Healthy Tips: Patience Matters When Trying to Make a Change

Be patient with yourself: It takes time to make lasting changes.

The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote, “The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast.” And, he also wrote, “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

It’s difficult to be patient in a society that demands the opposite, we clamor for results now, or else. When we’re patient with ourselves, certain of our goal, committed to making sustain effort, and allow our progress to by guided by what we are learning on the journey, we will be successful.