The Beautiful Question with Scott Lennox: Recent Episodes
Scott Lennox
"As you listen to these intentionally brief podcasts, you can allow yourself the gift of Stillness, out of which Clarity will naturally arise. You will then be listening to the wisdom of your innate self.
My purpose is to support the awakening that is happening all over the planet. Working together, we can build the future we dream is possible. Come dream with me."
-Scott Lennox
This week, we’ll look at endings and new beginnings, and how finishing one cycle can lead to the start of an entirely new one.
I hope you’ll stay with me. Who knows, we might both learn something.
As kids, we chanted, “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” Oh, if it was only that simple.
Join me this week, as we consider the power words carry with them and ways of being more mindful about the ways we use them
Especially when we’re struggling, it’s worth remembering that we’re not stuck in the negative things we’ve been telling ourselves. We can choose to focus on things that are more enlivening and more liberating.
With that in mind, join me this week as we consider the power of simple gratitude and how it can change our experience for the better.
If you passed Manuel somewhere and he wasn’t wearing the shirt he wears when he’s working, you might be inclined to make up a story in your mind about him. But would you be sure about what you saw? And would your story be right? If you think so, I have to ask, “Sure about that?”
Join me this week as we consider ways of busting some of our pre-conceived ideas and stepping out of judgment.
We put so much pressure on ourselves to take care of other people, but are we overlooking something in the process?
Join me this week as we take yet another look at taking elegant care of ourselves.
When we know how to do something, we don’t have to try—we just do it. That’s especially true when we’re giving ourselves the sublime gift of being who we really are.
Join me this week as we consider ways of returning to ourselves as we let go of some of the obstacles we’ve put in our own way.
It’s one thing to say, “That was then. This is now.” It’s quite another to separate what happened in the past from the feelings we’ve held onto about it.
Join me this week as we consider ways of doing exactly that.
We often push ourselves relentlessly to get things done. But is all that pushing necessary? Is it even healthy for us? You and I both know there’s a better way.
Come sit in the shade with me this week as we consider a few healthy alternatives. I think you’ll be glad you did.
We often push ourselves relentlessly to get things done. But is all that pushing necessary? Is it even healthy for us? You and I both know there’s a better way.
Come sit in the shade with me this week as we consider a few healthy alternatives. I think you’ll be glad you did.
While certain compromises are necessary from time to time, there are things that are not negotiable.
Join me this week as we consider what those things might be and how to keep them in place in our lives.
In a previous episode, we looked at ways of trusting the unfolding of the path in front of us as we take each step.
This week, we’ll revisit that consideration from a different angle by following the remarkable north country journey of a hunting dog almost ninety years ago.
As life swirls around you today, may you stay rooted and settled in the stillpoint that is always deep within you.
Join me today as we consider ways of remaining calm, regardless of what’s happening around us.
We can only guess how far back in human history the offering of prayers and blessings had their beginnings. Something built into us quite naturally reaches out to the Divine and then, just as naturally, reaches out to touch the lives of the people around us in uplifting ways.
Join me this week as we once again drop into stillness and allow our hearts and minds to connect with one another.
From time to time, life can hit us pretty hard, taking an incalculable toll on us. But more often than not, the strength in us outweighs our fragility.
Join me this week as we consider what it means to keep going in the face of adversity.
We waste so much energy angrily holding on to things that have long been over. And when we do, we suffer for it and so do the people around us.
Join me this week as we consider the true meaning of forgiveness and simple steps for allowing ourselves to let go and move on.
We often have no idea how deeply we’ve affected someone’s life until long after the time we spent with them.
Join me this week as we consider what it means to be someone’s personal sanctuary, perhaps even our own.
For better or worse, our lives can change so quickly, and all at once, everything becomes different in ways we could never imagine or foresee. Among many others, one of the most important questions is, “How will we choose to face change when it happens?”
Join me this week as we consider ways of intentionally being with what is and making the best of it.
