A COMPLAINT FREE WORLD
Posted on August 26, 2008 in the Real Life, Blocking, Namaste's Posts, Manifesting, Law of Attraction category
I’ve been taking the A Complaint Free World Challenge that was created by Will Bowen for 2 months now. What I've learned is that complaining attracts the things to you that you do NOT want. To learn more about this incredible challenge and my results read on…
HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED
Will is a pastor at a church in Kansas City. Back in 2006 he came up with an idea for a sermon that discussed the nasty impact complaining has on a person’s life. At the end of the sermon he threw out a challenge. Everyone knows it takes 21 days to create a new habit. Will challenged the audience to go 21 days with out complaining. To aid those that were willing to take the challenge he passed out purple bracelets. The idea was that you had to switch the bracelet to the other wrist if you complained. The goal was to keep the bracelet on the same wrist for 21 days, signifying that you had gone 21 days with out complaining.
REALITY CHECK
Now I’m going to say something that might shock you.
You have NO IDEA how much of a whiny, sniveling complainer YOU ARE. If I were to ask each one of you individually, I bet all of you would say, “At the MOST I complain once or twice a week.” You’d be SHOCKED if I followed you around with a tape recorder for 1 day and then replayed what came out of your mouth. And believe me I know because I’m speaking from personal experience.
BENEFITS
So let’s talk about the benefits you’ll get from creating the habit of not complaining…
We’ll start with Pat’s favorite word “Entrainment.” We are constantly synching up to people around us. When you complain you are “entraining” i.e drawing other complainers to you. Think about the people in your life right now. Are they complainers? If so that means you are too. Stop complaining and you’ll draw fun, joyful, loving people to you
Complaining is talking about things you DO NOT WANT rather than what YOU DO WANT. When we complain, we are using our words to focus on things that are NOT as we would like. Our thoughts create our lives and our words indicate what we are thinking.
By not complaining you get play at the leadership level of Gandhi and Princess Di and your peers will see you as a leader at a higher level.
Buddah said, “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.” Most of your complaints don’t even escape your lips but you are still thinking them. Guess what you are becoming?
Stop complaining. Change your words, change your thoughts, and you will change your life! When Jesus said, “Seek and you shall find,” it was a statement of universal principle. What you seek, you will find. When you complain, you are using the incredible power of your mind to seek things you say you don’t want but nonetheless draw them to you. Then you complain about these new things and attract EVEN MORE of what you don’t want.
Now let’s hear from a couple of people who have chosen not to complain…
TESTIMONIALS
I suffered from chronic headaches. Every night I’d come home and tell my wife how much my head hurt that day. While taking the Complaint Free Challenge I realized that telling my wife about my headaches did nothing to lessen their occurrence or painful severity. I decided to stop talking about them. To my utter and complete surprise my headaches stopped. Today I’m headache free.
Tom Alyea
In 1999, at the very young age of 39, Hal was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. The doctors gave him 6 months. In addition to his mortal diagnosis, Hal was facing other challenges. Even though Hal had sold health insurance for a living, he had none. His bills piled up and it was a constant struggle to keep the lights on and his family fed. When Will (the pastor who wrote A Complaint Free World) found out about Hal’s situation he went out to visit him. Will expected to find Hal in a pretty bad way but Hal spent the entire visit talking about how great his life was and how fortunate he was. Will came back to visit him twice a week after that. One day Will asked Hal, “How do you manage not to complain with all you are going through?” Hal smiled and said, “Easy, it’s not the 15th of the month. I decided that I’d allow myself to complain one day a month. And you know what the great thing is? By the 15th of the month I’ve forgotten what I was going to complain about.” Hal actually lived for 2 years past what the doctors gave him and he was an inspiration to everyone that even in the face of terminal illness you can choose to be happy. That’s the health affirming power of living a life of gratitude rather than one of complaint.
Will Bowen
This last one is my personal testimonial. Like everyone else I thought that I complained very little. Two weeks after putting my complaint free bracelet on I hadn’t even been able to keep it on the same wrist for one day. Today I’m at 2 months and the longest I’ve gone is 3 days. Now I know why the average time to win the Complaint Free Challenge is 4 to 8 months. Even though I still have a ways to go to reach my 21 days I’ve noticed a dramatic increase in my daily happiness. This was super surprising to me because I was already a happy person. I feel like this huge weight has been lifted off me. I’m floored and it keeps getting better.
Namaste Faustino
In closing, when Will was being interviewed by an associate producer before he went on the Oprah Show he was asked, “What is your goal with all of this?” He replied, “To transform the consciousness of our world.” The associate producer looked at him and smiled sympathetically, “That’s a pretty big dream, don’t you think?” He smiled and replied, “Do the math.” The challenge started just over 2 years ago. Today we’ve shipped over 6 million complaint free world bracelets to 80 countries around the world. We’re now receiving over 1000 purple bracelet orders a day and those numbers just keep getting bigger.
It’s no accident that you are on this call. You can change the world by simply becoming an example of positive change. You can create a complaint free world. As you become a happier person, you raise the overall level of happiness in the world. You will send out a vibration of optimism and hope that will resound with others of similar intent. And together–we will–change the world.
Go to www.acomplaintfreeworld.com and order your bracelets today. However you can start immediately by simply putting a rubber band around your wrist and switching it when you complain. Don’t wait. Do it now.
I promise you that it will be the most impactful thing you do this year.
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I have a counselor right now who is really into the Law of Attraction. Last week he had me do the complaint bracelet which I had never heard of before and I thought it was quite silly. I cannot believe how much I complain. I even complain about how much I complain
I have not been able to go a day YET without complaining, but I will. I am determined! I feel that I am cranky in the mornings which has been hard to not complain. Am I complaining about complaining again! Arrrgh! 