People who I talk to both in person and on messenger will know that I'm always raving about the next great book I've just read. What's most funny about this is that when I was growing up at school I couldn't stand reading. I guess it's because I was being told to do it back then where as now it is actually my choice. Well if there's only one book you read this year that I recommend make sure it's the Four Hour Work Week and subscribe to the blog as well.
The blog post I read today from the 4HWW blog is titled '21 day no complaint experiment'. Anyone who knows me will agree I have the odd tendency to complain and moan a fair bit, but with customer service out there provided by companies such as BT, Three Mobile and a lot of other companies, sometimes it's just hard to stay positive! :) Especially when your new games PC also like to keep showing you a blue screen of death, no doubt my Xbox 360 will start showing the rings of death on Thursday when I buy Halo 3 (see I've started off on one already!)
A lot of people would struggle to go just 21 days without complaining about SharePoint, but I think I'll be able to manage that! (No Liam I do not worship Bill Gates!)
So I've decided to give it a go! 21 days with no complaining, and if I do complain I'm going to swap which wrist my watch is on. That should be annoying within itself! :) What's interesting is that you can go from complaining to giving it a positive spin eg
“Man, I went into the post office and had to stand behind this rude jerk for 30 minutes. What a waste of time.”
to
“Man, I went into the post office and had to stand behind this rude guy for 30 minutes. It was a waste of time. From now on, I’ll go in the mornings before 10am to avoid the crowd.”
The problem is I am going to watch Reading play Liverpool tonight so I might be saying...
"Man, I'm never going to watch Liverpool play again, it was a waste of time! Next time I'll just get drunk at home instead!".