Patience and Preparation

We have become a very impatient people.  I should know because patience is a serious weakness of mine.  We are impatient in lines at the grocery store and in traffic.  We are impatient with doctors healing our illnesses and lawyers solving our problems.  Most importantly, we are impatient to achieve, in both our goals and our definitions of success.  Consider this quote…

“Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation”

-       Robert H. Schuller

We do not want to spend the time it takes in preparation to achieve.  It does not matter what you want to achieve, it will require preparation.  Whether it is financial success, good grades or athletic prowess, you have to be willing to devote hours and hours of not so glamorous preparation.  It may not be fun, and it will be hard work, but the rewards of achievement can be spectacular!  But we cannot be impatient about it.