30 Complaint-Free Days 

Day 3

Today I complained - long and hard about my new Fitbit tracker! Yup - technology got the better of me!

The thing is - all I actually wanted was a simple pedometer to track my steps each day and this Fitbit tracker seems to be so complicated!

OK, I accept that I haven't had great success with pedometers in the past. They have worked - spectacularly simply and easily. My challenge has always come in keeping them for very long. I seem to have spectacular success in killing them off! About half of my past pedometers have ended up falling down the toilet - nice! The rest have managed to pop off my waistband or belt as I have got out of the car and ended up either being trodden on by me or run over by passing cars! So I thought that the wristband might be a bit more secure. Though quite how something on my wrist can track my steps I can't quite imagine. The way I throw my arms about when I talk I imagine it could believe I have done several thousand steps before I have moved at all. 

But I remembered to think of a better feeling thought to stop the complaints and came up with 

1. I am very fortunate to have a Fitbit.
2. I am sure I will eventually come to love it and it will transform my fitness levels - necessary now I am 60 years old. I intend to grow old disgracefully and have fun and I need to be fit for that.
3. I am blessed to have a lifestyle that requires me to keep track of my activity. Most people in the world do so much walking just to survive that this is truly a 'first world problem'.

Then the traffic almost got the better of me. I decided to take the garden waste to the tip and it seemed that every time I wanted to do a right turn 'the world and his wife' were waiting to stop me! But I was not really in a hurry and clearly everyone else was, so I calmed down and decided to find it amusing.

So what are my thoughts and pondering on my complaining today?

Well, I can reach for better feeling thoughts when I realise I am about to get cross, I can do things that  make me happy, I can make sure I leave plenty of time so I don't have to stress when I get held up in traffic, I can see the funny side and I can try to do things to help other people. I just need to remember how very blessed I am and trust that everything will work out for the best in the end.

ON the plus side - I suspect there is little danger that this step tracker will drop down the toilet of fall under a passing car! That has to be cause for celebration.