Kevin Surace says the average American complains roughly 100 times a day, both in their head and out loud. He proposes a "one complaint a day" rule: track every complaint honestly, then limit yourself to just one. The constraint forces your brain to stop looking for things to complain about.
The average person in the United States complains internally and externally about 100 times a day. 100. And every time you complain, you take yourself further away from success. So one of the things we teach is the one complaint a day rule. And so you tomorrow you count up the number of complaints you have, and you're going to find it's 60 or 100 or 110 or whatever. It's going to shock you. Whatever the number is, you have to keep honest track. These are internal complaints too. And then the next day you start to work towards the one complaint a day rule where you can only have one. And I can guarantee you you're going to burn that one up. First thing in the morning, you're going to get out of bed and say, oh, my knees hurt, or the weather sucks, or something. And, you know, you're going to hear the buzzer in your head going, you've used up your one complaint for the entire day. You have no more. So it's a way of gamifying this and getting your brain to start thinking, I got to get out of complaint mode. That is never going to help me. By the way, no one wants to hear me complain. No one.
