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Mastering Patience: Living a Life You Truly Love While Practicing Patience

teacher avatar Julia Kay, Certified Health & Wellness Coach

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction Mastering Patience

      1:40

    • 2.

      Patience Questionnaire

      4:40

    • 3.

      Boundary Setting

      3:08

    • 4.

      Energy 'Suck' Barometer

      2:25

    • 5.

      Step Into Action

      2:28

    • 6.

      Patience Tool-Kit

      2:42

    • 7.

      Morning Ritual

      2:57

    • 8.

      Evening Ritual

      2:32

    • 9.

      Patience Intention

      2:53

    • 10.

      Mastering Patience Guided Meditation

      7:16

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As you go about your day, you might notice that your patience is running thin or that you get to a space where you ‘snap’! 

In order to be our true, authentic, highest functioning self, we need to dig a little deeper and identify what is causing our impatience. Create strategies to reduce the impatience and perhaps even moving forward into mastering it. 

This course is for you if you feel like you aren’t yourself in terms of reacting vs responding, or you find it challenging to set boundaries, have a hard time saying no, and if you feel like you are on edge and just feeling pulled, overcommitted. This could be at home, at the office or perhaps while you are driving. Just to name a few.

In this course, Mastering Patience, you will uncover where and when your patience is the most optimal and the least optimal by going through handouts, questionnaires, and processes. This will assist in pulling out tangible and much needed in-the-moment tools to keep your impatience at bay. 

Together, we’ll work through the root cause of your impatience, your triggers, and how to transform this into patients no matter the circumstances.

This will allow your to participate in the present moment more and more each day by reducing distractions, reducing stress, appreciating the moment and even reducing multitasking, which, will improve your productivity! Lots of benefits to Mastering Patience! And ultimately, living a life of balance, patience and optimal present moment, being ness.

I am so excited for you to jump into this course and discover how your life can be lived with patience, no matter what the circumstances. 


Are you ready to add patience, awareness, boundaries and clarity around each of your days?

I am when you are! You know what to do! 

You deserve it, don’t you think?

Meet Your Teacher

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Julia Kay

Certified Health & Wellness Coach

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Hi! I’m Julia, Certified Health & Wellness Coach passionate about helping people lead better, more fulfilling lives. 

 

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always wanted answers. Who am I? How can I truly find myself, thrive on my path to fulfillment, set (and achieve) actionable goals, master the art of patience, understand the present moment better, and more? The list went on and on. 

 

So, I spent years unearthing the answers I needed, and now, I’m ready to share them with you.

 

Today, I spend my days creating engaging content that supports healing and healthy, happy living. I want to help you build a life you’ll genu... See full profile

