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Patience

(It's a virtue. It will also help sharpen your mind.)

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

Patience? Hmmm, how can patience help me to achieve "a quiter place to think" in order to become more successful?

Patience is a virtue. By practicing patience, one learns to become tolerant of others. You will soon realize that you have more time. Why more time? Patience and tolerance will help to minimize personal disputes, disagreements (which, frequently, turn into arguments), and conflicts with others.

Minimizing personal conflicts with others frees your mind to concentrate and focus on daily tasks and ultimately to fulfill your dreams and goals.

Here are some ways to learn patience.

1. While watching TV, maybe your favorite program, get up (actually you don't even have to get up you can use the remote!) and turn it off. Leave it off. Walk away. Pick up a book.
2. If you are in the car enjoying your favorite song on the radio ... turn the station or turn the radio off.
3. If you find yourself in a disagreement with a friend or colleague, while it's "their turn," instead of thinking about what you are going to blast back (respond) with next, be thinking of a way to compliment them. Be thinking of a benefit to their side. When it's "your turn" repeat the compliment and tell them that they may "have a point." They will be flattered and just might start to see your point.
4. If you feel you have to check your email ONE MORE TIME! Don't! Walk away.

The point is:

Be patient and tolerant of other people. You will feel better. And, you will find, during your day, you have more time to think!

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

- Abraham Lincoln