Just A Second, That’s All You Need: Employing The Power Of Patience To Achieve Success In Life

Life's dark phases sometimes appear so long, that
impossibility varnishes from memory.
The anticipation that characterizes the waiting period
may be huge but this often fails to
guarantee the kind of life that the common hustling
man on the street wants to have.
The assurance of a better future for some is only
generations away that the picture they very much
desire to live in is a far cry from reality. In the face of
this myopic viewed belief is
one truth; that it only takes a second for change to
happen.
A graduate friend from one of the universities had
this experience to share. He had managed to make
his way through school with the belief that once he
got off school, it was only a matter of days before he
picked up an appointment with one of the blue chip
companies in town.
It happened that he was seeing from the perfect
situation if all was well. However, the ideal situation
doesn't happen always. He was ill-prepared for what
would hit him. It turned out that his desire was only a
dream that he had to strive for.
Months passed and it became years and there
seemed no certainty that a door would be opening
anytime soon. His situation had moved from bad to
worse that he finally concluded himself unfit to
continue with life. In the face of his uncertainty, fate
had something more. God was certainly around
watching. It happened that on one faithful day while
he pondered on his predicament and how he was
going to make through another day, he heard a
knock on the door.
A letter had just arrived in the hands of the postman.
Unsure what the letter contained, he
opened it and inside it was his appointment letter for
immediate appointment with benefits of a car, a well
furnished apartment and a salary in millions. It
seemed like a dream, but it was reality.
The experience above is only one of many stories of
change. Your case may not be job but it may be your
quest to climb up your job ladder, a deadening
sickness, a quest for admission into a tertiary
institution, a wayward child, a difficult parent, a
quest to survive, a challenging relative, a physical
challenge, a desire to pass an examination, an
unpleasing spouse etc. Just a second is all you need
to overcome them.
That "second" moment is always around the corner
waiting for the right time. But the time often seems
like forever because sometimes we are too impatient
to wait and too patient to act. Our impatience at
waiting to have that moment arrive is because we
expect the ideal which naturally is "now". We fail to
acknowledge too that "now" is relative and it shifts
as time flies.
We seem very patient at not taking action leaving
ourselves to fate and then hate the fact that
fate isn't getting us what we want at our perceived
ideal time.
No matter how difficult one's present predicament is,
that special second of change is always around the
corner. That second only eludes us at each time of
trying because either it isn't the right time for it to
reveal itself or we haven't done enough to merit that
change time.
While we wait for that brief future second, the route
to that time begins from each now second. Each
second of change counts, when we act as to expect
our change at each second. This expectation is an
actionable one.
Are you afraid you will be overwhelmed by your
current fears about that seemingly impossible task?
You might have given your best shot and what you
get in return is a chain of losses. Maybe you just have
to take one more second of failing to hit the right
time for the overturn of your fate. Don't give up.
Whatever it is that troubles you, through your spines
down to your marrow, that has failed to give you rest,
you may just be that one second away from a new
story.
Is it sickness? Just one second to your healing. Is it
poverty? Just one second to wealth. Is it a crumbling
marriage? Just one second to peace. Is it a strained
friendship? Just
one second to a reunion.
Don't give up at pursuing the kind of possibility you
want to see however bad present moment may be,
because you never will tell when that second of
change will arrive. Just wait, it's coming.
About the author: Samuel Ufot Ekekere writes from
Uyo, Nigeria. He is a teacher,motivator, writer cum
author. He writes inspiring writs on personal
development for all categories of persons. He
believes everyone needs motivation. Connect on
twitter @inyang21 and www.facebook.com/ekekere,
+2347062809301

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