Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Summary By Richard Carlson

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Blog Title: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Summary
Name: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life
Author: Richard Carlson
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Book size: 272 pages

About Author:

Before talking about Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Summary let’s talk about the book’s author Richard Carlson. He was an American author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker. His book don’t sweat the small stuff and it’s all small stuff has been USA bestselling book for two consecutive years, and his book spent over 101 weeks on the NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER List,  his book was published in 135 countries in more than 26 other languages. He has written several books on his life career.

Overview:

Don’t sweat the small stuff book is Richard’s bestselling book, after reading and understanding that book anyone would understand why it is one of the bestselling book. It’s an amazing book and the purpose of the book is to get you to look at things differently, in this book author want us to look daily situations criticism and problems which we face in our daily lives little differently,  this book will help you take things in a different way, it gives you wisdom, this book will help you to find happiness in this busy and hectic world.

This book has tiny chapters and each chapter will help you to learn different perspective towards life.

Let’s understand Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff Summary in more details:

Chapter 1 DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF:

In this chapter author says that we people usually allow ourselves to become overstressed on things which aren’t that big, which aren’t really a big deal, author says that we people usually take stress about things which are small and our stress and over focused on that issues make it big, we blow those small problems way out to a big proportion,  for example, suppose you are doing a road trip and suddenly any stranger might cut your way in the traffic, at such situation many people will get angry rather than let it go and move on with our day, we people convince ourselves that our anger is justified and we keep that anger whole day in our mind which doesn’t spoil anything but your day and your peace of mind, many of us even tell that incident to others and drag that small incident for entire day.

Author says that at such situation instead of getting angry we people must take that situation in a positive way, instead of thinking that stranger is trying to look cool and getting angry we must think he must be hurry because of some urgent thing, or because of some emergency, this thinking will give you your peace of mind and also allow you to spend your day happily.

Author say try to avoid bad thinking and just focus on your happiness and peace of mind, just try to learn not to get worried about little things.

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Chapter 2 MAKES PEACE WITH IMPERFECTION:

Author says in this chapter that he is yet to meet an absolute perfectionist whose life is filled with inner peace, author says the need to perfection and the desire for inner peace conflict with each other, author says that whenever we are attached to having something a certain way better that it already is, then we are almost by definition, engaged in a losing battle,  here author is trying to tell us that we people rather of feel happy and grateful about things we have in our lives we focused on things which we don’t have or have it wrong and focus on trying to fixed it, author says when we focused on what’s wrong, it implies that we are dissatisfied and not happy at all.

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Chapter 3 LET GO OF THE IDEA THAT GENTLE, RELAXED PEOPLE CAN’T BE SUPERACHIEVERS

Author says that one of the biggest reasons why we people become so competitive, frightened, hurried and starts living our lives as if we are always in a giant emergency, we people have fear in us that if we become peaceful and relaxed we will stop achieving our goals. We would become lazy and apathetic,  author says that this fear is not true, the fact is entirely opposite, our harried, fearful thinking takes enormous energy and also decrease and drains our motivation and creativity from life. Author says that when we fear we are actually decreasing our potential, author says you get success when you don’t have fear.

Author says people should surround themselves with relaxed peaceful and enthusiastic people, author says through his life he has learned an important lesson: When you have what you want (inner peace) you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concern. Author says it is easier to concentrate, focus and achieve your goals when you have inner peace and positive mental attitude.

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Chapter 4 DON’T INTERRUPT OTHERS OR FINISH THEIR SENTENCES

In this chapter author says that interrupting someone in the middle of the conversation is something which is very destructive habit,  author say when you hurry someone along or interrupt someone or finish his or her sentence, you not only have to keep the track of your own thoughts but of those of the person you are interrupting as well. This tendency of finishing other sentence and interrupting the conversation is very common in busy people, encourages both parties to speed up their speech and their thinking, this, in turn, makes both party nervous, irritable and annoyed. This habit of not allowing someone to finish their sentence or statement can annoy anyone, and this becomes the biggest reason for many arguments because people feel irritated if someone doesn’t listen to what they are saying.

Author says that you shouldn’t interrupt someone when they speak, you must be patient and should wait other person to finish their statement, and should wait for your turn,  when you do this thing you will by yourself notice that your interaction and bonding with another person will improve for sure, when you listen and stop interrupting another person will feel relaxed and comfortable around you and will find peace and happiness having conversation with you, by listening and waiting for your turn you will become more relaxed and loving person.

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These were few chapters of this book Don’t sweat for small stuff. this is an amazing book for people who want peace and happiness in their lives, hence to understand each chapter of this book in detail do buy it from the given link.

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