Spring is a welcome time of rebirth and renewal, a time when the earth returns to being vibrant and alive after its deep slumber through fall and winter.
Are human beings so different? Join me this week as we consider ways of renewing ourselves from the inside out as well as from the outside in.
Among the many kinds of nautical anchors are the long canvas “buckets” called sea anchors that keep boats pointed into the wind during a storm on the open ocean. My grandfather and his brother never left port without one stowed in the forward hatch.
Join me this week as we consider practical options for weathering adversity without being capsized.
Unless you’re a firefighter, you probably won’t be carrying anyone who’s in distress, and even then, you won’t carry them far. We understand that intellectually, but how often do we cross that line mentally or emotionally, taking on what was never ours in the first place?
Join me this week as we consider the differences between caring and carrying. I think you’ll be glad you did.
In one of my early podcasts (Episode #49 “Easing Through The Week”), I suggested that we play a simple game to help us move through stressful times. Given the state of the world right now, this is the perfect time to play that game again, but at a deeper level.
Join me this week as we slow ourselves down and ease through the days and weeks ahead of us.
During the past few months, several subscribers have asked that I create a new guided relaxation audio. With all that’s happening in the world right now, I can’t think of a more fitting time to let go and lean into our Higher Selves.
So, this week, I offer you a gentle way to let go as you release the things you no longer need to carry and welcome into your life what is good and right and healthy and self-restoring.
It can be easy to allow our fears to overshadow our days and nights, robbing us of peace and clarity, especially when we listen to the world more than our inner awareness.
Join me this week, as we consider steps for walking out from under the shadow of fear and back into our own lives.
One of the clever ways we keep ourselves stuck is telling ourselves that we have to have everything worked out before we take our next steps.
Join me this week as we consider the nature of the unfolding path of our lives. Stay
Even if there are things you’ve been struggling with, are you willing to linger a while in silence and stillness as you wait for what is luminous and inextinguishable—what is utterly beautiful—to arise in you?
If so, then join me this week as we consider yet another aspect of stillness. Stay with me.
I open and close each week’s podcast by inviting our consideration of “things that truly matter in a complex world.”. One of those repeating considerations is the power of mindful silence and the things that grow out of it.
Join me this week as we consider the value of measuring the things we say and the things we don’t say. Stay with me.
When was the last time you stopped to ponder what you’re really made of? Not just the skin and bones and blood cells and brain circuits, but what lies beneath all of that.
Join me this week as we pull the veil aside and consider something luminous and filled with hope.
You wouldn’t get far on a road trip without first stopping to fill your tank. We understand the common sense of that, yet how often we push ourselves without stopping to recharge from the inside out.
Join me this week as we consider healthy ways of renewing ourselves.
The past couple of years have brought about subtle and not-so-subtle changes in how we spend our days and how we think and feel.
Join me this week as we consider things we can do to offset some of those changes.
Like pearls formed by the irritation of a grain of sand in an oyster, life’s challenges can grow precious things in us when we allow it.
Join me this week as we consider ways of bringing those good things into the foreground of our awareness. Stay with me.
What would happen if we “brewed” our days with as much focus and attention and care as we use to brew a great cup of coffee or a tea?
Join me this week as we consider the right ingredients and best the steps to take to make our daily experience a truly robust one.
After the challenges of the past two years, this is just the right moment to ask ourselves where we’re going in the coming year.
Because you’re the one writing the script for your own life, what shape do you want the next year to take? Join me this week as we consider ways of determining exactly that.
There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams. There are lucid dreams and even sacred dreams. The trick is to know which one we’re experiencing.
Join me this week as we consider the nature of dreams and what happens when we take control of them.
The things that happen in our lives can seem completely random or disconnected, yet, without trying to sound particularly mystical, are they?
Join me this week as we consider how the path of our lives continues to unfold—sometimes in surprising ways.
Though I’ve spoken about power of play in previous episodes, it’s an idea so powerful, so compelling, that is worth revisiting again and again.
