Patience in the moment is simply the decision to stop expecting.

Impatience is expecting and not getting. What are you expecting and not getting? Stop it. Stop expecting it until it arrives. Are you chronically impatient? List all the things you are expecting and stop expecting them until they arrive. Conversely, list the things that arrive unexpectedly and use them as a bulwark against empty expectation. Close the expectation gap. Get more and expect less. Want what you have, as they say.

As long as there are things we can expect and not get we will have to wait, and we will occasionally become impatient. We must learn to adopt a graceful posture of active waiting.

-- Carry Tennis