{"id":3090,"date":"2019-03-10T04:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2019-03-10T04:01:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T08:01:02","slug":"three-minute-leadership-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2019\/03\/three-minute-leadership-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Tolstoy\">Leo Tolstoy<\/a>\u00a0writes: \u201c<em>The two most powerful warriors are patience and time<\/em>.\u201d The patience of which he speaks is not passive. Rather, it is a bold and active acceptance of what will be required to achieve a dream, goal or purpose. It is in the moments of time during which those requirements are executed with deliberation and purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Vaynerchuk\">Gary Vaynerchuk<\/a>\u00a0tells great leaders: \u201c<em>Macro patience and micro speed are the only things that matter<\/em>.\u201d Whether it is setting out on a new path in life, forming a relationship. building a business, or achieving a dream, all those things take time, a lot of time and a lot of patience. Their realization requires a deep investment \u2013 hard work, passion and commitment to doing whatever it takes to achieve them. Vaynerchuk calls this \u201cspeed\u201d which \u201c<em>allows you to do things. By doing things, you either win or you learn from your loss and it creates speed<\/em>.\u201d You are doing things, getting things done, executing, learning \u2013 not wasting time, not just dreaming, but passionately and tirelessly\u00a0<em>doing<\/em>. This is the process, and it takes time. Again, lots of time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vaynerchuk\u2019s message is simple and powerful: be patient in realizing\u00a0 your long-term dreams, goals and aspirations; be passionately persistent in executing whatever is needed to realize them. Patience is the strength of a person of purpose. It is that inner fire which burns knowing that its fulfillment is just a matter of time.\u00a0 It is the glow that inspires day-by-day ceaselessness in undertaking those things that will realize your macro view \u2013 your dream, purpose or meaning in life. Be relentless, my dear friends. Be active on the playing field of life. Be in your greatest and strongest do-mode. May you remember to be inspired by the words of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_de_La_Fontaine\">Jean de La Fontaine<\/a>: \u201c<em>Patience and time do more than strength or passion<\/em>.\u201d May the powerful warriors, Patience and Time, be at your side as constant allies on your magnificent life\u2019s journey in achieving your life\u2019s purpose and meaning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, simply said\u2026 if you or I were architects who were not only designing but also building the dream house of our life, it would be accomplished brick by brick, day after day, with a lot of hard, almost never-ending work. We would need patience along with the sweat and tears. We would, however, complete our dream house over time with patience and a fierce determination and commitment to our purpose demonstrated by our doing. Michele<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p>____________<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2476\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning &nbsp; Leo Tolstoy\u00a0writes: \u201cThe two most powerful warriors are patience and time.\u201d The patience of which he speaks is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}