Patience becomes strategic when waiting improves your position.

Waiting is only strategic when the delay is doing something for you: information is arriving, your position is strengthening, or the other side’s is weakening. If none of those is true, waiting is just delay wearing better clothes. The distinction is worth being honest about.

For anything you are holding off on, name what specifically will be better later. If you cannot name it, act now. If you can, set a checkpoint to see whether it actually happened.