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Word of the Day: Bide time
It’s hard to live by the saying patience is a virtue.
However, knowing that the right opportunities will come to you if you bide your time is essential.
It is necessary to have patience when you want your life to improve.
To bide time means to waste time. When you bide your time, you exercise patience and calmly wait for the best opportunity to do something.
Nothing happens overnight, no matter how many people on Instagram lie and tell you otherwise.
You need to bide your time and wait for the things you want in life, whether it’s a job promotion, the perfect home, or the weekend.
You need discipline when you are biding your time for the right time to do something or waiting for things in life to happen.
Pretty much that’s the definition of what it means to bide your time: you exercise patience and calmly wait for the best opportunity to do something.
For example, let’s take The Great Resignation that’s going on in the US right now.
There were hundreds of thousands of people who were unsatisfied with their employment situation.
They were biding their time until a better opportunity came along.
The pandemic lockdowns and subsequent financial government assistance presented them with the opportunity and the funds to find jobs that provided better working conditions.
Perhaps the same thing is occurring in Japan.
We all know that work conditions in Japan suck.
Employees here are the lowest paid in the G7.
Young people with few responsibilities bide their time in jobs that suck until they gain some experience, then they jump ship for a better position.
They are not doing it en masse, but it has been happening here for a while now.
If you want a change, bide your time and wait for the right opportunity.
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