Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life

Richard Carlson

Jan 2002 · Sold by Hachette Books

About this ebook

Featured in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on Lifetime

Put challenges in perspective, reduce stress and anxiety through small daily changes, and find the path to achieving your goals with this groundbreaking inspirational guide—a self-help classic.
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff is a book that tells you how to keep from letting the little things in life drive you crazy. In thoughtful and insightful language, author Richard Carlson reveals ways to calm down in the midst of your incredibly hurried, stress-filled life.

You can learn to put things into perspective by making the small daily changes Dr. Carlson suggests, including advice such as "Choose your battles wisely"; "Remind yourself that when you die, your 'in' box won't be empty"; and "Make peace with imperfection". With Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... you'll also learn how to:

• Live in the present moment
• Let others have the glory at times
• Lower your tolerance to stress
• Trust your intuitions
• Live each day as it might be your last

With gentle, supportive suggestions, Dr. Carlson reveals ways to make your actions more peaceful and caring, with the added benefit of making your life more calm and stress-free.

Ratings and reviews

Reinforces what we as humans should already know and do. Easier said than done but possible with a determined focus and mind. It provides good examples and ways in which one can handle life's challenges all when looking at the bigger picture, are all small stuff.

Timeless little book that concisely lists many important lessons in life. I like to skim through this book every now and then to remind myself the little adjustments that can be made in my thinking, reactions, feeling, and outlook to life events. These little course corrections help me immensely to focus on what really matters in my life. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone of any age.

Seriously life changing. Very simple read, which helps me a lot, as I have a lot of trouble concentrating on things. But this book quite literally changed my life for the better.

About the author

During his life, Richard Carlson, Ph.D, was considered one of the foremost experts in happiness and stress reduction in the United States and around the world and was a frequent featured guest on many national television and radio programs. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff continued to be a publishing phenomenon with over twenty titles in the brand franchise, two of which were co-authored and authored with his beloved wife, Kris. He died of a pulmonary embolism in December 2006, at the age of forty-five.