When you choose to be patient, you respond in a positive way to a negative situation. You are slow to anger. You choose to have a long fuse instead of a quick temper. Rather than being restless and demanding, settle down and begin extending mercy to those around you.
No one likes to be around an impatient person. It causes you to overreact in angry, foolish and regrettable ways. The irony of anger toward a wrongful action is that it spawns new wrongs of its own. Anger almost NEVER makes things better. In fact, it usually causes more problems.
Patience is a choice to to control your emotions rather than allowing your emotions to control you, and shows discretion. If anger is your default emotion, you are spreading poison rather than medicine. Patience however makes us wise, it doesn't rush to judgment but listens to what the other is saying. Patience let's you give others permission to be human. It understands that EVERYONE fails (even you). When a mistake, it gives them more time than they deserve to correct it.
Few people are as hard to to be around as an impatient person. Few of us do patience very well, and NONE of us do it naturally. Remember, life (and business) is a marathon, not a sprint.
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