My journal entries from last week about the No Complaint Challenge:

Day 1

I receive my new Ipod from Amazon as I’m on a break from being out in the field. I hook it up to my friend’s MacBook and sync up her music. I’m stoked. Then I move on to the PC laptops (having never owned an Ipod before and not realizing it had to be either PC or Mac formatted and wouldn’t work with both…), which asks me to reformat my Ipod. I proceed to curse out Mac, Apple, Steve Jobs, and his children if he has any.

I switch wrists and restart the complaint challenge.

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Life, The Universe, and Everything Coincidental

I don’t believe in omens in the religious sense of the word. I do believe that we notice coincidences or perceive special circumstances when our unconscious is focused intently on a goal or objective. For example, when your major definite goal is to make a lot of money as an entrepreneur, you might notice that the people at the table next to you at the restaurant are talking about a business service that might meld well with your new company — and when you talk to them, you think to yourself, hey, what a coincidence… In fact, you had simply programmed your subconscious mind to be hypersensitive to anything related to money, starting a business, and your particular product niche.

Which brings me to why I’m doing the 21 Day No Complaint Challenge. I can’t really explain why, just the how. My unconscious mind conspired to make me do it.

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