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If you have any interest in astrology, you may want to know that we are currently being bathed in some unusually powerful celestial energies. The potential for change is tremendous — what we make of it is up to us.

The maximum influence of the current solar eclipse (the period of time when the moon’s shadow is actually touching the earth) is worldwide, whether or not it is visible from your part of the globe. The window of maximum energy will last for about two and a half more hours. This can be a particularly powerful time for making desired inner changes that will positively affect your outer circumstances.

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What if there was one little thing that most of us do dozens of times per day — one little thing that you could change, and thereby improve every aspect of your life?

The not-so-little thing we’ll be looking at here is a popular activity called complaining. What’s wrong with complaining?

Let’s look at the “payoffs” of complaining first. What do we gain — or hope to gain — by complaining? Complaining may get you some sympathy (for a while). It can be used to establish a sense of bonding with another person or a group (a lot of break room gossip is based on this). We may think that complaining will motivate another person to improve their behavior (it usually has the opposite effect; see below for some clues to why this is so).

But these supposed “gains” come with a high price tag. Let’s look more closely at this seemingly innocent practice:

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Here’s a surprisingly powerful way to turn your circumstances around. At first glance it may appear too “simple” to work, but if practiced consistently and with sincere intent it can have a transformative effect on any “problem” condition:

Ask yourself “What’s going RIGHT in this area?” And then write out as many things as you can think of that are working, even a little bit, in this area of your life. Here’s an example to get you started:

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Here in the states we are celebrating Independence Day. It seems as good a time as any to reflect on the various forms of independence that we can cultivate in our lives. How independent are you?

As Christopher Morley said, “There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

Don’t make yourself “right” or “wrong” with your answers, just keep your mind open and see if you gain some insights (and perhaps some new directions) by reviewing this list:

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