Patience is a virtue. Who hasn’t heard those words before? Those words are deeply rooted in many of our minds, but the behavior, the true practice of patience is just another personality trait which has fallen by the wayside. Our hurried, over-scheduled way of life where everything has to happen instantly is taking its toll on the willingness to be patient and working things out. We want it done and we want it done NOW! And just like any type of success in life, even when it comes to our finances and our financial freedom, having patience is an important trait that we need to learn and practice. Although, the ironic thing with practicing patience is that it takes patience to practice it. On the flip side of that…the great thing about patience, is practicing it in one area of our life will help with learning patience for other areas of our life.

Is Having Patience Necessary for Success

I’m sure you often live your life like there’s never enough time to accomplish the things you need to get done and in many aspects of your life that may seem to be true. You feel like you can’t get enough of it and you could always use having more. So, when something seems to take longer than it should or longer than you expected, you might have the tendency to give up.

It’s this dynamic which you encounter on an all too often basis that causes you to lose perspective on the habit of having patience. When you’re in a world where so much is at your finger-tips and available to you so rapidly, even almost instantly, it diminishes your ability to be patient. Just think about the last time you lost your patience because a web page you were browsing took too long to load.

“Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.” – Anonymous

Losing your patience because you feel like you don’t have enough time to get things done is for another subject on time management, but for the purpose of your financial well-being and financial freedom, time and patience need to be looked at a little differently. The journey to financial success needs to be thought of more like a marathon and not like a sprint.

To achieve financial freedom, you need to realize and understand that it takes time…a long time (years, decades) to reach a place of financial independence provided you take the right steps along the way. And with that, it takes patience to get you through the journey. Without patience, you will never reach your goals and achieve success.

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