Let Patience Have Its Perfect Work

Categories: Blog Aug 09, 2015

If I’m being honest, I’m not real patient. Waiting for things to happen is like well, waiting. Waiting, being patient, is just hard to do. I, and I think most of us, want things to happen when we want them to happen. No one likes to be delayed, detained, derailed, or stuck.

But what if it was actually patience that got you unstuck? What if “exercising” patience (did you like that word?) helped you to achieve exactly what you wanted? Patience doesn’t have to mean doing nothing and waiting with your hands tied. Patience can simply mean staying the course, working towards a desired end, in order to become successful.

This may make sense in the area of physical health. Often, we either want to lose weight, or get ripped, or strong as soon as we even think about “exercising,” or moving. Because we engage in a good activity, or even the right activity, we want instant gratification and results. We want perfect health, and we should want that - I don't think there is anything wrong with that. But what if “perfection” was a result of being patient?

Health comes from consistent engagement; engagement in moving often, engagement in thinking well, and engagement in partaking in good foods. This is an ongoing engagement, or lifestyle. It is the patient, consistent engagement that ushers in sound health and wellbeing.

Like it or not, when you were a child, you used patience, consistent engagement, to grow strong enough to stand, walk, run and play. You were healthy and amazingly resilient. The process today is very much the same. Through patient engagement, you can become healthy, and maintain your health. It just may not be instant.

If you are not feeling as good as you want to feel, if you are not as strong as you want to be, or as healthy as you know you should be, be patient. Engage in moving, Press Reset, every day, and often, throughout the day. Breathe into your belly, roll around on the floor, perform cross-crawls and take deliberate walks. The patient engagement of these types of things helps to perfect you. Conversely, consistently not engaging, doing nothing often, helps to unravel you and causes you to become stuck where you are. It’s patience in reverse.

Call it maximizing your potential, optimizing your health, or whatever you want to, but patient engagement in moving the way you were designed to move can get you pretty close to perfection. It may take a month, a year, or longer, but perfection takes time. It took you about 3 to 4 years to really own walking and running as a child, right? Yet you didn’t complain or get discouraged one single time along the way. You were awesome then, and you are awesome now. If you don’t think so, at least settle on the notion that you are awesomeness in progress.

Move often throughout the day, every day. Don’t give up. Be patient and move on. You are awesomeness in progress, patiently moving towards perfection.

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