Stay Tuned: You Can('t) Wait Patiently
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Good day, good people. Welcome back. Man, I said I was going to try to get to 200 episodes of this pod and here we are. This is episode 180 something, another 180 something. And it's just really, really wild that I have done this pod for this many years and I'm almost at 200 episodes.

It's kind of a bittersweet feeling because I don't know. I feel like these episodes are starting to wrap it up a little bit. I'm Lauren. If you're new to this pod, I've talked to so many women about their limiting beliefs that hold them back. And every once in a while, I do a solo. So this is going to be another solo episode. And I want to talk about the limiting belief that you can't wait. Let me tell you.

Waiting can be one of the hardest things that you have to do, man. Like, especially in this culture of immediacy. So let's get into this topic. I have been in this season of waiting and patience. The two go hand in hand. And it's not easy to sit and wait for what you know is supposed to be happening in your life, right?

For different people, it can look like different areas of your life that you're waiting on. You know, I break things down often into work, love, play, health. So any of those areas where you might be sitting and waiting, let me tell you, I know that joint can be rough. The waiting season can be rough. But with waiting comes patience. I know you want whatever you want right now.

and I know you want it with this urgency and immediacy, but please just pause because there are a few things that are happening in your waiting. You might know exactly what you are called to be and do and you don't have it in your grasp yet, but you will not receive that thing that you are supposed to be receiving until you are ready to receive it.

There is a plan already established for you. And don't be acting like God don't know what he's doing. He knows in order for you to receive the thing that you are hoping and dreaming of receiving, you have to become a very specific person in order to manage it correctly. So let's say, for example, you got $5, right? But you go and you frivolously spend your $5. Why would God trust you with $10?

You're hoping and praying and wishing for 10 and you are mismanaging the five. And I'm not talking about this with just money. It could be whatever you are hoping to receive. If you want God to trust you with the 10, you have to become the person to be able to manage the 10. And I think in my season of waiting, this is what I am learning about myself. Like I know that I am in this process of becoming God.

This woman that God wants me to be in order to be able to carry everything that he has planned for me. But he can't give that to me quite yet until I become the woman who can carry it. Same thing with you. He can't give you everything that you are wanting and that he wants you to be yet until you're able to carry it. And so you have to be able to develop those muscles, that strength, that

to be able to carry the load that you are meant to carry. And for when you carry it, he wants it to feel light for you, not heavy. If he gave you everything that you wanted right now, as you are, it would feel heavy. You aren't ready to carry the thing yet. And I think having that understanding at this point has really allowed me

to sit in patience a lot more. It's difficult. I'm not going to lie. It's difficult to sit in patience as a person who has always just been able to do stuff, you know, just like make it happen. If you are one of the type of people who are a make it happen kind of person sitting and waiting in patience, that can be difficult. But when you get this grasp of

That in this waiting, you are about to become and becoming in the moment you aren't realizing how much you're becoming, but you are becoming everything that is needed for what you're about to receive. He can't give you everything all at once. You're not ready, but you are in this season of growth and you are in this season of development.

Think about it, right? I'm a gal who loves a good Marvel movie, a good superhero arc, the hero's journey. What typically happens in that hero's journey? Don't quote me. I ain't about to get it exactly right. But there's this regular person, right? Regular person, right?

gets picked on at school, like something is happening to them that they aren't liking. They want to be this big superhero that they've seen, but they just feel like a regular shmegular degular kind of gal and they don't feel like they can get what they need or become who they want to be. They don't feel like they have that strength. Then one day something happens that tests who they are. They say, no, I can't do that. I can't do that. I'm not up for that challenge.

