3DubWellness
  • Home
  • About
  • Work With Me
    • Wellness Program
    • Rodan+Fields
    • Essential Oils
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About
  • Work With Me
    • Wellness Program
    • Rodan+Fields
    • Essential Oils
  • Blog
  • Contact

Patience Really is a Virtue

6/26/2015

0 Comments

 
(I wrote this blog on the plane last night, but couldn’t post until this morning.)
Picture
I learned the value of patience today. This is something I’ve always struggled with, in the worst way. I would get so impatient with the car in front of me for not driving fast enough, or with the people in line in front of me for taking too long to pay or having lots of questions. It didn’t matter what it was, I would get frustrated and impatient and complain to whomever I was texting or talking to at the moment.

I prayed to God, multiple times over the years, to guide me and provide me with patience. But it never really registered until just recently. And even more so today into this evening. And it didn’t hit me that I had actually showed extreme patience until I was using the restroom waiting for my plane to board.

You see, I’m on my way to Nashville, TN for the Hungry for Hope conferencewith my friend, Kelsey. We left Norfolk about 230 this afternoon and landed in Atlanta around 4. Well, we landed in the midst of a lightening storm (no joke, we could see the flashes as we were landing…it was actually kinda terrifying). So we sat on the plane for 2 hours while the storm raged on. They had closed the entire airport, basically, from any plane going in or out. Our connecting flight had been postponed from 535 to 750 so we had time to grab dinner and get a bit of work done.

As we were waiting, the departure time kept getting pushed further and further back. From 750 to 815 to 845 to 915 to 945 to 955 and finally to 1015. And the gate changed twice in the midst of all that…so twice we had to pack up all our stuff and move to the next gate, only to unpack all our stuff and keep working.

Not once, in this whole endeavor, did I complain. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m exhausted and I expressed that, but there wasn’t any disdain or anger or frustration over the fact that our flight had basically been delayed 5 hours!! We had an amazingly delicious dinner (if you’re ever in concourse B in Atlanta, definitely try Fly Burger. I had their holy guacamole burger with a lettuce bun and sweet potato tator tots…so good!!), and we both got some work done. I was able to work on something that I’ve been putting off for far too long because I didn’t have the time.

And truthfully, I was able to have a little bit of downtime and a nice afternoon with a good friend. How often do we actually get to have that?

And, like I said, it wasn’t until I was using the restroom for the last time before we boarded that I realized how different this experience was for me. I’ve been in this exact situation before and I’ve been frustrated and angry and annoyed and yes, impatient. But today, instead of all that negativity, I was grateful for the opportunity to spend time with a great friend and to accomplish some tasks that needed to be done. It was a nice change.

Sure, I could have gotten upset or irate or angry at the entire situation. But where would that have gotten me? Higher blood pressure, stressed out, probably wouldn’t have gotten any work done. And it’s not the airline’s fault. They can’t control the weather. And in listening to the various Delta employees, they were doing everything they could to get the planes in and get crews there to get people where they needed to go. Listening to others around us was interesting because yup, you guessed it. There were a *lot* of people who were completely unhappy and upset with Delta. Honestly, I’m just happy we arrived safely in Atlanta.

And now it’s 1105 and I’m writing this as we’re flying to Nashville. I’m truly blessed to have the opportunity to be able to make trips like this and to further my education and experiences as a health coach. I can’t wait to tell you all about it when I get home!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and realize that not everything is going to go as planned. And that it’s in how you handle it that makes you (or breaks you). I’m happy this experience didn’t break me :-)

