Day 62: Real Time
Day 6: 21 Day Complaint Free Journey


Day 5 was hot and sweaty.

After all, it is Florida in July and we’re moving stuff from my mother’s to mine, from mine to storage, from her’s to storage, other things out to the trash bin…you get the picture.

But just as I do every morning, I sat out on my patio before dawn and watched the sun ease up over the back fence, the dew still heavy on the grass. It’s my favorite time of the day.

I read and watch the cardinals come to the bird feeder as it gets brighter. The blue jays usually take over next, and the woodpeckers fit themselves in around the others.

Will Bowen speaks about the Law of Attraction in his book about taking the Complaint Free journey. I hadn’t read “The Secret” when it exploded on the horizon several years ago, but have now. And I find that the concept is one that I’ve adhered to for years, without knowing that it had a name.

I do believe that we attract what we put out. Which is exactly why I am on this quest to become complaint free. I think I've been a positive person for the most part over the course of my life, usually satisfied with my place in the scheme of things, not overly worried about the future, and doing work that I feel is useful and important. I've faced obstacles, some hefty ones over the years, but haven't we all? Mine are no more important or burdensome than yours.

The energy I was emitting was so negative over the past couple of years, however, that I was tired of myself. I couldn’t imagine the effect I was having on others. Well, I could and I didn’t like to think about it. And then, quite “by accident,” I stumbled on Will’s book on CD. The title intrigued me, and I listened to it as I drove to visit a friend in Orlando.

I want to attract goodness and happiness to myself, not whining and kvetching about EVERYTHING as a way of life. Negative energy feeds on itself, like a hairy, gnarled monster that lives in the darkness of the closet we hide him in. After a while, the door won’t close any longer and he starts following us around all day, dripping venom and discontent. Pretty soon, no one can compete with the TWO snarling monsters we have become. And we’re alone.

Here's to goodness and happiness again.

Day 6 will be a good one.