I plan or hope it goes. It's not due to the holidays, even though that would make it easy to explain. Such is life and after so many years I let it go.
I don't know about you guys, from time to time I need an exercise in patience. I am sure you have had one of those moments that you stare at the pot urging it to boil faster. No matter what it takes the same amount of time each time, yet there are those times one could swear it took twice as long as normal.
How often do we set goals for ourselves only to give up because we're not seeing a result in a time frame ? More often than we care to admit. We have grown, well growing into a society seeking instant gratification. Now is not soon enough. We wait at a stoplight and start to think "When is the light going to change?" We're almost positive that 10 minutes have passed in all actuality, it had been 2 minutes.
Patience is a person's ability to wait something out or endure something tedious, without getting riled up. ... Having patience means you can remain calm, even when you've been waiting forever or dealing with something painstakingly slow or trying to teach someone how to do something and they just don't get it.
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Capacity For Waiting: The ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset.
Why is it so hard for some of us to practice patience? I think that has to do with a loss of control. It seems in most cases where people get really impatient is when they cannot control the speed or time frame for something to happen. We cannot control another as much as we wish we could. Having to be patient and wait for a result can be excruciating depending on what is at stake.
Learning patience helps us to keep our lives in perspective. It helps us to be mindful of our lives and our situations. Rushing around creates chaos around us. Patience allows us to enjoy the journey. To be able to see what is going on, to keep life in perspective and experience our journey is a key to life. Pushing and racing towards an outcome brings anger, frustration and anxiety in to your life. While these are natural in a general sense it is not natural to push towards this. As we learn how to be more patient, we start to appreciate life a bit more.
Yes we do get impatient when waiting on results from a doctor or a job interview or any number of life events. Does it really make a difference in when you find out the answer? Does finding out today make it any better or worse than finding out tomorrow?
Let the situation unfold, see what you can learn without the influence of anger or anxiety.
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Thank you very much @raymondspeaks
Patience is definitely a good virtue to have!
I especially like what you say as to what difference does it really make wether you get immediate results or have to wait for a bit.
The result is going to be the same it is just your experience that is going to be different.
Thanks for sharing!
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No matter how eager we are to get the faster result, the time keeps flowing and none can't stops it... we will be there, I keep telling myself that I can wait because everything will come to the end anyway and I learn a lot how to be patience from my husband, he's the best on managing his eagerness😊
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I think we're all in that boat @wonderwop. Time will tell. 😁
I think what makes me impatient occasionally, are things that are poorly managed and/or presented, there's never any improvement, and you have to keep dealing with it when it could be improved easily.
For example, the nearest grocery store to me is a chain store. In this store, I have encountered numerous situations where some item I want is marked down, but when I go through the self-checkout, it comes up with the normal price.
If I don't notice, I get ripped off. If I do notice, then I have to wait for someone to come and reset the checkout and correct the price, so it's a hassle either way. I have gotten quite angry at this situation several times, which doesn't help. Nothing helps.
So, what I do now is, if I scan the thing that's marked down and it doesn't come up with the marked-down price, when the store person comes to fix it, I have them remove it and I tell them I'm not buying it. They absolutely HATE when I do that, but there's still no improvement.
That is so frustrating. It's a pretty easy fix too. I have a hard time understanding why a business of any sort would want to put their customers out like that. I think you made the right decision to have it taken off at that time, then management can see they are losing a sale and that the problem is not getting resolved.
Lovely reminder for everyone. Indeed,
Heard that time and again. I still need to remind myself each time to just enjoy every moment esp. when waiting. 😉👍
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I think that is ingrained in most of us from an early age. It does get easier over time. By the time I'm 80 I should be as cool as a cucumber 😁
Yes, you must be patient or you may catch Lilly Liver, and then where would you be...
... my brain - sapsucker LOL. Guess I'm birdbrained right now 😂
you've definitely been given the best advice, patience reaches everything
It truly does.
