How to Complain Like a Leader
How to complain like a leader:
- Take responsibility – without exception – to make everything you complain about better. The most terrifying responsibility is acknowledging that you contributed to the environment you’re complaining about. Standing aloof is blind arrogance.
- Never complain about things you can’t change.
- The weather.
- How quickly time passes.
- The past, including the choices you made.
- Other people’s behaviors or attitudes.
- An unworthy person’s good fortune. Sure, they don’t deserve it. So what!
- Your current circumstances.
- Face-forward when complaining. What do you want?
- Seek solutions when complaining. What are you solving?
- Be tougher on yourself than you are on others. Complain three times about yourself, every time you complain once about others, if you’re inclined to be a complainer. Make this a hard and fast rule
HENRY KOTULA 