Wait For It

Brian Adams once said, ~Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement, and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.~ Let me ask you this question, how many of you truly believe in that old familiar saying patience is a virtue? I think it would be safe to say we all have and for a certain number of people it's not a character trait that doesn't quite fit whereas its fits just fine for others. For it's a tough situation indeed to exude patience as one waits for aspects of life to come to fruition especially when it pertains to the following three things: decision making, job opportunities, and matters of the heart.

Without a doubt, the decisions each of us make on a semi-daily basis exude a particular amount of patience, depending on how big it is. It's how quickly one responds to those decisions that can essentially determine whether you're the type of person who is totally spontaneous and takes an absolute risk or thoroughly thinks it all through weighing the pros, as well as, cons of said decision. What it primarily comes down to is how anxious a person is in making the decision and how high on the level of importance scale it is that you hopefully don't end up regretting it later. Hey, we've all made rash decisions in the past that have bitten us in the butt, so to speak, inevitably giving us one of many hard lessons to learn in regards to the lack of patience in the decision making department.

As said before in the quote above, impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement, and failure especially when it concerns patiently waiting for a potential job opportunity. For some, most, or all people have been in a situation where they were so impatient in getting a job that they felt a sense of anxiety, fear, and discouragement from the lack of responses despite consistently putting one's resume out there. It's those lack of responses that can mentally breed a sense of fear that will make you worry about how you will be able to pay off certain expenses. However, once you do get a response its best to get all the information concerning the job or you'll end up in a position where you're in over your head because you jumped the gun in wanting a job that oftentimes looks too good to be true.

For the question can be asked, when it comes to matters of the heart, how many of you are still patiently waiting for the right person to step into your life? As a single guy, I can attest that it's difficult to wait for the right person and yet by having patience you essentially successfully grow in confidence, decisiveness, and rational thinking. I think it would be safe to say there are many people out there who are now sure about themselves, are very decisive on not settling on the first guy/girl they're with, and made rational decisions not with just their heart to where they are currently experiencing true happiness with their best friend for life. Let me tell you something, its better to wait and know it than to end up making a big mistake and blowing it.

Psalm 27:14 says, ~Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.~ In retrospect, there is a lot in life that can test our patience as it can most definitely push us to the brink of insanity mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually as well. It's a sad state of affairs when a person doesn't have the courage or strength for the matter to have patience when it comes to certain aspects of life, especially when it involves matters of the heart. What it primarily comes down to is knowing its in God's timing as he guides you to the right decisions, the right job you're suited for, and the right guy/girl who will make you truly happy. In the end, I say this to you as it has been said to me many times over, which is pray to God and wait for it.