Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 50 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 7)

Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. When you consume these daily wisdom nuggets, you can think of them as your daily supplements for your life.  They will provide you with nutrients needed for daily health. This is Day 50 of our Trek, and we will visit our last waypoint #12 on our lessons about how changing our thinking changes our lives.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. We arrived a couple of days ago and are ready for working on house renovations, meeting with clients, and gathering with family.

Yesterday we attended the annual Robb family reunion in Canton, Ohio. This is Paula’s mother side of the family, and it is always enjoyable to visit with family members, especially when we are able to share our lives of faith.  Paula and I are fortunate to come from families that have strong faith, work ethic, and integrity.  It shaped who we are and certainly aided in our strong marriage of nearly 36 years.

I consider all of our Wisdom-Trek listeners as Wisdom-Trek family members. I have the privilege of sharing with you each day, and I appreciate it when you share with me by leaving comments on Wisdom-Trek.com.

We have nearly completed our current Trek, as we are visiting the 12 waypoints on the Trail of Thinking where we have sojourned for the last 7 days. So far, we have stopped by waypoints 1-11 and have only 1 more waypoint to visit.

I encourage you to apply each waypoint to your life so that you can become more wise and successful.  If you have missed any of the previous podcasst this week, please take the time to listen to them or read the daily journals so that you will be all caught up on the trail with us. We certainly don’t want to leave anyone behind.

As in the previous days, when we ended our podcast yesterday, I asked you to deliberate on two more questions:

Am I continually considering others and their journey in order to think with maximum cooperation?

Do I stay focused on productive thinking so that I can gain the maximum results and reap the full potential of my thinking?

Study these daily questions, and then apply them to your life.  Doing so will radically change your thinking and gradually change your life.  Just like our trek in life, progress is usually slow and may be burdensome, but is required to become wise and successful.

As we reach waypoint #12 today, we are switching our focus from how to think are concentrating instead on what to think about.

 

Concentrate on What you Think About

As we consider this last waypoint, I am reminded of a quote I recently came across from Peter Lord that I feel is quite appropriate as we look at how to concentrate on what you think about.

"We have no control over how we feel, how we act — our attitudes, and actions — except as they are determined by our thoughts.  All these elements are irrevocably tied together.  But since we do have control over what we think, it is possible to control our attitudes and actions…All thoughts can be divided into two basic categories: true and false.  The thoughts that come from God are true.  He is the God of all truth and has sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in us and to guide us into all truth.  If I can receive God’s thoughts, I can think the truth.  Therefore I will have the right attitudes and actions.  How do you get the air out of a glass?  By filling it with water.  How do you get rid of wrong and untrue thoughts?  By filling your mind with true and right thoughts from God.