Apologies for it taking me so long to reply to the wonderful comments you have left on my recent posts. After posting this post, I can’t promise that I’ll be replying any quicker, but I will get around to it, and will reply to each and everyone in due course.
It’s that time thing, you see.
The time thing where we all have a lot of it spare, until we need to do something and we very quickly find all of that spare time simply running out.
I’ve taken a novel approach to tackling this very issue. The approach is working. I can see it and feel it working, although slowly. Which is good. Slowly is good.
I recently mentioned in my post Introducing Patience that I was going to be more mindful of how patient I am. Since that post, I have been amazed at how patient I can be. Just being aware makes all of the difference.
The reason I decided on Patience was thanks to Hollis (AKA Visionkeeper) over at One World Rising. She recently pointed me in the direction of a site called OneWord365, where we are invited to join up and choose one word to live by, or be mindful of, for the next 365 days. That’s all we need to do with the site, register the word and then be mindful of it. Write it. Think it. As often as we can.
There are plenty of words to choose from. Visionkeeper says that she would like to be inspirational. I’ve been visiting her blog for a while now and I can say that she is certainly that. Very often I’ve had my eyes opened slightly wider to a lot of the topics she writes about, and her words always have a positive to feel to them. I like feeling good, and she really does help with that.
So: patience.
I signed up to the site and couldn’t think of a word that I could use for the next year. Some seemed too daunting, others too ‘not quite me’, and then I spotted patience in the list. I say spotted – it actually jumped off the screen at me.
That’s it! All of my Inner Voices squealed at once; Finding patience and living more patiently would certainly boost my day-to-day good feeling.
Word chosen, I completed the registration and that was that.
Obviously, I hadn’t finished the registration, and didn’t add a photo of me or a link to my blog. So impatient was I to get registered!
I’ve twisted those bursts of impatience around, and instead of beating myself up for being impatient, I’m using those times as a lesson in needing to be more patient. When I feel I’m being impatient, I take a mental step back, and already my more patient self takes over.
I also use other folk’s impatience as a lesson also. Whenever someone shows impatience towards me – usually when driving, I’ll add – I tell myself they are showing me ways of how to be more patient. Their aggressive impatience drifts away, and I continue with my journey feeling ever so slightly more patient all because I have been more self aware.
The site says 1804 people have signed up, but I have a feeling it may be more as it was that when I joined. It seems like a good idea, and we could always use a few more of them in the world.
It’s only early days. I do feel a difference, I can state with confidence. If this improves week upon week, I can only imagine how I will feel in one year’s time. But, I don’t want to get ahead of myself.
I’m taking things nice and slow, day by day. And feeling good for it, so that can’t be bad.
You may notice the word ‘patience’ cropping up every now and again in future posts. I’m just reiterating the word to myself when I use it, but hopefully I’ll be using it in novel ways in my posts.
Well, it’s worth a try. We shall see what happens.
OK then. I was going to end the post there, but decided to have a quick search on the internet for an image of Patientia, the personification of patience, to illustrate this post. There were a few images, but I felt that I couldn’t really use them, and then I spotted this:
A Patientia medal. Notice the year: 1643. Now if that isn’t a sign, I don’t know what is.
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