Waiting becomes powerful when you know exactly what you are waiting for.

Vague waiting corrodes. When you cannot name what you are waiting for, the wait has no edges, and you cannot tell whether you are being patient or simply stuck. A named condition turns waiting into something with a shape: you know what you are watching for and you will know when it arrives.

Write down, in one sentence, what specifically would have to happen for the wait to end. If you cannot, that is the real work. Once it is named, the waiting becomes tolerable, and you may also discover that the condition is something you can influence rather than only await.