Experience makes patience less romantic and more practical.

Patience is usually presented as a virtue and it is more useful understood as a technique. Things take the time they take; acting before that is up produces worse results and more work. It is less about serenity than about not wasting effort on a schedule that was never available.

Identify one thing you keep trying to hurry. Ask what the actual timeline is and plan around it rather than against it. The frustration usually comes from the mismatch, not from the duration.