Why should we practice our patience？
1. Impatient people are not popular. They are seen as arrogant, insensitive and impulsive. People don’t want to work with them because of their bad social skill and temper.
2. Impatient people are not likely to be chosen as the one for promotion. This kind of personality can also affect relationship between family members.
3. The more patient you are, the likelier you are viewed as positive person by others.
How to find the cause of your impatience?
1. Think the last time when you are impatient. Ask yourself what caused it?
2. Ask the people around you what usually make you impatient. It’s more likely that they know the true reason.
3. For some people, they are impatient due to physical factor. Maybe they are hungry, thirsty, or tired. Grabbing a snack can solve the problem.
4. Keep a daily journal. When you are impatient, you can write down your feeling to uncover the cause.
How to manage your impatience?
1. Take deep, slow breath and count to ten. Doing this can relax you physically.
2. Learn to manage your emotion. No one can decide how you react to a thing except yourself.
3. Slow down and pretend you are patient.
4. Remember being impatient won’t make things better.
5. Remind yourself being impatient is very silly.
6. Don’t be a perfectionist.
Although some people are born with the ability to be patient, many of us need to practice to develop the habit of being patient.