J Wade's blog: "Day by Day"

Lately, I've been working on patience when I'm at work. If I'm not at work, I tend to have a lot more patience. I don't know why; it may be the fact that I'm more in control of things around me when I'm not clocked in for the night. 

While at work, I do have a little flexibility when it comes to decision making, but everyone else seems to think they know better than supervisors. I'm sure that happens at every workforce, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.

At any rate, my patience sometimes disappears half way through the night and I'm having to deal with situations one crawling inch to the next. But one of the first things I always have to remember is the fact that I'm not always right. And even if I may be right on a particular subject, someone else may have a more effecient way of doing things. New ideas are how things progress after all. So, I have to take the time to listen to others if they have an idea up their sleeve. 

The idea they have may not even work, but the willingness to listen to someone else gives a certain amount of trust to that other person. With said patience, I can have the ability to learn from a mistake and not make it again in the future. Patience is so difficult when you're in a time crunch, but it is one of the most valuable attributes when in a tought situation.