21 days without complaing – A complaint free world
Hi, Stefan here from StudySuccessful.com, a blog about study hacks and personal development tips. I am going to log my experiment here about stopping complaining for 21 days! This experiment is from Acomplaintfreeworld.org.
The idea is you wear a purple bracelet on your wrist. Everytime I complain I need to change the bracelet to the other wrist. And the goal will be wearing the wrist on the same wrist for 21 days. So being complain-free for 21 days.
Why 21 days?
21 days is the amount of days needed to change a habit. That is why. 21 days sounds easy, but this means 21 days without complaining. It takes usually between 4-10 months to be 21 days complaint free! So this will be a nice challenge.
I consider myself as a fairly positive person, which means that I hope to be complaint-free within 7 months. That is my personal goal.
What is a complaint?
I want to define the word complaint perfectly before I start this challenge. Luckily, Tim Ferriss already did. He says: ‘A complaint is: “Describing an event or person negatively without indicating next steps to fix the problem.” Of course, the last couple of words normally aren’t in the definition of a complaint, but now it is.
Because I don’t try to stop complaining over here. I try to change my mindset. I want to stop thinking in impossibilities and start thinking in solutions and in possibilities. That is why I want to get rid of complaints. That is why I am wearing this bracelet.
So an example: “Alex is always late, what a douchebag.” This would be a complaint, which means switching wrists. But “Alex is always late, I’m going to ask him if he could be on time more” wouldn’t be a complaint and the bracelet can remain on the same wrist.
I am now (when writing this) a week in and the bracelet hasn’t been on one arm for more than a day. Yes this is pretty hard. Doesn’t matter, a challenge isn’t a challenge without being hard. A nice experiment.
Get them yourself!
Are you interested in this experiment as well? Head over to AComplaintFreeWorld.org and order a set of bracelets for yourself! 10$ for 10 bracelets, pretty nice right? This includes shipping and everything. Or even get the book: A Complaint Free World: How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted
Logging
BrainVault.net is of course all about logging experiments and sharing it with other people who likes self-experimenting. So I will be logging in every once in a while to give an update on how I am doing. I will send out an article next week and then every week or so another article on how I am doing. But I can understand you won’t be interested in the same article every week for 7 months, so I will change the frequency of posts when I am a little bit more in the experiment! Anyway, I will try to do this with videos and text always, starting today!
Stop complaining for 21 days video
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