Patience
A Blue Van can teach Powerful lessons about patience Sitting at a green traffic light waiting for the blue van in front of me to actually go on green was a test of patience. I failed. Americans are busy people with a lot to get done. We microwave everything in our lives to get more done in less time. In fact when asked about what they would want most, the common answer was not money, nope - it was ‘more time.’ Back to the blue van. They finally moved about the time the traffic light turned yellow, so now I’m stuck thinking unhappy thoughts. Why? It didn’t go the way I wanted it to go and I was frustrated, losing energy instead of trying to be creative and problem solve. Impatient people are basically control freaks. It causes significant stress in their lives, and when I say ‘they’ I mean ‘me’. Yep, I’m a control freak about some things, and suspect you are as well. It can become a serious problem. The old song lyric would solve a lot of this problem by simpl