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1. Introduction Mastering Patience: Welcome to mastering patients. Whether at some point in your day or if it creeps up on you as you near the end of the week, you may find your patients running thin to the point where you just might snap in order for us to live as our truest, most authentic and highest functioning cells, we need to dig deep to discover what is setting us off so that we can begin mastering patients. Together. We will uncover where and when your patients is At its most and least optimal. I've included a handout, questionnaires and other progressive processes to help you discover and develop the tools you need to move past inpatients and into the mastery of it as we go through this module, as well as others, I invite you to move at your own pace. Pause and reflect as it feels right to you. Take the time you need to fill out each handout, as well as take time for breadth work, stretching. Tea water. This time is for you. And when you're ready, I'll be here. Mastering patients is an eight-step process which includes the patient's questionnaire, boundary setting, energy Seth barometer, and it is exactly how it sounds. Step into action. Patients toolkit, morning ritual, evening ritual, and patients intention. I invite you to take a nice deep breath in before we began this eight-step module together. 2. Patience Questionnaire : F1 patients questionnaire. Now it's really important to unpack our personal relationship with patients, identifying when we are the most and the least patient within our days. Now as I'm going through these questions, feel free to ponder each and every question. Pause the recording and write anything out you need to go at your own pace really allows thoughtfulness around the processing within your patient's awareness. Let's start with looking at who pulls patients out of you? Who pushes you to your limits. Let's go over these powerful questions to really allow you to explore your patients. What time of day do you feel the most patient? Maybe things happen but you just seem to let them roll off of, you know, it's different for everyone. Some clients say they're more patient at the beginning of the day. And then as the day goes on, it tends to thin quite rapidly. Go ahead and scan through a typical day and think about when you feel the most patient. Onto the next question. Is there a time in each day that your patients begins to thin? Maybe you start to feel things like being agitated, annoyed, snappy, just feeling done. What type of day does that typically occur? It might be circumstantial. And if it is, feel free to write down certain scenarios that then your patients. I often hear from clients that it's traffic, having a lack of control or simply having too much on us. Now we want to move into unpacking your response to impatience as well. What is your typical response when you find yourself impatient? What do you tend to do? Do you snap? Do you react versus respond to abruptly walk away or raise your voice? What is your typical response? Now, often, patients thins when we have too much on our plate, we may have over-committed and then find ourselves not present. Having such a full load on our list. We can feel negative thoughts. We could be agitated, annoyed, snappy, done just like we mentioned. Now, what can be done around this is to be aware of it, be aware of our schedules. So let's look at our schedules. What are two dash three things that aren't extremely important that you can delegate out or schedule out. Sometimes we tend to put undue pressure on ourselves for timeframes. This just increases our stress. Who's going to take away our patients? Now when you feel complete documenting your responses, please join me on page two. As we touch on over committing, it's important to assess our upcoming commitments. Now, we can do this by checking in with ourselves. Do I want to go to this event? Does it feel heavy for me or does it feel light when I think about going to this event? Will this serve my best self, my most present self? Now that I've prefaced this topic point, I'll get into the question. Is there an upcoming event that you might be better served saying no to if so, what is that event? I also want to extend a permission slip to not attend this event or any in the future that you don't feel like you really want to go. You have permission to follow your heart, follow your intuition, whatever is right for you. Now, let's get to an important sentence which is a 11 word sentence. Know, now. Indicating saying. Now, you might think, well what's there to talk about if you want to say no, you just say no. But some of us, it's hard to say no. Right. So just saying that full-blown know can feel a little sharp or just not like ourselves. So when it feels like this for you, another way to go about this is re-framing the no. In other words, what would be a lighter or more comfortable response for you, right? So this is something where we can look at. I'll give some examples. Let me check my schedule. I'm not sure what that we can hasn't store. How about I get back to you on that or I'd love to help, but I'm already so committed. Now think of some responses that feel good to you. You can definitely use the ones I've mentioned. It's also really helpful to practice saying them out loud. So you feel more comfortable. The more comfortable you feel, maybe we can get to that one word. If I saying no, now, go head and what are the top three to five things in your day that you feel the least patient with could be family, children, work, communication. 3. Boundary Setting: Let's move on to step number two. Boundary setting. Boundaries are huge. I'm going to take some time to go over boundaries and then we can get into the handout. Boundaries will really impact all areas of your life. In order to adjust something, we must first become aware of it. I love what a mentor once shared with me. Awareness plus choice equals new behavior. So as we move into boundary setting handout, I invite you to select from the options or feel free to add in any of your own. Now what are the areas you would like to implement boundaries around? I'll walk through a few of these with you. Boundaries around conflict. This might be that you've just had a disagreement and you're trying to collect your thoughts. But the person you're having this interaction with keeps pressing you to respond. Now, you're finding that you're reacting and not responding due to the lack of boundary around taking time away from this conflict, just simply to collect your thoughts. Now, often people