Patience and Procrastination

I've been thinking about patience lately, in doing so I reminded myself that at one point I had a big idea to write a book. One of the subjects was going to be patience. What's really interesting about this now is that the book was going to compare good attibutes - patience, good-work ethic, strong faith, etc and show just how close the "character defects" can be to the good ones. Taking the above examples - procrastination, workaholic, ignorance.

The whole idea is that the opposites or at least what we percieve to be the opposite is really not all that much different. I don't think writing about all the opposites I can discover would be that hard. The part that I haven't figured out quite yet is how can you use this information for the good. What process would a person have to go through to take their fault - tweak it ever so slightly and have it turn into a strength. The concept of turning your greatest weakness into your greatest asset is a very attractive idea and one I've heard other people say and read many times. What I found was lacking is how do you make the switch - there has to be some way to just turn it on.

So let's take myself for example - I am a terrible procrastintor and I am also very impatient. To me there should be some easy way to flip these two around. What that is at the present time elusive to me and I want to know it right now! The frustrating part of this is that by me procrastinating actually writing this book is actually the reason why I probably don't know the answer.

So round and round I go in my head thinking about things like this, I feel like the answer is in my own head and maybe I need to figure it out before I can start with this. There again I probably just need to be more patient...