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.

That will finish our podcast for today. As you enjoy your daily dose of wisdom, I encourage you to help us promote Wisdom-Trek in the following four ways:

1. Leave us feedback about the podcast on Wisdom-Trek.com, so we can continually improve.
2. On your smartphone, subscribe on iTunes, GooglePlay, Spreaker, Soundcloud or Stitcher, so the podcast will be downloaded to you automatically each day.
3. On your computer or if you have an iPhone or iPad, leave us a rating and review on iTunes.
4. Please share Wisdom-Trek with your family and friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, or in person so they can come along with us each day.

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!

Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 240 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Your Life Plan Blueprint – Planning Goals #3

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 240 of our Trek, and we are continuing on our current Trek Your Life Plan Blueprint. Yesterday we remained on our trail covering the 4^th step or phase of our WESPER framework which is planning. We examined fitting your daily and weekly tasks into your schedule using a daily calendar, identifying the best times each day to work on your tasks, and learning to invest your time wisely.

Today we will focus our exploration on how best to schedule your tasks to ensure they are consistent with your strategy. 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, please 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. Our renovation contractors were back on Monday, and they started to drywall the ceiling and skim coat the walls. It will add to the dust and clean up but will be well worth it when finished. I am also making slow but steady progress on the woodwork in the library. On the outside, temperatures are moderating a bit this week, but it will take some time for the current snowfall to melt completely.

Let’s head out on the trail for day twenty of our Wisdom-Trek Life Plan process which we refer to as…

Your Life Plan Blueprint^©

We started developing a plan for your long-term objective goals and short-term activity goals two days ago. These goals need to be based on your pre-planned strategy for proper execution and completion of those goals. You must allocate the time required to ensure success, which leads us to the trail that we will continue to explore today.

2. Fit Your Plan Into Your Schedule

c. Schedule your weekly and daily activity goals/tasks.

After you have identified the best available times to work on your goals, schedule your goal tasks:

1. Schedule your key activities of success. Start filling your available time slots with your key activities of success first. These are the most important tasks in your goal setting and need to be placed first. As part of your long-term life plan, it is important to complete all activities, if possible, but focus on the tasks that will have the most impact first.
2. Schedule your remaining tasks. After giving priority to your key activities of success, fill in the other tasks. These are the remaining tasks that need to be done in the course of your goal pursuit. They are not necessarily all that critical in the bigger picture of your goals but need to be done anyway as part of the activity goals and your life plan.
3. Ensure you spend disproportionate time and energy on your key activities of success. Ideally, the majority of your time is allocated to your key activities of success. Your other tasks should be disproportionately skewed toward the former. The ratio will be dependent on the context of the activity goal to your overall life plan, but the general principle is to spend as much time and focus on your key activities of success as possible.

As you work on your schedule, here are some tips that can help you build a more robust schedule.

1. Batch/Schedule similar-tasks together. See if you can be more effective by batching tasks or scheduling similar tasks together (e.g. doing all your exercise routines in one block of time while listening to audio books or podcasts to improve your mind or other areas of life; doing all your grocery shopping once per week; batch prepare meals for the entire week with specific portion size).
2. Allocate sufficient time for each task. Many of us often run into the situation where we underestimate the time needed for an activity. Develop a good understanding of the timing needs for each task and allocate it accordingly.
3. Schedule extra “buffer” time. This is for contingency purposes. It will come in handy at times when there are unexpected events that occur that need your attention or when you underestimate the time taken for a particular task.

If you find you don’t have enough time to schedule all your tasks, you will either need to reprioritize time across all the activities in your life plan or choose only those most important activities that will allow you to move closer to fulfilling your life purpose. You may have to delay some activities to another season of life. Continue to massage your schedule until you are able to fit everything into your time schedule. Remember, you cannot manage time, only your activities. Check the journal for Day 239 to study the Activity Management Matrix.

3. Ensure Congruency With Your Strategy

As a checkpoint, your goal plans that you develop should be congruent/consistent with your strategy. Your strategies are a subset of Your Life Plan Blueprint, so your goal activity plans should be based on that blueprint and not deviate from it. In any scenario when you find inconsistencies in your goal plans vs. your strategy, you need to:

• Revisit your strategy to examine if you missed something during that step
• Revise your goal plans to fit your strategy

For example, let’s say you want to reduce your body fat by 10%.  Your main strategy is to do high-intensity interval training (HIIT). HIIT involves doing bursts of intense exercise that is followed by lower intensity exercises. This method has been proven to be effective in reducing fat compared to other methods. However, when you are doing your planning, you fill up your exercise schedule with aerobic lessons and resistance training, which are not HIIT exercises. This will cause you to miss your benchmark. To stay true to your strategy, you should identify exercises that allow you to perform HIIT, such as treadmill, running, or elliptical trainer workouts.

