Most impatience is your ego checking its watch.

Underneath the urge to hurry there is usually a statement about status: that you should not be made to wait, that your time is the important variable here. It presents itself as practicality and is frequently just irritation at not being in control. The situation is rarely as time sensitive as the feeling insists.

Next time impatience arrives, ask what would actually be lost by waiting. Often the honest answer is nothing except the discomfort of waiting, and knowing that takes the edge off. You can still want things to move faster without treating the delay as an insult.