I'm Jody Moore and this is Better Than Happy, episode 320, complaint addiction.

Did you know that you can live a life that's even better than happy?

My name is Jody Moore.

I'm a master certified life coach and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And if you're willing to go with me, I can show you how.

Let's go.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to episode 320. I want to talk about complaining today.

Now, some of you are like, oh, good. I'm going to send this to my husband.

He's a complainer. Just slow down before you do that.

Here's what I want you to consider. We are all addicted to complaining.

Every one of us. Maybe we've always been this way. Maybe it's a human condition.

Maybe it's gotten worse over time. I don't know.

But I do believe that every one of us is addicted to complaining.

And I think in the last couple of years it's gotten especially bad.

And I want to point it out to you to give you some leverage over it.

And I want to talk to you about why it's a problem, what you can do about it,

and what to do with the people around you that are complaining as well.

So to begin with, I made a list of all the things I complained about yesterday.

As far as I can recall, these are the things that I complained about out loud to someone else.

You ready? I complained about how the air is getting smoky.

Again, we've had smoke off and on and it was rolling in again yesterday.

I complained about how long winter is in Spokane.

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