Patient vs. Complacent

Question: How do you determine when your being patient and when your being complacent?

The answer to this question continues to elude me. I'm a very impatient person. My wife, and others who have been around me for at least 5 minutes, will agree. I tend to want to leap from the starting line way before the gun is fired. God has really been helping me better develop this "virtue" the last year or so. Especially my patience with people.

However, I am now struggling to determine when I'm being patient and when I'm being complacent. I despise complacency. I hate to be stuck. I like to see results. I like to finish the job. I like to complete the task. But there are many things in my life right now that are not complete, not finished, not producing like I feel they should. This makes me want to do something. Anything! So, what I tend to do is over analyze. I tend to try and force things. Which never works. I want to be patient and "wait on the LORD", but I don't ever want to be complacent. It is complacency that has deteriorated the effectiveness of the local church. The local church would not have become complacent if the individuals in it hadn't. I will not contribute to the complacency of the body of Christ.

I refuse to be complacent. I want to be patient. Discerning one from the other isn't an easy task. Hopefully I'll be able to post some suggestions on "how to", soon.