Meet Rev. Will Bowen. He's the "lead minister" of the One Community Spiritual Center in Kansas City, MO.I know it isn't right to judge a book by it's cover, but I'd say, from the photo, Rev. Bowen seems to be a likable, easy-going sort. From what I gather, the good Reverend has only two complaints.
The first one being, he's all too often mistaken for Gavin MacLeod of Love Boat fame;
and secondly, he thinks you all gripe and whine and complain too much.
That's right.....you heard me; all you want to do is sit around and grouse, bellyache, moan and grumble.
Reverend Bowen became so dissatisfied with so much dissatisfaction that he developed a program and website called Shut your bleedin' pie-hole dot org to promote his views on positive thinking.
OK, I made up the part about the name....it's really a complaint free world .org
He idea involves wearing this purple Complaint Free bracelet - which you can get free from his website - . Whenever you get a bit miffed and start complaining, then golly gee willikers, you remove the purple bracelet from one wrist and put it on the other.
The theory is, that it takes 21 days to form a new habit and moving this bracelet back and forth for 21 days will get you looking at things in a whole new way.
Will it work?
According to the website, "the average person who really gives this their best effort usually takes 4-10 months to go 21 consecutive days without complaining."
Bowen claims to have given away more than six million purple bracelets; as a matter of fact, he claims that Maya Angelou received the 6 millionth one.
One of the oddest things I discovered about all of this is that acomplaintfreeworld.biz has a complaint department of sorts.
Any item purchased from them is eligible for a refund if you aren't satisfied.
If it's taken longer than 4 weeks to get your item, just send them an email and complain about it.
And the bracelets are made of silicone rubber - no latex is used in the manufacturing process.....so you'll have no complaints about that if you happen to be allergic.
So, go ahead. Get your purple bracelet and shut your bleedin' pie-hole.
2 comments:
I think I'd end up complaining too much about switching the bracelet from one wrist to the other.
I know what you mean...it would be like being trapped in a time warp; you complain about having to move the bracelet.... so you have to move it again which you'd complain about necessitating another move....more complaining, more moving ad infinitum.
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