Patience – Day 3

November 08, 2017


We may wait and wait for life to get better, but in that instance, patience isn’t the problem. Doing something differently—making changes in ourselves—is the issue at hand. We may wait and wait for someone else to change, but again, the value isn’t being patient. It’s letting go and changing ourselves.

It’s easy to get confused about when to practice patience and when to stop waiting for something that’s not going to happen. Or we may confuse being patient with not feeling our feelings. We can feel our feelings of impatience without turning them into impatient behaviors that hurt ourselves.

Challenge: The hardest thing about practicing patience is that practicing impatience feels so justified.

From the book: 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact

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In addiction and recovery circles, Melody Beattie is a household name. She is the best-selling author of numerous books.

One of Melody's more recent titles is The Grief Club, which was published in 2006. This inspirational book gives the reader an inside look at the miraculous phenomenon that occurs after loss--the being welcomed into a new "club" of sorts, a circle of people who have lived through similar grief and pain, whether it be the loss of a child, a spouse, a career, or even one's youth.

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