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    Dont Sweat The Small Stuff About Money: Spiritual And Practical Ways To Create Abundance And More Fun In Your Life
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    Dont Sweat The Small Stuff About Money: Spiritual And Practical Ways To Create Abundance And More Fun In Your Life

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    About this audiobook

    Previously published as Don't Worry, Make Money, a number one national bestseller, Don't Sweat The Small Stuff About Money is revised and updated to join Richard Carlson, Ph.d.'s phenomenal don't sweat series.

    With twelve brand-new essays and a new introduction by the author, this audiobook shows us how to:


    • Learn more about the relationship between moods and money

    • Be aware of what you don't know, and what you're not good at

    • Spend the bulk of your time on the "critical inch" of your business

    • Avoid giving away your power


    Replete with fascinating ideas and new concepts for everyone from businesspeople to those who manage the money in their households. Don't Sweat The Small Stuff About Money reveals how to live a life that's more wealthy, productive, and carefree.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2001
    ISBN9780743562164
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    • 5/5
      Excellent Book!
    • 3/5
      Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...And it's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

      This book is a simple book that is comprised of 100 small ways to improve happiness and tranquility in your life. Each tip is only a page or two long and are actually simple things that make a lot of sense. For instance, instead of interrupting someone to agree or disagree on whatever they are talking about., let them finish what they are saying. In other words, let them have their glory, you don't have to be the center of attention all the time. There were several times throughout the book where I found myself saying 'I am so guilty of that!' One of them talks about not letting things get to you, meaning don't sit there and continue to think of the situation and let it fester. I am guilty of this. However, as I try to live as much of a drama free life as possible, I have found that I also already employ several tactics described in this book. For instance, I always try to see the viewpoint of others. This is a pretty quick read, or can just be read a little bit over time. I would think that by even doing a few of these things, people would find their lives to be a bit simpler and more peaceful.
    • 3/5
      FAIR READ. MAKES YOU LOOK AT SITUATIONS DIFFERENTLY.
    • 5/5
      Bought this years ago when it was first all the rage. I don't usually jump on bandwagons like this, but I was at a crossroads in my life and spending a lot of time in Books-A-Million, where the books were on display. It helped me rectify some things in my own mind.Recently, I've been at another crossroads and have turned to several other books for some clarification, so I decided to give this another read-through. I'm glad I did.I forgot how much insight there is within the pages of this text. Using advice and philosophies from multiple sources, Carlson delivers a series of a hundred truisms that everyone should consider at least once in their lives. He doesn't lay anything on heavy-handed, and there is no religious connotation to the advice (in fact, there is a strong Eastern philosophical leaning to many of the statements). Excellent recommendations about living your life, some that I picked up and still follow since my first read, some that I've forgotten and plan to try incorporating now.Hard not to recommend this one to anyone looking to find changes to help them live a better life.
    • 4/5
      I found this book a quick read. It's not a particularly deep book but it does have some practical advice for keeping things in perspective (a very good thing when one is unemployed and trying to provide for one's family). The bit that fascinated me the most is that the author is from the Bay Area so some of his specific examples hit very close to home. I am sending this book along to another Bay Area resident who I hope will enjoy this book too.
    • 3/5
      Good ideas in quick-read format.
    • 2/5
      Like so many books for self-help, there's a huge disconnect between the ease of stating the philosophy, and the ease of implementing it. Besides the huge disconnect between the imagined problem being solved and the real problems most people face.
    • 3/5
      Good commonsense advice, we all should try and live by. Believe me it is quite hard to change your personality, but will always try.
    • 3/5
      A little too warm & fuzzy for me - I should have expected that though. I got turned off by the number of times the author uses "love" in the text. To be fair, I'm only a few dozen pages in, I'll probably keep going back to it to see if it gets any more palatable.
    • 5/5
      I got a lot out of this book. It's short chapters made it a fast and fun read. Everyone could always use tips on how to have you enjoy life more. I always thought that I didn't "sweat the small stuff" but I realize now that I could use some improvement. It was really an eye opener. I highly recommend it.
    • 1/5
      What a load of self serving egotistical crap. It is en vogue to say how wonderful this book is but I found it to be just the authors way of telling you how wonderful he is. Pity one star is the lowest.
    • 4/5
      100 tips for simplifying your life and being more at peace.
    • 2/5
      I have a thing for reading the occasional self-help book, and of course everyone's heard of these, but it wasn't until the copy was a remaindered $3 hardback edition at Borders that I even glanced at it. I'm glad I did -- while the entire book isn't as good as the first dozen chapters, the first dozen chapters felt like they were talking right to me. There are some things in the book I'm definitely going to carry with me, and that have already helped me with my anxiety. I'm quite pleased with it.
    • 5/5
      When I'm stressing out and about to tear my hair out until I'm bald, I hit this book. It gives you a chance to stop, breathe, and realize life isn't all that bad after all. And neither are people.
    • 5/5
      this is great if you need some help keeping your balance.
    • 4/5
      Not rocket science advice but a timely reminder of some small practical tips that get the blood pressure down and put things in perspective. One of my favourites is one someone is driving you up the wall with a whole range of negative behaviour, take time out to consider what this is teaching you. Used this with a Boss who is a sexist, megalomaniac bully(sadly not an exaggeration!) to make sure that I examined any bit of my behaviour that could fall into the same way of behaviouring.
    • 5/5
      Great book, very interested thoughts, I actually learned something from this one
    • 1/5
      dear scribd...I want to delete this book. I accidentally chose this...please help me delete it.....it showed up in my list..thanks.
    • 1/5
      Meh. Most of the book was stuff that I'd seen or read in a million other places. Some of it was just silly (a 10 minute bath?! - that's hardly enough time to get in and adjust the temperature). It felt like the author just Googled relevant bits of wisdom and used the book to explain each bit. Many ideas were repetitive.
    • 4/5
      Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…and it’s all small stuff: simple ways to keep the little things from taking over your life, by Richard Carlson, suggests 100 ways for people to change the way they think about or address the stress in their lives. Each of the suggestions is presented on one or two small pages, which can be quickly read and understood. Most of them address specific issues such as, “Make Peace with Imperfection” or “Become More Patient” or “Become a Less Aggressive Driver” or “Do One Thing at a Time.” The book does not espouse a spiritual approach. However, several of the techniques seem to come from a Buddhist tradition, e.g., “Quiet the Mind” or “Practice Ignoring Your Negative Thoughts” or “Learn to Live in the Present Moment” or “Resist the Urge to Criticize.” Overall this book is a short and simple list of suggestions to help us understand that stress is a ubiquitous part of life, which must be addressed internally by the way we react to it. Carlson does not provide a panacea for stress, but he does provide some helpful concepts. He also presents a short list of selected reading.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      In this collection of one hundred "Open Your Eyes" hints to true happiness, I often found myself drifting and wondering. Sure, the things Carlson suggests in his book are wonderful, but I couldn't help but asking: "How do you focus on inner peace when it's a struggle to keep the lights on?" I got a little too hung up on thinking these tips would only work for the affluent--and when they did seem in reach, there were simply too many of them. That's precisely the reason why I've been reading this book off and on (and over and over) for seven months. There simply isn't any other way to tackle it effectively. The short blurbs are complete wisdom, and it is a book truly worth owning and ingesting piece by piece.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book has benefited me a lot, I used to take everything as a priority 1, this book has taught me how to relax and at the same time complete my work, as what Carlson said: ‘The purpose of life isn’t to get it all done, but to enjoy each step on the journey’, a very inspirational quote. There are 100 steps to complete the whole book, easy vocabulary that everyone can understand, its a very nice, short book that can help a lot of people.
    • 5/5
      It's rare for me to buy a book on impulse. Thankfully I made an exception years ago for Richard Carlson's best-selling Don't Sweat the Small Stuff. I was in my late teens, and ardently open to new ways of thinking whenever and wherever they presented themselves. Carlson's book arrived at an ideal time.My favorite quote from the book, and one of the greatest realizations that I carry with me even to this day, is actually credited to another inspirational thinker, the late Alfred D' Souza: "For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."
    • 3/5
      Overall, I think this is a good book. It offers good advice for ways to reduce stress in our lives and to help us see that indeed, "it is all small stuff" because we often, to resort to a cliché, "make mountains out of mole hills".

