In this issue:

1) Val’s Views: Being Patient with Your Home Business

2) Parenting corner: Being Patient with Your Kids

4) Stress buster of the month: Choose to be Patient

5) Time Management: The Importance of Getting Organized

6) Money Saving Tip: Saving Money by Being Patient

7) Quotes on Patience

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VAL’S VIEWS

Being Patient with Your Home Business

One of the most frustrating things when you are trying to get a business off the ground is hearing about all the overnight successes. We are inundated with claims of people who went from penniless to prosperous in thirty days; people who supposedly slapped up a website and made five figures the first month.

I am not saying that ALL of these tales are false, but more and more I am reading comments by people with a decade or more of success that are reassuring newbies that it takes at least two years to really have something to show for your efforts.

Why does this surprise us? Did we expect to learn any other skill overnight? For instance, do you know anyone who learned to play the piano overnight? Do you know anyone who won a golf or tennis tournament without years of preparation or hours and hours of consistent, repetitive practice? Why do we expect to succeed immediately at our home business?

Success requires patience and perseverance. It requires practice and repetition. It requires making mistakes and learning form them, dusting yourself off when you’re knocked down and getting up for another round. It requires time.

Be patient. If you keep working at it, success is coming. The only way to fail is to quit.

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PARENTING CORNER

Practicing Patience with Your Kids

I read once that life’s lessons keep presenting themselves until we learn them. I think having kids presents repeated lessons in patience. From the moment you bring a screaming baby home from the hospital through lessons about colic and functioning on lack of sleep, through some of parenting’s other challenges such as the terrible twos, potty training, fights over homework and right up to teenage angst, being parents teaches us patience probably more than any other area in life.

The relationship you have with your child is perpetually changing. It almost feels that every day you wake up to a completely different child, who lies away at night plotting ways to throw you curve balls. Sometimes it even feels that your child is determined to test your patience, to see if they can find your breaking point.

So on a daily basis, we must practice patience. We can take a deep breath and count to ten, we can leave the room if we need to. We can ask for help from friends or family members. We can remind ourselves of the fact that we are human and will sometimes fall short, and we can wake up each day and try again.

Our children are learning from our behavior. If impatience is a way of life with us, that is what we are teaching them.

Practice doesn’t make perfect, it only makes improvement. Our goal as parents has to be to become the best parents, the best role models we can be.

So we practice. And we do the best we can with each day as it comes.

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STRESS BUSTER OF THE MONTH

Choose to be Patient

I don’t know about you, but I hate to wait in long lines in the supermarket or sit for two hours in a doctor’s office. Driving can also be a big test of patience when we are treated with rudeness and lack of consideration by other drivers, or when we always seem to end up behind someone driving ten miles an hour under the speed limit when we’re late for an appointment.

Watching time slip away beyond our control is one of the most stressful challenges facing super-mom or super-dad. The funny thing about the passage of time is that it is subjective: we perceive what we perceive. A two hour picnic in the park flies by, while a two hour waits in a doctor’s office drags. But two hours is simply that: two hours.

Suffering in any form seems to last forever, whether it is physical or mental suffering. It’s important to stop struggling over what we can’t control, because ultimately we are just fighting ourselves. We must practice acceptance of our situation, whatever it is.

Patience is a skill that will alleviate stress. Learn to take slow, deliberate breaths. Slow down your anxiety by sipping a cup of tea or listening to soothing music. If consciousness of time passing beyond your control is causing you stress, leave your watch home for a day.

Very often, all we have control over is our own reaction to what happens to us. Choose to be accepting. Choose to be patient.

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TIME MANAGEMENT:

The Importance of Getting Organized

I read an article recently which talked about the percentage of time we spend on various things in life. Most people spend about a third of their life sleeping, and at least the same working, whether at home or at an actual job. The remaining third is split between running errands, caring for children, meal preparation, laundry, cleaning, recreation, etc. But in this particular article, the author quipped that she spent close to a third of her life searching for lost items.

I have to confess, I’m not far behind. I take notes on scrap paper or lunch bags; I save emails that I can’t find when I want them. Nothing sets off a string of impatience the way searching for keys does, or lost notes or even lost shoes.

So, to avoid tirades of impatience, I need to work to get more organized.

I’ll start as soon as I find my glasses.

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MONEY SAVING TIP OF THE MONTH

Saving Money by Being Patient

One of the simplest ways to save money is by being patient. For instance, if you buy a brand new vehicle the minute it hits the lot, you’ll pay a lot more than you’ll pay for the very same car nine months later when it’s on inventory clearance. The same goes for best-selling books or new movies. You can pay full price when a book is first released, or you can get it at a discount on eBay several months later. You can pay full price when a movie is first released, or you can wait a few months and pay the price to rent it. Is it really that important to be the first person to buy a book or see a movie? Being patient saves money.

********************************************************** QUOTES ON PATIENCE

“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” - Chinese Proverb

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Adopt the pace of nature:  her secret is patience.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson ************************************************************ Thanks for reading the current issue of SWAHP.

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Valerie Dansereau

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