Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 104 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom.

Life is Like Brewing Coffee

Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 104 of our Trek. Yesterday we discovered 10 truths about how life is like hiking through the world. Today we will stay at camp and discuss how life is like a good cup of coffee.

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We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. The refinishing of the woodwork in our dining room continues, and we are making progress. Today a couple of our friends from Charlotte are coming in for the weekend as Marietta celebrates the 40th annual Sternwheel Festival.

The Sternwheel Festival is the single largest event for Marietta each year, usually drawing in about 100,000 people. This is large for a city whose population is about 15,000 within the city limits. The fireworks display over the Ohio River is one of the most spectacular fireworks displays that we have seen anywhere. This year they will also have some of the firework displays set up on the bridge that crosses between Ohio and West Virginia. The last time they had that it was awe inspiring. We will round out the weekend with me speaking again at Putnam Congregational Church before heading back to Charlotte.

 

We are sitting around the camp fire today sipping on a large mug of coffee, listening to the crackling of the firewood, and watching the smoke wisp into the air until it is no longer visible. As we are chatting about the day and enjoying our coffee, it brings to my mind the 9 rules on how life is like a brewing a good pot of coffee.

Each day of your life is part of your story.  Just like the coffee we are drinking, life is fluid with people and events moving around us, much like the coffee swirls around in our mugs.  You don’t know with certainty how your story will end, but the choices that you make each day and your attitude will certainly impact the outcome of your story.  Today let us learn how to both create a great pot of coffee and how to create a great life story.

1. Buy Fresh Beans

Always fill your life with fresh, pertinent learning and information. Don’t allow your knowledge and significance to become stale and outdated. You need to invest in yourself by improving your body, mind, and soul.

2. Keep Coffee Beans Fresh

Keep yourself relevant. Once you invest in self-improvement in any or all areas of life, continue using this information. Don’t stop improving. If it is knowledge, continue to stay fresh by updating yourself as it changes. If it is eating wholesome foods, don’t fall back into unhealthy habits. If it is exercise, continue to exercise regularly. If it is spiritual study and mediation, continue to learn. Stay fresh.

3. Choose Good Coffee

Invest in good books and audio study programs, wholesome foods, good exercise equipment, and sound meditation and Bible study materials from wise individuals that live by what they teach. Choose quality over quantity.

4. Grind Your Own Coffee

Think and do for yourself. Don’t take short cuts just for the sake of convenience. Don’t just take someone else’s conclusion as always right and true. Always compare it to what you know to be right and wise.  Especially compare what you are learning with what the Bible says is correct. Using mentors is wise, but make sure you are using wise mentors. In eating and exercising, take the time to prepare properly for the maximum benefit.