I think I could be a "professional complainer". I can easily look at my life and even when things are going good, I can still find something that I am unhappy with...

These are a few things I usually complain about (not in any particular sequential order):

1. Money (or lack of)
2. Not getting things the way I want them to.
3. I haven't found Mrs. right one yet.
4. Why do those who do not follow the Lord have "perfect" lives?
5. I wish I could go back in time and correct the mistakes I have made in life.

The list can go on and on...

But I have decided that I need a radical attitude change, not just in the bad things, but in every area of life in general. God is so great and I am so undeserving of His grace and mercy and love towards me, and that is something I tend to take for granted.

I once heard someone say "what is the point of complaining if it doesn't change the end result of what happens?". If you think about it, that makes a lot of sense, what happens, happened, and it happened for a reason and I love how God can use even our lowest moments to grow us into a better person. Sometimes it takes 2, 3 4, even 50 times of falling to learn the lesson, but in the end, "it is what it is" and I need to learn to deal with it.

So I have set my mind to have a better attitude about EVERYTHING, not just the good things, but the bad ones too. One of my favorite verses says:

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, [will He] not much more [clothe] you, O you of little faith?
"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day [is] its own trouble.
(Matthew 6:25-34)

Worrying is pointless, and having your own pity parade is useless...Why worry, complain about things or lack of things, if God already has a plan set up for you anyways??

Challenge yourself to try to not complain, it's not easy and I don't think I will be 100% successful in this, but it is worth the shot.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. -(Author unknown)