Impatience Is Wrecking Your Progress
- Dr Ritesh Malik
- May 13
- 2 min read
You begin.
It gets hard.
You think maybe you picked the wrong path.
So you stop.

You call it pivoting. You call it being smart.
But it’s just avoiding discomfort.
You expect fast results. When they don’t show, you think nothing’s happening. But growth is slow. It’s invisible. Until one day it’s not.
Look at anyone great. They weren’t famous at first.
Phelps swam ten thousand hours before a single medal.
Rowling wrote her first book in cold cafés while broke.
They didn’t get lucky. They stayed the course.
You didn’t fail because your plan was broken.
You failed because you didn’t wait long enough to see it work.

Modern Life Is Making You Soft
Swipe. Scroll. Tap. Buy.
Everything arrives fast.
And when something takes real time, you fall apart.
You feel restless. Irritated. Lost.
You forgot how to wait without panicking.
Every alert, every ding, every scroll trains you to crave speed.
If you can’t wait, you can’t build.
If you can’t hold off, you’ll never lead.
You’ll never last.
Anything that matters takes longer than you think.
Want a strong body? That’s years.
Want mastery? That’s decades.
Want real love, real peace, real power? That’s the long game.
You can either fight for patience or stay stuck chasing cheap highs.

Patience Is Quiet Action
Patience isn’t passive.
It’s brutal.
It’s picking the hard path over the easy one.
It’s showing up without praise.
It’s doing the work on repeat without any signs of payoff.
Everyone wants to win.
Almost no one wants to grind through the silence.
You think you’re not moving because you can’t see results.
But real strength builds when no one’s watching.
The work is adding up.
You’re just too hooked on attention to notice it.
This isn’t feel-good advice.
This is a fight.
And it’s you versus the part of you that wants to quit.

Most People Won’t Make It. You Still Can.
They’ll move on to the next shiny thing.
They’ll post about the hustle but drop off the minute it gets slow.
They’ll ask why success never stays.
Not you.
You’ll keep showing up.
You’ll learn how to wait with purpose.
You’ll become something people can’t ignore.
Because when you figure out how to wait without falling apart, you become dangerous.
Patience is not a pause. It’s pressure. It’s power gathering.
And when it finally breaks loose?
All the hours.
All the silence.
All the nights no one saw you grinding.
It will hit at once.
They’ll say you made it overnight.
You’ll know better.
You’re not behind. You’re just growing in the dark.
If you can learn to hold steady while no one’s looking,
One day they’ll hear you loud and clear.
Choose patience.
Not because it’s nice.
Because it’s deadly.
R.
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