describe this as feeling like they're on trial or not being able to answer authentically, or like more of a pressure cooker. Now, boundaries around food happen a lot. Many example here, but I'll give you one that I hear the most common. Something like people saying, Aren't you going to have a slice of pie? It took me over 4 h to prepare it. Come on, just try it. It's so good, not even a slice. Is this sounding familiar? Or you may have just started eating a certain way, maybe restricting meat or sugar. And then it just simply becomes the table conversation. So what do we do? Sometimes we just end up saying, I'm just going to eat whatever anyway, just to end the conversation, take some time to think about where you would like to implement boundaries. Now please select from the handout on page three. I've got a lot available there. Next, we'll look at how we're going to feel comfortable setting these boundaries. There are examples here that we can go over. Now let's return to our first example of a conflict with boundaries. So there's many healthy ways that we can set boundaries around conflict interaction. Yet it's important to collect comfortable ways to handle each boundary for each of us individually. Now in this situation, you might be saying, just know, no, I'm going to walk away and come back, collect my thoughts. Now, it can also be that you speak your truth and say something like, I am full of emotions right now and I feel that anything I might say could be wrong. And it's important to me to speak my truth. Let me think about this and I'll get back to you. And thank you for understanding. Remember, after time, each boundary will get more and more comfortable to set. And the other really good news is that people actually start to expect them from you. 4. Energy 'Suck' Barometer : Step number three, energy suck barometer. Now I said at the beginning, it is how it sounds. We'll get into it now. Have you ever heard of the term energy vampire? Sometimes Energy Vampires are known as people that intentionally suck the energy right out of you. They know that you're an empath, a kind person, someone that listens. Now, some energy vampires just don't know. They're doing it. Either way knowing or not knowing. You are left feeling completely drained and sometimes overwhelmed and even anxious. If our energy is sucked, most likely our patients is gonna go right out with it. To be aware of our energy suckers and our energy gainers is critical when assessing our daily do's and don'ts. Now let's talk about your energy gain barometer. Have you ever literally felt an increase of energy just simply by being around someone for a few minutes. Or you may have hopped on a call feeling mid energy. By the end of the call, you feel empowered and motivated and light on your feet. Just excited and full high-energy environment support our higher vibrations. Especially for those of you that are impacts. You want to protect yourself from Energy Vampires. And remember how much you thrive around people that are higher energy, higher vibration, just like you get the gift of energy from them, you give it to others as well. As you think about the last three to five interactions that you have had, I invite you to assess, assess your energy suck barometer. Who or what do you feel the least energy width. Now, energy gain barometer. Who or what do you feel the most energy with? The most alive with? Once you're complete, you will see in the handout a graph with ten squares in it, color in each square to represent the amount of energy that you received by the WHO or the wet. The least squares colored in the more drains you are. I invite you to take a moment and observe your data. There's no judgment. This is how you feel. And this is just the beginning of protecting your patients, your bandwidth on a daily basis. This is really helpful for us to move forward and I'm excited for you. 5. Step Into Action: Step number four, step into action. I love the sound of that. Now, let's look at what we've done so far and really pull it all together before we begin in this space is provided, please list out your top three boundaries that you would like to step into action around. Now feel free to pull from the list on the boundary setting handouts. That was on page three. Perhaps you write down for boundary number one, children for boundary number two, food. And then boundary number three would be time. Let's explore ways you would like to set a boundary around each other. These categories. I'll go through this with you to go over some examples and we'll start with number one, which was children. Now, some clients need to use a trifecta effect at times utilizing multiple boundary streams, such as acceptance, accepting that their children and they need you, and having loving detachment so they can be independent and play, but also get support. And this allows the nurture of these children to feel like they are meeting their needs, setting their boundary, yet also being the best nurture that they can be. Now, go through your three boundaries and process how you can best set up boundaries around each for success. You'll see three spaces with plenty of lines to empty out below. Some clients have mentioned needing to just walk away, take some deep breaths, even get outside. I'm big on Earth thing methods. Whatever you need is what you need. Now when you're ready, we can go to page six, write out any action steps that are involved with implementing each boundary. It may be helpful to add in timeframes and any other details around this boundary. Now, following our example, in order to set a boundary around children. And that alone time. We could say, I will wake up 15 min earlier and practice self-care, implementing a healthy morning routine. This will support patients and also allow me to accept that my children are little and I'm the best nurture I can be and ask for support 30 min a day Monday through Friday. And also voiced my children that from time-to-time, I'm going to need about 5 min of alone time and go ahead and write out your action steps that are involved implementing your three boundaries. 