Putting Distance Between You and Your Comfort Zone

August 30, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Life Balance, Self-reliance

Each spring I find myself coming down with a bug. There are never advertisements on the radio for shots that can be taken for what I experience, yet it arrives around the same time each year without fail. My experience becomes an unavoidable desire to spread wings and soar to far-distant corners of this magnificent [...]

Finding Clarity in Unpredictable Times

July 11, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Self-reliance

Creating focus and clarity in your life can oftentimes be a difficult task. Remaining focused is even harder. There are so many options, possibilities, distractions, diversions, and so forth, to persuade us away from core initiatives. In our lives, we embark on many varying 'micro-adventures' that ultimately, with their ups and downs, create the fabric [...]

The Nature of Deeply Rooted Trees

March 27, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Self-reliance

I have planted and nurtured many trees in my life–some with real roots, bark and leaves, and others as commitments and promises to myself and others. For over 30 years I have lived in a desert environment. I find it so fascinating to witness the resilience of a tree in the desert that found its [...]

Self-Reliance in Suburbia

March 8, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Self-reliance, Sustainability

For several years, I had been planning to finish my backyard off with a swimming pool, a few flower beds, and a citrus grove of four citrus trees. My home and yard décor had been an old-world Italian theme and the part of our backyard that was near completion featured beautiful stone walls, columns, and [...]

The Genius of Self-Reliance

March 8, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Self-reliance, Sustainability

I have found there to be such a deeply rooted relationship between our internal evolution of Self with our association as a living, breathing human being within our natural surroundings. I have been pondering this concept of self-reliance and the attraction to societal conveniences lately, all while meeting and interacting with a number of new [...]

Eradicating The Plague of Sadness

March 7, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Sustainability

It's been some time since I have felt the desire to sit down and write. Life moves us along moment by moment with often countless tasks to fill the time yet in each of those precious moments while some aspect of humanity sees gain; advancements of technology to make life easier, the exodus of people [...]

1: 400,000,000,000,000

March 7, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration

1 In 400,000,000,000,000. This is the calculation by scientists of the likelihood that YOU would be born. Those are quite the odds against your existence, yet, here you are. Maybe you have seen this statistic before. Maybe not. In comparison, if you started a business today and you made $1,000,000 every single day, 365 days [...]

Becoming A Digital Nomad

March 7, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Digital Nomad, Inspiration, Self-reliance, Solo Travel

In May of 2012, I embarked on a journey that would result in an accumulative 9 months of straight travel. My trip began at Overland Expo, an event held each May in Flagstaff, Arizona that centers on vehicular supported expedition travel or, overlanding. Returning back to Phoenix after the Expo, I caught a flight with [...]

Finding Your Mojo – The Benefits of Solo Travel

March 7, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Solo Travel

I wrote a book several years back that discussed, among other things, that solo adventure travel offered a list of very enticing benefits even for highly social individuals who are less likely to travel alone. In the book, I commented that traveling to distant locales affords each of us the opportunity to discover ourselves and [...]