Everything in the world now seems to be fast-paced. Things can change in a blink of an eye. Nothing is constant and the only thing left in the world is change. But it doesn’t mean that we also have to keep in pace with life’s speed. Most of us tend to do everything fast and we kept on putting things in our lifestyle that seem to demand little time with big effort.

Patience is a little-off the topic when we talk about fast life. The byproduct of the small things that we do everyday in this life is impatience. We want to get everything done in an instant yet we expect best results out of small effort and short time. Because of this, we don’t develop the wisdom that we needed more in our life. Most of the people don’t plan and tend rush things and end up miserably. They lay flat on their face and it is a little too late to realize that they are wrong.

Looking at this perspective, how do we develop patience in our life?

First, we have to understand the nature of time. I happen to get the best definition of it in one of Joshua Harris’ book. It clearly says that time is a God’s way of keeping everything happen all at once, leading to the statement “do things one at a time”. Plan things ahead. It will give you the results that you want to achieve. Take the time in doing one task and as much as possible avoid multi-tasking. Yes, it can come in handy but not all the time. In developing your patience, keep yourself from doing 3 things at the same time because it will give you crappy results at the end of the day. Especially when your task needs a keen attention and focus. We want to get everything done as soon as possible, thus we get impatient about almost all things. When the time comes that you need to focus all your energy on one task, you get to be impatient and because of that you will slack off. Thus getting crappy results because of your impatience.

Second, patience is perfection. If you have the patience to invest time in doing things and making sure that they are done in the best way that you can do, it will give you perfect results. For example, you are doing a research paper for your subject, if you have the patience to read through books, articles and journals, you might get the best research for you paper. Do not forget that patience needs time investment, without it, patience cannot have its perfect sense.