Stay Complaint Free for 21 days

I heard about a 21 day complaint free diet through the Unity Church in Deleware Ohio. The message is about changing our thoughts to conversations to change our mind. I am going to pick myself up a bracelet to try to do this. Why 21 days? They say it takes 21 days to break a habit. I need to remember that when we complain we focus on what we don’t want.

I read the book many moons ago and had bracelets sent and everything. And then, I stopped using the bracelets and embracing the mindset. I plan on getting back to this. I will find the bracelet when I get home. I will probably track down a copy of the book at my library again, to help jumpstart my re-commitment to this idea. Complaint free is the way to be!

My bracelet hasn’t switched wrists, but it should have, so I’m switching it now.

The most challenging thing to suppress my complaints about is the flu. Being sick feels like I should be entitled to whine a bit more. Maybe that’s because it’s socially tolerated when sick people whine.

Gossip is another tough one. I hate to admit it, but I do gossip. Only when I’m with certain people, but I do get caught up in it.

Tomorrow that bracelet is staying on my left wrist. No switching! :)

There’s some part of me that enjoys complaining. I noticed that even when I sense that I’m about to complain, I still complain anyways because he gives me some kind of momentary pleasure.

Part of me wants to stop complaining, but there is another part of me that is addicted to complaining like a drug.

Why do we do things we are certain that we will regret? In my case, it’s for that quick payoff. My habits and my emotions are more powerful then my good conscience.

Tomorrow is a new day, and I hope to make it 100% complained free.

Today I finally got a pack of purple bracelets from acomplaintfreeworld.org! :-)

Ironically, I was on the verge of writing them to complain for taking such a long time to send the bracelets.

I told my friend and I would pay him one dollar for every time he caught me complaining. Fortunately, he never managed to catch me complaining once, but I on the other hand, caught myself complaining three times.

There was a time when I was doing really good and not complaining. It’s funny how I can become good at something, then by lack of use of that something I lose the skill, and when I try to learn it again later in life, an even worse at it than I was before I became good at it.

As it stands, I mean the unconscious incompetence phase, meaning that I am not very aware of all the complaints that I’m making, and I am not skilled at choosing more positive words over complaints.

I’m currently listening to the audiobook version of “A Complaint Free World.” It’s a little mumbly-jumbly cheesy, but I’m certain there’s a lot of help to be had from the practice, so I’m going to give it a shot. I know that I give in to the urge to complain too often, and that it drives others away from me.

I don’t yet have a bracelet, and I’m not certain I want one. However, I am going to wear a ring and try to keep it on my left hand. If I catch myself verbalizing a complaint, I’ll move it to the right.

and I was inspired to change. Our world is full of critism and complaining and we are sending negative energy out into the world whenever we complain. I want to be one of the reasons the world is a happy place, not a sad one. This book inspired me to become a complaint free person and be an overall better person.
The concept of the book is quite simple. Your thoughts create your words. Your words effect those around you and depending on your words, will either bring upon yourself negative or positive energy. I recommend this book to anyone, it’s a brilliant simple concept.

All you have to do is where a bracelet, and whenever
you catch yourself complain, switch the bracelet to
the other arm. This helps you show yourself and being
conscious of how much you complain. The goal is to go
21 days without complaining, because 21 days is how
long it takes for something to become a habit.

I’m going to do this no matter what. Even if my hand get’s tired from switching the bracelet from hand to hand, and if I feel like giving up. I will do this.

Whenever I complain, my friend is telling me, which is helping me notice.

What happens is I pretty much stop complaining altogether, so I stop switching my bracelet, then I start slipping again because I’m not consciously focusing on complaining.

This week I’m going to force myself to switch at even the littlest complaint.

I’ve read A Complaint Free World twice now, and it has added a tremendous boost to my well-being.

Sometimes I slip up, but I’m just happy I’m becoming increasingly complaint-free as every day goes by.

Right now I find the hardest part is surrounding myself with people who don’t complain. I’ve had to distance myself from a lot of complainers (who I never really noticed were complainers until I started to notice it in myself).

By 2009 I’ll have 21 consecutive complaint-free days marked on my calendar.

I CANNOT WAIT to be complaint free! My only problem so far has been taking off my little purple bracelet and forgetting where I left it x_x I’ll be sure to write another entry when I’ve completed this task, to everyone working on it, stay strong and you can accomplish anything!!!