Join me this week as we consider the revitalizing nature of play and ways of making it part of our everyday experience. Stay with me.
What will most likely happen when you began to live beyond the limits you’ve imposed on yourself or accepted from other people?
Join me this week as we consider what it means to step into the fullness and freedom that is always possible in our lives.
Isn’t it fascinating that the more we open our hearts and minds to gratitude, the more we find to be grateful about.
Join me this week, as I offer my heartfelt prayer of gratitude as we step into the holiday season.
What happens when we hold on tightly to the pain of the past? What freedom do we discover when we take conscious steps to release ourselves from it?
Join me this week as we consider some of the myths about forgiveness and then look at what it really means.
Pollution is not just an issue of the environment around us. It can happen inside us as well.
Join me this week as we consider taking simple and decisive steps to end our mental, emotional, and behavioral pollution.
What marvelous things are safely nested someplace deep within you, things that are just waiting to hatch and take flight when the season is right?
Join me this week as we consider some of the amazing and life-enriching possibilities in each of us.
How marvelous it is that we only need to open the doors of our perception a little bit to see miracles taking place all around us.
Join me this week as we consider the simple shift that can help that happen.
There’s a timeless maxim that says: “You can bend, or you can break.” When I stop to ponder that, I think of some of the people I know who are able to laugh in the face of adversity and how healthy they are.
Join me this week as we consider the healing power a sense of humor offers us.
The past year and a half has changed our lives in unprecedented and unimaginable ways. And yet, in the midst of it all, there are choices we can make every day.
Join me this week as we consider what some of those changes might be.
What is it about light that arrests our attention and captures our imagination? And why is it that we often overlook the light within ourselves?
Join me this week as we consider these and other questions that could serve to liberate us even more.
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Dictionary definitions tell us that wealth is having an abundance of financial or material possessions or having plentiful supplies of a particular resource. Yet such definitions fail to consider the characteristics of wealth that have nothing to do with money.
Join me this week as we take a look at some of the other forms of wealth. Stay with me.
Much is said about intention or about thinking and behaving intentionally, but are we considering both sides of the coin?
Could it be that there are two sides to being intentional? Join me this week as we consider what that means. Stay with me.
We talk a lot about freedom, but what if I told you that true freedom is self-bestowed and that each of us is holding our own key to liberation? What then?
Join me this week as we consider ways of liberating ourselves from the ideas we’ve been using to hold ourselves hostage. Stay with me.
Every once in a while, if we’re fortunate, we’re allowed to witness some of the very best of humanity. When we do, it can inspire us to keep going and to feel more hopeful and to bring out the best within ourselves.
Join me this week as we consider what true compassion and caring can do to mend the fabric of humanity when they are put into action. Stay with me.
As I said when I introduced the last episode, I’ll be away for another week taking great care of myself. It feels so good to follow my own counsel and my time will be well spent and revitalizing.
So, here’s a re-broadcast of an earlier episode entitled, Watching Egrets. In it, we’ll watch a flight of white birds as it crosses a line of dark clouds in the distance, and we’ll notice the peace that comes as we become still enough to take in what we’re seeing.
I’ll be back next week with a new episode. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this one. I’ll see you soon.
This week and next, I’m following my own counsel and taking some much-needed time off as I take elegant care of myself.
When I come back, I’ll have new things to share with you. In the meantime, here’s the first of two re-broadcasts of my early episodes.
This week, we’ll saddle up and ride into a storm with a few cowboys as they learn what it means to pay attention. Come join me.
Sometimes even simple things can calm us or bring us peace. Now, more than ever before, that practice is a lifesaving one.
Join me this week as I share two stories about staying calm in the face of adversity. Stay with me.
Nature moves in its own rhythms and cycles. So do we, but we have to be paying attention to notice them.
Join me this week, as we consider the natural order of things, including the order within ourselves. Stay with me.
