Patience grasshopper. Yes, that's my answer to you...and I. See, I am guilty of being impatient most times. I'm usually patient when it comes to other people but when it comes to myself, my patience is thin.
You see, I have goals, and I want to achieve those goals NOW. I have a hundred and one things I want to achieve, to complete as soon as possible, today, now. Maybe it's because I'm aware of my own mortality. Life is short indeed, and I want to do as much as possible in the little time I have left, depending on my state of mind because yes, sometimes I believe life is too long. When you get inspired by someone, you also want to be where they are and you forget that it took the time to there, but even then you think, "time is something I do not have much of." Then comes the frustration that comes with trying to do everything all at once.
"I can't do it. It's too much. I do not have the talent or the adequate resources to do this." Sounds familiar? To me it does. That's the doubting that comes after the frustration. It's your saving grace. You learn to take a step back, to breathe and to take one step at a time. Isn't it better to carry things one by one through a door, rather than to burden yourself with a hundred and one items on yourself, more than you can carry and try to bring all of them through a door? When you try to attempt the latter, a lot of things will break, some will fall and not all of them will go through the door. But when you attempt the former, chances are whatever you are carrying will make it through the door in one piece, and you won't feel over-burdened and you will arrive refreshed.
I hope you understand the above reasoning. This is what I think about when I try to try and reach all of my goals at once. It doesn't help that I'm a perfectionist and my own worst critic. I put off things until I have all the materials I need to begin work on them, until the time is right.Yesterday I realised that because we don't know what they future holds for us, we never really a know the 'right time' except when we reach that moment of time and we tell ourselves, "it has happened at the right time." When I was being impatient, I told myself to take a step back and to work on whatever I can at the time, a little at a time. It does make all the different because at least you make some leeway and it's one step closer to achieving your goal.
Some destinations are longer than a jump, some you have to reach by putting each foot in front of the other, one step at a time. Be patient. Your desire to have things happen NOW will be the motivation you need to achieve your goals and you will. When the time is right.
-Bella
