Why patience is a virtue

My life has been in a holding pattern lately. I’m seven pounds away from my goal weight, and they’ve been the hardest to get off. We ordered a solar panel system for our house, and we’re waiting for it to go through the permit stage. My novel The Remainders was released nearly a month ago, and I’m waiting for it to get flooded with five-star reviews and reach the New York Times bestseller list. 😀

I can handle the waiting because I understand the importance of patience. It’s like the lesson I learned from the myrtle tree nine years ago. You can’t rush certain processes, and you have to wait for results.

I believe that patience isn’t just a virtue. It’s a key trait for success. Here are the reasons.

You must wait for certain steps to be completed before you can move ahead.

When I was a kid, I loved to build plastic models. One of my biggest projects was a four-foot Saturn V rocket I built with my dad. He told me I had to wait for paint to dry before I glued the pieces together. And when I had glued them, I had to wait for the cement to dry before working on the next section. If I rushed through building the model, I would ruin it.

Projects have dependencies where you must wait for a team to finish their task before you work on your piece. I have to…