No Complaining

What’s uncool to do, a burden to hear, and common everywhere? (Hint: it’s in the title.) Given the fact that no one likes a complainer, I figured I should try to be someone that I like, and that means I need to complain less! Although I don’t verbally complain very…

by Jon Gordon Welcome back! As you can easily guess, or if you are wondering, I have learned a lot from this life-changing book. But I will only share one thing. As you might guess from the title, the book is about how damaging complaining is to our professional success, personal life, and…

Part Three of a series. Read the introduction here. In the mid-1990s, I visited a friend in Boston. As she was showing me around the city, a television crew doing a “man on the street” piece approached. Their question was, “what irritates you most about people?” My response, which aired…

“You actually complain a lot…” These were the words of my husband 2 weeks ago. As per usual, I was itching to defend myself. My ego hated hearing those words, but I couldn’t deny it. In fact, just the week before this, I realized this myself…for the umpteenth time. For…

I was tuned in to the Impact Theory (Tom Bilyeu's amazing podcast) where he had Les Brown as an the guest for that day. In that very episode, Les Brown mentions three things that his mentor taught him while he was still young. While I'll be listing the names of…

I undertook a 30-day challenge that was extremely difficult, but incredibly rewarding. I originally tried a 21-day no complaint challenge back in 2016. It was really fun. Every time I complained about something, I restarted the challenge. I failed 2 times very early, only getting a few days in each…

Vision Board: It has been about four months since the vision board experiment. My experience with the vision board so far has been mixed. One part of the vision board which has materialized is the photo of Wim Hof. I wanted to adopt his methods and I have to some…