Informationen zum Autor Will Bowen Klappentext Revised edition of the author's A complaint free world, c2007. Leseprobe Introduction If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. Maya Angelou In your hands you hold the secret to transforming your life. It's been over 15 years since I first typed those words, and I am more convinced of their truth today than ever. Over the past decade and a half, more than 15 million people in 106 countries have taken the 21-day Complaint Free challenge and, as a result, transformed their families, their jobs, their churches, their schools, and, most significantly, their own lives. They have used the simple idea of putting a purple silicone bracelet on their wrist and then switching it from wrist to wrist every time they complained until they completed twenty-one consecutive days without complaining, criticizing, or gossiping. In so doing, they formed a powerful, lifechanging new habit. By becoming conscious of and changing their words, they changed their thoughts and began to create their lives by design. You may wonder how this all got started. I'd like to take credit for it all, but I didn't create the Complaint Free movement, it created me! In 2006, while minister of a small church in Kansas City, Missouri, I was doing a series on prosperity based on Edwene Gaines's powerful book The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity . In her book, Gaines makes the point that nearly all people claim to want prosperity, but they spend most of their waking hours complaining about what they already have. In so doing, they repel rather than attract abundance. Complaining never attracts what you want; it perpetuates what you don't want. The human desire for increased prosperity is both normal and universal. And when you ask people what they mean by increased prosperity, the reply is often some variation of more. They say, I want more money, more love, more health, more free time, etc. And even as they cry out for more, people simultaneously complain about what they already have. As Wayne Dyer put it so profoundly, If you're not happy with what you have, why would you want more? The first step toward prosperity in all its forms is to be grateful for what you already possess, and you can't complain about what you have and be grateful at the same time. Since the Complaint Free movement began, a lot has transpired. In addition to more than fifteen million purple bracelets' being distributed worldwide, we have been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, ABC World News Tonight, NBC's Today show (twice), CBS's Sunday Morning, and National Public Radio. Stories about the Complaint Free phenomenon have appeared in Newsweek, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Wall Street Journal, People, Good Housekeeping , and other books and periodicals all over the globe. Stephen Colbert took shots at us on The Colbert Report . Dennis Miller made a joke about not liking the color of our bracelets, a typical Miller tongue-in-cheek jab making a complaint about no-complaint bracelets. On 60 Minutes , Andy Rooney quipped, If this guy has his way, I'll be out of a job. Oprah Winfrey challenged her makeup artist to use one of our bracelets to quit griping. And Oprah's O magazine's South Africa edition distributed fifty thousand of our bracelets to its readership. Twice, the United States Congress has put forth a bill to make the day before Thanksgiving Complaint Free Wednesday as a way to transition from a day without complaining into our national day of gratitude. Plus, dozens of cities large and small have passed resolutions adopting Complaint Free Wednesday in their municipalities. We created a Complaint Free Schools curriculum that has been used by t...

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Will Bowen

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Revised edition of the author's A complaint free world, c2007.

Zusammenfassung
Now revised and updated for our modern world, the “complaint free” philosophy teaches you how to stop complaining, become more positive, and live the life you’ve always dreamed about.

It all started more than fifteen years ago with a simple purple bracelet.
 
Will Bowen passed out bracelets and offered people a challenge: If you catch yourself complaining, take the bracelet off and move it to the other wrist, thereby making yourself aware of just how often you complain. The end goal was to go twenty-one consecutive days without complaining. A Complaint Free World develops this idea further, offering practical advice and simple principles to transform your life for the better.
 
The philosophy started a movement, with millions committing to going twenty-one days and beyond without complaining, criticizing, or gossiping. Through changing their words, many found they had changed their thoughts, resulting in healed relationships, improved careers, and a higher level of happiness. A Complaint Free World explains 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.
 
In this revised and updated edition, Will presents the steps to becoming Complaint Free and addresses the modern issues that make it harder—and more worthwhile—than ever, including reflections on how the internet has changed how we complain (and how we can resist) and inspiring new testimonials from people who have improved their relationships, workplaces, and attitudes by becoming Complaint Free.
 
Stop complaining. Start living.