Gain Patience and Empathy
As St. Augustine said, "Patience is the companion of wisdom". Patience can help you to succeed in your career. Patience can help you succeed, because it is a personal quality that manifests itself in wise choices as well as abstinence. Patience begins with self. You may have heard the following words of inspiration: " yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, today's a gift that's why they call it the present".
Steps
- Learn patience. Patience is a virtue they say, and when it comes to your career, it certainly is a virtue. If you want a successful anything in life, you need to be able to be patient and help yourself out when it comes to your career path.In many different ways, patience can lead to a successful career.It is truly a virtue, as the saying goes, and can be very desirable in an employee. The following are ways in which this quality can aid in your career.
- Maintain patience: It helps to take a look at what impatience is to find out how to be patient. Impatience is hasty, angry, too quick at making a decision before having all the accurate picture of a situation.
- Be an ideal to others: Our patience makes ideal to others.So,try to maintain and keep empathy at others.It is self-centered, faulty reasoning. It's just plain self-centered. So to be patient, look for others' needs, letting them ahead of you or letting their needs come first. It's not thinking so much about your needs and rights. It's being kind to others, being in self-control for everyone's benefit.
- Keep the empathy at others: The person who has empathy may have resources that can help at their disposal . They may know someone who works at a different workplace who could help the person who was fired. Empathetic people recognize the need to help other people because there may come a day when they may need help too. Some may help out without expecting any kind of reward because it is inherent in their personality.
- How does one achieve empathy? It really depends on your disposition. If you are self centered and only care about yourself then empathy will not come easily. It would take a devastation of some significance to alter your perception, especially if someone helps you out knowing full well what type of person you are. While you may not consider yourself self-centered, you may have an indication of how others perceive you. Perception makes reality. If others perceive you as being selfish then that is what they are going to believe regardless of whether it is true or not.
Tips
- Practice delaying gratification
- If we're patient, pause and go over what we want to say.
- we can avoid hurting or offending others.
- Help the Speaker to Clarify Thoughts, Feelings, and Ideas
- Repeat what the other person says.
- Paraphrase what you think the person really means.
- Share your perceptions of the situation.
- Ask purposeful questions.
- Be a Supportive Listener
- Acknowledge Your Acceptance of What the Speaker is Saying
- Do not judge or criticize
- Does not signify agreement
- Keep your Emotional Perspective
- Anticipate the other person’s emotional state.
- Tune in to the other person’s behavior.
- Use instructive statements.
- Use relaxation techniques.
- Take a day where you make patience your goal for the entire day
- Make a concerted effort to take your time
- Think about everything you do, be mindful and live in the moment.
- Learn to do it on a daily basis.
