Step 2.Patience

Patience is a virtue. Your own timing may not be anywhere near as important or even as good as the Lord's time. His timing is also far, far more perfect, and while not everything will fall into place with your timing, it always will with His. God has a plan for you, and ultimately He'll send people that will gently try and steer you onto His path. Whether or not you obey those gentle signs--whether they actually are gentle or not--is up to you entirely.
Take into account the existence of Paul, then Saul, or Alma the younger or Alma the elder. All three of them had committed great acts of wickedness. In Saul's case, he went around and preached a lot against Jesus' teachings and continually persecuted him. Alma the elder was a wicked high priest, until the Spirit wrought a mighty change of heart to him when Abinadi visited him and the King and his court to call them and their people to repentence. In Alma the younger's case, he was basically doing the same as Saul was, except with added murder, threatenings, bribery, adultery, and other acts of violence.
In the end, though, each of these three became mighty tools in God's hand. Paul became and Apostle. Alma became a Prophet and helped to construct the Church in Ancient America. Alma the younger became a Prophet after his father, and was an extremely impactful missionary.
They had the choice not to obey and listen. But they did. And in the end, they had to go through some extremely hard trials before they were able to do what they needed to do here.
Too often we pray for patience and then expect it right away. How do we even get patience? The answer is simple. We are patient through whatever it is that we're going through. Through trials, tribulations, traps, tests, and the fiery darts of the adversary. Each one just loves to go at us and get in our way so that we doubt our faith, our God, and His love for us. But in the end, everything that happens to us is for our benefit. Even--especially--if it doesn't seem so at the time.
Patience comes from adversity. So do most things. Wisdom comes from trial and error and being able to see things beyond your years because of experience and observation. Strength comes from trials and from tests.
Patience is vital to being a mother or a father. When your car has broken down, your child is screaming in the booster seat, it's raining, thunder is striking overhead, and your head is pounding in exhaustion, patience is something that is hard to grasp, but very useful for the situation at hand.
Patience and the ability to be calm in a tense situation go hand in hand. And it's a skill that everyone should work on. In a world where we have nearly everything instantly, wirelessly, and without much work, patience can be hard to come across.
So, work on being patient. Learn to become more willing to understand and lend a helping hand to those that can't help themselves or are struggling to do so. You help them, and yourself at the same time. It's a win-win situation, and those are always worth working for.