Let’s look at another example. One of your objectives is to improve your overall health and one of the measurable activities is to lose 25 lbs. As part of your activity goal plans, you decide to reduce your overall intake of food, and you have done that successfully. But, if you find you still find yourself eating out several times per week or you continue to purchase highly processed foods or boxed meals instead of preparing your own meals using whole foods, your plans are not consistent with your strategy.

As you are setting your activity goal plans, remember to solicit the advice of trusted and wise mentors to assist you. Proverbs 15:22 tells us, “Plans go wrong for lack of advice; many advisers bring success.”

With the right planning that is consistent with your strategies, your execution of those activities will become an easier task. The next step within our WESPER framework is execution.

On our trek today, we focused on how best to schedule your tasks and to ensure they are consistent with your strategy. Tomorrow we will move onto our 5th step or phase in our WESPER framework, which is the execution of the plans that we have created.

We are hiking our life plan trail with perseverance as we lay the foundation and build Your Life Plan Blueprint. This framework integrates 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.

That will finish our podcast for today. As you enjoy your daily dose of wisdom, I encourage you to help us promote Wisdom-Trek in the following four ways:

1. Leave us feedback about the podcast on Wisdom-Trek.com, so we can continually improve.
2. On your smartphone, subscribe on iTunes, GooglePlay, Spreaker, Soundcloud or Stitcher, so the podcast will be downloaded to you automatically each day.
3. On your computer or if you have an iPhone or iPad, leave us a rating and review on iTunes.
4. Please share Wisdom-Trek with your family and friends through email, Facebook, Twitter or in person so they can come along with us each day.

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!

Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 239 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Your Life Plan Blueprint – Planning Goals #2

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 239 of our Trek, and we are continuing on our current Trek Your Life Plan Blueprint. Yesterday we began the 4^th step or phase of our WESPER framework, which is planning. We explored the five steps to success as you are planning your goals. These steps are easy to follow and repeatable across all 7 areas of your life. 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. Due to the snow event from Friday and Saturday, it was advised not to be on the roads unless necessary. We took advantage of the opportunity to relax this morning and listen to a podcast message from our church in Charlotte. After that, we spent the remainder of the day working on several client projects that needed to be completed and also made plane reservations for a trip in February to visit our construction project in Mesa, Arizona. It is coming along well, but there are always a lot of details and moving pieces to keep track of.

Let’s head on the trail for day twenty of our Wisdom-Trek Life Plan process, which we refer to as…

Your Life Plan Blueprint^©

Developing a plan for our long-term objective goals and short-term activity goals is crucial. These goals need to be based on your pre-planned strategy for proper execution and completion of those goals. You must allocate the time required to ensure success. This leads us to the trail that we need to explore today which is…

2. Fit Your Plan into Your Schedule

Once you set your 7-year objective goals and detailed activity goals in each of the 7 areas of your life, your weekly and daily activity task should be clear. Now you need to fit them into your schedule and integrate your plan into your daily life. Be proactive in allocating the time required. This will create certainty that the whole plan will be acted upon.

a. Get a daily calendar.

You will need a daily calendar and task list, which lists the hours as you schedule in your tasks. Depending on your preferences, you might like to use a web-based calendar, a calendar in your email client, a manually created calendar, or even a hard copy calendar.

I use Gmail and Google Calendar. It is web-based, so it can be accessed from any computer, tablet, or smartphone, making it extremely convenient. I find it extremely helpful in keeping me organized. Keep in mind that whatever you use, it is just a tool. Use what works best for you.

b. Identify the best times to work on your daily activity goals.

You must be clear on when you can work on your objective and goals. There are two factors that determine this. The first is your time. Determine when you will make available time for your goal-specific tasks. The second is your energy level. As you are allocating for those tasks, choose a time when you will be in a proper frame of mind to work on your goals.

Be realistic and do not run into the situation where you overcommit yourself with your tasks that are not part of Your Life Plan Blueprint. Learn to say “No!” to anything that does not fit into your life plan so you can say yes to what is truly important.

