Welcome to Game Changer Live.

I'm Dave Anderson.

In this episode, I want to talk about the antidote for complaining. Complaining. You look up the word

complain, it talks about this, to express dissatisfaction or annoyance about the state of affairs

or an event. Now, listen, there are some things, you know, that you want to express dissatisfaction

about. I get that. I get that. You order a steak and a fine restaurant rare, and you get it well done.

All right? You probably have reason to be annoyed about that and to tell them about it, right? You

want them to fix it. But you shouldn't be talking about it two weeks

later. And you don't need to blow it out of proportion. And see, this is what happens with

complainers and complaining as many people, without even really realizing what they're doing,

that people around them do, but they don't. They've made complaining a central part of their life. It's a huge

part of their vocabulary. In fact, you would just swear that the reason some people ever learned

to speak in the first place was so they could complain. I mean, they have master's degrees

in misery and PhDs and depression. That's just the way they live. Now, if you think about the game changer traits,

though, again, in my book Unstoppable, I talk about the four groups of performance mindsets,

Undertaker, Caretaker, Playmaker, Game changer, and point out how that game changer is more

consistently bringing. Now, think about these traits, effort, energy, enthusiasm,

excellence, which means commitment to excellence, doing it better than you did the last time.

Passion, attitude, focus, and integrity. How much of that can you bring when you're complaining?

When you're just finding fault like there's a reward for it. When you open your mouth and all these whiny sounds fall out of it, how much enthusiasm

can you bring or can you engender in others?

How much passion are you bringing?

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