Get through a whole day of work without complaining

I’ve been so gosh darn positively charged that I have take of my jewelry ro I don’t electroplate my cutlery when I do dishes.

There is a woman in our office who I don’t know very well. But I have seen that she is always positve, always cheerful and never complains about anyone. I really appreciate that about her. I got a pretty thank you card and wrote a bit in it about why she is so wonderful to have around and left it on her desk with some chocolates. I think I made her day, but even better, knowing that I’d done that set me in a cheery mood that no one could undermine. Made me positively giddy.

they’re going to check my office air quality, since everyone keeps getting sick, and I found myself cracking some negative jokes about what is likely floating in the air. Seems small, but it does add to the atmosphere. Need positives, only positives!

I did this today. I maintained a ridiculously positive attitude and got through without complaining. However, somewhere on the way to psyching myself into being positive, I turned myself into a mental case. People may have thought I was high.

The day ended with a surprise visit to our office from some headquarters bigwigs who put on a powerpoint presentation of the year in review. They played the cheesiest music (“I believe I can fly”, “Time of Your Life” Greenday, those kinds of songs). Every time a new song started I got the giggles, would finally get it under control and then the next song would start and be even cheesier.

I just may have looked like an idiot.

I’m going to try this goal again tomorrow. Not because of the giggling thing, but because I would just like to do this everyday for a while, to break the complaining habit that I’ve fallen into recently.

it appears to be a newly emerging challenge for me and I don’t want to get sucked under!!!

It’s people not doing their job right that gets me going. No excuses, I got caught off guard and ranted about someone and then stopped myself. I don’t suffer fools well, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the world should hear about it.

And yet, I can be pretty good at it when I’m at work. A few of us have been talking about a bracelet you can get, and everytime you complain about something, you switch wrists. Just a way to be more aware of your behaviour. That’s been getting me to notice that sometimes when I’m under stress, I complain without offering solutions. Or just to vent my frustrations. And often I’m complaining just to have something to talk about, because I don’t have much in common with my coworkers.

I’m not saying any of that is really bad. It would just be nice practice to get through a day being totally positive. I have to be careful though, I’ve done this before and set off a huge chain reaction when some negative people got upset that I wasn’t talking to them as much and assumed I was taking sides on something (I have no idea what).