Favorite Inspirational Quotes

You can overcome anything if you don’t bellyache.

Bernard M. Baruch

I don’t know if you can overcome “anything” but I do know that by not bellyaching, you have a much better shot at fixing or solving the problem or situation. First off, if you are complaining, then you are focusing on what is wrong, not on solving it. Your focus is in the wrong place.

Next, if you are giving all your energy to complaining, there is little left for working on the problem. You’re taking action, using the term loosely, on the thing that won’t make the situation any better. If you are complaining about a situation, a problem, then how do you motivate yourself to fix it?

Maybe you think that a little bellyaching will just get you started. I find that instead it gets my “monkey mind” rolling and makes it much harder to just let go and fix things if you can.

And how are you going to come up with the determination and persistence to see you through overcoming the situation if your focus is on complaining about it? It will just drag you down. To work through anything with determination and persistence you must be focused on finding and working the solution.

That just leads us back to : where is your focus? It sure isn’t on overcoming the situation if you are complaining. I also think complainers tend to “play” the victim wanting someone else, the mysterious “they”, to fix the problem the complainer so elegantly points out. After all, “they” are supposed to take care of everything.

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