With love and wellness,
Whitney
0 Comments

    Archives

    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014

    Categories

    All
    1 John
    2015
    21DaySugarDetox
    21 Day Sugar Detox
    6 Months
    Accountable
    Accutane
    Acne
    Adventure Race
    Affordable
    Alone
    Antibiotics
    Anxiety
    Ashamed
    Asthma
    Atlanta
    Back Deck
    Back Pain
    Bad Days
    Bane Of My Existence
    Baptism
    Baptized
    Beautiful
    Beautiful Daughter
    Believer
    Benefit
    Bio-individuality
    Birds
    Birth Control
    Blame
    Bloated
    Boulder
    Breakouts
    Break-up
    Brother
    Business
    Busy
    Cacao
    Calmer
    Calories
    Caveman
    Celebrate
    Certification
    CF-L1
    Challenge
    Charleston
    Chef Boyardee
    Chirping
    Chocolate
    Chocolate Chip Cookies
    Christ
    Christian
    Christmas
    Church
    Clear Headed
    Coach
    Coffee
    Colorado
    Comfort Zone
    Complaining
    Cookies
    Cooking
    Courage
    Crazy
    Crossfit
    Crossfit Takeover
    CrossFitter
    CTO
    Dads
    Daily Mantra
    Dairy
    Dance
    Day 1
    Defects
    Delta
    Dentist
    Deployed
    Depressed
    Dermatitis
    Detox
    Digestive Tract
    Dinner
    DoTerra
    Easter
    Eating
    Effective
    Enemy
    Energy
    Epsom Salt
    Errands
    Essential Oils
    Exercise
    Exhaustion
    Facebook
    Fairfax
    Faith
    Fake
    Family
    Fear
    Flabby
    Flaws
    Flossing
    Fly Burger
    Foam Roll
    Focus
    Food Journal
    Forever
    Franklin
    Fraud
    Fraudster
    Friends
    Friendships
    Gluten Free
    God
    God Parents
    Grace
    Grandparents
    Grass
    Green Juice
    Grounding Blend
    Guilty
    Gym
    Habit
    Happiness
    Happy
    Happy New Year
    Health
    Health Coach
    Healthy
    Hobby
    Hobson
    Home Essentials Kit
    Hormonal Imbalances
    Hormones
    Hot Bath
    Hump Day
    Hunches
    Hungry For Hope
    Husky
    IIN
    Imperfect
    Insomnia
    Instincts
    Institute For Integrative Nutrition
    Institute Of Integrative Nutrition
    Intuition
    Joints
    Klutz
    Larabars
    Lavender
    Lessons
    Love
    Massage
    Medication
    Meditate
    Meditation
    Mercy
    Metabolic Blend
    Mindset
    Mistakes
    Moderation
    Mom
    Money
    Mood Swings
    Mothers
    Mother's Day
    Moving
    Muscles
    Music
    Nashville
    Nephew
    Never-ending
    New Year's Eve
    Nutritional
    Oregano
    Over-extend
    Overindulging
    Overwhelmed
    Paleo
    Parents
    Patience
    Peace
    Peanut Butter
    Pedicure
    Peppermint
    Perfect
    Perfection
    Personal Trainer
    Pizza
    PMS
    Positive
    Prayer
    Program
    Progress
    Pugs
    Quinoa
    Ramen Noodles
    Read
    Reading
    Rejuvenate
    Relationship
    Relationships
    Relax
    Relaxed
    Religion
    Reset
    Resolution
    Responsibility
    Rest
    Sacrifices
    Safe
    Salvation
    Sangria
    Saving
    SC
    School
    Self-care
    Self Love
    Silence
    Sinner
    Sins
    Sister-in-law
    Sleep
    Step-parents
    Stressed
    Stretch
    Suffolk
    Sugar
    Sun
    Sweet Treats
    Tea
    Teach
    Tennessee
    Thanksgiving
    Thoughts
    Times Square
    Toned
    Tough Mudder
    Toxic
    Trader Joe's
    Traveling
    Trust
    Unhappy
    Vegan
    Vegetarian
    Victim
    Virginia Beach
    Week
    Weekend
    Wellness
    Wellness Advocate
    Whole30
    Whole Food
    Wild Orange
    Workouts
    X-Corps

    RSS Feed

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
© 2015 by 3DubWellness. All rights reserved.

Please Note: I do not provide the services of a licensed dietician or nutritionist, information received should not be seen as medical or nursing advice, and is not meant to take the place of seeing licensed health professionals.
Photo used under Creative Commons from Premnath Thirumalaisamy