Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 365 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Life at the Speed of Average

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 365 of our trek. Yesterday 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 with life, this past year seemed to zoom by so quickly, and yet we have slowly trekked each day for an entire year. Today on our trek, let’s explore what I mean by the speed of average.

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 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.

We are broadcasting from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio.

We were able to attend church at Putnam Congregational again this morning, and it is always good to worship and fellowship with Christ followers. After church we did our weekly grocery shopping, and then I invested most of the afternoon continuing to clean out the garage. It has been several years since I last cleaned it. It is a detached five-stall open garage fashioned after a turn of the century carriage house, so it is not only large but also prone to attract leaves, dirt, and other debris. Once I finish, it should be in good shape at least until the leaves fall again.

As I mentioned yesterday, 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 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 trek of reflection from this past year of Wisdom-Trek. Today our trail will reflect on what I call:

Life at the Speed of Average

Many people have asked, how do you keep up with a daily podcast along with your other responsibilities? I have to admit, it was not always easy, but I committed to a daily podcast for one year and was compelled to keep that commitment. It takes being consistently persistent in the small things of life to achieve what appears to be great results. You can move a mountain one stone at a time, as long as you are consistently persistent for a long period of time.

I certainly have no extraordinary abilities or talents. I am a fairly average person but have a desire and drive to move one stone at a time from the mountains that stand in front of me. You too can be average and still be a mountain mover. As we move into a modified season two of Wisdom-Trek, let’s look at what can be accomplished even if you feel that you are considered average.

As I wrap up this first year of Wisdom-Trek, I look back and realize although I was an average student that grew up poor on an apple orchard, through being consistently persistent,