Want to Be More Patient? Try These 6 Expert-Backed Tips

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For times in your day where you’d really like to be more patient and present because it’s something that truly matters to you — like taking care of your child or pet — try to reframe the task as a privilege.

“The framing of it shifts how you experience that time,” said Cassie Mogilner Holmes, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of “Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.”

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Or consider the task of putting your kids to bed, Mogilner Holmes offered. If you see the bedtime routine as something to just get through, then every little delay becomes frustrating. If you see it as a precious opportunity — because soon enough, your kids will be able to put themselves to bed — the time becomes something to savor.

“This makes us realize that these everyday things we move through mindlessly are actually these beautiful moments,” Mogilner Holmes said.

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