HOWE Q. WALLACE BLOG

PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE

β€œPatience isn’t naive. It doesn’t ignore misbehavior. It waits. It listens. It’s slow to boil.” – Max Lucado

Patience is a virtue worth cultivating. So often we respond to frustrating things with impatient words and actions. Impatience frequently causes us to move to premature solutions or half-baked plans. Or maybe it forces you to quit too soon.

Patience allows for many things:

  • More options as you stop to consider.
  • More learning as you try different methods.
  • Better relations as you demonstrate calm and practice listening as better solutions are derived.
  • Stronger results as one sees the capacity for patience develop and put into practice.

Patience doesn’t say, β€œaccept substandard work or slower action.”

But patience calls for β€œwalking in the other’s shoes” and β€œseeing from the other’s side.