By: O.L./Sway Buckley
I'm sure that we've all heard, 'patience is a virtue.'
I agree that patience is a virtue AND is tough to exhibit. But it's not impossible. We can learn to grow in patience.
You can overcome impatience.
Today, patience has increasingly become a synonym for passivity. As if yielding to or waiting for someone/something else is a weakness. The hustle culture riddled within the world of entrepreneurship has made many believe they don't have to wait for much of anything.
The so-called 'Secrets To Success' are usually poor motives with a few practical tips. It has enough practicality to make sense to anyone, while the core is pure impatient doggedness.
How can I say it to be true? Being an entrepreneur since being laid off from my 9-to-5 in 2014 and sitting in countless ballrooms learning from some of the best business gurus-I know the heart of an entrepreneur is to win and do nothing but!
It was the candy-coated counseling that contributed to my being dissatisfied with life. I became increasingly impatient.
Oh, nothing wrong with wanting to win; the question is how we define winning.
As a husband who works with his wife in the business, here are four key lessons to winning as Marriedpreneurs.
- Learn all you can and filter all you learn: It's foolish to unthinkingly absorb strategies and tactics without filtering them through our value system. Business systems must clear screening from our value systems.
- Sudden growth is rarely sustainable: As the adage goes, the best things come to those who wait. Waiting is never sitting idle, but working smart-consistently.
- The best coaches and trainers have the best coaches and trainers: If this is true for professional sports-it's true for married entrepreneurs. Investing in the right coaching/consulting will help cut wasted time, appreciate the process, and not make you think you need to circumvent the process.
- Working powerfully in sync with your wife will require patience: It's not just you being patient with her, but being patient with yourself.
Hustling creates anxiety, and patiently working the right strategy produces lasting fruitfulness.
Every intelligent person I respect exhibits profound patience and lives a profitable life. I'm not simply referring to the material but fulfillment.
If you're looking for systems that help you two work powerfully in sync and spend more time in your areas of gifting, schedule a free success mapping call with us here.
Here's to living purposefully, powerfully, and profitably in sync,
O.L. & Sway
O.L. is a former banker turned real estate consultant and entrepreneur. Sway is a former CEO of a staffing firm she started on her dorm room floor to pay for college. Together they co-own Marriedpreneur Life Consultancy, equipping faith-based married entrepreneur couples with high-level systems to scale (without strain). They're the creators of the Marriedpreneur Operating Systems and the co-hosts of The Marriedprenuer Life Podcast, which was praised as one of Wedding Wire's top relationship podcasts. Learn more at MarriedpreneurLife.com.