Patience

 

“Impatience is an argument with reality. The desire for something to be different from what we are experiencing in the here and now. A wish for time to speed up, tomorrow to come sooner, to relive yesterday, or to close your eyes then open them and find yourself in another place.

Time is something that we have no control over. So patience begins with acceptance of natural rhythms. The implied benefit of impatience is to save time by speeding up and skipping ahead of those rhythms. Paradoxically this end up taking more time and using more energy. It’s wasted effort.”

“If there is a rule to creativity that’s less breakable then the others, it’s that the need for patience is ever-present.”

  • Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Penguin, 2023, p 115 & 116.

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

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This week I’m especially writing for myself; impatience has cost me a lot and I’m tried of paying for it. I can do better. I’m vowing once again to have enough patience to keep my rules for myself – rules that worked in the past and will again. If I have the patience to follow them!

Major Rule for me: Keep my writing schedule; I’ve been attempting too much, and then, I don’t do any writing!

Wish me luck. Wish me Patience.

Thank You for reading, JoAnnLordahl.com

[My apologies: Reading, Writing currently consumes most of my dwindling energy.]

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