The Most Important Lesson of My Life Is......

For some, money is everything. Others crave and covet love. Me? I don't know what I find more important than my spouse and children. I work to provide, I clean and formulate to protect (occasionally falling on my face more than not ;)) yet I think for me the lesson of patience holds the utmost.

Living in Naperville on and off for the last 34 years has taught me there are tons of self-serving individuals who think they are entitled. To what? Everything and anything. From getting to the front of the line in traffic (and continuing to wait like the rest of the commuters) to suing the buttons off another for merely a flesh wound, to employment for which they lack the credentials.

I too think I deserve a great profession, a beautiful home, a flashy vehicle and the like. But unlike my younger years, I have started to grow patient with time and process. Patience is what keeps stress in check and enables the universe to move full circle (FYI- I am not a New-Ager, yoga follower, etc. I just have moved forward with the simple concept "It is what it is.")

So I implore anyone who reads this --- we all have lessons to learn here but patience will make the small or large issues seem like cake and when all is said and done, you will feel better about the life you lived.