It’s perfectly clear that when our car’s fuel tank goes dry, we’ve gone as far as we’re going to. So why is it that when our personal tank gets low, we keep on going like nothing’s wrong?
Join me this week as we consider the imperative of taking good care of ourselves before we serve others.
So, what happens when you know that the person you’re speaking with is really listening to you? What happens when they’re not?
Join me this week as we consider one of the finest things we can do when we engage with someone in conversation. Stay with me.
In the spirit of self-discovery and true freedom, we’ll return this week to one of the questions I asked in the previous podcast.
Join me as we consider some of the finer things within us and ways of releasing them into the forefront of our lives.
Come celebrate this week’s Beautiful Question with me. I consider my two hundredth episode to be something of a personal milestone.
Join me as we take a brief look back and then lean into the future, asking even better questions.
There are countless ways to take ourselves out of the moment. Most of them have to do with what’s happening in our head. But is any of that necessary?
Join me this week as we consider ways of flipping some of our habits and coming back into the fullness of the present. I think you’ll be glad you stayed.
When life becomes challenging, we can be faced with difficult things that won’t just go away. When that happens, what is in us and around us that still has meaning and can help us endure?
Join me this week as we consider that a river taught me about that.
For as long as human beings have gathered, storytellers have woven magical spells with words and gestures and images.
This week, as I’ve done in a few previous episodes, I’ll take a break from weightier matters and share some of my own stories with you. Stay with me. You may like what you hear.
The past year brought with it an array of intense changes that affect everyone, including the ways we think and feel and how we interact with each other. As a result, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed from time to time.
Join me this week as we consider ways of riding the currents of change without being blown away or getting caught in the undertow.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if we could quantify how much of what we think and believe about ourselves is our own and how much of it came from sources outside us?
Join me this week as we consider what judgment produces and ways of letting it go.
Earlier this week, I told a friend that I don’t know where I’d be if it weren’t for the prayers and blessings other people have been so generous to offer me. I have no doubt that my life has been changed for the better because they have. In some of cases, I had no idea they were doing so until years later.
Join me this week as we consider prayers and blessings and as I offer my blessings to you with my heart wide open.
In real terms, what would it mean to become intentional about honoring yourself and the life you’re living? Putting that another way, in measurable or observable ways, what would have to happen to put self-care at the top of your list and keep it there?
Join me this week as we consider the imperative of taking exceptional care of ourselves on an everyday basis.
This is a great time to look around and do a bit of sorting and sifting. Whether we call it Spring cleaning or not, what good things will happen when we clear out some of the things we no longer need? Not just the physical things, but some of what we’ve been holding inside as well.
Join me this week as we consider physically de-cluttering, and also clearing out some of our mental and emotional debris. What a relief that will be.
When we’re struggling, is it really necessary to jump through hoops and turn ourselves inside out in order to feel better, or could it be far simpler than that? Could it be much, much easier?
Join me this week as we consider our built-in ability to be self-restoring as we allow ourselves to come back into balance.
When I think about blessings, I automatically think about gratitude and what a former colleague once told me. “Gratitude and depression cannot live in the same mind at the same moment,” he said. I also think about how my gratitude is deepening for each of the blessings I’ve experienced.
Join me this week as we consider the blessings in our lives and how we might want to honor them. Stay with me.
Have you ever felt that you had forgotten who you really are, or that you had forgotten the more innocent self you innately knew before you experienced all that life has brought you? If so, you’re far from alone.
Join me this week as we consider ways of bringing that part of us back to the forefront of our lives. It begins with nothing more than a bit of remembering. Stay with me. I think you’ll be glad you did.
We’re naturally drawn to the eclipse of the sun or moon. We find those events to be beautiful and mysterious. Unfortunately, we also have a tendency to eclipse ourselves, blocking our own light.
Join me this week as we consider natural eclipses and the unnatural ones we impose on ourselves and others, and how we might go about getting out of our own way. Stay with me.
