Life is full of waiting.
It's a fact: sometimes your life will be in a holding pattern. Waiting sneaks up and steals little parts of nearly every day, or eats large swaths of our lives in great gulps. It's waiting in lines, in doctor's offices, waiting for packages to arrive - but it's also waiting for the weather to change, waiting for good or bad news, for energy or happiness to return. It's so easy to become nothing but the anxious waiting for the next thing in our lives to begin. But in reality, waiting time is no different than other available time. We've all got to use this time productively, so that time spent waiting isn't wasted. (Read more »)
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