Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 46 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom.

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (Part 3)

Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. By consuming these daily wisdom nuggets, you will digest the principles will help you in your quest to become healthy, wealthy, and wise as we trek through life together.  This is Day 46 of our Trek, and we will continue for the next few days on our Trek to look at how changing our thinking can dramatically change our lives.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. We had the privilege of being interviewed on another podcast this past week, which was released on Monday.  I count it a blessing to be able to share our story on other platforms as well.  So far we have been on the Profit Pathway with Adam Farmer, PluggedIN Life with Mitch Kriegh, The Launching Point with Mike O’Toole, and Life Uncut with Tom Walter and John Allaire. If you would like to listen to any of these interviews, they can be found on Wisdom-Trek.com and choose The Big House.  There is another interview not yet released and a couple of more scheduled, so I will keep you informed when they are ready.

I am excited to continue on our Trek today as we visit waypoints 4 and 5 on our trail in our quest to change our thinking so that we can change our lives.  There are 12 waypoints or rest stops plus a couple of planning discussions in all, so if you missed any of the past five days of podcasts, please go back and listen to them, or read our daily journal entries.  This will give you the foundation for this week’s Trek.

As we ended our podcast yesterday, I asked you to consider two more questions:

Am I dedicated to removing distractions and mental clutter so that I can concentrate with clarity on the real issue?

Am I working to break out of my “box,” exploring ideas and options, so I can experience creative breakthrough?

Did you take time to reflect on and answer those question?  How has your focus and creativity changed as a result of these two questions? Remember, we must grow ourselves before we can ever hope to help others grow.

Let’s start down the trail today towards the next waypoint or rest stop.  While I am very much an optimist in life, I am also very much a realist. I always believe the glass is completely full, either with liquid, air or other substances, but I also know that I may not always want to drink what is in the cup.

So, let's settle in at our first waypoint or rest stop. 

4. Employ Realistic Thinking

Realistic thinking is absolutely essential for success in life. It minimizes your risk by determining in advance what the consequences of different actions might be. By understanding and acknowledging consequences, it is possible to plan for them.

By developing contingency plans, it allows you to feel and be more secure. Realistic thinking will also lead you to better define objectives or goals so that you can reach them. Through realistic thinking, you can create a solid foundation upon which your ideas can be built upon.

This reminds me of the parable that Christ taught us in Luke 6:47-49,

"I will show you what it’s like when someone comes to me, listens to my teaching, and then follows it.  It is like a person building a house who digs deep and lays the foundation on solid rock. When the floodwaters rise and break against that house, it stands firm because it is well built.  But anyone who hears and doesn’t obey is like a person who builds a house without a foundation. When the floods sweep down against that house, it will collapse into a heap of ruins.”