Patience may be a virtue, but it can feel like torture.
Late nights, early mornings, anxiety, and restlessness come often accompany patience.
Work through those long nights. Rise up in those early mornings. Use the anxiety as fuel. Know that rest follows restlessness.
I have massive empathy for you.
You’re doing everything you can. You’re tired but work tirelessly. You’re fixated on your goals. And yet, things aren’t happening right away. Things are tough right now. Things are far less than what you want them to be.
I know, this feels like torture.
Be unafraid.
The work may be thankless. Worse, you may get scorned.
You’ll fail. It’s guaranteed. Clients will be angry and people may doubt you. It’ll happen. But you get to choose whether the failure lasts forever.
Keep going. Persevere.
You know, we rarely hear about the people who persevered and failed. Those people do exist. But why should you be one of them?
Who cares if your current path leads to nowhere? Who cares if this path is only a dead end? Who needs a path anyways?
Blaze your own.
Making patience pay off.
Patience is nothing unless we’re intentional.
In order for patience to pay off, we need to put thought behind our actions and belief in front of our decisions.
Put in the work. Put in the work. Put in the work.
Your vision may evolve. Your targets may move. Your direction may change. But don’t let your patience fade. The intentional work will get you somewhere. And often that “somewhere” was nowhere to be found on your original map.
That new “somewhere” is where you always needed to be, even if you didn’t know you wanted to be there. That “somewhere” is earned. And, if you put in the intentional work, that “somewhere” is exactly where you should be.
The question is this.
Are you patient enough to find it?
Yes, you are.
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Lovely. Thanks Jay.
Patience is torture when you slave away and you found it was all for nothing because the boss reaps the rewards and you don’t get nothing especially with the work situation in the world for the last 36 years.