📖 Book Don't Sweat the Small Stuff … and It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson, PhD. Synopsis: Simple ways to keep little things from taking over your life. The book consists of 100 short articles -- we'll go through them week by week. This week’s # 4: Be Aware of the Snowball Effect of Your Thinking Here's what you need to do: 1. Read it yourself, take time to reflect on it and make notes if you wish. 2. Join the live reading on Wednesday. We'll read and listen to the article together, line by line. 3. Share your thoughts. Keep your answer under 5 minutes. Be clear, and focus on expressing your ideas about the topic to practice real English speaking. Article # 4 Be Aware of the Snowball Effect of Your Thinking A powerful technique for becoming more peaceful is to be aware of how quickly your negative and insecure thinking can spiral out of control. Have you ever noticed how uptight you feel when you're caught up in your thinking? And, to top it off, the more absorbed you get in the details of whatever is upsetting you, the worse you feel. One thought leads to another, and yet another, until at some point, you become incredibly agitated. For example, you might wake up in the middle of the night and remember a phone call that needs to be made the following day. Then, rather than feeling relieved that you remembered such an important call, you start thinking about everything else you have to do tomorrow. You start rehearsing a probable conversation with your boss, getting yourself even more upset. Pretty soon you think to yourself, "I can't believe how busy I am. I must make fifty phone calls a day. Whose life is this anyway?" and on and on it goes until you're feeling sorry for yourself. For many people, there's no limit to how long this type of "thought attack" can go on. In fact, I've been told by clients that many of their days and nights are spent in this type of mental rehearsal. Needless to say, it's impossible to feel peaceful with your head full of concerns and annoyances.

Well, there's been no change. I have a referral to go to an ENT doctor--hopefully I can get in early in the week. I'm unable to speak~~~ This is a nightmare for me and I truly apologize to you all. Don't worry, I have contingency plans in place so things will "go as normal" but please understand any bumps that we may have in the system. My doctor thinks it might be a tear in my vocal cords, but I need to see a specialist to verify anything.

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I'm home alone with my two boys. My wife is on a biz trip to LA. She asked me to simply keep them safe.

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