A Complaint Free World
How to Stop Complaining and Start Enjoying the Life You Always Wanted
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Now, less than a year later, more than six million people have taken up the challenge, trying to go twenty-one consecutive days without complaining, criticizing, or gossiping, and in so doing, forming a new, positive habit. By changing your words, you can change your thoughts and then begin to create your life by design. People have shared stories with Will of chronic pain relieved, relationships healed, careers improved, and becoming an overall happier person. Less pain, improved health, satisfying relationships, a better job, being more serene and joyous–sound good? It’s not only possible, it’s probable. Consciously striving to reformat your mental hard drive is not easy, but you can start now by using the steps Bowen presents here.
In this book, you can learn what constitutes a complaint, why we complain, what benefits we think we receive from complaining, how complaining is destructive to our lives, and how we can get others around us to stop complaining. You will learn the steps to eradicating this poisonous form of expression from your life. If you stay with it, you will find that not only will you not complain, but others around you will cease to do so as well. In a short period of time, you can have the life you’ve always dreamed of having.
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Release date
October 16, 2007 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781415945919
- File size: 120902 KB
- Duration: 04:11:52
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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In a charming audio production that never runs out of steam, Christian Pastor Will Bowen explains how not complaining for 21 days can change the way we think, the kind of people we associate with, the goals we set for ourselves, and the way our very being impacts the world. He distinguishes between complaints--which are usually futile or manipulative--and statements aimed at improving a situation. Writing colloquially and speaking with clarity in a charming, comfortable tone, he offers timely quotations and stories that shape the flow of the lesson much more than the actual advice. The wisdom expressed in all of it persists long after the lesson runs its course. The production includes recordings of individual parishioners describing how they coped with and benefited from not complaining. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine -
August 27, 2007
Brown is a minister with a very simple message: quit complaining. If you do, you'll be happier and healthier. Hence his Complaint-Free World challenge; the goal is to stop for 21 consecutive days. Why 21? That's how long it takes to break a habit, according to Bowen, who has appeared on Oprah
and The Today Show
discussing his challenge. And while there's no scientific proof his program works, he includes testimonials from people who've stopped their chronic carping and now lead more positive lives. As for issues that might make you complain about not complaining—e.g., how do you enact social change without first finding fault with the present situation?—Bowen points to Martin Luther King Jr. and his I-have-a-dream speech. He “did not stand on the steps of the Lincoln memorial and say, “Isn't it terrible how we're being treated....” Not to be critical (“Criticism is complaining with a sharp edge”) but how could Bowen forget King's great rousing line that day: “America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' ”
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