1. Don’t go anywhere in a hurry; the bus won’t come, there will be a traffic jam/street closure/picket of the highway etc., or someone will (gasp!) try to pay with a credit card that requires calling to validate… 2. Waiters in restaurants are not trying to earn your tips and thus do not care about serving you; be proactive and learn how to waive them down or simply stand up and approach the bar to ask for what you need 3. Always look down while you walk unless you want to spr

Lately I feel I’ve been tested by the ever-so-elusive quality of patience. Over the last year I have felt this desire and readiness for some personal and professional moves to occur – I’ve even vied for opportunities to take me in the direction of those goals and aspirations with certainty they were going to happen, and then suffered the emotional blow when they didn’t. The reason: it wasn’t the right “timing.” In the moment of course I felt the sting of disappointment and “w