Fighting Impatience in an Instant World

We live in a fast world. Pretty much everything is instant, from our coffee to our needs for gratification. We question ourselves all the time. We wonder about our choices. We second-guess.

And when we do these things we need to fight our own impatience.

I need to do this all the time. Not many days go by before I open up that pandora’s box in my head and think about things I could do or have done differently. Am I putting time into the wrong things, should I be focused elsewhere?

It’s exhausting.

Sometimes you feel like you need a “sign from above” to go ahead doing what you want and sometimes you don’t even know what you want. The brain just won’t shut up and you feel time is running away from you.

I want to blame the Internet for speeding up the world. But then again, it made the impossible possible (at least that’s the mindset you need to have).

When you get into that mood of questioning yourself, you need to take a break. Get away from yourself from a moment. Have lunch, go out into the sunshine, talk to someone with positive energy. Turn off your phone. Close the lid to your computer. Stop staring at screens for a while.

Take a moment to just be. Let your inner self be heard. Maybe there is an answer there somewhere, whispering? Telling you who you are and what you need to do.

Let that voice be your gratification. And don’t worry that it’s not instant. Sometimes you have to let things come to you. Slowly.