Developing your patience muscle gives you the ability to tolerate frustration, the ability to “go with the flow”. This makes building your home based business much less stressful and you can enjoy yourself more.
“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
Everyone needs to learn to overcome the challenges that happen to us all. We live in a world today that is all about “instant”. Microwaves, instant food,… People want to have instant results without putting in the effort it takes to achieve a quality end product.
To develop your patience muscle you will need to keep these 4 practices in mind…
1) Attention to detail – You have your goal/project in mind, however when you keep your focus on the detail of the project you are developing your patience muscle. My very recent example is my new workbook for 30 Tips & Techniques to Find Customers and Clients On-line. I knew my end goal was to publish the workbook, but I had to focus on the details of getting it done; writing each of the tips, formatting of the document and all the technical pieces it takes to offer a product on line. I know for sure that my patience muscle grew during this project.
2) Knowing when to stop – You want to keep going but you have run out of steam both physically and mentally, do you keep going anyway? You are much better off to take a break, even if it is only 10 minutes and do something very different. This will help energize you and believe it or not when you go back to your project you will be more effective.
3) Paying the price – Let’s go back to that instant gratification… I had to pay the price while creating the workbook, there were a number of technical challenges where I had to learn something new. Once you hit those obstacles take a deep breath and just remind yourself you are paying the price. The good thing is that once you know and understand the task it is now a new tool that you can use again and again. I plan on offering another product soon and know that all the “challenges” I went through with the latest workbook will only make the next project easier. Again my patience muscle grew.
4) Live in the moment – Really stop and think about what you are doing right now. Find a way to enjoy what you are doing, even if it means playing a silly game with yourself. If this is something you are challenged with like I used to be; then pick a time during the day where you can focus on what you are doing in that minute. Pick a time where you can practice every day at the same time. I started with the first few minutes when I go out to walk the dog, Snorkel. I look around and appreciate all the sights, smells and sounds that are happening right then and there.
Persistence assists you in building your patience muscle. Imagine what it would be like if everyone you associated with in your home based business had just a little more patience. It would be a good thing, Right?!
Patience will also be a great tool when you build your home based business on-line because success will not happen over night.
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I need to implement a few of these again. Thanks for the reminders. Like knowing when to stop…;)