It\u2019s time to celebrate all the little things in life, according to an annoyingly upbeat Belgian campaigner. But what if whingeing is actually good for you?<\/p>\n
April may be the cruellest month \u2013 but January is easily the most depressing. The weather outside is frightful and, around this time, everyone\u2019s despondently giving up their new year resolutions. It\u2019s dreary and dark and, if you\u2019re the complaining sort (which, you may have noticed, I quite definitively am), there\u2019s \u2013 waves hands vaguely at our crumbling dumpster fire of a planet \u2013 <\/em>a lot to complain about. Indeed, a new report has found that champagne sales are sinking. Not just because of dry January, but because people can\u2019t find much to celebrate<\/a>.<\/p>\n Enter Isabelle Gonnissen, a Belgian woman who seems to be annoyingly obsessed with positivity. She wants all the whingers and whiners out there to change their tune and celebrate the little things in life. Several years ago, Gonnissen launched a 30 Days Without Complaining<\/a> challenge in Belgium; this year, she\u2019s reportedly bringing it to the Netherlands. According to the NL Times, the campaign launched on Blue Monday<\/a> (the third Monday of January), which is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. It probably isn\u2019t, by the way. Rather, Blue Monday is a pseudoscientific<\/a> PR stunt that entrenched itself into our consciousness because it feels kind of true \u2013 but I\u2019m not going to grumble about that now. In fact, I\u2019m going to try not to grumble at all. There\u2019s no way I can give up complaining for 30 days, but I\u2019ll heroically give it a go for the next few sentences.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s time to celebrate all the little things in life, according to an annoyingly upbeat Belgian campaigner. But what if whingeing is actually good for you? April may be the cruellest month \u2013 but January is easily the most depressing. The weather outside is frightful and, around this time, everyone\u2019s despondently giving up their new … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}