Be Patient With Your Success (Here’s Why)

I was listening to an audio speak on a important trait that I wanted to share with you. This is Patience.

Patience is a trait spoke of many times in the Bible, in detail over 30 times. “Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.” (Proverbs 14:29). “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Galatians 6:9).

Just these two verses seem to sum up so much of what this speaker in the audio was speaking about. I feel that today people are just used to instinct gratification because of technology and have almost forgotten patience. I, myself, needed a Mentor to teach it to me. I was very impatient, and sometimes still am. Listening to people on this audio and other leaders have help teach me calmness and taught me to wait for my crops to grow.

Let me give you a great story of patience:

Now, I am sure you have something made of rubber in your house. What you probably didn’t know is the long, hard story behind the inventing of rubber.

Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent from the United States Patent.

Though Goodyear is often credited with the invention of vulcanized rubber, Goodyear’s discovery of the vulcanization process was accidental. His product kept burning and nobody wanted it. They one day he accidentally put different ingredients in. When he tried to sell the product the prospect said “NO".

He went home to try again, and out of frustration, threw the material in his hand into the fire. He immediately noticed that it harden. It was then that he realized that the missing ingredient was heat.

We have all heard of similar struggles by Walt Disney, Colonel Sanders, and the Coca-Cola Company. If we’ve learned one lesson from these stories, the lesson is, don’t be in a hurry to become a success.

Ask any veteran Advisor how much patience is needed to build a profitable business.

The path to success is a long one. Being proactive may speed up the process a bit, as opposed to waiting for success to find us. Following the suggestions of our mentors should help us along. But there are no shortcuts to success.

Shortcuts don’t work in the long run. I have seen a few Advisors achieve a lot of success in a short period of time. But in each of those cases, something was wrong and you can guess what that something was.

Success takes extraordinary patience because, to be successful at what you do, you must be great at what you do.

You get great at this business the same way Kobe Bryant got great at basketball. You put in the proverbial 10,000 hours of practice.

How, then, on our way to long-term success, do we combat the inevitable impatience?

One way to combat impatience is to recognize that it comes from within.

It doesn’t come from the people ahead of us in the line at Starbuck’s. Obstacles irritate us. Tasks frustrate us. Things that take too long anger us. Irritability, frustration and anger are all reactions which we can control. Those folks in Starbuck’s really don’t stand between you and your goals. If you have the patience to wait, you will eventually be at the head of the line. If you can’t wait, leave. Remember, feeling hostile won’t make the line move faster either.

As well, in order to succeed as an Advisor, you must depend upon others to some degree, staff members and clients being two examples.

You must be patient with those people. You certainly can’t move any faster than your clients are willing to move. Getting angry with them and saying the wrong thing will damage existing relationships, setting you back or ruining you.

In you are in mlm, than you might want to build your down-line’s business for them. But, that is impatience on my side. I would be breaking a butterfly out of their cocoon and thus hurting them. I should instead kept focusing on mine, and being an example for them. It is better to say, "Next" and find the another person with a "NOW" attitude.

It also helps to keep in mind that if we build our business as if we are going to sell it someday, we will build a better business. In order to sell our business, it must be profitable. Achieving profitability takes time. Knowing what works takes time. Culling and rebuilding our client list takes time. Putting down roots in the community takes time. Establishing a reputation certainly takes time. Filtering out unrealistic expectations takes time. Learning how to do everything right takes time. Nobody would argue these points.

Patience may well be fleeting because we live in a world of Twitter, Streaming and Smartphones

People hurry even though they are not late. We can get most anything we want right now. But success is not for sale. You can’t order it online. Success must be courted.

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