One day I saw a couple that were waiting for an elevator to come and take them to their floor at a hotel I was staying at. Now they were together so I assumed they were going to the same floor; however, the guy got impatient and started huffing and puffing and pushing the button (as if it makes the lift come any faster). So, after no results, he decides that he has had enough and turns to take the stairs to his desired floor. Well as soon as he leaves, the elevator comes and his girlfriend just shakes her head and walks through the doors. I knew what she was thinking by the look on her face,
If only that impatient idiot had waited a second longer. I looked at her and we just giggled at the silly, impatient move her boyfriend had just made. It takes us all of 7 seconds to get to the fifth floor and, go figure, her honey had not made it up the 5 flights of stairs. A little while later he appears out of the stairwell frustrated and even more irritable than before because she's standing there tapping her feet and looking at an imaginary watch. So here I am shaking my head, and suddenly it hits me! I realize how much a part that patience will play in my success. I don't want to be like that guy and waste my time because I'm too impatient to wait for the right opportunities, especially when I know that I am on the right path!
There are always two choices to every action we decide to take. We can either do things the easy way or the hard way. Some of us are stubborn and don't want to listen or think things completely through, and we end up doing more than we have to, and it takes longer to see the results that we want. It's just like what the guy in the elevator did. Although, he ended up where he wanted to be, he wasn't too thrilled about all the unnecessary extraness he had to do just to get there. Instead of being fast (like my mother calls it), he could've gotten the same results had he just been a little bit more patient. This happens to everyone because sometimes we are so tired of waiting for our breakthrough that we give up and try to take things in our own hands. Little do we know, if we just decide to stick it out a little while longer then we would get our blessings sooner rather than later.
On the other hand, there is a difference between taking the easy way and taking the easy way out. You see, the woman, after waiting for what seemed to be an eternity, didn't walk away from the situation altogether by deciding to scrap the plans of going upstairs. She got on the elevator lift because she knew she had made plans to get to the fifth floor to her hotel room. So compared to her partner she just simply chose the easier route. The important thing to remember is that she still put in work because she waited. Therefore, if you know that you are doing the right thing, but you still haven't seen the results, don't stop what you're doing because you don't believe it will ever come to you. Be patient and keep putting in hard work, or else you won't be there when the elevator doors finally open up for you. You will be somewhere between the 1st and 5th floor WALKING your way up to your success instead of riding.
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