Impatience

Myopic Misery: The Financial Cost of Sadness

Wray Herbert | Posted 05.10.2012

Wray Herbert

Apparently, sadness has the effect of bringing to mind "take the money and run" rationalizations, rapidly and elaborately, which can lead to lousy judgments and real financial losses.

4 Ways to Have a Better Day -- Now

Amy Spencer | Posted 04.08.2012

Amy Spencer

I'm embarrassed to admit how much I recently misjudged a situation.

holiday mindfulness

Michael Stanclift, N.D. | Posted 01.23.2012

Michael Stanclift, N.D.

Things are hard all over these days, and the holiday season can magnify our difficulties. Traditionally this was our harvest time, a time to sit down with the community and feast on what we had collectively grown.

Impatience and Being Undeserving

Misha Lyuve | Posted 01.14.2012

Misha Lyuve

From ART BEAUTY LIFE blog I've been wondering whether impatience is my inborn trait or I acquired it through the years of living in big cities. In...

Patience Is The Key To Happiness (And How To Cultivate It)

Allan Lokos | Posted 01.14.2012

Allan Lokos

It is essential that we learn to be patient with ourselves if we are to be happy, if we are to be trusted, if we are to be a welcome friend to others.

Zero Tolerance: Older Parents Refusing To Raise Spoiled Brats

Ann Brenoff | Posted 12.30.2011

Ann Brenoff

I know that you are never too old to love a child and I know that I love my kids more than I want my next breath. But I also know that I just have no patience for bratty kids so I didn't let mine become them.

Balanced Life -- 8 Reasons Why Waiting in Line Drives Us Crazy.

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Gretchen Rubin

Every Wednesday is Tip Day, or List Day, or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: 8 reasons why waiting in line drives us crazy. I'm a very impatient person...

Speed Kills: The Ticking Time Bomb Of Urgency

Joe Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011

Joe Robinson

If you could change one thing in 2011 that could make your life massively better, opting out of chronic hurry-worry would be hard to top.

Are Artists Bored by Their Work?

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

James Elkins

I have been writing about looking slowly, taking time to let the visual world seep into your thoughts. It took me three years, on and off, to learn to...

How Long Does it Take To Look at a Painting?

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

James Elkins

My subject in these posts is how we look at the world. In future columns, I will be writing about all sorts of things, from hieroglyphs to ice halos, ...

Patience Yields Many Good Things: Week 6 of "Mental Muscle" Boot Camp

Paul Katz | Posted 11.17.2011

Paul Katz

I have been mistaking patience for an acceptance, way ahead of time, that people will inevitably disappoint me. That is why it never mattered what people did. I'd already prepared to be let down.

Patience

Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 11.17.2011

Ariane de Bonvoisin

Today, ask yourself if the best thing to do with what you've been struggling with is simply to wait.

I Am a Big Fat Jerk

James M. Lynch | Posted 11.17.2011

James M. Lynch

I was gathering evidence that people were stupid, they were selfish and that I was the only right thinking person in the world and my anger was justified. In short; I was being a big fat jerk.