patience

I am not the most patient person naturally. When something doesn’t happen in the way or at the speed I want it to happen, I tend to get frustrated. But I’ve been working on my patience, because no matter how you look at it, good things take time.

Now, patience is not the same thing as complacency.

Complacency is waiting for something to fall in your lap, to expect that it will happen just like that. It’s passive.

Patience is active: you accept or even enjoy the fact that a project might take months or years to happen, and still do your best on a daily basis to make sure it does happen.