Excellent advice – I should take it. Patience has not always been my finest virtue. But like many other things, I have many opportunities to work on it and get better.

If you are like many people, you practice patience in categories. I’m very patient when it comes to listening to other people and understanding their feelings.

I’m not so patient when I am “waiting” for someone who is late. Or when someone tells me that they will do something and they don’t follow through. Or when people are not nice to other people. These may be areas that you could practice patience, too.

I heard a speaker recently who gave the example of being impatient while standing in line. Wanting to be in the front of the line implies that it is a better place than where we are at that moment. But really, it is not better – it is just different. And, since we can’t be more than one place at a time, we should practice enjoying wherever we are at any given moment in time.

It is an interesting viewpoint – one that I continue to implement as I practice being more patient.

Pick an area of your life in which you are not as patient as you could be. Practice with this one area for a week, and notice how you become more peaceful.