Do you have a topic that you can’t help complaining about? Something that comes up over and over and over again. A conversation your friends are sick of? A fight that keeps surfacing with your partner?
Try this on for size: A complaint is a disappointed dream.
The next time you have the urge to bitch about that same old topic, put it in front of you — literally. Select a small object to represent the complaint and set it in front of you on the floor. While you study this problem, ask yourself: What is it that you hunger for, that’s not being met, that drives this complaint?
I would love to hear what you learn!











Jeri of Salisbury, MD, dreams of taking her 6 kids to Disney World. Let's help her fulfill this wish.