1418: Waiting Well (Or Not)

You're trying to lose weight and the scale has barely moved. You're building something and a year in, it's still not where you need it to be. You're waiting on a hard season to lift, a relationship to heal, a prayer to be answered.

That's waiting. And almost all of us are doing it right now, in at least one part of our lives.

Here's what I've come to believe: there's a way to wait well, and a way to wait poorly. Most of us never realized waiting was something you could be good or bad at. But how you wait may be the single biggest factor in whether you ever get to the other side.

In this episode: what waiting well actually looks like, and why it has nothing to do with how far away you are or how long it's going to take. The difference between knowing you have agency and feeling it. Why "there are no good options" is almost never true — it's a poverty of options, and the cure is creativity. My "stupid idea time" practice and the decision it produced. And how waiting well still applies even to the things you can't control at all — grief, a marriage, a child, a prayer — because there is always something within your power, even when the outcome isn't.

You are not stuck. You are between. And how you wait in the between shapes everything that comes after it.

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