Richard Carlson
Richard Carlson
Richard Carlsonwas an American author, psychotherapist, and motivational speaker, who rose to fame with the success of his book, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff... and it’s all Small Stuff, which became one of the fastest-selling books of all time and made publishing history as USA Today's bestselling book for two consecutive years. It also 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth16 May 1961
CityPiedmont, CA
CountryUnited States of America
...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.
What interferes with this peaceful feeling is our expectation of reciprocity.
If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.
One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.
Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.
Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.
as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself
One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.
The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.
mistakes are really not that big of a deal. in fact , as most of us acknowledge we need to make mistakes in order to learn and grow
Typically you issue those releases when you get partial payment. We were bending over backward, issuing them even when we were not getting partial payment. We stopped doing that when they filed bankruptcy.
We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.