Gratitude on Giving Thanks Day

November 26, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Gratitude, Inspiration, Life Balance

The circle of life swings around each and every Thanksgiving for me and returns me once again to a place of reflection. I ask myself if I have lived the past year with gratitude. Thanksgiving is just another day. But, the true beauty of our desire to recognize a day for 'thankfulness' is that it [...]

Assistant Position

August 31, 2020 / Scott Leuthold / Commentary, Inspiration, Life Balance, Self-reliance

I need help. There, I've said it. I need an assistant. 4XPEDITION needs to grow and to do so I need some help. I need someone who can handle a variety of different tasks. Someone who is on top of it all. Someone driven, motivated, owns the role and executes. Someone who thinks of tasks [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]