I challenge you to stop complaining

Last Tuesday I biked to my co-working space around 11:30am and realized, just as I sat down, that I had forgotten my lunch. Delicious leftovers sat uselessly in the fridge at home, and I had to be on a call in twenty minutes. (Cool story, right?)

When faced with this situation in the past, I would’ve spent at least a minute complaining to myself. The internal monologue might have sounded something like this: