Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life (Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Series)
by Richard Carlson
Recommended by Adam Robinson
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Richard Carlson's Don't Sweat the Small Stuff delivers dozens of brief, plainspoken entries that encourage letting go of minor irritations and slowing down. Each short chapter is a single tip or perspective you can try the same day, which makes the book easy to use between tasks. The useful part is its immediacy and low effort; the limiting part is repetition and a surface-level approach that leaves readers who want deeper mechanisms, context, or hands-on routines unsatisfied.
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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and it's all small stuff is a book that shows 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, stressfilled life. You can learn to put things in perspective by making...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Psychology, Personal Development, and Social Sciences.
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Adam Robinson
“Richard Carlson's book Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff is FULL of LIFE WISDOM. All the GREATS would agree—it is indeed ALL small stuff BUT they got to the top of their game BECAUSE they sweated it, relentlessly. To become great, sweat the small stuff!”
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Consider The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy. Recommended by 8 sources.
“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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