Have patiencce. Bitcoin is a very new technology and mass adoption will definitively take time, but precisely because of that you will see significant rewards by being an early adopter.
I wish I could find the link but I read an interesting story about the history of successful new payment types. Dwolla (not), mPesa, PayPal, Venmo, btc. The successful ones all had an early sustained uptick. btc looked more like Dwolla which had not. So it appears that the patience argument, which in general makes sense, may not apply here.