Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 364 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Gratitude is Thanks on Steroids

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 364 of our trek, and yesterday we finished a 25-day detailed series called Your Life Plan Blueprint™. Today and for the next couple of days, we will reflect on completing a full year of daily treks as we approach the end of May. As I reflect, it is with an abundance of gratitude to you as we have shared this year of treks together.

Before we get started on this new trek, I want to remind you that the initial release of our 100 page Your Life Plan Blueprint manual/workbook, and it is available for download at Wisdom-Trek.com on the left-hand sidebar of any page. Or, if you are listening on your smartphone, you can text the word LifePlan (with no spaces) to 44222, and Your Life Plan Blueprint will be delivered to you in an email. The manual/workbook is free during the month of May, so I would encourage you to become one of our early adopters so that all updates will be available to you for free also. By the end of 2016, we will have a complete web/mobile version available of Your Life Plan Blueprint.

If you would like to listen to any of the past episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal. You can also subscribe to Wisdom-Trek on iTunes, Spreaker, Stitcher, Soundcloud, iHeart Radio, and Google Play, so each day’s trek will be downloaded to you automatically.

We are broadcasting from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. Much to our chagrin the deer deterrent stakes were not effective and Friday we discovered that all the blooms on the two rose bushes, and two Impatiens planters were all eaten by the deer. The plants will be fine and survive, and we are thankful that we did not set out all of the plants. We put one more test planter out on Saturday night with moth balls in the planter to see if they are effective. Our day on Saturday of clean up and renovation projects in and around The Big House was very productive, and we made some good progress.

After receiving good feedback from our fellow trekkers and based on the related projects that are planned we will be making a change in Wisdom-Trek starting June 1st. We will be releasing new Wisdom-Trek themed episodes three days a week, which will be Motivation Mondays, Wisdom Wednesdays, and Philosophy Fridays. The episodes may be slightly longer than in the past, but still short enough to consume easily in one session. Making this adjustment starting June 1st will allow us to invest the time needed to release the Wisdom-Trek monthly journals, create the online version of Your Life Plan Blueprint and roll out our new platform Christian Podcasting Network. We also have additional exciting projects in the planning stages that I will announce later.

 

For today, it is time to head out on a three-day trek of reflection from this past year of Wisdom-Trek. Today our trail will reflect on gratitude and the privilege of serving you through the Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal.

Gratitude Is Thanks on Steroids

As I reflect on completing a full year of Wisdom-Trek at the end of May, I started thinking about gratitude, past the mere words "Thank you." Way past. I went to the second definition of gratitude in the dictionary, the one that says, "... readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness."

Being grateful, feeling grateful, and acting grateful are three different things.

Being grateful can just be an intellectual act. For example, I'm grateful for whoever invented traffic lights that keep us safe. I am grateful, really, but quite frankly,