Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 337 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Creating, Living, and Leaving Your Legacy #1

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 337 of our trek, and yesterday we explored 8 analogies of hiking on a tough trail which are similar to our trek of life. Today and tomorrow we will focus our trek on the legacy trail before we move our focus to knowing and establishing your life purpose through the beta version of Your Life Plan Blueprint Course.

Thank you so much for coming along with me on our daily trek through life creating, living, and leaving a legacy, which is accomplished as we grow in our wisdom, insight and understanding. While some of our daily treks span multiple days, you can join us at any time and start along with us from that point on.

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We are broadcasting from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. We had a very blessed weekend as were able to invest some quality time with four of our grandchildren who stayed the night on Friday through late on Saturday. We had three segments of monster versus children battles, where I was the monster, of course. In addition to that, we were able to finish sanding the woodwork and floors in the parlor and will be able to apply polyurethane when we return in mid-May.

We had hoped to have the grandkids help paint the swing and fort set, but the weather was too iffy with cool temperatures and intermittent rain. We also made a late day decision to purchase two double and two single porch gliders and 12 pots of knock-out roses for The Big House in preparation for the Chamberlain Family Reunion over July 4th weekend. Nat and Elizabeth were gracious to help us deliver them to our home as Nat has a large pickup.

Preparation at The Big House for the reunion is part of the legacy that we live each day as the family homestead is very meaningful to all family members. We are blessed to be caretakers of the place. Legacy should be important in each of our lives. That is why for a couple of days we will focus on creating, living, and leaving your legacy.

Creating, Living, and Leaving Your Legacy

One undisputable fact of life is that, at some point, we are all going to die. None of us is guaranteed another breath, let alone tomorrow or many years. Many people don’t like to think about it, let alone plan for it. Think for a moment if you would, what would you like your obituary to say?  How you lived your legacy each day and the impact that you made on others through your time, talent, and treasures is what truly remains when you die and will impact all of eternity.

Creating and living your legacy during your life should be solely to benefit future generations. The full impact is something you will never see come to fruition. Just like a farmer who plants an apple tree, knowing he may never live to taste its fruits, living our legacy is a gift whose impact you will leave behind without expecting anything in return.

Just like that farmer's sprouting tree, living legacies don't happen overnight—and they don't happen by accident. They're deliberately crafted over years of wise choices, hard work, and dedication. This certainly does not require that all your resources be forfeited while you are still alive, but it does require a mind-shift. You have to understand that you are not really the owner of your God-given time, talents,