Why You Should Stop Complaining

Complaining is like a broken record, it repeats itself and goes nowhere. Once upon a time, there were people coming to a wise man, and every time complaining about the same problems. One day he told them a joke and everyone roared in laughter. After a couple of minutes he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled. When he told the same joke for the third time, no one laughed anymore.

Then the wise man smiled and said, “You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem? So start off by erasing the word PROBLEM from your vocabulary and replace it with the word CHALLENGE. This action by itself frees you from the shackles of the problem and launches you into a solution finding mode because everyone who is challenged fights back. That's the way our brain is wired. Problems make us defensive, challenges make us offensive. So starting today, turn all your problems into challenges and see how things change for the better.”