Creating a life plan that will enable you to complete your objectives and goals has to be your primary focus. Your Life Plan Blueprint represents your path toward fulfilling your purpose in life. You will need to be persistent, consistent, and dedicated to making your life plan work. This is very different from traditional goal setting programs where you attempt to fit working on your goals into an already busy schedule. Your Life Plan Blueprint is your trek of life and very process by which you live. You must decide to make the necessary adjustments in life to make your plan work for you. It is your choice.

It is not about managing your time better. Time management is actually an impossibility. We all have 24 hours in each day, and we can no more manage time than we can stop the rotation of the earth. We cannot manage time, but we can manage our activities. When you understand that you are accountable to manage your activities, then you start to focus on life from a different perspective. Based on the choices you have made in the past, it may appear that others control your time, but you don’t have to continue that way the remainder of your life. By the end of this first 7-year season, you will have the capacity to control how all of your time is invested.

Your time can either be spent with little redeeming value, or it can be invested so that your return on that investment helps to fulfill your life purpose. You may need to invest some time now to examine where you spend your time. How are you spending your time every day? What are the different activities that you are involved in? How much time is taken for each activity? Which activities take up the most time? Do these activities move you closer to your life purpose or farther away? When you answer these questions, don’t make excuses for yourself. Take control of your activities.

A simple yet excellent tool which enables you to get immediate clarity on how to prioritize your activities is the Activity Management Matrix. A sample of this matrix is included in the workbook.

Once you have taken the opportunity to study the Activity Matrix, you will come to realize that to be successful with Your Life Plan Blueprint, you will need to invest your time primarily in Quadrant 2.  In doing so, you will minimize your time in Quadrant-1 by being proactive in Quadrant-2.  Spending any time in Quadrants 3 and 4 will dramatically slow down your trek toward fulfilling your life purpose.

It is a requirement to incorporate a time for rest and relaxation as part of your life plan. This will enable you to achieve your balanced life and maximize every moment of your life for its intended purpose.

The Apostle Paul wrote in his letter to the Church in Ephesus Chapter 5:15-17, “So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days. Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.”

On our trek today, we started our investigation of how to fit your daily and weekly tasks into your schedule through the use of a daily calendar, identifying the best times each day, and investing your time wisely. Tomorrow we will focus our exploration on how best to schedule your tasks to ensure they are consistent with your strategy.  This goal planning is the 4^th step in our WESPER framework. We are hiking our life plan trail with purpose as we lay the foundation and build Your Life Plan Blueprint.  This framework integrates 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.

That will finish our podcast for today. As you enjoy your daily dose of wisdom, I encourage you to help us promote Wisdom-Trek in the following four ways:

1. Leave us feedback about the podcast on Wisdom-Trek.com, so we can continually improve.
2. On your smartphone, subscribe on iTunes, GooglePlay, Spreaker, Soundcloud or Stitcher, so the podcast will be downloaded to you automatically each day.
3. On your computer or if you have an iPhone or iPad, leave us a rating and review on iTunes.
4. Please share Wisdom-Trek with your family and friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, or in person so they can come along with us each day.

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!

Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy

Welcome to Day 237 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Your Life Plan Blueprint – Strategy Guidelines 6-10

Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 237 of our Trek, and we are continuing on our current Trek Your Life Plan Blueprint. Two days ago we started our exploration of the third phase of the WESPER framework which is strategy. Yesterday we examined the first 5 guidelines for implementing an effective strategy, and today we will discover the remaining 5 guidelines. As you are creating your life plan that fulfills your life purpose, you must establish goals as part of your plan. Setting a goal does nothing by itself. Strategy is the core of your blueprint which enables you to do planning which leads to execution and review.

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.  If you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. It started snowing about 2 pm Friday afternoon, and by the time it is finished on Saturday we should have between 6-9 inches. This was not the blizzard predicted for the eastern seaboard, but it is a very nice amount.

We met with our renovation contractors this week, and after how nice the two front rooms and downstairs hallway/foyer looked, we have decided to move forward with renovations on the upstairs hallway. My plans are to remove the ceiling tiles and wallpaper on Saturday so they can continue this next week. Here is a before picture.

Due to time and budget limitations, this will probably be the last area we renovate for a few months. Of course, I still have a lot of work to do refinishing the massive amount of woodwork and hardwood floors, which will take me well into springtime.

Let’s head on the trail for day eighteen of our Wisdom-Trek Life Plan process which we refer to as…

Your Life Plan Blueprint^©

Two days ago we explored three points about strategy which were:

• What is strategy?
• Strategy is underutilized.
• Develop your strategy.

