PATIENCE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!

"All commend patience but none can endure to suffer."

Thomas Fuller, 17th century English historian.

Patience is but one of the virtues most of us do not have.

Just one of many we tell our kids they should have.

This applies to me too and starting today, no, right this minute, I'm going to learn to be patient.

No more delay, right NOW!

I'D BE PATIENT BUT I DON'T HAVE THE TIME

"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure. An apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer

There's a fine line between patience and missed opportunity caused by inaction.

But how many of your mistakes were the result of acting too late as opposed to too soon?

In Due Time

"Nothing can be done except little by little."

Charles Baudelaire

19th century French poet

Accepting patience as a necessary part of progress has always been difficult.

And in these days of instant/always on, even more so.

A Person Of Action Or Indecision?

"A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking."

Unknown

One of those "brain candy" statements easily refuted, and still, there is a lesson in this for us all.

While at some point you have to act, all too often we act first, think later, based on half-truths, assumptions and too little information.