Complaint-Free Living....

This is from Joe Vitale:

A Complaint Free World
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I love it when I read a book that awakens and inspires me, and that’s what happened today.
Will Bowen’s little gem, A Complaint Free World is so good, I just bought a box of them to give out to friends.

The noble cause behind the book is to get you and me to stop complaining.
No gossip.

No complaining.

Period.

Bowen is making history by challenging people to wear a purple wristband (which you can get for free at www.acomplaintfreeworld.org) for 21 days. The “simple” task is to not speak a complaint. Ever. If you do, move the band from your wrist to the other wrist. That’s it.
You’re allowed to complain in your mind all you like, but you can’t speak a complaint. When you do, move the band.

The idea is to clean up your language, because your words become your deeds and send out a vibe that keeps you stuck on the energy level behind them.

In short, speak negativity and you stay in negativity.

It’s basically learning how to speak in positive terms; to always state what you want, not want you don’t want.

To succeed at creating this new habit, you have to pause before you speak. If you’re about to complain, find a positive way to state what you really want.

Not complaining may not be as easy as you think, however.

For example, I originally began this blog post with the line, “I rarely read a book that awakens and inspires me, but that’s what happened today.”

Sounds innocent enough. But after a few minutes I realized that the line was actually a complaint. So I rewrote it.

And note that if you hear someone else complaining, you aren’t allowed to point it out to them - not without moving your wrist band. After all, complaining about someone complaining is still a complaint.

People are picking up the challenge, though. Bowen has been on Oprah and The Today Show. He’s sent out over four million bracelets — so far.

His book is packed with well written stories, insights, reminders and wisdom. Just reading it will lift your level of awareness and consciousness.

And it will gently guide you into being acutely aware of your own self-talk as well as spoken talk.

I urge you to get Bowen’s book and accept his challenge.

I’ve started it today.

Join me?

Ao Akua,

Joe www.mrfire.com

PS — Trust me, if you don’t get the book or pick up his challenge, I won’t complain.

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I think one of my mother's best attributes -- and one that rubbed off on me to a large extent -- is that she lived pretty much a complaint-free life. Not that she couldn't have complained about so many things -- a verbally abusive husband, life during the depression when she lived in a chicken coop, becoming a mother three times despite the fact that she swore she would never have children (she told me in an interview once that she had already raised so many of her (much older) sisters' and brothers' kids already that she was sure she didn't want any -- but this was before birth control and so she had three, and grew to love them without limit)... she fell into a fire pit and burned her feet and legs nearly up to her knees, and died of brain cancer after a two-year battle... The list could go on and on.

I remember one time I was singing a song, "Oh yeah, life goes on.... long after the thrill of living it's gone..." I must have been singing it with quite the passion, really feeling it, because it was one of the few times she complained. "Those are atrocious lyrics. What would ever possess anyone to say the thrill of living is gone?"

Despite all she had gone through, and still would with her cancer, not once did she complain...

I used to be quite the complainer. I stopped about the time I was born again -- except for very few instances. Because I realize the miracle in life itself, and every moment I have to be a light in the world, complaining comes hard to me, even when it's very, very easy to feel "put upon" internally. I just realize it makes the world a darker place, not a lighter one.

Yes, I've complained a time or two in this blog -- have usually apologized for it, too, afterward!
There are periods of "low moods" that assail all of us at times and that's when it's important to be vigilant of our tongues. I've told truths that were perhaps better left untold, and lost a few friends (very few) because of it. Even couched in a positive spin, a complaint is a complaint. It isn't ALLOWING what is to be what it is. And trying to disallow what is, is pretty goofy.

Some of what's in Dyer's book (Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life) addresses this. Viewing and allowing is okay. Viewing and disallowing is where the ego says, "My view is more valuable than yours is."

Dagnab it, I have to run off to work now. (This is a blessing worded as a complaint!) I will have to catch up with you again later.

I look forward to it!

Hugs!