Complaining without a viable solution solves nothing
Jean Ferris once wrote, “I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.” Of late I feel a bit like a whiner – complaining to anyone who will listen to me about some of the challenges of leaving the safety and security of life in New Jersey for Colorado. And while these “growing pains” as I like to refer to them are completely normal, complaining about situations or circumstances which are only temporary is not. In his book, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckhart Tolle writes, “To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge.” I think we…