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Monday, April 17, 2006
Patience, I just practiced this today, it works!!!!
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INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:
"Infinite patience produces immediate results."
~ Unknown
TIRED OF WAITING?
Have you ever wanted something special to happen in your life, or desired to attract a person or outcome into your life? Maybe you laid specific plans which should have produced the desired results. Maybe you prayed that the results would occur. Perhaps you focused on the desired outcome with great intensity over an extended period of time.
What was your response when nothing happened, when there occurred not the slightest apparent movement towards your desired objective? If you became impatient or frustrated, chances are good that you were too attached to the outcome. Perhaps, while you were waiting, you were also skeptical, or allowed friends and associates to dampen your belief that the desired outcome would occur.
Today's quotation at first glance appears to be at odds with itself. After all, there's a great chasm between "infinite" and "immediate." Yet, when you exercise infinite patience, the desired results often appear immediately, or so it seems. Patience means not being so attached to the outcome that you sit waiting minute-by-minute for the results. When you take action to achieve or strongly believe in your objective, it cannot NOT occur.
When you are detached from the outcome, you do not sit idly by waiting for the result. You continue doing other things, moving towards other outcomes. As you do, the results you sought earlier come to you of their own accord and at the appropriate time. You cannot rush them, and they often come disguised as other outcomes.
The next time you desire a specific objective, keep it to yourself. Avoid putting it out on the line for all to see and criticize. Exercise infinite patience, and know that what you desire is already on its way to you. Then, recognize its arrival with gratitude!
(Originally published May 21, 2001)
posted by The Office Grapevine at 1:34 PM
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