This quote made me laugh, not because it’s funny, exactly, but because it fits pretty much everyone I know, including myself. Can anyone honestly say they have never complained about something, and then did nothing to change what they were complaining about?
After a while, though, complaining should get old. No one else wants to hear it endlessly, that’s for sure. And you should grow weary of constant negativity from yourself without any action to implement change.
It’s easier to complain. It’s easier to bemoan a situation than to exert effort to bring about real change. But at some point, you have to take full responsibility for your own life and your own circumstances. You are not a victim if you have made inaction a habit. You are a volunteer and a slave to your own problems.
That’s a lecture just as much for myself as it is for anyone else. I have been shaken out of my inertia and have been slowly but surely making changes in myself and in my life, and I am much happier. There are still things I want to tackle, challenges I’ve set for myself, goals I want to achieve. The surest way to reach none of it is to do nothing, and I simply refuse to sell myself or my loved ones short by giving it anything less than my best.
Sweat & Sparkle 