Impatience

Are you impatient with how little progress you have made? You just think that you haven’t made any changes because you aren’t where you want to be, but the progress is there. It’s in between the lines, you just have to have an awareness and gratitude to see it. 

We yearn just to see overnight results, that instant gratification gives us a high and makes us feel accomplished.  That sense of achievement makes us feel like we have reached a finish line, but life isn’t a finish line. So what can we do to actively take charge of our own impatience? Get real with yourself. You need to set a realistic timeframe for change to occur. Like lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks is unrealistic, or learn how to do a lift in a day. Practicing patience should be a part of setting your goals. Otherwise you get lost in the impatience and have less follow through. 

I have felt impatient as of late myself. I have a move coming up in my near future and I just want to move already. The waiting game feels like being stuck in mud and not being able to get out till someone brings you a branch. So everyday I work on being grateful for the things around me, so that I can change my view of progress, and patience. 

Practicing patience in your body, meditate to allow yourself to see the right now. Life has no rules, things arise and come up, distractions happen, but it’s up to use these things to stop for a minute and smell the flowers. Taking a moment to look around, use your senses, be present in the now, may reveal just how far you have come. 

Today was a 5.