Answers often arrive in their own time

Important answers to important questions often don't arrive as quickly as we would like.

And in many cases, the quick answer that does pop up in the moment, is not the right solution to the problem being faced.

Answers often arrive in their own time.

Many tend to emerge slowly...after a period of patience.

Frustratingly, they sometimes announce themselves in the middle of the night. During a walk with the dogs. While you're in the shower.

But this is what should be expected and accepted. Be prepared to sit with a problem for some time if a better answer is you goal.

Let it boil a bit in the background.

Leave it and come back to it again and again. Your job then is to defend the answer from those who are screaming for it to show itself in their expected timeframe.

In light of the mad speed with which we are all compelled to operate these days it's pretty obvious as to why we feel so much pressure to have the right answer ready at a moment's notice. The result is that the quality of the solutions we end up pursuing deteriorates and we just end up repeating the same old mistakes from the past.

With delayed gratification comes clarity and usually...a better answer.