Quiet confidence makes patience easier.

Waiting is hardest when you need the outcome to tell you something about yourself. If your sense of your own worth is not hanging on the result, delays are just delays, and you can let processes take the time they take. Patience is often a downstream effect of security rather than a separate virtue.

When impatience rises, ask what you are hoping the result will confirm. If the answer is something about your value, that is where the work is. The waiting gets easier once the outcome stops carrying that weight.