Comments on: ComplainLess http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/ Work is more than a job. Work is how we make our lives and world better. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tim http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Tim Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:48:21 +0000 http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/#comment-235 An old friend of mine...a LLOONNGG time ago...taught me, at a very young age, the meaning of gratitude: "If I wake up in the morning, and there's no chalk outline around my body, it's a GREAT day!" And another person put it into perspective like this, with an audience of 2000 in attendance: 1) Take a slip of paper and write down your 3 biggest problems. 2) Put all of the slips into a big barrel and stir up the slips. 3) Pull out a slip and read it (it cannot be yours). You do that and you'll find out 2 VERY important things: 1) You're not the only one with problems, and 2) You'll wish you had your slip back! No matter how bad it gets, someone somewhere has got a steeper and longer hill to climb. Take the time to laugh, love and be grateful EVERY day. YOU and the people you come in contact with every day will be the one's that'll benefit. An old friend of mine…a LLOONNGG time ago…taught me, at a very young age, the meaning of gratitude: “If I wake up in the morning, and there’s no chalk outline around my body, it’s a GREAT day!” And another person put it into perspective like this, with an audience of 2000 in attendance:

1) Take a slip of paper and write down your 3 biggest problems.
2) Put all of the slips into a big barrel and stir up the slips.
3) Pull out a slip and read it (it cannot be yours).

You do that and you’ll find out 2 VERY important things:

1) You’re not the only one with problems, and
2) You’ll wish you had your slip back!

No matter how bad it gets, someone somewhere has got a steeper and longer hill to climb.
Take the time to laugh, love and be grateful EVERY day. YOU and the people you come in contact with every day will be the one’s that’ll benefit.

]]> By: Sam Parker http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Sam Parker Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:23:02 +0000 http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/#comment-234 Thanks, Beth, margaRET, and Jack. 'Bright-siders'... I like that. The goal of being ComplainLess is to better allocate our energy toward contribution and service (helping people with whatever it is we do). Complaining is different than identifying a problem and offering a solution. Thanks, Beth, margaRET, and Jack.

‘Bright-siders’… I like that. The goal of being ComplainLess is to better allocate our energy toward contribution and service (helping people with whatever it is we do). Complaining is different than identifying a problem and offering a solution.

]]> By: Beth S. Miller, ABC http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/comment-page-1/#comment-233 Beth S. Miller, ABC Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:36:59 +0000 http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/#comment-233 Great thoughts and totally in synch with 2 books I'm reading: 1) by John C. Maxwell titled "Everyone communicates few connect" and 2) by Tom Peters who reinvents his philosophy on excellence as "The Big Little Things." We are what we say, we are what we do. Kvetching gets us no where but ignored, misunderstood, and not heard. Keep it up. http://www:communicationgardener.com Great thoughts and totally in synch with 2 books I’m reading: 1) by John C. Maxwell titled “Everyone communicates few connect” and 2) by Tom Peters who reinvents his philosophy on excellence as “The Big Little Things.” We are what we say, we are what we do. Kvetching gets us no where but ignored, misunderstood, and not heard. Keep it up.
http://www:communicationgardener.com

]]> By: Just Jack http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Just Jack Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:31:18 +0000 http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/#comment-232 What is the goal of "complaining less"? Is focusing on solutions necessarily mutually exclusive to complaining? A complaint coupled with a solution is still seen by bright-siders as a complaint, and thus "bad" or something to be avoided. Ask the workers for BP about "being accountable"... they were seen by their superiors as merely "complainers." Hmm. Depends on whose complaining doesn't it? What is the goal of “complaining less”? Is focusing on solutions necessarily mutually exclusive to complaining?

A complaint coupled with a solution is still seen by bright-siders as a complaint, and thus “bad” or something to be avoided.

Ask the workers for BP about “being accountable”… they were seen by their superiors as merely “complainers.” Hmm. Depends on whose complaining doesn’t it?

]]> By: margaRET http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/comment-page-1/#comment-231 margaRET Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:57:18 +0000 http://blog.givemore.com/complainless/#comment-231 really realistic. it actually lessens chances of aggrevating stress levels :) really realistic. it actually lessens chances of aggrevating stress levels :)

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