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Waiting on the World to Change

Sometimes you have to wait.  I have seen a couple of bill boards around Edmonton with a small boy looking forlorn.  The caption is just ‘WAITING’  I think I know how he feels.  Waiting for spring in Alberta …. waiting for the Oilers to final get the right combination of personnel to WIN …. waiting for the penny to drop … waiting for the PC’s to get defeated …. waiting for this cold or allergy attack I have suffered with for the past two weeks to leave me alone.

We have all spent time waiting.  The trick is to make that time count in other ways especially when you have no control over the speed of progress or lack of it that you are experiencing. I found myself speaking very forcefully to a couple of people this week to MOVE THINGS ALONG.  It worked on one and not on the other. So I go back to doing what I can when I can and setting the rest aside for another day.

The list of postponed due to others list is almost as long as the procrastination list for me.  Keeping it all in my head is always fun.  Sometimes I wait because I have to and sometimes I wait because I want to. So I guess waiting is not all bad.  I don’t want to keep others waiting.   I do my best to be a great ‘replier’ although this month the minutes of the board that I am secretary for were late because I was ‘down’ with what ever I have.

Sometimes it just can’t be helped.  i get that and I do my best to be patient with others …. until I am not.  Then look out. No telling what could happen next.  I may be little but I am not afraid of confrontation and sometimes that is what it takes to get over a hurdle.  I would say that is true especially when you are dealing with a bureaucracy or a passive aggressive personality.

In mediation patience and waiting for answers is considered a good thing.  It even has its own acrostic.  “Why Am I Talking”.  I’m usually quite a good waiter, not as in server but as in good at waiting.  MY rope is long but once I reach the end of it I tend to take no prisoners.  It’s a rare occasion when I am anything but calm and measured in my response to things. Everyone needs patience but when it gets in the way of getting important projects accomplished its time to consider alternatives to waiting … whatever they may be.

Any way I took my own advice.  While I am waiting I am writing about it so as not to completely waste this valuable time. Now I will go practice my new piano piece and get my costume ready for my dance competition next weekend. Distraction … it works for a while.  Try it the next time you find yourself waiting.

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