Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 241 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Your Life Plan Blueprint – Goal Execution

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 241 of our Trek, and we are continuing on our current Trek Your Life Plan Blueprint. Yesterday we finished the 4^th step or phase of our WESPER framework which is planning. We focused our exploration on how best to schedule your tasks to ensure they are consistent with your strategy. Today we have reached our 5^th step or phase of our WESPER framework which is execution. Although all steps are very crucial, if we do excellent on the first 4 steps, but fail to execute then we have accomplished nothing. Execution is paramount for success. Since our life planning series does cover many days, if you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.

I am incorporating all of these daily concepts along with worksheets into an easy to use workbook, and I will let you know when it is complete so that you can download it. If you have any questions or would like additional information as we go through our daily trek, leave a comment on Wisdom-Trek.com or email me at guthrie@venturecg.com.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. The contractors are making good progress on the upstairs hallways and front stairs. It will look great once the project is completed. On the business side of life, we have a heavy workload this week, so it is requiring our full focus to accomplish everything. I do enjoy working, so the key is to keep it all balanced properly between the various tasks that need to be completed.

Let’s focus on the execution of our trek today as we hike the trail for day twenty-one of our Wisdom-Trek Life Plan process which we refer to as…

Your Life Plan Blueprint^©

So far on this trek, we have traversed through the first four steps of the WESPER framework.  Those four steps are Wisdom, Establish, Strategy, and Planning. Today we will focus on execution and then move on to review. All six steps of WESPER are important, and no step should be missed or marginalized. If we have one step that is absolutely imperative, it is execution.  Execution is where your boots hit the trail, or as Thomas Edison put it, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” It could also be said that “Execution is all that the world sees.”

Execution is the 5^th  step of the WESPER framework. This is the step where your objectives and goals really get brought to life in physical reality. Let’s see how the WESPER framework ties together into this execution.

When you were seeking wisdom you searched for it:

• Through the study of the Bible
• Through your network of family, friends, and mentors
• By asking God directly for wisdom through prayer and meditation

Wisdom provides the seeds of hope that are being planted in your life to help you determine what your life purpose is and how you can fulfill that purpose. This is the foundation on which to build Your Life Plan Blueprint.

When you were establishing your 7-year objectives and goals in each of the 7 areas of your life, you began the creation of Your Life Plan Blueprint. You started to see the virtual image in your mind and on paper of what you would accomplish it. You projected forward to what you would be and would accomplish in 7 years.

As you formed your strategy, you developed the building blocks of key activities and principles you need to build your plan on. This is like taking the blueprints and determining the list of materials and processes needed to complete building the structure, which in this case is your life plan.

In planning, you developed the specifics of your plan, right down to weekly and daily activities you need to complete and then integrated those activities into your schedule. This is taking the blueprints and putting a “construction schedule” in place for what will be completed and when it will be completed.

This brings us now to execution which is an extremely critical step because execution is all that anybody ever sees. You can spend all your life seeking wisdom, establishing goals, strategizing and planning, but if you never get down to the execution, nothing is going to happen. It is the step when your dreams begin to become a reality. It is during this phase when you actually begin to build your life from Your Life Plan Blueprint.

Your life is a trek of creating your living legacy. Through the daily execution of Your Life Plan Blueprint, you will move one day closer to your 7-year objective in each of the 7 areas of life. Your Wheel of Life will be in balance, and you will be working toward fulfilling your life purpose for this season of life.

In some ways, the execution phase of our WESPER process may be the easiest step of the framework. If you have completed the previous four steps properly and have broken down your 7-year objectives into small bite-size daily chunks, then it is simply a matter of being consistent and persistent every day. This does require daily discipline, but when a person is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. You have created a great plan, now you need to follow through with it.

Here are some encouraging verses on follow through on the execution of Your Life Plan Blueprint.

Proverbs 22:29 – Do you see any truly competent workers? They will serve kings rather than working for ordinary people. 

Ecclesiastes 9:10 – Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.

Galatians 6:4 – Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else.

Colossians 3:23 – Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

On our trek today, we focused on the 5^th phase of our WESPER framework which is execution. Execution is imperative for successful progress and completion of Your Life Plan Blueprint. Tomorrow we will move onto our 6^th step or phase in our WESPER framework, which is review of all that you completed to ensure that it matches your blueprint. We are hiking our life plan trail with persistence as we lay the foundation and build Your Life Plan Blueprint. This framework incorporates into our concept of Wisdom-Trek as we look at life as a trek, taking one step at a time. So encourage your friends and family to join us, and then come along tomorrow for another day of our Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.

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Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most of all your friend as I serve you through the Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal each day.

As we take this trek together, let us always:

1. Live Abundantly (Fully)
2. Love Unconditionally
3. Listen Intentionally
4. Learn Continuously
5. Lend to others Generously
6. Lead with Integrity
7. Leave a Living Legacy Each Day

This is Guthrie Chamberlain reminding you to Keep Moving Forward, Enjoy Your Journey, and Create a Great Day Every Day! See you tomorrow!