Having patience is an essential skill we need in life.
No matter what you do.
Because everything takes time, it probably comes with setbacks and mental overload, too.
If you want what you’re waiting for, you need to get through that as unscathed and unannoyed as possible. That’s patience.
For example, if you want to lose weight or gain muscle, you need patience paired with diligent work.
Both take time plus your work to see results.
If you lack patience, you give up too early or start switching your plans and sabotaging your results.
On the other hand, you can also have too much patience.
Imagine you want to gain muscles.
You have your plan, and you train according to your plan, but you don’t get stronger in six months.
Having more patience won’t help.
Because something in the process fails and prevents the results.
Continuing the same old thing with more patience won’t fix it.
You’d need to analyze what’s working and what’s not and then change your plans and training and maybe other things you didn’t even know about.
Then, you need patience again before seeing results or having to readjust again.
The same goes for other areas, like having patience with other people and their behavior.
Having patience with them and thus giving them time to change is essential.
But if nothing changes, having more patience won’t be the solution.
For example, if your friends make nasty remarks camouflaged as “jokes” and you’ve told them to stop multiple times, but nothing changes.
Then, patience will only make it worse.
They won’t stop, and you’ll run out of patience at one point.
Or you had a “talk” with your significant other about her always leaving the trash on the kitchen counter.
But nothing changes.
Then it’s time to make adjustments and make changes that you can control.
Sometimes those are easy, and other times, hard as a diamond.
But it’s your life.
You decide.