Just progress

Chapter 63

Persistence and patience are the keys to mega-productivity and few of us seem to have enough of either. I have persistence down pat pretty good, but I could always use extra doses of patience. Having said that, my patience mechanism varies depending on what we are working on. Like I have NO patience when I am hungry. I mean when I need to eat I need to eat! But if we are talking about selling a piece of real estate or buying one (as long as I am not going to be living in it) I seem to have endless patience. My last house sale took over an entire year to bring the deal together and get a check. Zero to one year is a very wide variance and I am still looking for the pieces that makes me patient in selling a property or fishing, but are absent when it comes to eating or making a change in my schedule?

Persistence on the other hand is much easier to use and to manage than is patience, in my opinion. The easiest way to let persistence float to the top all the time, is to remove all those time-wasting practices that would inhibit persistence, like watching TV or movies, or doomscrolling social media or the internet in general. If most people removed those from their lives, they would find that they have tons of space for persistence to rise to the top. When you are not distracted you will find that you can sit and be bored, or get all those persistent tasks that are always on your to-do list, done or at least make some progress on them. And that is the beautiful thing about persistence, it doesn’t require completion, just progress.