Four Steps To Developing Patience; Jane Bolton, Psy.D., M.F.T., C.C

The Purpose of Patience
So, what's the purpose of building patience abilities? In a word, happiness. Better relationships, more success. Well worth the effort, I'd say. But effort, indeed, it takes.

We can all work to develop more patience. An important idea here is that developing patience is just that. Developing a skill. We aren't born with it. Think of a hungry infant- shrieking with all it's red-faced, rigid-bodied impatient demand for satisfaction.
After all, we can't just sit down at a piano and play it without ever learning to play and practicing, practicing, practicing.
That practicing includes 1)paying attention to when we are not patient, 2) being kind to ourselves for not being "perfect" already, and 3)changing the automatic judgmental, critical thoughts and feelings.
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Stop Using These 16 Terms to Describe Yourself

Jeff Haden

Ghostwriter, speaker, Inc. columnist

 Picture this. You meet someone new. "What do you do?" she asks.
"I'm an architect," you say.
"Oh, really?" she answers. "Have you designed any buildings I've seen?"
"Possibly," you reply. "We did the new student center at the university..."
"Oh wow," she says. "That's a beautiful building..."
Without trying -- without blowing your own horn -- you've made a great impression.
Now picture this. You meet someone new. "What do you do?" he asks.
"I'm a passionate, innovative, dynamic provider of architectural services with a collaborative approach to creating and delivering outstanding world-class client and user experiences."
All righty then.
Do you describe yourself differently – on your website, promotional materials, or especially on social media – than you do in person? Do you use cheesy clichés and overblown superlatives and breathless adjectives?
Do you write things about yourself you would never have the nerve to actually say?
Here are some words that are great when other people use them to describe you – but you should never use to describe yourself:

BETWEEN THE ANT AND THE ELEPHANT, WHICH IS BIGGER?

THINK ABOUT THIS.

Ha! Ha!! Ha!!!

Life is beautifully funny, imagine, even the English language understands that trials precedes blessings and that the mighty is incomplete without the lesser ones. Can you spell ‘testimony’ without test first? Or can you spell ‘elephant’ without ‘ant’ completing it?

Could it be a co-incidence? Perhaps, but it sit shows that the universe testifies to the spiritual make-up of the basic truths and no matter our language differences, there’s always something to point us back to the principles of life as ordained by the creator himself.

Are you passing through test today? I congratulate you because your ‘mony’ is on the way, so there will be a testimony for you.
Please relish every movement of the test for you to have an abundant and ground breaking testimony.
If you are a mighty man or woman, please do not despise the little ones around you for you are no one without them.
There is no animal called ‘eleph’ but there is an ‘ant’, therefore, yours sincerely submits that it is the elephant that needs the ant to be complete as ‘ant’ is already complete without the ‘eleph’

Enjoy the days ahead.

THATCHOUSE.