Not sweating the small stuff
Recently I bought new tyres and had a bit of a revelation.
So I was looking at these tyres on the website (could book online, praise be) and getting stuck in analysis paralysis. There's various features and ratings for sound or efficiency. Price, obviously. Weighing up a C or D rating...
Until I stopped.
It's a tyre.
What amount of the overall tyre-ness does the difference between a C or D rating represent? 0.00001% probably. Less. So I am going to give it that much of my time.
I just picked tyres. They are round and made of rubber. Job done.
My wife has spent six months looking for a new office chair, getting tied in knots. But any new chair is going to be a hundred times better than her current one by virtue of it not being sixteen years old. If it's got padding in the seat and gas in the piston it's a winner. She finally got a new chair yesterday.
What I need is to get better at identifying what actually matters - if anything. Mostly I think things like this don't matter. If they do matter then they are not in fact 'small stuff' and I can learn about, research, evaluate that.
Not sweating the small stuff starts with recognising just how small it is.