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Are you a whiner or a winner?

“It’s too hard.” “I hate work.” Complainers usually do what they have to do, but they do it with grief and a great deal of grumbling. Why? Because they’re not fully committed. Complaining informs the world, “I’m miserable, feel sorry for me.” Complainers live a “one-foot-in-one-foot-out life, which always generates emotional friction. If you’re going to do something, do it with all your heart—or do nothing. Just stop whining!

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