Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 423 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

The Five Trails on Life's Trek - Philosophy Part 1

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy podcast. This is Day 423 of our trek, and today is Philosophy Friday. Every Friday we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy.

Last Friday we began a multi-week trek as we began to explore the teachings from some of my virtual mentors such as Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar, and Earl Nightingale. As mentioned last week, the core of this trek will be based primarily on Jim Rohn’s book called The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle.  I have learned a considerable amount from reading and re-reading this book on my own trek of life, and I trust that it will benefit you also. Keeping with the continuity of Wisdom-Trek, I will be adapting it to The Five Trails on Life’s Trek.

We are broadcasting from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. After working onsite with one of our Marietta clients on Wednesday, we headed south again for just a few days. Paula’s mom has a doctor appointment and one of our nephews is getting married on Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia. On Monday, which is Labor Day in the United States, we will head back to The Big House for about a week before returning to Charlotte again.

As we trek back and forth between Ohio and North Carolina, we don’t want to ignore the practical application of these travels to life’s trek should not be lost. Most of life is made up of the daily grind of just being faithful to the small details. As we travel mile after mile, we can only make progress by repeating each mile 365 times, and so it is with life. You will make progress by living one day at a time and then connecting those days together while heading toward your intended destination. On our trek for today, we will take what we learned last Friday and begin on the first of five trails on life’s trek, which is the Philosophy Trail. So, let’s break camp and head out on the first trail of this extended trek as we cover…

The Five Trails on Life’s Trek –Philosophy Part 1

Last week we invested time in camp preparing for hiking The Five Trails on Life’s Trek. Those five trails are:

Philosophy

Attitude

Activity

Results

Lifestyle

Although all of these trails are important, philosophy is the foundation or primary trail from which the other four trails branch from. Your philosophy can also be described as your worldview or paradigm from where your thought process originates. A major factor in determining how your life turns out is the way you choose to think. What you think about is a choice that you make every day. Everything that goes on inside your mind in the form of thoughts, ideas, and information forms your personal philosophy. Your philosophy then influences your habits and behavior, and this is really where it all begins.

Since we are on the Trail of Philosophy, let us examine how your personal philosophy is formed.  Your personal philosophy comes from what you know and from the process of how you came to know all that you currently know. Throughout your life you receive input from a multitude of sources. What you know comes from school, friends, associates, media influences, home, and other places where you invest time. It also comes from books you are reading or listening to, and it comes from listening and observing throughout all aspects of your life. The sources of knowledge and information that have contributed to the formation of your current philosophy are virtually unlimited.

As an adult,