Fixing complaints

This was inspired by Jamie's thread about self-love.

I was thinking about what kind of things I complain about and what kind of things other people complain about. I realized that I complain less than a lot of people I know because I don't often complain about things that I can't change because, why would I, it won't do any good. But then I thought, complaining about stuff I can change doesn't help either, fixing it does.

Here's is where it gets really fun and difficult. I am going to try to analyze all of my complaints. I'm going to think about whether or not I can fix the situation and then figure out if it's worth fixing. If it is worth fixing I'll hopefully have one less thing to complain about later because it will be fixed. If it isn't worth fixing then hopefully I won't complain about it in the future because I'll have already examined it and come to the conclusion that either I can fix it but it isn't worth the fuss or I can't fix it so why bother myself with it.

Example. I complain about how cold it is here. It would seem that I can't fix that but I sort of can. I recently bought a scarf, better gloves, and a zip up hoodie to wear under my coat. Now I'm less cold so there's less to complain about and I've realized that if I did complain it wouldn't do me any good.

I plan to keep track of my complaints to see how many things I fix and how this affects the amount of complaining I do.

I was going to do this as a journal log (I still might) but I thought I would make it more public to get feedback and allow others to join me if they wished.

Edit: I don't expect to stop complaining entirely, but I think that this will help.

Update:

Today A coworker of mine walked into my office and asked if I was busy. I said "Not really" and he handed me some paperwork and told me that he had a ton to do and was hoping that I could help him out. He then walked over to another person's office where they proceded to chat about nothing for an hour. I know that they did nothing because I walked over and joined them for a minute. I then went to another coworker only to hear the same story from her.

So instead of just sit there and complain, we dumped the paperwork back on his desk and went to our boss. She was very displeased to hear our tale.

Normally the way that situation would have panned out was I'd complain and mope and whine to myself and maybe a few coworkers, my hatred of this other coworker would grow but nothing would happen. Now, I feel better and there may actually be action taken against my lazy coworker. I did not feel like a tattle tale as I thought I would. I feel much better actually.