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Will Bowen:
The average person complains over twenty times a day. And so they're putting that negative energy out there and then they can't understand why their lives aren't the way they would like them to be.

Will Bowen, author of the book A Complaint Free World…

Scientists have found that if you complain too often, not only will you tend to have poor health but also it can worsen your financial situation because it'll limit your ability to move forward in your job. In addition to that you run the risk of being ostrasized by your friends and family if you complain too much. We all know people who just gripe all the time and they tend to be avoided.

Will is also a minister at a small church. And this all started when he issued a challenge for people to wear a purple bracelet. And every time they complained they'd take the bracelet off one wrist and put it on the other - with the goal of keeping it on one wrist for twenty-one days. Then he made the challenge on Oprah.

Then people started calling from all over wanting them and we have now had requests for over six million bracelets in over eighty countries.

Will says most people don't realize how often they complain.

Complaining is a lot like bad breath you don't notice it when it comes out of your mouth but you sure notice it when it comes out of someone else's. I thought I was one of the positive upbeat people in the world until I put this bracelet on my wrist and realized that I was switching it from wrist to wrist twenty to thirty times a day when I began.

You can get your free bracelet by going to Will's website which you can link to from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.