Scattered: Five Ways to Find Your Way Back

Have you ever felt scattered: your attention in one place, your feelings in another, your motivation somewhere out of reach? I came home from leading a retreat at Esalen feeling just like the grass I saw scattering its seeds across the hillside on the drive up. In this episode, I share five ways to find your way back when you feel scattered, from expanding your space to connecting the dots, and why the goal isn't to get rid of the scatter, but to be with it in a different way.

• Why expanding your space, like looking at the hillside rather than the seeds, can ease the feeling of being scattered
• How asking "What are you loving about yourself right now?" shifts you out of self-criticism
• What attention residue is, and what a two-week mobile-internet study shows about sustained attention
• The difference between incubating and procrastinating, and why stepping away can help ideas connect
• A paper-folding practice for connecting the dots when you feel scattered

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