Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 219 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

7 Thought Patterns for a Rich and Satisfying Life #5

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 219 of our Trek. We have invested the past four days on our trek up Transformation Mountain, and today will be our last trail to explore. I will emphasize again how important it is for us to have the proper mindset as we begin 2016. Today we will finish our 7th thought pattern to create a rich and satisfying life. Starting tomorrow, our trek will focus on setting our plans and goals for this new year. If you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. We are back into our normal work routine with our map of goals, plans, and timelines set for the year. We do realize that there will be obstacles, detours, and challenges along our trek for 2016, but by having our map laid out, we will continue making adjustments as needed.

We are looking forward to this upcoming weekend as we will have our five kids, their spouses, and all six grandchildren in for our Christmas celebration here in Indian Trail. We strive to be as flexible as possible during the Christmas holiday so that the individual families can establish their own traditions while still being able to get together with our kids.

Let’s continue on this first trek for 2016, as we hike one final trail on the Mountain of Transformation. Changing the way you think through the renewing of your mind is the only way to obtain personal transformation in any area of your life. If you expect 2016 to be a better year than last, then it will only happen if you change how you think. On our final trail up Transformation Mountain, we will explore how to be teachable so that we can learn and apply lasting change in our lives. This is a nugget of wisdom that is so important, especially in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing world. Alvin Toffler put it this way, “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”  Today let us be teachable as we continue our exploration of the…

7 Thought Patterns for a Rich and Satisfying Life

So far we have covered the thought patterns of trust, thankfulness, truth, timing, travail, and the Tempter. Today we will finish the first trek of 2016 as we explore how to be teachable. If you missed the first four days of this current trek, please listen to them or read the daily journal to learn the wisdom contained there. If you do not change your thought patterns through these seven elements that we are exploring, then you cannot expect your life to change. The other six elements that we explored are all based on this final one. To change you must learn, and to learn you must be teachable. So let’s explore…

7. Teachable

If you want your life to be transformed, you must fill your mind with thoughts of obedience to the will of God. You must not have a rebellious and stubborn mind which refuses to submit to the will of God. You must be willing to submit to the ways and thoughts of God. You must be teachable and willing to learn from God. You must put away thoughts of pride and self-sufficiency that refuse to acknowledge the need for God’s wisdom. When you allow your mind to receive the wisdom of God, your life will be transformed.

If you examine many of the most highly regarded members in any field, one of the most consistent similarities in their personalities you’ll find is the ability to constantly learn and the desire to improve themselves in all areas of l...