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I’ve learned a lot about perseverance over the past few months. In fact, more than I ever thought I would want to know. One major lesson I’ve learned is its’ similarity to patience. I don’t know what Webster’s says about either one, but I would bet they have almost identical definitions. Another thing I’ve learned is that I have a knack for it—always have.

As a child growing up, I was always perceived as having a patient personality. It wasn’t until I reached adulthood and got caught up in the “adult stress syndrome” that a child doesn’t normally realize, that I felt I lost it. I often wondered how I could lose it, when I knew I had it when I was younger. Come to find out, I never did lose it; I just lost sight of it temporarily.

Not only that–recent events in my life have taught me the importance of mindset in regard to my ability to persevere and have patience. I have made positive thinking the absolute focus of everything I do in life anymore. As a result, I don’ find having patience to be a challenge or a struggle at all—therefore, positive things are happening in my life. Are they happening as fast as I’d like? Well, it doesn’t even matter, because I’ve redeveloped my ability to persevere until I get what I want. I have a new mantra; I live in “Universal Time.” I realize, and now understand, that everything happens exactly the way it’s supposed to happen; but in ITS’ own time; not MY time.

Two major happenings in my life have led me to this reawakening: The first being the sudden and unexpected loss of my job last fall. At that point, I decided to start my own business working from home. I had no idea how I was going to do that. I put my complete  trust and faith in the Universe–and in “Universal Time” it is all falling into place beautifully.

The second major happening is when I woke up one morning and decided I was no longer going be a slave to the thyroid medication I had been taking for the past 25 years of my life. I just quit taking it—just like that, cold turkey. Now…it’s worth explaining here that I have tried numerous times over the years to get off that medication. I tried quitting cold turkey; I tried weaning myself off; I tried mixing concoctions of teas and such. Within a very short amount of time, I was back on my medication every time. This time has been different. “What’s different?” you might ask. Well, it’s my mindset! It is totally positive this time around, whereas it wasn’t before. I was still all caught up in “adult stress syndrome.” I have been off my medication now for about two months, and I feel better than I have at any time over the past 25 years!

So you see, I have truly found the ability to persevere and be patient that I had lost track of for a while. Living my life by Universal Time is the key, and one I don’t intend to ever lose again!

You–reading this, may or may not take anything away from it. But it does my heart good to share my story. I hope that you find some inspiration from it that you can put to use in your life. If not, then I would ask you to please share it with someone who might!