How To Have Patience

  • August 18, 2009
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Patience is the ability to tolerate delay, adversity, and provocation calmly and without complaint. It can be achieved with some help.

You Will Need

  • Awareness
  • Goals
  • Practice
  • Exercise (optional)
How To Have Patience: Understand triggers

Step 1: Understand triggers

Understand what triggers impatience in you. When you feel impatient, notice what happens just before you lose it.

How To Have Patience: Counteract triggers

Step 2: Counteract triggers

Counteract your triggers with something calming such as counting to 10 or walking away.

How To Have Patience: Visualize

Step 3: Visualize

Visualize how you will act the next time you feel impatient. Practice what you will do and say.

How To Have Patience: Set goals

Step 4: Set goals

Set reasonable goals for yourself. Be patient for one hour and then, eventually, for longer periods of time.

Regular exercise can help you release tension and maintain equilibrium.

How To Have Patience: Practice breathing

Step 5: Practice breathing

Practice deep breathing so you can calm yourself at any time. Take a deep breath, hold it, and then exhale slowly.

How To Have Patience: Slow down

Step 6: Slow down

Slow down and don’t expect things to happen immediately.

Did you know? The saying “All good things come to those who wait” comes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Student’s Tale.”

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