How to Balance Patience and Action to Get Success in 2025
Patience and action, both work for the same goal, but they often look like contrary to reach other. Patience refers to passive waiting while action refers to do some thing to achieve success. Patience and action, both are the necessities, when you are desperately working on a perticular goal.
If we notice a lion, who is busy in the arrangement of meal. Lion looks for an easy target, remains on wait and watch mode till the best time and the place, and result comes in it’s favour. This clearly shows, if action is must for the success, patience is equally must for the succes in the same task.
This example of lion gives you the wider view of both the concepts and makes it very simple to understand the role of both the terms that is “patience” and “action.”
Suppose you are working in a multinational organisation, and your job timing is from 9 am to 5 pm. You are getting a handsome salary package but your dream is to establish a business of your own.
Is it right to quiet your job and start business without any planning?
In this case you need patience means preparation. You should have plan A, Plan B, and even plan C. You may fail in plan A or Plan B. If you fail in plan A, choose B and so on. The use of combination of both patience and action, as per the situation, will give you the sureshot success.
How to Balance Patience and Action?
The most powerful life skill is to establish balance between patience and action. Patience helps you to stay calm, composed, and consistent, while action keeps you moving forward towards your goals. When both of these forces work together, they create unstoppable progress, I mean to say a perfect mixture of wisdom and energy.
Establish or develope balance between patience and action means, to develop a skill when to wait and when to move. Too much patience without action leads to stagnation. Too much action without patience cause stress and burnout. So let’s understand how can we establish balance between patience and action.
1. Set Clear Goals with Timelines: When you have a clear vision, it becomes easier to act patiently.
Divide your big goals into smaller milestones with timelines. This gives you a sense of progress without rushing the final outcome.
2. Focus on What You Can Control: You have to accept what you can’t control as you’re not a machine which gives exact and precise outcomes. Just focus on options in your hand. Work on the most favorable.
Make two lists: one for things you can control, for example, efforts, habits, and learning, and one for things you can’t control, for example, results and other things. Focus your energy on the first list.
3. Practice Mindfulness: Mindfulness helps you act consciously rather than impulsively. Action taken without having any thinking of the outcomes may give you the results which are not favorable.
So, before making any big move, take three deep breaths, pause, and ask yourself: “Is this the right time to act, or should I wait for more clarity?”
4. Embrace the Power of Consistency: Small daily actions build great achievements over time. If you master consistency in any of the segment of your life, success will be a bye product and is bound to come.
Follow the 1% rule — improve yourself or your work by just 1% each day. This keeps you active while practicing patience for long-term success.
5. Learn From Nature: Nature is the best teacher of patience and action — a tree grows slowly but steadily.
Observe natural processes. Apply the same rhythm to your work — plan, act, rest, grow. Don’t rush the process; focus on steady progress.
6. Manage Your Emotions: Sometimes, it becomes very difficult to control emotions and we feel helpless and react (fear or frustration) without having introspection.
When you feel restless, take a short break, meditate, or write down your thoughts. Emotional control will bring you back to balanced action. You will feel more satisfied and contended.
7. Track Your Progress: Keep a progress journal. Write down what actions you took each day and how far you’ve come and you have to go. This builds motivation and patience together that prepare you to act with patience in upcoming challenges.
8. Trust the Process: True patience means having faith that your actions will bear fruit in time.
Whenever you feel like giving up, repeat:
“I’m doing my best — the results will come when they’re meant to.”
This mindset keeps you peaceful and persistent.
Follow the 70/30 rule — spend 70% of your time taking action and 30% planning, reflecting, or learning from results.
10. Celebrate Every Step: Reward yourself for small even achievements this will help you to maintain motivation and patience.
Celebrate weekly or monthly wins. This positive reinforcement balances your desire for results with appreciation for the journey.
Note: I would recommend you to read the following article to understand the above concept.
