Complain or Conquer? Your Choice

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As I mentioned, when I first started working on this project the ground was very hard. It was tough, tiresome and, honestly, irritating. After the first day I could have stopped and complained to whoever would listen that the ground was too hard, that there is no real soil but only clay in East TN, that the developer should have created something nice from the beginning. I could have found many reasons to complain but instead I regrouped and continued on and in another week I will have conquered.

Lately I have heard many different people, those I know and those I don’t, complaining about anything and everything. It’s as though orange isn’t the new black, complaining is. And the object of complaint is as varied as the complainer. It’s my co-workers are too loud, my job is too hard, my kids are too loud, that guy won’t let me live however I want, this person doesn’t like how I do things – and many others. Some complaints are valid and some definitely need to be addressed but that is the thing, they need to be addressed. If all one does is sit around and complain where is the time spent conquering?

When it comes to complaining there lies a balance between too much and too little. Complain too little and eventually it will explode, complain too much and it turns into whining or worse yet gossip. Either way is not good but from what I gauge complaining too much is more detrimental. It creates discord with yourself, discord with others and if all that is done is complaining then there is no time for conquering – and conquering is where it’s at.

I hear complaining all the time, I am even guilty of it myself from time to time. But there comes a point where we need to move from merely complaining to working on the solution – and no, constantly complaining is not a valid solution. I complained about the 85 degree weather in October but I only did so sparingly. I dug in, both literally and figuratively, and I am making progress. I do not want to be known as a complainer but as a conquerer.

What about you? If you were to look back would you find yourself complaining more than you are conquering? Complaining is easier and sometimes we need to vent, I get that, yet conquering is much more rewarding. Let us move on from merely complaining, let us move forward, toward our goals and passions, let us move from complaining to conquering. It is our choice.

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