Alan Muskett2 minUsing Setbacks to spur you on...How do you react when you face setbacks? Do you get frustrated? Recoil and give up? Or do you dig your heels in and resolve to find...
Alan Muskett2 minWhen You Slow Down, Everything Else Does Too.When you feel that everything is running at 100 miles per hour, have you ever considered that it’s because you are zipping around too?...
Alan Muskett2 minThink You Can't Do Something? Develop a Growth Mindset and Watch the Results.I’m no good at that. That’s not my strength. I’ll never be able to make this work. Negative self-talk. That little voice of doubt on our...
Alan Muskett3 minFeedback is a Gift, even when it's Criticism!Be honest, who likes to receive negative feedback, whether it is solicited or not? We like to think that something we have done is as...
Alan Muskett2 minBuild Your Resilience to Manage StressIn this Stress Awareness Month of April, it is worth thinking about how we need to accept the existence of stress and what we can do to...
Alan Muskett2 minThe Kindness of Strangers – Taking can be better than GivingWhile mooching around a garden centre bookshop on Mother’s Day, I came across the “Kindness of Strangers – Travel Stories That Make Your...
Alan Muskett2 minStressing about others' suffering doesn't help. But empathy does.Just lately, I have been feeling bad about being stressed. Seeing the daily (constant) news in Ukraine, and the human suffering has made...
Alan Muskett2 minThere must be pain as well as pleasureI came across this article today in the Guardian, and it got me to thinking about how we make meaningful sense of our lives. (If you...
Alan Muskett3 minWho am I?I started the year completing a twice-daily reflection in ‘The Daily Stoic Journal’. (I know, that’s a classic cliché of a resolution,...
