‘I can’t help it’ can sometimes be, how shall we say it, a bit of a ‘cop out’. There is, perhaps, always some way in which we can act wisely.
Tag: Patience
How to avoid frustration
Are you frustrated with finances, career, relationships, bodily appearance? These are the ‘fabulous four’ frustrations that preoccupy the modern mind. It doesn’t have to be like that.
Tolerance: a fine art
Being tolerant is a two-stage process. We need to learn to endure others’ behaviour; but we also need to learn to manage our own response.
I challenge you: today, see if you can replace your reactivity with responsiveness
I want to make a distinction between two ways of behaving. The first way is reactivity, which I will define as the ability to come
10 steps to total patience
If anyone wants to become a person capable of great steadiness and peacefulness in a crisis, then here is a summary of the main efforts
Long-term patience (endurance)
Patience has a long-term dimension to it. As well as needing patience in the moment, and patience over the course of a day, we need
