PATIENCE

PATIENCE

Patience is an admirable quality which empowers an individual to be calm and peaceful. Patience is the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties.

Keeping patience does not mean impassiveness or resignation, but it reflects the powerful aura of the person. It’s an emotional practice of waiting, watching, and knowing when to act at the right moment and right time. Patience is an art that personifies any individual personally as well as professionally. Patient people do not generate stress, tension or pressure. They understand that their strong qualities and given time to them enables their talents come through. A patient person can facilitate anyone, who is shy or has lost confidence and is nervous at exposing himself to criticism or failure, to reform himself and feel more courageous at trying something new.

The Importance of Patience

A person with immense calm and serenity has inner peace, blended with a soft sense of control with wonderfully measured balanced persona. They are very comfortable to spend time with people and this enables others in their company to become relaxed and stress-free.

Life is not all about one person and what that person wants and expects because compromise is often part of the bigger picture too. Respecting each other’s own strengths and difficulties is an important part of co-existence, but taking time to respect each other’s differences and appreciate that each of us have our own strengths and weaknesses can teach us patience with other people and handling different kind of situations. We can expect a little tolerance and understanding when we are trying our best so as to return the same to others is also an even-handed action. Patience is of utmost importance in any one’s life:

It helps you avoid making impulsive decisions.

It helps you reflect on your own impulses and urges.

It helps you control feelings of greed and selfishness.

It helps to change your attitude in life. 

It reminds you that you are not always in control and you can't always have control - so have faith and keep calm.

It helps you to teach self-control and calmness.

It teaches you humility.

It allows you to stop and truly appreciate what you have achieved after putting great efforts.

It teaches you to acknowledge and appreciate what you have at present because if you can't appreciate it then you'll never value what the future has in store for you.

Patience truly is a VIRTUE!  At times, many of us are impatient; with ourselves and others, then by the virtue of patience, our impatience may be our demise. 

Patience builds our reputation. “Many of life’s failures are when we do not realize how close we were to success when we gave up.” Building our reputation as a leader in these challenging times requires a lot of patience. Managing our reputation as a leader begins by mastering the skill of patience and never giving up the cherished desired objectives.

Patience gives way to remarkable results.  Building our brand and reputation takes times; it doesn’t happen overnight. Successful brand leadership begins with patience and a commitment to the due diligence necessary for excellence.

Patience leads to positive recognition. 

There is always a reward for the virtue of patience. This reward may be greater sales, increased customer satisfaction, stronger profits, a promotion, satisfaction towards achievements, overcoming the failures, planning right decisions  and acting on to it with unlimited efforts, execution process etc. But this realization begins only while understanding the causes of impatience because the most basic reasons for being impatient are lack of control, lack of understanding, lack of planning, lack of communication and unrealistic expectations of results etc. When you claim control of these issues you are privileged to the rewards that patience can contribute.

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