In our everyday interactions with people we have to learn how to exercise patience. Patience is the Supreme Virtue and for good reason too. Let's look at the definition.
Dictionary.com defines patience as:
1. the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
2. an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner.
3. quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience.
For me, I have to learn how to have patience with people who are not acting the way I want them to act. They have their own thoughts, feelings, and circumstances. They are not mine and the best thing I can do is show compassion for them and not get upset with them.
This is difficult for me most of the time. What I have learned as of lately is to not REACT but to RESPOND to situation where patience is called for. Its not easy but taking this frame of mind allows me to stay calm even when I want to bite someone's head off.
In another post, I will share with you what I've learn so far as I go through The Presence Process. This Process was developed by Michael Brown and I've have seen wonderful results in only 3 weeks of an 11-week Process.
Here's the link below to check out the book reviews over at Amazon:
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