If I were to tell you that you could change your life and be successful and all you needed was a rubber band, you would probably think I was crazy but it's an experiment lots of people have done and found to be truly empowering.
So what is this about? This is based on the original 21 day no complaint challenge by Will Bowen, popularised by Tim Ferriss.
The 21 Day No Complaint Challenge
The original challenge from (Will Bowen) is to go 21 days without complaining. So what do you do?
1) Put your rubber band on your wrist. You have now started and are on day 1 of the challenge.
2) When you complain you move the rubber band to the other wrist. You are now back to day 1. Every time you complain you have to swap the rubber band and go back to day 1.
3) The goal is to go 21 days without moving the rubber band to the other wrist (ie not complaining).
Why should you do it ?
Tim Ferriss comments on this in his article 'Real Mind Control: The 21 Day No Complaint Experiment'.
He found the following things happened.
1) Instead of complaining he started thinking what could he do/create to avoid this happening in future.
2) He was able to turn off negative thoughts as he had to give a solution instead of just continuing with the complaining (The complaining just kept open - loops in GTD (Get things done) talk which just result in you wasting energy). This resulted in better sleep and nicer conversations.
3) He found this attracted people to him as people want to be around action orientated problem solvers.
From my point of view, doing this exercise gives you back control of your life. When something goes wrong and you blame the weather, your boss, the other guy, it means that you have given away your power. Not complaining means you have to think of a solution. You also have to accept that it is your responsibility to do something about it.
You have the power and suddenly the world has changed.
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