PATIENCE IS REQUIRED
The photographer had much patience for capturing these photos with achievement.
We live in an instantaneous world for immediate response and gratification.
The trouble with the expectation for fast results is that some things require patience, persistence and time to manifest.
The positive effects of patience and persistence can go a long way in helping a person achieve success in business. When a new hire arrives to his first job, it’s obvious there will be a learning curve until he or she becomes comfortable in his or her new role and master the tasks expected from the job description.
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Too often young candidates have unrealistic expectations about how speedily things progress in one’s career from salaries and promotions to implementing new ideas. This is a typical mentality of young people today in a generation that’s been raised to see instant progress in most every area of their lives.
As a society we benefit from recognizing that some things are worth waiting for: They require our patience, persistence and hard work to fully actualize. Great relationships, complex business ideas and change are typically not accomplished overnight. In fact, the waiting can have a positive effect on a person by increasing one’s humility that we can’t control everything.
A person benefits from adopting the philosophy that the only thing we can be certain we can control is one’s effort, but the outcome isn’t in our control at all. This may explain why success that’s delayed brings deeper satisfaction than those things that come to us quickly.
Maybe that’s why we admire people who have achieved long, happy marriages and overcome difficulties in life, and why we esteem businesses that have shown sustainability through difficult economic times. Those individuals and companies have patience and persist even when it doesn’t appear that success is guaranteed. They teach everyone there is value in not expecting immediate results or instant happiness.
Some things are worth holding on and waiting for. Discernment is knowing which ones are worth it.
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