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A book from that time period where you had to have lists with nice round numbers like 100 and you were ashamed to be anything but happy.
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Featured in Don't Sweat the Small The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on Lifetime
In this illuminating guide in his #1 bestselling series, Richard Carlson reveals the crucial tools with which men can relieve stress and take back control of their lives. He offers strategies for gaining more peace and joy, as well as techniques for channeling one's efforts to reap the greatest rewards,
In this illuminating guide in his #1 bestselling series, Richard Carlson reveals the crucial tools with which men can relieve stress and take back control of their lives. He offers strategies for gaining more peace and joy, as well as techniques for channeling one's efforts to reap the greatest rewards,
288 pages, Paperback
First published December 16,1997
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288 pages, Paperback
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September 5, 2001 by Balance
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9780786886364
- ASIN
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0786886366
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English
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Richard Carlson was an American author, psychotherapist, and motivational speaker. His book, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all Small Stuff (1997), was USA Today's bestselling book for two consecutive years and spent over 101 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. It was published in 135 countries and translated into Latvian, Polish, Icelandic, Serbian and 26 other languages. Carlson went on to write 20 books.
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The concept of this book is an admirable one: how to relieve stress in your life and achieve a higher level of inner peace. However, while reading this book I found myself becoming more stressed out! This book is set up as essentially a list (YES! Another list!) of different methods and techniques that you can use to try and relieve stress from your life. As I am reading the list of different ideas, they make sense, but I feel as though this book was throwing too much at me for any of it to really sink in. It would have been much better if Dr. Carlson had taken a few ideas and gone more in depth with them, as opposed to a very brief overview. If you're truly stressed out and looking to relieve a little bit of it, I would not recommend turning to this book for guidance.
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This book offers 100 pieces of advice. All the advice is good but some of it is repetitive, and the book lacks internal structure. For example, "12.Let Others Be 'Right Most of the Time" and "30. Choose Your Battles Wisely" are basically the same. Several of them are about feeling and expressing gratitude, patience, giving, and having some quiet contemplative time in your life.
It might be especially good for kids since the very short 100 sections could be read one at a time at bedtime or in the morning before school.
It might be especially good for kids since the very short 100 sections could be read one at a time at bedtime or in the morning before school.
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I think this book may suffer the fate of a lot of older self-help books: At the time it was insightful but, after a couple decades of people resharing and building on the ideas, it feels a little trite.
I see this book as a collection of reminders—good intentions that I know but don’t always remember.
But I also think it oversimplifies and, in some ways, puts too much burden on the reader. Life actually *isn’t* all small stuff. Part of the challenge is distinguishing which things actually matter and being able to consider things with an appropriate degree of perspective.
This book doesn’t offer much in the way of nuance. I fully believe that the only thing we can control is our own actions and how we respond to the world around us. It’s easy to have a reaction that’s out of proportion—but that doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t a problem that needs to be resolved.
So. I think this can be a helpful read but I’m not sure it works as a stand-alone philosophy.
I see this book as a collection of reminders—good intentions that I know but don’t always remember.
But I also think it oversimplifies and, in some ways, puts too much burden on the reader. Life actually *isn’t* all small stuff. Part of the challenge is distinguishing which things actually matter and being able to consider things with an appropriate degree of perspective.
This book doesn’t offer much in the way of nuance. I fully believe that the only thing we can control is our own actions and how we respond to the world around us. It’s easy to have a reaction that’s out of proportion—but that doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t a problem that needs to be resolved.
So. I think this can be a helpful read but I’m not sure it works as a stand-alone philosophy.
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I’ve listened to the audio book and it was amazing. Read or listen to the book and you’ll need no therapist.
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There is some great advice in this book. It's very fitting that the author ends the book by telling you to live each day as if it was your last, because he himself died unexpectedly during a flight from San Francisco to New York in 2006. He was only 45 years old. Life truly is short. None of us knows when it will end, so we need to cherish it. In this and many other pieces of advice, I couldn't agree with the author more.
There is a fair amount of repetition in this book, which at first was annoying, until I realized he was repeating what he likely considered the most important lessons. And I agree that they're important. Still somewhat annoying, but understandable. There was also one chapter I didn't appreciate where he brought religion into the picture: "learn to recognize God's fingerprints on everything", or something to that effect. In my opinion religion has no place in content that is otherwise based in science.
Some of the advice also didn't apply to me, and it may not apply to you either. In addition, many of his real-life examples are only relatable to certain people, and so I didn't relate to them. I also found that a lot of the information was basic common sense, so I knew it already and therefore it didn't add a ton of value.
Criticisms aside, this is a book worth reading. Did it change my life? No. Well, maybe. Let's see. I'm going to implement as many of the great lessons and tips here into my life as I can. In time, this book may indeed change my life.
Recommended!
There is a fair amount of repetition in this book, which at first was annoying, until I realized he was repeating what he likely considered the most important lessons. And I agree that they're important. Still somewhat annoying, but understandable. There was also one chapter I didn't appreciate where he brought religion into the picture: "learn to recognize God's fingerprints on everything", or something to that effect. In my opinion religion has no place in content that is otherwise based in science.
Some of the advice also didn't apply to me, and it may not apply to you either. In addition, many of his real-life examples are only relatable to certain people, and so I didn't relate to them. I also found that a lot of the information was basic common sense, so I knew it already and therefore it didn't add a ton of value.
Criticisms aside, this is a book worth reading. Did it change my life? No. Well, maybe. Let's see. I'm going to implement as many of the great lessons and tips here into my life as I can. In time, this book may indeed change my life.
Recommended!
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I bought this book when it first came out and decided to reread it. This is one of the few self-help books that I have enjoyed reading. The book is divided into 100 - two to three page tips that could be read as a daily devotional. I have to be honest some of the advice given is outdated but there are a lot of wonderful hidden gems.
Here are a few of my favorites:
- "Make peace with imperfection"
- "Be aware of the snowball effect of your thinking"
- "Don't interrupt others or finish their sentences "
- "Learn to live in the present moment"
- "Experiment with your back burner"
Here are a few of my favorites:
- "Make peace with imperfection"
- "Be aware of the snowball effect of your thinking"
- "Don't interrupt others or finish their sentences "
- "Learn to live in the present moment"
- "Experiment with your back burner"
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thanks dad, this was the best christmas present. i really enjoyed the part of the book where i learned about life from golf. i've never played golf.
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