Though you’re probably not a mental health practitioner, this week, I share a brief case study that illustrates some of the positive things can happen when we refuse to judge someone, even though they may be challenging to deal with on the surface.
Join me as we consider the power of seeing and accepting people for who they are, not how they’ve been labeled. Stay with me.
Have you ever found yourself shutting down and you weren’t quite sure what caused it or what to do about it? It’s more common than you might think, especially in the face what we’ve experienced during the past year.
Join me this week as we consider ways of keeping our hearts and minds open and accepting the vitality that comes with it. Stay with me.
In this time of tremendous change, there are things that are wonderfully consistent. One of them is the coming of Spring and the new life it brings.
Join me this week as we consider what that might bring to our own lives. Stay with me.
Remarkable things happen in us and around us when we choose to be a little more playful, especially during stressful times like these.
We’ll lighten up this week as I share a playful experience that not only surprised and delighted me but awakened something in me that had been half asleep. Stay with me.
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by the number of things that you were facing—sometimes all at once—that you didn’t quite know what to do next?
Join me this week as I share a story what will help us take our time and become more efficient and much more effective as we take the steps we need to take. Stay with me.
Regardless of whether or not you participate in a tradition of faith, it’s always possible to offer blessings to others.
Join me this week as we consider the nature of blessings and as I offer my heartful blessing to you, whoever you are.
One of our ageless considerations is the nature of light in all its forms. Last week, I discussed hope and where to find it. This week, our focus is an even more luminous one.
Join me as we consider the nature of light, not only in the world, but in each of us. Stay with me.
With more and more people telling me about their struggles to stay hopeful during this time of sweeping change, this is a good time to re-consider the nature of hope.
Stay with me as we look at hope from the inside out, clarifying what it is, what it isn’t, and where to find it.
Regardless of the positive or negative impact they may have, there are experiences that stay with us for a lifetime. In last week’s episode, I wrote about some of the powerful storms I’ve lived through.
This week, we’ll take a closer look at one the worst of them, and we’ll reflect on ways of staying focused as we move through adversity. Stay with me.
Regardless of the positive or negative impact they may have, there are experiences that stay with us for a lifetime. In last week’s episode, I wrote about some of the powerful storms I’ve lived through.
This week, we’ll take a closer look at one the worst of them, and we’ll reflect on ways of staying focused as we move through adversity. Stay with me.
Life’s storms are inevitable. If you live long enough, you’ll probably go more of them than you can count. The question is, how and in what condition?
Join me this week as we consider the storms we endure and how to remain standing when we get to the other side.
Sometimes, perhaps out of nothing more than habit or lack of awareness, we find ourselves pushing or pulling against something when no real force is needed.
Join me this week as we consider ways of flowing with our lives instead of against them, regardless of what’s happening around us.
It’s still possible to be awestruck and brought to stillness and clarity and a sense of wonder, even in these times of turbulence and distress.
Join me this week as we consider ways of taking even more effective control of our lives by intentionally leaning into wonder. You’ll be surprised what happens when you do.
How ironic, that sometimes the harder we push to get somewhere, the harder it is to get there and the longer it takes. That’s especially ironic since all we’d have to do is relax and let go and then watch as things naturally unfold.
Join me this week as we consider five simple ways of easing into the new year in just the right ways and in just the right places and at just the right times. The results can be so rewarding.
Have you ever thought about what would help you bring happiness or contentment into your life and keep it there?
Join me this week as we consider how to build the foundation of happiness and how to live from that powerful place.
Whatever your belief, as we head into Christmas and the New Year, what better gift could there be than the gift of building an even healthier relationship with yourself?
Stay with me this week as we consider writing—or re-writing—our own manual for living well.
We’re given twenty-four hours in each day. One thousand, four hundred and forty minutes. Not one second more or less. We know that, and yet sometimes without noticing that we’re doing it, we contaminate parts of our day by thinking and doing things that don’t serve us well or that interrupt us and keep us from what we truly want and need.
