If you drop your phone, do you get irritated or upset at yourself? What if there’s no apparent damage? Any irritation?

Most likely you’d just pick it up and go on about your day with no real thoughts about it.

If someone makes a rude remark to you, do you get irritated or upset? What if they said it mean spirited and loud enough for others to hear? How would that make you feel?

Could you just go on about your day with no real thoughts about it?

What if a teenager slams into the back of your car at a stop light because they were too busy watching something on TikTok and they weren’t paying attention? What if the vehicles were damaged but there were no injuries from the crash?

Could you just go on about your day with no real thoughts about it?

What if an employee is late again after you just had a talk with them about showing up on time just 2 days ago?

Could you just go on about your day with no real thoughts about it?

Two monks were headed back to the monastery. As they approached the part of the path next to the pond they could hear a woman sobbing. They came around the corner and saw the woman sobbing and she was wearing a wedding dress.

“What’s the matter?” Said one of the monks.

The woman said “I’m getting married and I need to cross the pond but I can’t get my dress all wet because it will ruin my wedding.”

One monk looked at the other and said “We cannot touch a female, it is forbidden.”

Still wanting to help, the other monk knelt down and allowed the woman to climb on top of his shoulders and he carried her across the pond so she could make it to her wedding.

As the monk came back across and pulled himself from the water his brother said “I cannot believe you did that, you know we cannot touch a woman for it is forbidden.”

All the way back to the monastery the monk who helped the young woman heard all about how he had done something terrible and had broken his vows. As the afternoon grew into evening the monks retired to their sleeping quarters and laid down to sleep.

At 2:30 in the morning the monk woke up his brother by shaking him violently. When he sat up and said “What’s wrong! What happened? What do you need?” The monk said “I can’t believe you carried that woman! It is forbidden! You should not have done that!”

The monk who helped the woman looked at his brother and said “I only carried her across the pond. You carried her all the way back to the monastery and you still haven’t set her down!”

“The most important thing, is what you choose to make important.”

Don’t sweat the small stuff and almost all of it is small stuff. Every time you get upset, irritated, frustrated, perturbed, pissed off, mad, annoyed or angry you are giving importance to that thing.

Some things are bigger than others but most of our daily irritations are nothing compared to the dreams and goals you’d like to accomplish in your life.

Imagine that every emotion you have that doesn’t feel good any time throughout the day is a little ball that you can hold in your hand. Now think to yourself and say “How long am I willing to hold onto this?”

The reality is that you can open your hand and drop it instead of carrying it with you all day or even bringing with you tomorrow. Hell, let’s be honest. Sometimes we carry that little ball around with us for weeks or months and even years!

There’s a method called the Sedona Method. The basic first steps of the method, which are incredibly powerful, consist of asking yourself these 3 questions.

• Could I let it go?

• Would I let it go?

• When?

I invite you to try it the next time you are feeling frustrated, irritated, annoyed, anxious, mad, upset, pissed off, angry or perturbed. It’s simple but you’ll find that by asking yourself these simple questions they lose their level of importance. Once they lose their importance you are able to brush it off your shoulder and just keep going on about your day feeling lighter and less stressed.

Some of the most powerful processes created that help us become more emotionally fit, happier and healthier are so simple that we discount them. My advice is to not discount this process. You will find that you almost laugh at yourself after asking yourself these questions even if just moments before you were ready to rip someone’s head off.

Open you hand and drop it. It’s that easy. Don’t make it complicated.

GO MAKE MONEY!