Patience

Patience

We're flushed with enthusiasm, excitement. About the project. The idea. Our vision being lived out in front of us. Procrastination uses all of that against us. But how?

With all this excitement, we jump right in to the task, the project, to fulfill the mission. And here it is, the first roadblock or obstacle, the first mistake or your YouTube Video gets zero views, our focus shifts. We're concerned about what isn't happening. All the excitement at the start

has been boiled down to anxiety or quitting, because this just won't work.

It's delayed gratification. Not just merely some marshmellow

test. What it is, the weapon we need to do what we find important. Patience. It cannot be purchased or inherited.

It is found. It is a muscle that is worked on repeatedly, just like the body, so it can build. Patience is only built by being tested. By exposure therapy to things that require us to be, patient.

Being wise to this fact is the acknowledgement of Hofstadter'S Law, which states; it always takes longer than expected, even taking the law into account. Let us add it will also cost more

than we think and we are not the exception to these rules.

The advice isn't to 'just be patient.' The advice is to practice it. The advice is realizing gratification will come, but not when you want or expect. So keep working. Like the Tibetan Monks, building the sand mandalas, one grain at a time. Focus on your

efforts and the work you're doing will add up. Just do it daily, and mark your calendars with a red "X" as Jerry Seinfeld advises.