<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" style="float: left;" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/pegine_echevarria_09.jpg" alt="Pegine Echevarria motivational speaker" width="80" height="127" />Cut it out &#8230; please. I&#8217;m so tired of hearing people whine instead of appreciating what they have. You and I have a lot. We have way more than most people around the world. Yes&#8230; others may have more, but so what!</p>
<p>Here is what WHINE means to me&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>W &#8211; Wrapped up in their issues</strong> (self absorbed)</p>
<p>Whiners are wrapped up in their own issues and they want everyone to know it. They are so &#8220;happy&#8221; that they have someone who is listening to their problems. They really believe that all of their defeatist, self serving, petty complaints are interesting to others. If you listen to whiners you are just giving them attention they don&#8217;t deserve. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/11/win-dont-whine-by-pegine/" title="Permanent Link: Win Don&#8217;t Whine! By Pegine" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":884,"date":"2011-11-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2013-03-11T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:45:34","slug":"win-dont-whine-by-pegine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/11\/win-dont-whine-by-pegine\/","title":{"rendered":"Win Don&#8217;t Whine! By Pegine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/pegine_echevarria_09.jpg\" alt=\"Pegine Echevarria motivational speaker\" width=\"80\" height=\"127\" \/>Cut it out &#8230; please. I&#8217;m so tired of hearing people whine instead of appreciating what they have. You and I have a lot. We have way more than most people around the world. Yes&#8230; others may have more, but so what!<\/p>\n<p>Here is what WHINE means to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>W &#8211; Wrapped up in their issues<\/strong> (self absorbed)<\/p>\n<p>Whiners are wrapped up in their own issues and they want everyone to know it. They are so &#8220;happy&#8221; that they have someone who is listening to their problems. They really believe that all of their defeatist, self serving, petty complaints are interesting to others. If you listen to whiners you are just giving them attention they don&#8217;t deserve. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/11\/win-dont-whine-by-pegine\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Win Don&#8217;t Whine! By Pegine\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}