These days, it can be quite easy to grouse about how difficult things are. It makes me recall the Noah principle: Instead of whining about how much it is raining, let’s go about the business of building boats.
Getting to Noah’s point of view can be difficult and that’s where Will Bowen, a Kansas City minister, comes in. He came up with the concept of the complaint free world.
His idea is a sort of game. Wear a purple bracelet. Each time you complain, switch wrists. Tim Ferris modified these rules to switching wrists each time you describe an event or person negatively without indicating next steps to fix the problem. Plus, switch wrists each time you use a four-letter word. The goal is to reach twenty-one days without having to change wrists.
With foul weather today, which in fact includes rain, I am going to be about building boats. I have a purple bracelet on my left wrist and started a quest to twenty-one days.
I have nine more bracelets waiting for people ready to join me in this challenge. Put your request in the comment section if you want to give it a shot, and I will figure out how to get you your own bracelet.
Follow the blog and I will keep you posted on my progress. I am interested in your progress, too. Hopefully with complaint-free minds, we will invent the solutions that will make the world have less to complain about.