Sibyl Chavis was working as an attorney and dealing with all the
stressors that come with the job when she realized how much of her day
she spent complaining. She decided to remedy that by taking a 40-day
no-complaints challenge.
Seven years later, Chavis still has complaining in her review mirror,
and the improvement in her life motivated her to become a writer and
launch her website, The Possibility of Today.
HuffPost Live's Nancy Redd talked with Chavis on Oct. 14 about the way her consciousness changed when she decided to keep her life complaint-free.
"They say you have anywhere from 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts a day, and
honestly, probably 85 percent of those thoughts, I was complaining,"
Chavis said. "When I stopped that, I started focusing on other things,
and I said, 'Wait, there's more out here, there's more for me to do.'
And it just freed up my mind in ways it had never been free before."
Chavis didn't take on the no-complaint challenge alone. Her husband
took the plunge with her, and Chavis said the couple's relationship has
grown in ways she didn't expect since they began focusing on the
positive.
"Our conversations changed between each other because they had to,"
she said. "[Before we stopped complaining] a lot of it was focused on,
'I can't believe this happened at work,' or this or that. We started
talking about things we were passionate about that I don't think I would
have known about him if we hadn't started having these types of
conversations."
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