7 Ways to Curb Your Impatience (Only for Those in dire Need)

If you don’t like Lindt chocolates, there’s no hope for you.

I’m on a job hunt right now. You all feel me right?

…unless you’re one of those people who were handed $100,000 cash in your tenth week of life. GTFO, Medium is the poor person’s haven.

Anyway, after looking for the perfect position for so long (okay 3 months, but it feels like 3 years), I realized I did not know concretely what I wanted to do. After getting sadder and sadder every day because I thought I wasn’t a good copywriter, my hero of a mom asked me if I’d be happy with the next position I applied for. My eyes popped out as if I had just become one with the cartoon world.

Over the next few days I realized: I’m not bad at copywriting. I’m bad at decision-making. More importantly, Medium just told me the way I write copywriting is incorrect and I think that’s silly.

SO, while I figure out what I’m best at (I know it’s conversion copywriting rather than ad copywriting or social media writing, etc, etc.), I’ve learned to make my impatience bearable for the people it has been affecting most. Maybe the list will help you too:

1. Grab nostalgia by the p̶u̶s̶ palm and lead it gently back into your life.
   I chose swimming.
   On the weekend I realized it’s a lot easier to dead lift 100 lbs than it is to get back into swimming 800 metres continuously. I could barely do 50 …
2. Take a photo-shoot with the last purchase you made. Mine will always and forever be food. That’s why the cover photo of the article is Lindt chocolate.
3. Talk to your pets (if you have any, otherwise talk to yourself — let the madness consume you). If they don’t respond to you, watch them talk to each other. I have a male King Shepherd and a fluffy, female Persian cat. To say that it’s funny to watch them interact would be an understatement.
4. Write an unnecessary article on Medium that may not benefit anyone but yourself. Hey, it’s your fault if you clicked on the title, not mine, you loser.
   Okay, but what I mean by this is write for you. No one else will.
   Except for the dozens of newsletters you signed up to trying to understand how you feel.
   Also — it doesn’t matter how awful the writing is — just do it. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell myself throughout this post (and for however long it’s been possible to write your thoughts online).
5. Go outside. After staring at the screen for 3 hours, chances are, an epiphany won’t suddenly arise out of nowhere. You’ll just get more frustrated. And turn your f#!&%$g data off your phone when you go. Nancy from IMAlsoStressedOutLLC can wait 40 minutes. Then, the next email sign off you write to her should subtly tell her to go outside as well.
6. Turn your phone off. Read a book you’ve been wanting to for a while. You’ll get more inspired from that than Instagram influencers who usually never have nothing new to say (I’m still in love with you, but I’m going to pull a Rachel Greene and ask for a break). The last book I read was The Conversion Code by Chris Smith. As an awkward, introverted twenty-something year old who gets her own clients on top of full time work (eventually again?) the last part was what I needed most. I recommend it to any marketer.
   Pssst — what was the last book you read?
7. Remember what you’re thankful for (this didn’t mean to be an American Thanksgiving post but the last point feels like it’s turning out to be one…) and never take the people in your life for granted. Each of them make you realize something about yourself that you were too stubborn to realize yourself when you were in a pit of despair. And for that, you should make them the biggest Christmas present ever.