How To Be More Patient

Working on patience is like building a muscle — it takes intention, consistency, and self-awareness. Here’s a straightforward breakdown of how you can work on it:

1. Notice Your Triggers
   Pay attention to what situations, people, or feelings make you lose patience. Awareness is the first step to change.

2. Pause Before Reacting
   When you feel impatience rising, practice pausing — take a slow, deep breath or count to five. Even a few seconds can create space between your feeling and your reaction.

3. Challenge Your Expectations
   A lot of impatience comes from wanting things to go faster or differently. Ask yourself:

   • Is this urgency real or self-imposed?

   • Is it reasonable to expect this to happen faster or more smoothly?

4. Practice Tolerating Discomfort
   Sometimes impatience is just being uncomfortable with waiting, uncertainty, or lack of control. Let yourself "sit with" small frustrations without immediately acting on them.

5. Reframe the Situation
   Instead of thinking, "This shouldn't be happening," try thinking, "This is an opportunity to practice patience." It sounds cheesy but can shift your mindset.

6. Use Physical Strategies

   • Deep breathing

   • Progressive muscle relaxation

   • Going for a quick walk
     These can help calm the physical tension impatience stirs up.

7. Work on Long-Term Skills
   Meditation, mindfulness, and even hobbies like gardening, puzzles, or long-term projects (that naturally require patience) help grow your tolerance over time.

8. Be Kind to Yourself
   You won't be patient all the time — and that's normal. If you snap or feel restless, notice it without beating yourself up. Patience with yourself is part of learning patience with everything else.

Contact Bee Blissful today if building patience is something you’d like to work on.