Episode #189
Awareness is the lead domino for building patience—notice your triggers and cues (tension, rushing, shallow breathing) and keep it top of mind through journaling and conversations.
Use practical tactics: the 10-minute rule to prevent lateness, visualize success before tricky moments, practice gratitude and humor in the moment, and reframe situations to align with your values.
Shift identity with language—use mantras and affirmations like “I choose not to contend” and “I am getting better at being patient” to reinforce a more patient self.
If you're not even aware that you're doing it, you can't fix it.
When you're not patient, it steals your joy and it steals the joy of others around you.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And when that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Is patience your weakness? (29:40)
We all get impatient. Whether it’s with people or situations, we can lose our cool, get anxious, become restless, or find ourselves rushing due to a lack of patience. Rarely does anything good come out of it. It increases stress, causes arguments, makes us say things we don’t mean, or even get in an accident.
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