6. Patience Tool-Kit: Step number five, patients toolkit. This entire handout makes me really happy and I hope it adds some joy to your life as well. Let's look at how we can tame our patients or tame it when it starts to thin. Taking a look at the list, go ahead and circle the patient's toolkit options that appeal to you the most. These can be found on page 7.8, some patient toolkit clients favorites are to be alone. Use essential oils, get out for some exercise, practice, gratitude, and also visualization methods. What are yours? Great. Now that you've circled or highlighted them, take some time to process how you would like to feel. Let's lean into how you're feeling right now in this moment around the patient's toolkit options that you've selected and written down. This will be your patient's toolkits statement. Feel free to write out several. Once you have written them all out, I invite you to read them to yourself. Allowed, this really helps us anchor. And how do you feel reading these tools that you've selected? Are you feeling motivated? Maybe a sense of power coming over you. Take note of how you're feeling because you can and you will be using these wonderful tools. An example might be something like, I feel more purpose, I feel peace, I feel calm, I feel motivated and encourage a weight lifted off my chest. I feel hopeful and I feel like I have a plan. When you're ready, we can go to page nine and you'll see a handout patients Toolkit. Go 2's. Let's begin by implementing these tools into your daily life. Take a moment to think about the times that you find yourself inpatient. Please use the spaces below that you can go into your patient's toolkit, gotos for specific circumstances in your life. This method works really well. Perhaps it's patients around family, Fitness, finances and food. And what tools from the list would you like to use to successfully navigate through this with ease? E.g. your boss calls and what are the patient's toolkit options that we could use? We could delegate, schedule out, start small, go through three to four scenarios and write out which patients toolkit you're going to use with them. Just like the example we used, creating a plan is creating a future of success and a future of practicing patients. 7. Morning Ritual : Module six, morning ritual. Studies repeatedly show that how you spend the first 10 min of every day have a substantial impact on how the rest of your day goes. So if you start your day out well, you are setting your entire day up for patients and levels of success. Let's go over the benefits of mourning rituals and then we'll get into the handout. There are so many benefits, so I'll just touch on a few. But it gets better decision-making throughout a day. It helps us elevate our confidence. Increase motivation, increased productivity, improved, moved, more patients, reduce stress. This is a great handout to really press on having amazing morning rituals. Now let's go to the handout. Circle, the morning rituals that appeal to you the most and please edit anything that's not on the list. Think BIG here. This is your ideal morning ritual. Once you're complete, I invite you to write out how incorporating these mourning rituals that you've selected will impact your life. I invite you to really sit with this, say, to incorporate drinking water, enjoying a healthy breakfast, praying, and stretching into your morning routine. How would your life be impacted by implementing these? How might you feel? Maybe it's more energy, feeling more present, and improved mood, closer connection, improved flexibility. These are all wonderful things when you're ready. Let's move to page 11 now to see the opportunity of how we can write out our morning ritual, take a few deep breaths while we're reflecting upon everything we've opened up so far now allow ideas to come to you. These feelings do senses of calmness that are surrounding you. And when you're ready, go ahead and write down your ideal morning routine. But the prompts available, feel free to add in any that are not on the list. Include timeframes, preferences, any details, and how fun, no limit. This is your morning routine. This is your dream. When the second you open your eyes, one of my clients examples was that I will wake up at 06:00 A.M. Monday through Friday each morning I will start out with drinking a full glass of water that is next to my bed. After drinking water, I will lay back down in bed and do a five-minutes of embed stretching. I liked the idea of incorporating gratitude into this practice, as well as breath work. Once I am complete, I will shower, brush my teeth, wash my face, and enjoy a healthy breakfast. Feel free to play around with your morning ritual until it feels just right for you. I hope you're having fun while creating your dream morning. 8. Evening Ritual : Let's move to Step seven, evening rituals. After a long day, It's important for us to have a healthy wind down. And again, this is never a one-size-fits-all. Each of us have so many different needs in terms of our evening rituals. And we'll go over quite a few. The main focus here is to allow ourselves to really decompress from what our day has involved, how to slow it down and really ultimately have optimal sleep and rest RAM to recharge for that next day that we have ahead of us. There are so many benefits around having an evening ritual and of course, implementing it, which would include increased attention span, increased energy, increased motivation, lower stress, positive mindset, and a stronger focus. This is a great handout to lean on when having amazing evening rituals. So go ahead and circle the ones that appeal to you the most and plead it. Please add in anything that's not on the list. Think big. This is your evening ritual when working with clients that have a high stress jobs, they're gotos are often to get organized, journal undone tasks, prioritize the next day and select a tire. Again, everyone is different. And this is up to you to choose what feels best for you. And this is for now. Remember, we can always adjust our rituals later. Once you have selected your ideal morning ritual gotos, we can go ahead and write out our evening ritual, which is on page 13, just like we did for the morning ritual. Now my my client, I'm going to share an example of that he wrote, I will start my evening ritual at 09:30 P.M. Monday through Friday. Each evening I will start winding down by getting myself organized my paperwork, putting away Dishes, laundry, and other household items. I will journal The undone tasks from my day and prioritize them for the next day. This will help me feel at peace knowing I've left Not 1 st unturned. I will also select and set out my next day's attire. Now shout out to my clients that have shared these with me. I really appreciate it. And this also means that I'm giving you a shout-out for going through this process with me right now, part of what you just did for both your morning and evening rituals was visualized and even internalize what you're wanting for your days to look like. Great