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Welcome back to Night Shift with Justin as King, how to transform your life one night at a time.
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One of the biggest ways to make significant changes in your life, in our lives,
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is by watching the words that we say. But years ago, I came across a challenge. Well,
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the no complaint challenge based on the book and complaint-free world, and the purpose of that
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is to go 21 days without complaining, no complaining, criticizing, gossiping, and if you slip up,
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you reset and go back to day one. From statistics, most people aren't able to go more than three days,
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and it typically takes someone about eight to nine months before they're able to go a full 21 days
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without complaining. According to statistics, it took me about six years, personally,
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where I successfully completed it. It took me six years. So a lot of people think that it's easy
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to stop complaining, but it's not, it's a behavioral constraint, and it exposes your mindset quite
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often, quite clearly. In the earlier episode, we talked about one of the steps of manifesting is to
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stop noticing your missteps, and removing complaints from your habits is a great way to do that.
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So complaining can show up in obvious ways. Like this sucks. I'm tired of this. Traffic is crazy.
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Traffic is insane today. This always happens to me. There's people that have a built-in sound
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that they might associate with a complaint, like a puff or a puff, and this really shows up
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internally. The commentary inside your head, that's the real challenge. The original version of
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the challenge comes with a bracelet, and you put that on one wrist, and every time you complain,
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you switch it to the other wrist, and start over from day one. So not day five, almost made it.
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I only complained once, but you start all the way back to day one. The big thing is that it's an
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awareness challenge. So the goal is to stop reinforcing what you don't want. And the inside is when
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you stop complaining about things, you have three choices. You can say nothing, you can take action,
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or you can make a request. Instead of saying I'm exhausted, you go to bed earlier, instead of
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saying you could never live without coffee, you cut it off 10 hours before bedtime, and
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quitting, complaining all together matters in the evenings, because your brain replays what you
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repeat. So if you're constantly complaining, your mind will continue those complaining loops in your
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sleep. You can take a simple inventory at the end of the night. What did I complain about today?
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And how can you change that thing in the future? So the simple shift for tonight is for the next
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24 hours. Notice every time you complain, size, or gossip. If you want to try out the full challenge
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for 21 days, check out the book Complaint Free World. My name is Justin S. King.
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And if you'd like more information on evening routines, head over to my website,
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JustinS. King.com. That's it for tonight. Good night.