Proactive Patience

What motivates my actions today is my faith in what's to come tomorrow.

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There is something about people who are patient. They are collected and calm, and they command this sense of respect. What I admire the most is when a person is proactively patient. 

Proactive patience is doing all that you can do to be the best person/employee/friend/parent/sibling/partner today, in preparation for amazing results tomorrow. Proactive patience is finding the balance between maximizing the present, enjoying the present and being thankful for what you have in the now, and planning, preparing and driving your future.

For example, your goal is to get to senior level management for a corporate company. Many people focus too much on just wanting to get that title and pay grade rather than maximizing their experience and journey it takes to get there, and the relationships made along the way. On top of that, while focusing too much on the future, they do a half-ass job in the present. On the contrary, proactively patient people become experts at what they do in the now... because they understand that the knowledge and expertise they gain in the now will be the driving force to what elevates them to the next level.. say, senior management level. They know that without becoming experts at what they do now, they will never be able to become experts at what they do at the next level in the future.

Proactive patience applies to all areas of life.. not just the professional world. It may be even more important in your personal life..

For example, you want to find the man/woman of your dreams. You want a relationship, you want to give yourself to someone, you want to fall in love. So many people go out of their way and search for that person, sometimes even making themselves believe that they are "in love" with someone when they really are not.  The most successful couples I've witnessed, however, are the ones who focused first on making themselves, individually, the best they can be in the now, so that they can be the best partner to someone else in the future. They were being proactively patient in "the now".

 By being proactively patient, you are deliberately planning and executing daily routines, activities, and challenges, and working as hard you can in the now... with the intent of reaching a certain goal in the future. 

In other words....

Proactive patience is deliberately setting yourself up for future success... but enjoying every minute of the journey you take to get there.