Day 89

Day 89: Real Time
Day 7: 21 Day Complaint Free Journey


I couldn’t place him, even after about two days of hard thinking.

A former student had approached me in a local business, having recognized me from a distance. His smile was wide and he seemed genuinely pleased to see me. After we talked, it became apparent that I had taught him in middle school at some point, although neither of us could remember exactly how long ago.

He proudly handed me his business card, a tree service operation, complete with his name painted on the side of a truck parked right outside the window nearby. As a good businessman does, he encouraged me to call him if I needed his services and asked that I pass the word along to my friends.

But I still couldn’t place him as a teenager in one of my classes in the past.

And then, about three days later, he clicked into focus. He was the one who knew all my buttons and took great joy in pushing them frequently. He wasn’t a mean-spirited kid. He was just into everything, with no interest in the content I was trying to pass along to him. I do recall that he smiled the whole time he was creating the fun he so enjoyed.

At the time, my hopes for him were not great. I imagine that I even complained a bit about him, and the many others like him.

Yet, here he was, an adult with a business that he was proud of, one that supported him.

Will Bowen says that instead of complaining we should be envisioning how we want our lives to be. And through the Law of Attraction, the universe is more likely to accommodate us in positive ways rather than negative.

What if we all spent today….just today….stating things in the positive rather than the reverse?

Day 7. I’ll try it today. How about you?

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.