Join me this week as we consider how to keep from contaminating our time as we stay more in the present.
The poet Wordsworth wrote a sonnet entitled "The World Is Too Much With Us." For many people, the truth behind that line has never seemed more relevant than it does right now.
Join me this week as I offer my heartfelt prayer to encourage you as we live through this amazing time.
This week, a gift that goes far beyond the holidays—the gift of authenticity. Isn’t it fascinating that the more we are genuinely and spontaneously ourselves, the more naturally we engage with others and in ever-healthier ways.
Join me this week as we once again consider how to get out of our own way without even struggling. Stay with me.
There’s much more to a sense of wonder than meets the eye. It’s one of the most precious gifts of being alive, even in this time of personal and global challenge.
Join me this week as we consider the nature of wonder and how to bring it back. It may be more important than you realize, especially now.
This week, we’ll re-consider a subject I’ve written about in the past and will continue to explore, especially during such a challenging time as we are living—a time when many have been pressed to their limits and beyond them. Yet, this is not a time for despair. Quite the contrary.
With clear and open eyes, let’s look once again at the nature of hope and where to find it.
We talk about being calm, but apart from being a cliché that we verbally toss around, what does that really mean?
Join me today as we consider not only what the word means, but effective ways of achieving that state inwardly and outwardly.
How aware are you that regardless of what’s happening to you or around you, you have choices?
Join me this week as we consider the nature of choice and ways of consciously remaining in control of the ones we make.
There is something universal to be found in the stories we carry and the ones we tell and share. It is in them that we weave the threads of our common humanity into the mystery of what it is to be alive.
Join me this week as I share several original stories that came out of my consciousness fully formed as I wrote them down. If nothing else, you can take a break from the world and be entertained for a while.
How did you get this far in your life? I can guarantee that you didn’t do it on your own.
Join me this week as we consider who helped us along the way and how we might expand the gifts they gave us.
At this point in the pandemic, you don’t need another lesson about what’s going on the world. For the past six months, we’ve been inundated with it.
Instead, I invite you to join me considering way of handling where we are that work to our mutual benefit.
So, what would it be like to know that you don’t have to prove yourself to anyone or live up to the standards or expectations of others? What would it be like to relax and give yourself complete permission to be exactly who you are, exactly as you are?
Join me this week as we consider ways of putting that into action.
Have you ever found yourself putting on a “mask” to protect yourself in some way or to project something that isn’t authentically you?
Join me this week as we consider masks of all kinds, why we wear them, and how to go about taking them off.
We place such importance on the things we think and feel and believe, but what do we actually know? What is so deep, so solid, and so immovable that you know it without doubting?
Join me this week as we consider what we truly know and what we can do with it.
Isn’t it amazing what happens when we commit to something and then keep our word to ourselves as we remain focused? As we do, there’s no end to what may be possible.
Join me this week as I renew my commitment to you, and to myself, and as we look forward and consider the hope that’s possible, right now and in the days ahead of us.
When adversity comes, it can be all too easy to become fearful, sometimes wondering how on earth we’ll survive or endure.
Join me this week as we consider where to find what we need to meet the storm head on and get to the other side of it. Stay with me.
What happens when we let our emotions run away with us? Have you noticed what is producing the emotions you’re experiencing?
Join me this week as we look at exactly that and consider ways of regaining control of ourselves in increasingly healthy ways.
As life intensifies, what can we do to keep ourselves from feeling swept up and overwhelmed by what’s going on? The answers may be easier than you think.
This week, we’ll consider ways of creating simple, yet significant shifts in how we engage with ourselves and with the world around us. Come join me. I think you’ll be glad you did.
In my work as a counselor, one of the things I encounter, over and over, is that somewhere along the way, people have gotten out of touch with themselves.
Join me this week as we consider ways of living from the inside out without asking any for permission or seeking anyone’s approval to do it.
Can you think of a time when you thought you knew or understood something, but didn’t bother to look deeper? Can you think of what happened when you closed your mind to something because you had already created a story about it in your mind?
