I was contacted recently about a new book called “The No Complaining Rule” by Jon Gordon, and I felt this would be a good suggestion for any office or personal setting to adapt.  The following is an excerpt from a review: 

“The fact is every leader and business will face negativity, energy vampires and obstacles to define themselves and their team’s success. That is why one of the most important things we can do in business and life is to stay positive with strategies that turn negative energy into positive solutions. Thus the goal is not to eliminate all complaining; just mindless, chronic complaining. And the bigger goal is to turn justified complaints into positive solutions. After all, every complaint represents an opportunity to turn something negative into a positive. We can utilize customer complaints to improve our service. Employee complaints can serve as a catalyst for innovation and new processes. Our own complaints can serve as a signal letting us know what we don’t want so we can focus on what we do want. And we can use The No Complaining Rule to develop a positive culture at work.”

The biggest complaint that I hear regarding time management and organizing is, “I just don’t have time…”  When you don’t have time to do something, wouldn’t it be a good idea to make a positive change instead of whining about it day after day and watching productivity slow down?  If you are working next to one of these stressed people who struggle to keep up and are very vocal about it, that might be a trigger to seek extra help, providing them with systems and processes to meet the challenges instead of shutting them out or tolerating their complaints.

The act of becoming more organized is positive.  Changing a toxic work is positive.  Don’t settle for living with a negative attitude, whether your own or someone else’s.