Patience — “Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye”

Some Scots for you in the title today.

“Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye”

Translation: What’s for you will not go by you.

My Scots grandmother or, in more recent times, a dear friend (also Scots, naturally!) would use this to remind me to have patience, to relax, to be myself rather than feel urgency.

As this once again came up for me recently, am musing today, then, on patience and time.

Yesterday I wrote about two inspiring young leaders, Elin Errson and Emma Gonzalez, in: “We can all be brave leaders through our individual actions”. A few months ago I was also inspired by Emma Gonzalez to write: “How do you build a movement? Patiently”, and the post began:

I came up with the title of this post inspired by an old joke :

Q : How do hedgehogs make love ? A : Very, very carefully

So, how do you build a movement for systemic change ? I believe that the answer remains, even in this fast changing world…..very, very patiently.

So, to patience. Some of the most powerful and most changes in our world (as created by movement of people) and beautiful creations of our world (in nature, as well as man-made) take so much more time to build than we like to allow for.

Ok, let me first own that part personally. I spent many years of my career getting a lot of things done in a short period of time. I was compensated for it well and…