      I think that some of the strategies offered are so simple they should be obvious, but I suppose the point of writing a book for an audience of overly stressed people in an overly stressed world is that often things that should be obvious really aren't.

      As I was reading the book, I did find that the more I got into the book, the more repetitive I thought it got. This is a very easy read with short chapters of typically no more than 1 - 2 pages each. And while those short chapters are probably great for our modern world where people seem to have the attention span of a nanosecond some days (Okay, that's a slight exaggeration on my part.), I think it's the short chapters that began to make it seem repetitive.

      Carlson would mention a concept such as "turn your melodrama into a mellow-drama" in one chapter and then he would revisit that concept a couple of chapters later. Some concepts he revisited 3-4 times within the book. And while each chapter does focus on a specific strategy, I found myself withing that he had at least taken each strategy that related to a concept and grouped the chapters dealing with those particular strategy closer together in the book. Even better would perhaps have been combining some of the chapters as they addressed the same concept (i.e Each strategy for turning your melodrama into a mellow-drama could have been included in one chapter instead of three or four chapters.)
    • 3/5
      ‘The purpose of life isn’t to get it all done, but to enjoy each step on the journey’, says Richard Carlson as the core message of this simple but engaging book.The title encourages us not to get drawn into living our lives constantly dealing with the small stuff. It’s referring to the way that things ‘of the moment’ gain an unwarranted importance which consumes our time, leaving us with scarcely the time to ask ourselves what is important, much less the time to pursue it.The book is structured as 100 chapters, each of only one or two pages and each dealing with a simple strategy to retrieve our lives from the reactive state that we too easily find ourselves in.The message of the book is don’t waste time on the small stuff and of course, however important we may believe our lives are, if we stand back far enough, everything becomes small stuff. Several of the chapters are used to help the reader recognise this perspective. The approach to this illustrates the simplicity of the ideas presented. For example in the midst of an argument to become aware of your breathing and count to ten. To ask yourself whether the issue you are fighting for will be important to you in a year’s time. To reflect that with the passage of a period as brief as 100 years, none of us will still be around. Other chapters offer approaches that can help you change your approach and for example become more patient, considerate, thankful, and help you gain control of your perspective on life.The ideas are simple, but this is their strength. They reflect what we already know. Richard doesn’t set out to teach ideas, rather to gently remind us and encourage us to create a little space to adopt them in our all too reactive lives.