Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 124 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom.

Your Beliefs Create Your Reality (1)

Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 124 of our Trek. Yesterday we discovered how our beliefs affect our decisions which affect our outcomes. We are going to expand this subject over the next few days and explore how your beliefs actually create your reality. This is why it is so crucial to make sure that your belief system is on a solid foundation. If you have any of your own observations, comments, or questions as we share time together on our daily trek, please share them in the comment section of our daily journal pages.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio, and this morning I was able to finish coating the woodwork in the dining room. I will put the first coat of polyurethane on the floor tomorrow, so by Saturday morning, I should be able to get the second coat applied. After that, we will allow it to dry over the next couple of weeks while we are in Charlotte before moving the furniture back into the room.

Our client workload continues to keep us busy, and it always seems to be a bit of a balancing act to cover the various and different demands of each client.  I do have to admit that at times we feel like the proverbial plate spinner in the circus making sure that we keep all of the plates spinning without them crashing.  Since we do the work remotely, it does allow us to work the hours needed to make sure we accomplish it all.

As we prepare for our Trek and the dangers that we may face today, we discuss the concern about depth perception on narrow trails that are strewn with loose rocks. This is a particular concern on downhill slopes where a misstep could send us tumbling down the trail or worse yet over a cliff. As we think of this, I am reminded that our perception is our reality in our trek of life.

Perceptions come from your beliefs; therefore, what you believe becomes your reality. As we trek today I want to ask you, "What if some of your beliefs about yourself and your worldview are not true?" What if you have self-limiting beliefs about your world that are restricting you from fulfilling your God-given potential?

We all have the imposter syndrome to some extent. Imposter syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist despite evident or potential success. Let us not confuse this success with material wealth; that is only one minor measure of a successful life.  As we discovered on yesterday’s trek, what we allow to go into our mind impacts our beliefs.

One of my virtual mentors put it this way, “You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”

Remember Proverbs 4:23, "Above all else, guard your heart/mind, for everything you do flows from it."

Since your beliefs are your reality, you need to make sure that your beliefs are based on truth.  You need to make sure what you think about each day is based on Philippians 4:8, "And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise."

Even those individuals who may not be coming from a Biblical position understand the importance of what we allow in our minds such as:

"Whatever your mind can conceive and can believe, it can achieve," Napoleon Hill.

"Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about," John Demartini.