The Power of Patience: How This Old-Fashioned Virtue Can Improve Your Life
In practical terms, three rules of thumb are especially useful for harnessing the power of patience as a creative force in daily life.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The Gift of Patience
Instant relief is always at your fingertips. Want a boost? Here's some food / drugs / porn / attention. There's an app for that. There's a million apps for that. How many industries would collapse if everyone understood that you can just be with the feeling? You can just be sad or scared or angry or lonely or uncertain.
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You can manage your time like a ninja, make vision boards, and set quarterly goals till the future’s so bright you gotta wear shades, but if all those systems don’t work, then something’s…not working. You can meditate till your sit bones are blue, pray, process, train, affirm, think positive, therapize, and if you’re still not a calmer, more genero
... See moreDanielle LaPorte • The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms
Perhaps change only takes place when there is sufficient reason to overcome the inertia of everyday life. Challenging situations create the force needed to bring about change. The problem is that we generally use all the stirred-up energy intended to bring about change, to resist change. I was learning to sit quietly in the midst of the howling win
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