I think we're also a victim of the times. In this day and age in modern western society we're so ingrained to expect things right now that instant gratification is almost a necessity. We're now the society of the 30 second sound bite before hurrying off to the next short-lived but immediate task at hand.
Oh most definitely. Along with that our attention span has shortened so then does our perception of time. I'm sure food replicators are just around the corner. Full fancy dinners in 10 mins.
It does seem the whole world is in a hurry. Patience is a virtue so I’m told. 😊
In a lot of cases it's hurry up to wait. I've hear that a time or two. Maybe we should discuss virtues next LOL.
Oh so true @tryskele, it takes a lifetime of learning for some of us :) Blessings to you!
Blessings to you too @birdsinparadise. For a lot of us it is a lifetime, good thing we have patience 😁
Patience is indeed tough.
I know I need extreme practice in this area
Extreme practice huh? I bet you bubble over with excitement a lot 😀
Oh dear lord EXCERSIZE IN PEACE well thats been a long time ago with 4 kids hahahaha
Is there such a thing with 4 kids? I know with 2 I ran low.
A daily reminder to myself, this patience thing. The longer you practice it and let the other go, the easier it becomes.
I no longer let the little things bother me.
To put it in perspective, if you were given a terminal diagnosis with your health, you would see how unimportant things become. Now, I don't have a health issue, but, I have seen firsthand how that affects how a person thinks.
Why wait for that day. Take a breath and buy some patience. ;)
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It is such an awesome feeling when you are able to see it working. The amount of stress you lose because of allowing yourself to be patient with yourself.
I totally agree!!
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Hi @tryskele I like this post. This is a goal everyone should strive for. But it is extremely hard to master.
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Hahaha, some say that my second name is patience my friend and I have my strict mom to thank for it. And of course my first name is trouble Lol
Imagine as a young boy being sent to your room for a WHOLE day? You are hyper energetic and you cannot sleep in daylight?
Well, you lie on your bed and you take your mind away from the situation on wild adventures. After many of these days it becomes a habit to take your mind away to such an extent that you cannot even feel hidings anymore.
Story of my life and it works to this day, as I can easily stand in one spot for hours.
Patience is indeed a virtue!
Blessings!
That's wonderful. I don't picture you as trouble... ok maybe just a bit to keep things interesting. I didn't have to do that whole day thing, but when I was sent to my room as a kid I would do the same thing. I wasn't allowed to have a book when I was punished this way because reading wasn't a punishment to me. My mind couldn't be taken from me. I'd make up all sorts of stories and games.
Hahaha, I was definitely big trouble as a kid my friend. One time my mom bought a beautiful new alarm wind up clock with two big silver bells at the top. I wanted to see how it works and stripped the the thing. Springs and screws all over the place. Well, it never worked again.
Seems that she made it her mission to stop my inquisitiveness Lol.
And yeah, I was also banned from books during penury hahaha.
I think that we both needed the mental exercise.
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Thank you @jenina619
Such a great perspective, @tryskele. Either patience doesn’t come naturally to most of us, or life speeds up as we get older, so that we have less and less time to get things done. But I know, for my part, I must expend some energy each day calming my mind, remembering that most interruptions are brief and temporary, and that stress and impatience never achieved a thing!
Howdy tryskele! I think you have to have a great deal of patience to be here on steemit. Ever since I been here they been sayin things are gonna improve and the price of steem is gonna shoot up! so, this place has developed my patience.
Ha, love that last image. So true, patience and attitude. Great post!
Seriously, I have patience most days but never, ever when I get an answering machine on the other end of a phone, no all that patience is straight out the window.
I will keep this in mind thanks @tryskele
Anyone having difficulty with patience would benefit from a job as a teacher, or a parent. Control becomes a thing you dread having to do. nice essay.
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Patience is certainly a virtue! There are times when I have too much - yup, that is a thing too - and other times, not enough. Oh, that balance...
Hi @tryskele
Patience is a gift that not everyone knows how to use, and to cultivate that patience is a very great personal achievement, to know how to have it and not to lose it is also part of that achievement.
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