A Complaint Free World: The 21-day challenge that will change your life

I would recommend this book to every living person

I have glanced the book and looking foward to reading it. Writing could be larger and ink darker.

Was just like new.

great book, if everyone would read it and follow it we would have a wonderful world

Good info.

Excellent book. Very hard to do but worth it.

This is an excellent book. It tells us that if we stop our constant complaining, which practically all of us are guilty of, our lives will improve dramatically.We work on eradicating our complaining by obtaining purple bracelets from [...] and putting one on one of our wrists. Each time we catch ourselves complaining, criticising or gossiping, we move the bracelet to the other wrist. The aim is to go 21 days without a single complaint. Nearly all of us take many months to achieve our goal, and generally wear out several purple bracelets in the process, what with all the switching back and forth from one wrist to the other.We are informed in the book that the bracelets are free, but in fact they now cost 10 dollars for 10 bracelets. (That was not a complaint - I find this very reasonable.) Will Bowen's web site now ships millions of bracelets all over the world. Will has started a challenge that is part of our global spiritual development in these amazing times, and his idea is rapidly transforming world consciousness.Will is extremely honest in revealing his former shortcomings, namely his tendency to complain, criticize and gossip, which he first discovers when he accepts his own challenge. Apparently, we always notice our friends' complaints but not our own - not until we begin to move our bracelet with each complaint.This is a wonderful, absolutely inspiring, easy-to-read, edifying and entertaining book.We are shown that as we try to curb our negative utterances, this eventually has the effect that our mind simply stops thinking these complaining, critical thoughts, and thus we automatically become a much more positive person. When this happens, we become happier and our lives start to improve - good things start to happen!The book is filled with captivating anecdotes about people's experiences and insights on their journey towards a complaint-free life, including Will's own stories.Please note that you are permitted to share your feelings about something that has happened, though negative, just not "rehash" the events of what has happened. Also if we need to get something fixed by some authority, for example, we are allowed to state our grievances so that they can be remedied.Will tells us that when we complain, we are saying "Something is wrong". Our bodies respond to our complaints with stress. Also, what we focus on persists. So when we complain we ensure that the things about which we are complaining keep on occurring.The book ends with accounts by various persons who have successfully completed the 21-day challenge. They recount how wonderfully their lives have been transformed.When we have completed the 21 days successfully, we can write to Will's web site and request that he send us a Certificate of Happiness.I found this little book to be wonderfully encouraging. I have ordered my bracelets and am awaiting their arrival. I have begun to notice how much I complain and criticize and hope to annihilate this complaining and criticism, though it may be a little difficult for a reviewer!

Even if you don't get the book, try the experiment. Get their bracelet (or use a jelly bracelet, or one of your own) and put it on your wrist. Each time you catch yourself grumbling or complaining or criticizing something or someone, put the bracelet on the other wrist. In my first day, I must have changed it 7 times in the first hour. I was shocked, and intrigued...enough to try it for nearly a week before I gave up. That was a year ago, and I still think about that bracelet every week. And yes, I'm far less critical than I used to be. Now, I do neuroscientific research on meditation, spirituality, and optimism, and I think that this little gimmick is a gem. Why? Because every time you foster a critical thought, your brain releases a cascade of stress chemicals which eventually damages the very circuits that control anxiety and irritability. So a little exercise like this can have a profound effect on neural functioning, which is why Andrew Newberg, MD, and I talked about the Reverend Bowen's bracelet and his vision of a complaint-free society in our book,  How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist . Oh, and one more thing, which we thoroughly discuss in our book: every time you complain in public, your irritability-like a virus-is neurologically picked up by every person who hears your voice or sees your face. So by all means, train your brain to be optimistic and positive because (according to 30+ years of longitudinal research conducted by Duke University and the Mayo Clinic), it will literally add years to your life.PS: Check out their website (acomplaintfreeworld.com) for tips for teaching children to become "complaint aware." Interestingly, a Missouri congressman was so impressed by the idea that he just introduced a bill into congress calling for a "Complaint-Free Wednesday," the day before Thanksgiving. I hope it passes....

The media could not be loaded.  This book WILL indeed change your life! Not only that, but I also believe if everybody read it would have the power to change the whole world! Big claims right, well let me tell you some more about it….Will Bowen’s concept is so simple, the less you complain the better your life will become. I’ll say that again, because it is very important, the LESS you complain the BETTER your life becomes. ❤️💪🏻Everyone sadly is a complainer to some degree and most of the time we all do it without even realising it. Complaints are in our thoughts, our conversations and actions. We are look at the world though faults, problems and issues, and then we complain about them.This book sets you a simple task of not complaining for 21 days 📆 simple but hard. This makes you firstly become aware of just how much complaining you are doing, then once you are consciously aware of your complaints you can then try to reduce them through a number of Bowen’s techniques. 🧠For me, as someone that has suffered on and off with mental health issues over recently years this was my number one book which gave me tangible techniques to help me mange my mental health. A soon as I became aware of my negative thoughts and made a conscientious choice to ignore some of these thoughts (ignoring them all is HARD so I focus on just doing some!!) I immediately felt lighter, more optimistic, and positive 🌈.The techniques in this book I still use today (almost 6 years on) as part of my daily mental health care.So if you read any book this week or year make it be this one, I promise you won’t regret it. 👍🏻

Good general idea but a tad too Christian to my linking. Mass market psychology and magical improbable anecdotes but has some good principles if you can get over this. A great book to share but would be better if the word Church was replaced by bar or something.

Very interesting book. I think it is very helpful for training the mind to get out from the complaining attitude.

Ein SUPER Buch. Sollte direkt in den Schulunterricht aufgenommen werden. Für jedermann absolut empfehlenswert. Ein echtes Geschenk an die Menschheit.

Se trata de que cuando protestas por todo, la gente se aleja de tí y además no atraes más que cosas negativas.Me apunto a este movimiento a ver que tal.El hecho de ser consciente de que protestas más de lo que crees ya es un primer paso para ir dejando de hacerlo.Nada fácil.Existe la versión es español.