Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 96 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom.

Hiking the Trail of Genius (1)

Thank you for joining us for our 7 day a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 96 of our Trek. Yesterday we finished the four habits that form habits. On our Trek today and tomorrow, we will explore the four zones, or as we will refer to them as trails, where we can choose to spend most of our time. When we finish this two day hike, we will have a clearly marked map on how we can navigate toward and spend most of our time on our personal trail of genius.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. We continue to have full days of client work mixed with planning for changes in our business as we look toward next year.

Today Paula and I were interviewed for another podcast called Together 24/7, which is hosted and produced by Barry and Catherine Cohen.  Their podcast focuses on couples that live and work together. It will not be aired until mid to late October, so I will let you know when the interview is available. I am also scheduled for three additional interviews on other podcasts during this next week. It is enjoyable to share our stories on these different shows.

It is time now to break camp and set out to explore the four trails where we spend our time hiking each day. Our Trek today and tomorrow will help you move toward the trail that will best utilize your God-given talents.  We are all unique and have a place in the various areas of life that are best suited for us. As King David wrote in Psalms 139:14, "Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous — how well I know it."

 

The trails that we will explore are mapped out in a book called The Big Leap written by Gay Hendricks. In this book Gay plots the zones or trails that will help us to conquer fear and take life’s trek to the next level. This is possible but only if we are willing to make the changes needed.

I realize that there are circumstances and situations in our lives that we have little control over that may limit how high we can hike in this life, but more often than not, our limitations are ones that we place on ourselves. Those choices become weights that we have strapped to our own feet. We all have limiting circumstances that grow out of poor choices or a wrong attitude, but we have the ability to unstrap those weights and to rise above these limitations.

Think about his analogy. In the early days of the steam-powered train, respected scientists urged the engineers to limit the speed to thirty miles per hour because they believed that the human body exploded at speeds faster than that. Finally some brave people risked going beyond that limiting belief and found that they did not explode. The crew of NASA's Apollo 10 moon mission reached a top speed of 24,791 mph relative to Earth as they rocketed back to our planet on May 26, 1969. Someday we will reach speeds much greater.

Are you limiting your potential of what you can become? Do you have a negative and fearful attitude that restricts your ability to live the rich and satisfying life that Jesus spoke about in John 10:10?

Think about it this way. As we pass by a tiny acorn on our trail, we realize that under the right conditions this tiny acorn will grow into a mighty oak tree similar to the one it fell from, which can live for hundreds of years and withstand the fieriest of storms. If that is the case, don’t you think that God will provide you what is necessary to reach your full potential since you are made in His image?

You can reach your full potential, but that is tied to the choices you make and your commitment to tho...