work. 9. Patience Intention: Step eight, patients intention, the power of intention. Wow, thoughts of patients breed patients. In one of my favorite quotes around intention and thoughts setting is you get what you think about whether you want it or not. This is by Dr. Wayne Dyer. Let's talk about intention for a moment before we really dive in. Intention is something that you intend for something to happen. It is thought out and you put it into plan. You set a goal and you intend for it to come to fruition. You intend that if you aim, you focus, that you will achieve your goal. Have you ever put intention into something and it hasn't happened? I've had so many clients success stories around intention setting and some of them don't happen for years. Some of them can happen the next day or even the next week, no matter what the timeframe, let's look at what your patient's intention can be. It is time to set your intention. Here are a few examples of patients and tensions. So feel free to use those ones or the ones that resonate with you most I impatient, I am true. Patients is my purpose. My body emanates. Patients. Each cell within me produces more cells of positivity and patients I am com. Once you have yours, write it out, print it out, save it on a sticky note and place it where you can see it all the time. And finally, you'll be writing a letter to yourself, your most patient self that is, this can be found on page 15. Write a letter to yourself as your most patients, I'll keep this letter and place it by your bedside or your bathroom sink so you can use it and see it every morning in addition to your morning routine from my client, they shared today I woke up feeling a calmness within me. I took a few nice deep breaths in and had a sense of gratitude flow up and down my body. Today I give myself to be present, take things slow and really enjoy being. I also give myself grace for what is to come ahead. I am appreciative of my interactions and pausing when I know it will serve me. In close, I give myself permission to allow to be the best version of myself. Yet, if you would like to continue on with your journaling, feel free. Use the note pages as well and invite you to write out multiple letters as your most patients cell as many as feels right to you. You have accepted this invitation of mastering patients and have gone through this entire process with me. Now I invite you to use these tools, use your patients to guide you and being your best and truest self. Thank you so much for joining me on this beautiful journey. Congratulations on completing this module, mastering patients live with love, live with light. 10. Mastering Patience Guided Meditation: Congratulations on taking your time to invest in such a valuable topic, such as patients. Going through everything you have so far during this process. And now I invite you to start out by getting comfortable, create a safe and comfortable space free from distractions. You might sit on the floor or in a chair. Find a space that you can sit in comfortably for about 5 min, give or take. The time you've taken to get to this closing piece shows how important patients is to you and also how important being present is to you. I invite you to take full deep belly breaths, explore visualizing with your eyes closed, if that feels comfortable for you. I am now going to take you through a process. Let's begin with three solid, deep belly breaths. Relaxing your jaw, relaxing your shoulders. Now invited to allow the questions that you reviewed earlier to process within you. You now have clarity around when you were the most and the least patient. Think about those and have clarity around how you can respond versus react. This is amazing work feel what it feels like in your body to have this realization. Does it feel light, warm, relaxing? How does it feel for you? Take a nice deep belly breath, allowing the boundaries to settle in. You now have awareness around where you would like to implement boundaries and what ways you personally want to express them. How does it feel, knowing what takes the most energy from you? Does it feel heavy, tight? Maybe it feels exhausting or even frustrating. Take a breath in. Shift into comfort around your boundaries. Maybe, you know, feel comfortable saying no. Or maybe you've created a method on setting healthy boundaries just for you. Take a nice deep breath in. Allowing each of your patients tool kit options to soak into you. And allowing the realization of your morning and evening rituals to become a part of you, a part of your future. Take a nice deep breath in. And finally, your patients intention. Now this is when I invite you to reflect on your patients intention that you created. What are you seeing when you see yourself practicing patients consistently? How are you saying your relationships? How are your conversations? Is there more presence within you? How can you truly feel your best self when thinking about living a life with your patients intention. Take a nice deep breath in. Now, let's begin thinking ahead. In the next three to five months. You have an event, maybe an opportunity, maybe even a move coming up in the next three to five months. Once you can think of one, I invite you to visualize yourself in that space. Are you outside? Are you inside? And as you place your patients as your main focus here, how are you different now? We're three to five months forward, you are living your patient life, flexing all that you have cultivated. How are you different? Maybe you're visualizing that you're outside. Walking around in a park. Have you noticed that your energy has shifted? Maybe you've started to slow down more. Or maybe you've even reduced. You're multitasking. Take a nice deep breath in. And I invite you to complete the sentence in a way that feels best to you, that feels the most supportive to your most present itself. When looking in on my most present itself in the next three to five months. I see. Take the time to answer this. You might see yourself calm, peaceful. More in the moment. Less distracted. You might see herself laughing with a sense of ease. See what you see. Feel what you feel. Take a nice deep belly breath in. When you're ready. Come back to the room. Slowly opening your eyes, wiggling your fingertips and toes. Returning to your space. Bringing the presence you have just seen and experienced back with you. I invite you to express these parts of you and implement these lifestyle methods to live your best and most present life. Thank you for continuing this journey with me. I wish you a life of patients mastery.