Will Bowen's Blog, page 11

JumpStart – Stress Balls

Podcast In the last month, I’ve given live speeches in Napa Valley, Phoenix, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Austin, Traverse City, Dallas, and I’ve noticed one thing each of these events have in common… Stress balls. You know what stress balls are, right? They’re those little spongy rubber things you’re supposed to pick up and squeeze […]

JumpStart – Flexibility

Podcast This pandemic has put the limits of human flexibility under an enormous stress test. People working from home, children staying home for school, some businesses being open and others being closed. Then there is the conflicting medical advice. Sometimes, the best we can do is to survive with a smile on her face. And […]

JumpStart – Keep Your Head Clear

Podcast As I was preparing to record this jumpstart this morning I had several things go wrong. Not a big deal, that’s just life. And what I discovered is that each additional small challenge seems to be more of a big deal than the previous one when they show up in succession. Have you ever […]

JumpStart – What time is it?

Podcast Yogi Berra said a lot of profound things. Including, PLAYER: “What time is it?” YOGI:  “You mean now?” This always makes me think of Salutation To the Dawn the ancient sanskrit poem. Listen to the salutation to the dawn, Look to this day for it is life, the very life of life, In its […]

JumpStart – A.N.T.s

Podcast You are a combination of your actions, thoughts, and emotions. If you change any one of these, the other two will change. Seems like life should be pretty easy then, right? No, we have ants in our brain. Automatic Negative Thoughts – and our ego throws these around like sparks in a dry forest […]

JumpStart – Why You Need Waves

Podcast This morning as I walked out onto the dock and looked down into the bay, I caught myself saying aloud, “I’ve never seen the bay so still.” Settling in on a bench with Teddy in my lap, coffee in my hand, and dawn breaking before me I noticed something. I noticed that the sunrise […]

JumpStart – Lie-abilities

Podcast My friend Dan Murphy is an awesome radio announcer. His golden voice has been gracing Seattle’s airwaves for four decades but a commonly held belief almost prevented Dan from his success. You see, Dan was born blind and the “common wisdom” 60 years ago was to put disabled people into sheltered workshops to do […]

JumpStart – As You “So”, You Reap

Podcast Decades ago, I heard the wise Earl Nightingale say in one of his recordings that, “Superlatives are diminutives” and his words are even more true today than back then. Seriously, have you noticed how polarized our speech has changed over the years?   “Good” has become “awesome”, “bad” has become “the worst”, etc. Then there […]

JumpStart – A Taste of Baroque

Podcast If you’re finding it difficult to relax, try my little secret. Engage 2 of your senses in something relaxing simultaneously. For example, listen to Baroque classical music while burning incense. Drink mint tea while taking a bath. There seems to be a compounding effect when we engage in more than one relaxing activity at […]

JumpStart – A Memorial

Podcast Where were you on the morning of September 11, 2021? You remember, right? Of course you remember, we all do. I was sitting in a prayer class in ministerial school. After the news was broken to us that a plane had just crashed into the world trade center and we all went into “serious […]