Yesterday we examined the first 5 guidelines for creating an effective strategy which were:

1. Understand your goals thoroughly.

2. Pre-plan for obstacles so you can address them.

3. Identify the best route, but plan for alternatives.

4. Identify key activities or best actions for success.

5. Remain faithful and focused on your daily activity goals.

On our trail today, we will discover the remaining 5 guidelines for creating a successful strategy for any goal or objective that you set.

6. Do something different and something extra.

Even if you have tried some of your objectives and goals previously without success, using the Wisdom-Trek Your Life Plan Blueprint will allow you to approach the goals from a new perspective and mindset. This is required if you expect to be successful in creating your life plan. As the saying goes, “If nothing changes, then nothing changes.” Your Life Plan Blueprint is much more than a goal setting system. It is a life changing system. If you want to get different results, you need to do something different. By adopting the Wisdom-Trek system with the WESPER framework, you are taking action to do something different and something extra. You are proactive on setting a strategy and taking responsibility for your life.

7. Make use of new resources.

Although there are many goal setting programs and philosophies available, few, if any, incorporate the core framework of Your Life Plan Blueprint. Most systems look at goals as isolated events with little thought of how each goal ties into your overall life plan to fulfill your purpose in life. The core WESPER framework is a cycle that takes you through obtaining Wisdom, Establishing objective and activity goals, creating a Strategy, which ties into Planning, Execution, and Review. This is not a one-time occurrence but a life process for each of the 7 areas of your life. The primary reason that we focus on a 7-year timeframe within the cycle of Your Life Plan Blueprint is to allow you to adjust your plan for the different seasons of your life.

8. Leverage your environment and experiences.

Your environment and experiences guide your actions and behaviors and can be leveraged to support you in your goal and life plan pursuit.

Since most of our decisions and thought patterns are based on our current environment coupled with our past experiences, let me ask this question, “How can you use your existing environment and past experiences to assist in the support of your goals? Do you need to modify your environment to help you in achieving your primary objectives and activity goals?”

You can’t change your past. All you can do is to apply its lessons to your life today. You may need to change your environment, though, so that you can reach your 7-year objectives. This will allow you to fulfill your purpose as part of your life plan. As you start analyzing your environment, you will find there are actually many ways you can change it or leverage it more effectively. Don’t allow yourself to be jailed by past thinking patterns or constraints. Take the shackles off and immerse yourself in environments to help you complete your activity goals, which support your long-term objectives. This will allow you to fulfill your life purpose and plan. It is then you will be living a rich and satisfying life.

9. Develop your skills.

To completely fulfill your purpose in life, it may require that you gain new or upgrade your skills. Assess your current skills, and determine what improvements are needed to complete the daily tasks which tie to your weekly, monthly, and yearly goals.  If needed, build the steps to gain these skills into your strategy as part of Your Life Plan Blueprint. 

10. Create accountability.

Create accountability on two levels. The first level is accountability toward yourself, which we will discuss in the last step of the WESPER framework review.

The second level is extending accountability beyond yourself. Choose people that will hold you accountable for your results. These individuals may very well be the same people that invested time with you at the beginning of the process as you were seeking wisdom and insight. Another option is to encourage a friend or family member to start their own Your Life Plan Blueprint, and you can trek together on the journey. Although you may not be on the exact same paths, you can both experience the joys and challenges of the plan and become accountability partners.

It is good to have an accountability partner, and I do encourage it. But at the end of the day, remember your goals and plans are your responsibility solely and success depends only on you. Never abdicate your responsibility. Ultimately we are personally responsible to God for our progress.

Hebrews 4:13 – Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes, and he is the one to whom we are accountable.

On our trek today, we explored the remaining five guidelines to develop your life plan strategy with the WESPER framework. The strategies you develop will form the foundation which your goal plan will be built upon. These strategies are like the individual pages of your overall life blueprint. Tomorrow we will begin exploring the 4^th step in the WESPER framework, which is planning. We are hiking the trail with fortitude as we lay the foundation and build Your Life Plan Blueprint. This framework integrates 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.

That will finish our podcast for today. As you enjoy your daily dose of wisdom, I encourage you to help us promote Wisdom-Trek in the following four ways:

1. Leave us feedback about the podcast on Wisdom-Trek.com so we can continually improve.
2. On your smartphone, subscribe on iTunes, GooglePlay, Spreaker, Soundcloud or Stitcher, so the podcast will be downloaded to you automatically each day.
3. On your computer or if you have an iPhone or iPad, leave us a rating and review on iTunes.
4. Please share Wisdom-Trek with your family and friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, or in person so they can come along with us each day.

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!