What is patience?

Patience is the ability to:

• Sit back and wait for an expected outcome without experiencing anxiety, tension, or frustration.
• Let go of your need for immediate gratification.
• Display tolerance, compassion, understanding, and acceptance toward those who are slower than you in developing maturity, emotional freedom, and coping abilities.
• Accept your human frailty in the pursuit of personal, physical, emotional, and spiritual growth.
  Accept the set backs and reversals inevitable in your quest for personal growth.
• Believe in the concepts of permanence and commitment. Be calm and considerate as you handle the growth issues in your committed relationships in marriage, family, career, community, or church.
• Hang on to a relationship when trouble arises that may take some time to resolve.
• Feel peace, contentment, and satisfaction that you are on the path to recovery and personal growth.
• Temper your enthusiasm, energy, exuberance, and excitement after you have experienced a renewal of spirit, received revelations or insights.
• Accept the non-enthusiastic reception of others to share in your “new found truths.”
• Accept that there is no need to rush yourself or others in facing the challenges of emotional growth.
• See that overnight reformations are rarely long lasting; gradual change and growth have a greater durability.
• Feel relaxed, calm, and placid as you face your daily schedule and the challenges it presents.
• Believe that your day to day efforts, sacrifices, and changes are building a new edifice of a whole person with healthy self-esteem.
• Feel satisfied with the use of the Tools for Coping tools in a gradual reshaping, rebuilding, and remodeling of yourself into a confident, secure, trusting, loving person dealing in healthy communication, and self-actualization.