The best way to practice patience is to make yourself wait. Start with something small like waiting a few extra minutes to drink that coffee or tea and then move on to something bigger. You will begin to gain more patience as you practice.

2. Stop doing things that aren’t Important
We all have things in our lives that take time away from what is important. One way of removing stress from our lives is to stop doing those things. Take a few minutes and evaluate your week. Look at your schedule from when you wake up to the time you go to sleep. Take out two or three things that you do that aren’t important but take time. It’s time to learn to say no to things that cause stress and make us impatient.

3. Be mindful of the things that make you impatient
Most people have several tasks in their head, and they jump from thought to thought without taking the time to finish one task first. We live interrupted lives as we try to multitask and it is frustrating when we feel we aren’t making progress. It is better to be mindful of our thoughts and the best way to understand this is to write down what makes you impatient. This will help you slow down and focus on one task at a time and remove those things that stress you out.

4. Relax and take deep breaths
Most of all, just relax and take deep breaths. Taking slow deep breaths can help calm the mind and body. This is the easiest way to help ease any impatient feelings you are experiencing. If breathing doesn’t help I find taking a walk to clear your head can be helpful in getting refocused on whats important.  The point is to find some time for you each day to decompress

5. Tally marks. This is the one of the strategies, if you have real problems with patience: start by simply keeping tally marks on a little sheet of paper every time you lose your patience. This is one of the most effective and important methods for controlling an impulse — by learning to become more aware of it. Once you become aware of your impulses, you can work out an alternative reaction.

6.  Figure out your triggers. As you become more aware of losing your patience, pay close attention to the things that trigger you to lose that patience. Is it when your co-worker does something particularly irritating? When your spouse leaves dirty dishes in the sink? When your child doesn’t clean up her mess? Certain triggers will recur more frequently than others — these are the things you should focus on the most.

7.  Deep breaths. When you first start to lose your patience, take a deep breath, and breathe out slowly. Then take another. And another. These three breaths will often do the trick, as your frustration will slowly melt away.

8.  Count to 1-10. This one really works. When you feel yourself getting frustrated or angry, stop. Count slowly to 10 (you can do this in your head). When you’re done, most of the initial impulse to yell or do something out of frustation will go away. Combine this with the breathing tip for even more effectiveness.

9.  Start small. Don’t try to become as patient as Job overnight. It won’t happen. Start with something small and manageable. Look for a trigger that only induces a mild impatience within you — not something that gets your blood boiling. Then focus on this, and forget the other triggers for now. Work on controlling your temper for that one trigger. If you can get this one under control, use what you learned to focus on the next small trigger. One at a time, and with practice, you’ll get there.

10.  Take a time out. Often it’s best just to walk away for a few minutes. Take a break from the situation, just for 5-10 minutes, let yourself calm down, plan out your words and actions and solution, and then come back calm as a monk.

11. Remember what’s important. Sometimes we tend to get upset over little things. In the long run, these things tend not to matter, but in the heat of the moment, we might forget this. Stop yourself, and try to get things in perspective.

12. Keep practice patience intentionally. Every time a situation stretches your patience to dangerous thinness, just think of it as an opportunity to practice your patience. Because that’s what it take to become patient — practice, practice, more practice, and even more practice. And then some more. And the more you practice, the better you’ll get. So cherish these wonderful opportunities to practice.

13. Visualize. This works best if you do it before the frustrating situation comes up. When you’re alone and in a quiet place. Visualize how you want to react the next time your trigger happens. How do you handle the situation? How do you look? What do you say? How does the other person react? How does it help your relationship, your life? Think about all these things, visualize the perfect situation, and then try to actually make that happen when the situation actually comes up.

14.  Remember that things can take time. Nothing good happens right away. If you expect things to happen at the snap of your fingers, you’ll get impatient every time. Instead, realize that things will take time, and this realization can help your patience tremendously.

15. Teach. Patiently teach others how to do things — even if you’ve tried before, it might be the several time when things click. And remember, none of us learn things on the first try. Find new ways to teach something, and you’re more likely to be successful.

16. Find healthy ways to relieve frustration. Frustration can build up like steam in a pressure cooker, and if you don’t relieve that steam, you’ll explode. So find ways to relieve that frustration in a healthy way. Punching a pillow, going outside to a place where you’re all alone and yelling, exercise, kickboxing … these are just a few examples. Once you get that frustration out of your system, you usually feel better.

17. Try meditation. You can’t meditate in the middle of a frustrating situation, usually, but often meditation can help you to learn to find a center of calm within yourself. Once you learn how to go to this calm place, you can go there when you begin to get angry. Meditation can also help you to be in the moment, instead of always wanting to get to the future, or instead of dwelling on the past and getting angry about it.

18. Just laugh. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that no one is perfect, that we should be enjoying this time with our loved ones, and that life should be fun — and funny. Smile, laugh, be happy. Doesn’t always work, but it’s good to remind yourself of this now and then.

19. Just love. Instead of reacting with anger, teach yourself to react with love. Your child spills something or has a messy room or breaks your family heirloom? Your spouse yells at you or is cranky after work? React with love. It’s the best solution.

20.  Consciously relax your muscles. We often tense our muscles involuntarily when we’re impatient. Once you’ve identified the symptoms of impatience, you can voluntarily let them go.

Perform a quick body scan to identify any areas that are tight or tense. Gently touch, massage, or breathe into each part of your body, from your toes to the top of your head. Imagine the impatience melting away as your tension loses its hold.

21. Be mindful of your mental activity. Mindfulness, or awareness of our thoughts in this moment, can do a lot of good when we have a million things dancing through our heads.

Take a mental roll call of what’s going on inside: What are you thinking? Why are you thinking that? Is this thought serving you? Identifying our thoughts illuminates the hectic nature of the jumping mind and thus reminds us that we’re more than our thought patterns, with the power to choose other, more uplifting and supportive thoughts.

There is value in slowing down inside, even when we’re actively pursuing something outside.

22. Purposefully travel long journey or travel in traffic places. Waiting may actually contribute to our happiness. Learn to enjoy the journey just as much as the end goal. Whenever you’re in a situation where you need to wait, look at it as part of your patience practice, and thereby transform waiting into a positive (even productive) habit rather than a stressful situation in and of itself.

23. Eat food slowly The benefits of slow eating include better digestion, better hydration, easier weight loss or maintenance, greater satisfaction with our meals and will reduce stress. Meanwhile, eating quickly increases your stress, leads to poor digestion, increased weight gain, and lower satisfaction. The message is clear: Slow down your eating and enjoy improved health and well-being.

24. Be in queue and patiently wait Get in the longer line at the grocery store or cinema theater and prove to yourselves that you can be patient.

25. Pray before and after every task. Pray continually,  give thanks in all circumstances;for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

 

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