Weekend Homework: Let the Little Stuff Go Today
Last year, Todd and I ran a rather successful and valuable column called “Weekend Homework†every Friday. We wanted to educate our readers on the basics of personal finance and development, ranging from calculating your net worth to reducing redundancies. Today we’re proud to announce that the column is back by request.
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When I was young, my little sister would snap at anything. I could antagonize her without even trying. Most of the time, in fact, I didn’t even know that my actions stressed her out. My dad would turn to her and ask, “Do you need to read ‘Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff’ again?â€
She’d grumble, “NO.â€
Do you find yourself grumbling? The little details of business driving you bonkers? Sometimes I want to go crazy. I’m letting details that don’t even matter control my perspective.
I’m not going to lecture you on how to let things go because the solution is different for everyone. For example, I start baking (maybe even crying). Something tells me that Todd doesn’t do that stuff. Maybe he goes out and shoots tin cans. We all have our own ways of dealing with stress. In any case, check out the Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff website. They have a few quick-read articles that you might find refreshing. Plus you can get your mind off of work for a few minutes.
Then throw your rants and raves into our comment box of this article. Get those silly frustrations out before your weekend really starts.
As the feature person of this article (Katie’s sister), sweating the small stuff has always been a struggle for me. To this day it has been a struggle, but I strive to look at the big picture- in the long run does it really matter if the swan cream puffs look perfect?
Each day I try hard not to sweat the small stuff and exit the situation that can be stressing me out. This will be something that I continue to work on because life is simply too short to worry over spilled salt.
March 2nd, 2007 | #
(A little background for those of you who aren’t my sisters or I)
If we ever got in an argument over something stupid then our dad would threaten to make us do reports on a chapter from the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”
I’m fairly sure that my dad hasn’t even read the book. But I sure have!
I’m not sure if Katie and Michelle ever had to actually write any reports like I did. That would probably explain why they are always so grouchy all the time. =P (hehe just kidding!)
That certainly isn’t nearly as much fun as doing just about anything else! Not for me at least!
March 2nd, 2007 | #
The truth comes out to our readers… Todd and I are family! And I never had to write a report–forgot about those.
(As for being grumpy… who wouldn’t being Todd’s sister)
:)
March 2nd, 2007 | #
I didn’t know it was supposed to be some big secret or something!
March 2nd, 2007 | #
I didn’t know if i was a secret, either… but we never told anyone or gave any hint on this site beyond the fact that we grew up in the same town, as described on “the Aridni goal” page.
March 2nd, 2007 | #