ALEXSHZRD

Patience has a lot to do with timing. Everyone in the world has their own timeline of their life – with all of us arriving at certain “landmarks” at different times and ages. First house, first car, first relationship, first job. You get the point.    
Each person in the world has a chance to shine in a big way – achieving some sort of meaningful personal accomplishment, yet only some of us get a chance to do so publicly.    The rise of social media and its prevalence in society has made checking up on your family, friends & other media influencers easier than ever before, but this comes with some interesting  “features”.     
If you’re not careful, this unbelievable access could cost you your mental and physical sanity.    
The cost I speak of is seeing each stage in other people’s life over and over and obsessing why you’re not  also  in the same place as someone else, and feeling like you are a loser, a failure, or a reject.    
You see it each and every day on social media. People getting married. People having kids. People making a bunch of money. People buying a flashy brand new car. People appearing to be in a better place or more ahead in their life than you are.     
These kinds of outside influences can only hinder and bring us down if we let them. The truth is, how do you know how someone is doing?     
Maybe they are doing great. Maybe they aren’t. You just don’t know what is going on in someone else’s life, and you sure as hell don’t know what is going to happen in the future of anybody’s life.    
Someone could look like they’re doing great –  appearing to be winning at life, but in reality they could be in a very dark place.    
Staying on your own path and your own mission is critical to your future success. Controlling what you can control. Certainly you must  also  support others & find support along the way, but at the end of the day – it’s on you to make it happen.    
Working at your craft patiently, consistently, & relentlessly each and every day is the major key to success.    
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I want to transition to talk about patience in the more micro sense – looking at patience within a certain process or competition, where you will be looked at and judged.     Preparation is part of what it takes to handle a situation – when you’ve experienced it before or have studied for it immensely, you seem more prepared.     
Take for example a of a running back running for a touchdown in football.     
Before the ball is snapped, he is standing next to the quarterback in a shotgun formation. He is scanning all over the field, observing where the defense is lining up.     
He’s been persistent and patient all week long with his preparation – watching film, performing drills, lifting weights, studying the gameplan – grinding through his work.     He knows what the defense likely will do.    
The ball is snapped & the ball is handed to him, as it’s a called run play.     
However, the defense stuffs him up the middle – not what he thought.  
His preparation and intuition tells him he needs to be patient – to trust his blockers and those around him.    
He uses a small hesitation move, is patient with approaching the hole – all still happening within a split second.     
He’s about to be sucked into the pile, when he sees an opening  opportunity  – and takes it    
And then BANG all of a sudden, he’s in the open field.    
He keeps sprinting, and 25 yards later – he’s made it to the endzone.   
He scored.     
The patient persistence of working throughout the week mixed with the patience to wait until the hole was opened up by his blockers allowed the running back to get free & score a touchdown.    
Be patient. Keep working. Stay ready    
Trust yourself and your intuition; so when it tells you to hit the hole…    
You FIRE out & WIN!