Kick The Complaining Habit!

Complaining is one of the most widespread, but underestimated, bad habits. People can complain about anything. But while we might feel that this is a harmless habit, it can undermine our happiness and impede our ability to take meaningful action in our lives.

In this six day course, we are going to work on identifying complaining, learn why we do it, and implement new strategies into our life to minimize complaining and instead take action. In each lesson, you will increase your own knowledge, reflect on your own complaining patterns, and then learn how to implement changes in your own life.

I'm very excited to have you on this journey with me. Breaking my own complaining habit has been life-changing and I can't wait for you to join me.

Lección 1: What Is Complaining And How Does It Affect Us?

In this first lesson, we are going to discuss what complaining and how it affects us. We are also going to learn how to differentiate between instrumental and non-instrumental complaining. We'll end with an exercise to help us begin to identify our own complaining patterns.

Lección 2: Why Do We Complain At All?

In this lesson, we are going to explore the reasons we complain. Like all bad habits, there is a tradeoff to the behavior. It can help us feel understood or even help us bond with other people. But it comes at a price, including keeping us in a "holding zone," where we neither accept nor change a situation.

Lección 3: Choosing Differently

In this lesson, we are going to start learning different strategies to cut down on our complaining. This is going to include internal strategies like gratitude, but also environmental changes like limiting the amount of complaining we're exposed to.

Lección 4: Complaining In Relationships

For better or worse, our partners often take the brunt of our complaining. In this lesson, we are going to focus on communication strategies to both minimize our superfluous complaining and improve our ability to make needed complaints.

Lección 5: Accepting What We Cannot Change

In the past several lessons, we've focused on reducing complaining, taking action steps, and making purposeful change. Unfortunately, not everything we complain about can be changed. In this lesson, we are going look at the things in life we have to accept and how to live gratefully regardless.

Lección 6: Keeping It Going

In this final lesson, we are going to explore different strategies for continuing to live a more complaint-free life, including taking on a complaint-free challenge, limiting sources of complaining, and having an accountability buddy. We'll end the course with a meditation on gratitude.

Reviews

I absolutely loved this course and especially the final day! Gratitude definitely does help eliminate any negative feelings and complaints about my life.