"My" Standard Time

You’ve heard of “Jewish” Standard Time. When people come fashionably late. You need to accustom yourself to the duration that recovery will take. Doing so will help you to see how well you adapt or have adapted to the lengths of time your “activities of daily living” take you. That is “your standard time,” and you can call it, “My” Standard Time.

Make a chart of how long you have been able to be patient for tasks that you have managed. It may take, you have found, a half-hour to beat eight large egg whites stiff. It may take, you have found, two hours--this time may vary significantly--for the effects of a certain medication to “kick in.” Just note with a timer’s stopwatch function the beginning of the event. It will then be easy to determine the elapsed time.

You will be developing a tool to see that you have succeeded in waiting for small victories. They are the launchpad for seeing improvements in your mood or accomplishments, in general those things that you care about more than the items you have clocked and placed in your chart.. “Slowly, slowly, wins the race!”