Someone probably comes and encourages them. That's me right now. I'm encouraging you. Someone comes and encourages them. And then they're like, okay, maybe I can step into my greatness. Maybe I can do this. Then comes the practice scenes, right? Where they're shooting, they realize that they have these superpowers and they're shooting them and they're failing and then they're messing up and then they're falling over and they're breaking windows and they're just messing up. And that's where, you know, some of you,

you listen, it might be right now. You might have just broken a window. You might have said the wrong thing to someone. You may have come off in a way that you didn't necessarily want to come off. You may have mismanaged something. You may have done something that, you know, you weren't super proud of. But keep trying. Because in this story arc, you become a hero. In the story arc, so the person is still fighting and flailing and struggling. But then the music changes.

A little test comes, a slightly larger test comes, and because of all the training that they just did, they were able to tackle it. It gives them a boost of confidence. They start feeling themself. Then the big villain comes, and that person is expected. And it's not even that they're expected, because usually people don't even know that it's them who's about to take on this big monster. But that person realizes that they have what it takes to

to take on the big villain. But it was only in that period, there was no way that without those training scenes, without those smaller tests, without all of that stuff in that messy middle, there's no way that they would become that person who can take on villain. They couldn't be that person to carry the load. And so are you in your messy middle?

where it's time for you to wait and it's time for you to grow and it's time for you to develop so that you can become the person who can step in for the challenge. In the waiting period, there is growth. Look back on like in this period of time where you've been waiting. Think about a moment that made you feel uncomfortable. That spot, that spot, that spot was so important.

to be highlighted because that spot, that place where you felt uncomfortable, that's the place where you got to work on. Once you get that part worked out, work out the kinks in that, you're getting closer to becoming the person who can carry the heavy load in a way that can feel light because you're working those muscles. A big key in this period, in your waiting period,

When you might not exactly know what's about to happen next, but you have a vision of where you might want to go and you might not have a vision of where you want to go. You got to trust that too. I paused before I started, you know, speaking during this episode and I was like, what do you want me to talk about? And then I heard like, stay tuned. You got to stay tuned to what God's plan is for you. You can't figure it out by yourself, right?

You gotta tune in, bro. Tune in. Tune in, get quiet in your waiting period and listen. Listen for direction. Consistently stay tuned. Because when we're sitting here on our phones all the time, scrolling through Insta, watching all this Netflix, Disney Plus, listening to podcasts every once in a while, you ain't listening to God.

So I need you to tune in and stay tuned. Stay tuned for what's next so that you can grow in your messy middle of waiting. Could also be a peaceful middle of waiting, but the tests are what help your character development. What is it that you need to learn from what just happened for you? There's a lesson in it and that lesson gets you closer to being who you're called to be.

And sometimes we get so caught up in like all the things that we need to do next, not realizing that the next thing on your to-do list should be to wait. Sit tight, get snug girl. There's a lot of growth that needs to happen. Trust the process and don't limit yourself to the confines of your imagination of what you might need to be doing and where you might need to be going and who might need to be along for that journey.

Trust the process. Let go. It's gonna be an interesting ride. It always is, but it can land you in some amazing places. Tap in, bro. Anyways, these solo episodes typically aren't long, so I think I might be done. Let me see if there's anything else I should say. Nope, I heard stop. So look, when you get this realization that this is the period of character development,

Before you can hold your 10, when we talked about having the five and not being, you know, a good steward with your five, why would he give you your 10? Get good with where you are right now. Handle things differently. Take care of what you have. Be a good steward with your five.

Allow the growth to come because when you pray for patience, he's going to give you opportunities to test that patience. Whatever you pray for, he's going to give you something that makes you grow in that area. You don't just casually get the good stuff. You get an experience that makes you learn how to have the good stuff. So get excited for where you're about to go next because you are being developed and you are growing fast.

And I have faith in you and your work, love, play, health, or wherever else. You got this. Y'all know where you can find me. I am at lauren.e.will on Insta. You can follow the pod page. It's at IP Woman Podcast. I don't really be posting there. But if you want to connect, feel free. And I hope you have a wonderful week. Talk to y'all next time. Farewell.