The importance of patience

My Blog this week focuses on a behaviour, 'patience'.  Firstly, let’s look at patience.  We all have days when we feel less patient.  For example, endless queues, things breaking, plans being changed which can all  make us all less tolerant.   Someone once told me ‘don’t fret about things you can’t change, use your energy for the things you can’.  After all, patience is the level of endurance we experience before negativity.    Patience is seen as a decision making problem, involving a small benefit in the short term and a more substantial reward in the long term.  An example of being impatient is road rage which within a transport environment can often be witnessed. 

A positive solution is to pinpoint triggers that may be of influence and this can flow into work and home life, which benefits everyone  There are many benefits to being patient.(ask my wife).  A major one is it can reduce your stress levels and improve your health.  We all have seen the fast car overtake only to be stopped by a traffic light.  This action did not get the driver to one point quicker, if anything the driver ended up more frustrated.  Think about the tortoise and the hare.

BE PATIENT, it saves lives.

The patience shown this week by colleagues in temperatures in excess of 30 degrees which has been truly  outstanding.  Drivers and Engineers all working together to keep the wheels in motion.