“Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.” That is the title of a book my father gave me, and I’ve thought about it a lot lately. There are many things going on in my life that create pressures and spur on anxiety that will bring even the toughest people to their knees.
These are the kind of things that really used to get me down and tear me up for days and even weeks. They are the kind of things that created a lot of issues in relationships for me and with people who I was close to in life. Then, one day I realized that there really wasn’t anything in business that could kill you. Severely wound you? Yes… But nothing in my business can cause something so serious that it is life or death.
That is the point in time when I stopped trying to worry about or “sweat the small stuff.” Sure, details getting missed, costing you money, the loss of an account is just going to happen. This is not a way of being flippant about mistakes and errors, but more of a statement of reality that it’s not about how many mistakes that you make, but how much you grow from them and how fast you recover from them mentally.
A man is exactly who he thinks he is.
And that is probably the most meaningful advice I give myself on a daily basis regarding staying positive and picking yourself up time and time again when the small things don’t go your way.