The temperatures in Perth are hovering around 100 degrees fahrenheit and have been for quite some time. Every year, Perth's summer is the same (with minor variations) guaranteed hot and sometimes humid to go with it. Every year I tell myself I will get ceiling fans fitted (I've even bought some), every year I promise this is the last year I will go without air conditioning. Every year I "forget" when the worst of the heat has gone from the sun. The difference with thiis year is - I have vowed to not whinge, whine and complain about things that I could have changed, but chose not to. It doesn't mean that it is any less hot, far from it....but I have no control over the outside temperatures, just the inside.

Are you guilty of complaining about things you have no control over? Like what the weather may be doing right now? Or whether you can find a parking spot, what your colleagues may or may not be doing, ow whether the right person gets into a leadership role. If you choose not to participate in your part of the process - ie., vote, arrange for air conditioning to be fitted, leaving yourself plenty of time to get to where you need to be, then you have no right to whinge, whine or complain....none whatsoever.

One thing I have noticed though is this...if you spend all your time looking for, and focussing on the negatives, you will struggle to focus your time and your energy on the positives.

Today I would like you to do me a favour, actually I would like you to do you a favour...and that is listen carefully to your reaction to events that unfold around you. Your thoughts, body language as well as the words that you speak, speak volumes about what you are focussing your time and energy on. Then when you have determined what the "chatter" is really about - ask:

Can I do anything about this situation?

If the answer is no - sometimes the rain does not stop just because you have washing on the line....then accept that somethings are just so, and get on with doing what needs to be done. But -

If the answer is yes - the you need to ask:

Am I willing to do anything about this situation?

If you are - fantastic, get on and do something now, don't wait for the enthusiasm and inspiration to pass you by. Now is the best time to deal with whatever the situation is.

If you are not, then now is the time to stop complaining and accept that you are happy being a passenger on this particular journey.

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"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have time to do something about it"
Anthony J D'Angelo, College Blue Book
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