Join me this week as we consider what changes when we intentionally open our minds and allow ourselves to learn something new.
While the whole world is focused on finding ways of protecting everyone from the spread of the Corona Virus, it might be equally useful to consider things that are worth spreading. Things like openness and kindness and acceptance. And let’s not leave out our shared humanity.
Join me this week as I share what happened when I opened my mind and heart to something taking place that was better than what I thought I was facing.
What will happen when you stop holding back and allow the world to see and engage with the person you really are? Not the invented story you’ve been telling yourself or the one that someone else constructed for you, but the real and luminous you, the authentic you.
Join me this week as we consider what it means to be authentic and what happens when we think and act from that place.
Once in a while, we’re told a story that is so compelling it stays with us as vividly as if we experienced it first-hand. Today, I offer such a story in the hope that you'll find meaning in it and that it stirs something deep and abiding in you about the good that is still possible in people and in the world.
Stay with me. You’ll be glad you did.
When we're open to them, opportunities to learn something new are always available, opening us to what we couldn't see or engage with before.
This week, using examples from photography, we'll consider ways of getting closer to what truly matters in our lives, including how we see the world around us, and our relationship with ourselves.
Though I may not know your name or your face or where you live, and though I may not know exactly what's happening in your life today, I think about you every day. And as I do, I ask myself the same question, over and over.
“As people go about their lives, often struggling in some way, what can I offer that is helpful and real and significant?”
In response to that question, I’ve written a blessing that I hope you’ll take to your heart. May this week's offering touch you in some positive way.
What would it be like to stop holding back and to live our lives in ways that are vibrant and fiercely engaged? What would it be like to stop making excuses, putting off what best serves us?
Join me this week, as we consider what it means to be fully alive in each moment.
To create healthy change in the world, must we become great pioneers or genius innovators or tireless public servants, or could it be more elegantly simple than that?
Join me this week, as we consider ways of leaning into the common good and then taking real action, right where we are.
Do you sometimes feel stuck in habits of thinking and feeling or the things you do? Do you feel like you're living out your own version of the movie Ground Hog Day, going through endless cycles of the same things in the same ways?
Then I have some wonderful news for you! Built into you is a way out of that loop. To unlock it, all you have to do is be willing to assume full ownership of your life and then start over from where you are. It's not as hard as you've been telling yourself.
Join me this week as we consider ways of reaching within ourselves and setting ourselves free.
Right now, as protests and calls for racial equality once again sweep across America, I think of a man who played a pivotal role in shaping not only my thinking, but the thinking and awareness of countless others.
Join me as I share some of my conversations with the late John Howard Griffin, and some of the questions that arose as a result of our time together. Stay with me.
If you were to be your own “first-responder” in this time of personal and cultural challenges, what would you offer yourself first? What promise would you make… and keep?
Join me as we once again consider where we are and what we can do to make this a meaningful and fulfilling time.
If we’re open to them, our experience with the pandemic continues to offer opportunities to learn innumerable lessons.
Join me in my briefest podcast yet as I consider where we are in this dynamic moment. Stay with me.
This week’s podcast might just as well be called, “What My Laptop Taught Me.” In this time of unexpected and unpredictable changes, I was given another opportunity to lighten up and dance with what’s happening.
Join me this week as we consider ways of coping with some of the things that we can’t change. Come laugh with me.
One of the strongest and most enduring traditions in Scott’s family is sharing the foods they create. Each of them has their own specialties and the bragging rights that go with them. One of Scott’s specialties is sourdough baking.
Join him this week as he shares a bit of history about that and asks what we can do to maintain our traditions or create new ones.
Having made so many necessary adjustments during the past few weeks, Scott has been looking back at his life, remembering just where and how he learned to adapt when things are changing.
Stay with him this week as he considers how we can navigate through our lives the way we would navigate a moving river. As you already know, the secret will be to work with it and not fight the current and not fight the conditions.