Over the past five years, Richard Carlson has shown countless families, lovers, and workers how to live in a more calm and productive manner. Now he turns his attention to men, with numerous simple strategies and life lessons that blend humor, warmth, and uncommon wisdom. Carlson invites men of all ages to enjoy the benefits of simplification and discover what so many of us already know: that its a stressful world out there, but it doesn't have to be.

Inside find helpful advice, such as: Take a Vacation, Not a Guilt-Trip Don't Get "Should Upon" Hades or Homecoming? Opt In- or Out-of Family Events Quit Being Your Mother Ban Worry from Your Holidays It's Not Daytona—You're Not Jeff Gordon Don't Try to Cook Tailgating Turkeys Don't Get Scrooged is a jewel of a handbook on how to avoid, appease, and even win over the Scrooges who haunt your holidays. Whether it's the salesclerk who ignores you in favor of her cell phone, the customer who knowingly jumps ahead of you in line at Starbucks, the unnaturally irritable boss down the hall, or the in-laws who invite themselves (every year) for a two-week stay at your house, you will always need to deal with Scrooges, grumps, uninvited guests, sticks-in-the-mud, and supreme party poopers. Learning to handle them whenever and wherever they appear is not just optional—it's essential.

Featured in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on Lifetime In this classic roadmap to managing your high-tension job, Richard Carlson shows how to stop worrying about the aspects of your work beyond your control and interact more fruitfully and joyfully with colleagues, clients, and bosses. His key insights reveal how to: How to manage rush deadlines with rushing How to transform your outlook and prepare for the day ahead How to enjoy corporate travel How to have a really bad day . . . and get over it

For the millions who have read "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff", this inspiring new workbook has been designed to help put the book's principles into practice. Includes exercises, questions, and self-tests designed to help readers put things into perspective and keep the little things from taking over their lives.

Featured in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on Lifetime This indispensable guide to family in the #1 bestselling series reveals how to avoid letting the minor setbacks in your home life get you down. With his characteristic candor and piercing insight, author Richard Carlson demonstrates how to resolve such common domestic tensions as: Children who are whining or fighting Issues with your spouse Hassles over household chores Difficult teenagers

Who knew that a self-help book about releasing negative thoughts in order to achieve happiness could prove its worth by testing its author after it was published? When Michael R. Mantell, PhD, released his book Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: P. S. It's ALL Small Stuff in 1988, it rocked the self-help world, and the audio version won the highly coveted Publishers Weekly Best Audio Award in the self-help category. So when, a few years later, Dr. Mantell saw a book with the same title prominently displayed at a bookstore, he was happily surprised-but then, he saw a different author's name on the newly designed cover. What did Dr. Mantell do? He took his own advice and chose to view this positively, celebrating the fact that more people were being reached with the advice he knew changed lives. Now celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary, the original Don't Sweat the Small Stuff offers up-to-date tools that can enhance your life today. You have the power to choose how you feel, how you react, and how you deal with your circumstances. Replace your negative and fearful thoughts with positive and hopeful thinking-and start the journey toward the happy life you've always wanted.

In conversation, Inga Beale and Martin Firrell reflect on the different ways women and men are judged, the relationship between gender and power, and the continuing challenge of inequality in the work place.

Featured in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: The Kristine Carlson Story starring Heather Locklear, premiering on Lifetime In this illuminating guide in his #1 bestselling series, Richard Carlson reveals the crucial tools with which men can relieve stress and take back control of their lives. He offers strategies for gaining more peace and joy, as well as techniques for channeling one's efforts to reap the greatest rewards, including: Find time to blow off steam Have conflict without it having you See things from a distance Invest in yourself

Richard Carlson has shown people how not to sweat the small stuff with their families, in love, at work and at home. His wife Kris has shown women how to live more peacefully, and now Richard devotes an entire book to helping men to relax and live in a more productive and calm manner. The book includes such topics as: -Be a quitter -Get out of the serious mode -Rid yourself of a busy mind -Grant yourself one hour -See stress as non-sexy -Learning from other 'sweaters'

The Don't Sweat Guide for Couples shows men and women how to make their intimate relationships more joyful and stress-free while maintaining their loving connection. Addressing such concerns as: Remember the One You Fell For Forget to Keep Score Aim for the Extraordinary Be the Bright Spot in Your Partner's Day Appreciate the Benefit of a Doubt Cherish the Child in Your Partner and many more, this book provides easy-to-do, yet profoundly life-changing strategies that will teach couples how to be less reactive, how to communicate more effectively, and how to have a more peaceful and carefree relationship.