Complaining Is For Losers...
Whether I am working with my real estate agents, consulting for a startup, or just standing in line at the local Starbucks, there is one thing I am guaranteed to hear; complaining. It's human nature to want to complain about things. We all do it, my self-included. However, I have made a very large effort over the last couple of years to limit my complaining and the results have been extraordinary.
Not only have I continued to reach more success professionally and financially, but I also have become more patient and more focused. As a dad I constantly find myself telling my kids to stop whining (in other words, stop complaining), yet I would do the exact same thing. Instead of it being about what color plate my food was on, it was that I was not making enough money, FB ad costs were too high, Amazon is trying to screw me or a list of a million other things. However, it hit me. I am in complete control. I could not coach both my kids in baseball and work until 2 am and make more money. I could stop advertising on FB or find ways to get better at it, I could stop selling on amazon so I wouldn't have to deal with them. With those decision come questions. Would I be happy not coaching and spending that time with my kids? Would lowering my ad spend hurt top line sales and bruise my ego? Would not selling on Amazon create opportunity for my competition?
The punchline is; so often our mouths do not map to our behaviors. I can't complain about not making more money, because I could do things to make more money. I just don't want to do them. Which means, I need to be okay with it taking longer. I need to be more patient. I need to be okay with dealing with the costs and headaches of Amazon and FB or, I need to be okay selling less product.
I am in control. You are in control. Be self-aware, understand what you TRULY enjoy, what you’re TRULY willing to do to achieve your goals and then map your behavior to that. Until you do, you will complain more and achieve less, and that my friends is the truth