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I think it is good to be impatient. I am an impatient person. Once I have made my mind up, I want to complete what I have set my mind to! Let's face it, you did all the research, the planning, made a decision and then everything is delayed! Who wants that? Frankly, an indecisive person who never made a decision anyway. I get impatient with them too!
There was a time however when I used to get frustrated (the bad side of impatience). As a young entrepreneur, I would get angry because I had no patience. Perhaps, at 52 years old, life appears to be going a little slower, I have a little more control over the circumstances (or not). I certainly have learned whatever I am going through is due to my own efforts so I have nobody else to blame.
The point is, often, good things take time.
A good cheese or wine or a cured meat takes a long time to make. Now we don’t make it so we don’t get impatient. What we do is relish the delicate flavours of the food or drink and wonder as to how someone could create such a masterful blend of flavours.
A fine car is not something that rolls off a production line. Oftentimes the leather interior is hand stitched, people replace robots for that extra amount of care. My grandfather (who was around before robots) was a coach painter and used to hand paint the gold lines on the side of Jaguars. By all accounts he was very good at it. He used real gold leaf which I recall my father, many years later, sending to Buckingham Palace because the Royal Family put out an urgent call for gold leaf to update their carriages.
Whenever we want great results we have to be just that little extra patient.
So I am writing this in the middle of a Shaw Cable outage where my first reaction is to be frustrated. However, with a little more thought, I decided to simply write an article to remind myself about patience.
This article is written by or on behalf of an outsourced columnist and does not necessarily reflect the views of Castanet.
