Verbalising pointless negative thoughts will make them more real.
The Challenge: Try not to complain about anything for 24 hours.
Tips
1. Write yourself a reminder of what you're doing, somewhere that you'll see all the time.
2. Keep score of the number of times you nearly whinge.
3. Don't give up if you accidentally complain about something, either reset the 24 hours or keep a tally of how many slip-ups you make.
4. Fix, or ditch, a problem instead.
5. Try and identify 'useful' complaints and whether or not they're worth failing the challenge for.
If someone is stealing your bike = complain. You can't find your sock = don't.
6. Think of things that you are grateful for, instead.
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Here's an interesting fact: People who walk into a room of freshly baked bread will love the smell. But then after a few minutes they won't smell it any more.
Same with life: we forget to be grateful for the good stuff because we simply get used to it being there.
Remind yourself of the things that are good in your life.
According to Richard Wiseman, people who did this were found to be happier, more optimistic and healthier.
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- #1 Bite Me
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- #3 Fail
- #4 Rave On
- #5 Just Do It
- #6 Press Reset
- #7 Fail Better
- #8 Get Physical
- #9 Life Is A Soap Opera
- #10 Begin It
- #11 Unstoppable
- #12 Good Choice
- #13 Happy Diary
- #14 Dream Maker
- #15 Ask Questions
- #16 Assert Yourself
- #17 Blank Page
- #18 Stockpiling Stress
- #19 Hack Your Smile
- #20 Make It Memorable
- #21 Count To Ten
- #22 Angry Email
- #23 Get Rich or Die... happy?
- #24 Take Risks
- #25 Write it down
- #26 Leave It
- #27 Snog, Marry, Avoid?
- #28 Reasons to write things down
- #29 Own Worst Critic
- #30 Fightin' Talk
- #31 Flow
- #32 Make A Brew
- #33 No Complaints
- #34 I'm Exploding!
- #35 The Worst
- #36 Does my bum look big?
- #37 Best Bits
- #38 Send Help
- #39 Make A Change
- #40 Talk To Strangers
- #41 About You
- #42 Listen up
- #43 Set Goals
- #44 Smell the bread
- #45 Surprise!
- #46 The Whale
- #47 They Might Not Be Giants
- #48 Poo Poo
- #49 Get Some
- #50 Move On
- #51 Talk To The Animals
- #52 Jump & Shout
- #53 I Whip My Hair Back & Forth
- #54 Smile
- #55 What If...?
- #56 Boring

