This exercise can help you cultivate patience in your work and life.
When you find yourself in the middle of a project, a relationship, or your journey toward a personal goal, do you often find yourself rushing and trying to force things? If so, try this:
* Don't concentrate on just getting the job over with. Experience what it has to offer.
* When you find yourself rushing, take a few minutes to visualize yourself slowing down and enjoying the job. Open yourself to the wisdom you can gain when you do the job carefully.
* Pause and take a deep breath. Stop your mind from fast-forwarding into the future so you can stay involved with what you are doing now. Be fully present.
In her book Inner Gardening: Four Seasons of Cultivating the Soil and the Spirit (William Morrow), Diane Dreher says slowing down will help you concentrate your energies and gain important insight.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.
