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Day 451– Plans Succeed through Good Counsel – Proverbs 20:16-30

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Welcome to Day 451 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Plans Succeed Through Wise Counsel – Proverbs [20:16]-30

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 451 of our trek, and today is Wisdom Wednesday. Every Wednesday along life’s trails we dig for the nuggets of wisdom that are found within the book of Proverbs. Today we will explore the 2nd half of Chapter 20.

Wisdom Succeed

We are broadcasting from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. All things considered, the packing and moving of all of our household furnishings from our Charlotte home to The Big House went fairly smooth. It was certainly one of the busiest and physically tiring weeks that we have had for a long time. With the help of three of our grown children and their spouses, we were able to get the 26’ U-Haul truck fully loaded on Friday, and then Paula and I invested a long day Saturday cleaning the house from top to bottom.

We pulled away from our home at 6:30pm and arrived in Marietta at 1:30am.  After sleeping in a bit on Sunday, my brother Jack, his wife Ann, and their son Rob helped us unload. We are truly blessed to have willing and able family that is so supportive. We do have a few remaining furniture items stored in the garage that did not fit on the truck and will be making a return trip soon to retrieve them. It may take a few weeks for us to unpack all the boxes and determine where everything will go, but the most difficult tasks are behind us.

We are grateful to God for safety and the strength to accomplish all that we did in a week’s time. The home is on the market now, so we are praying that it sells quickly and for the price we desire. We would appreciate your prayers also.

As we do adapt to the ever-changing seasons of life, it certainly is beneficial to rely on the wisdom, insight, and understanding obtained through many years to help navigate the trails that we are hiking each day. Sharp turns, unexpected obstacles, and precarious ledges can come on us quickly. Being prepared for these unexpected situations will allow you to traverse the trails with the strength needed while maintaining your peace and joy.

Planning Succeed

In every season of life, we need to seek wisdom, insight, and understanding both from God’s Word and from other wise individuals. We then need to put plans in place, so as we break camp for our trek today, let us explore the nuggets of wisdom found in the second half of Proverbs 20 where we will learn that…

Plans Succeed Through Good Counsel

Let’s start our trek with verse 16.

16 Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.

Proverbs is full of advice and warnings about borrowing money or guaranteeing debt for someone else. The converse of this is true also. If you loan money to others, you need to make sure that you obtain collateral or some sort of security. This is especially true if it is someone that you do not know personally. Make sure a deposit is obtained to offset the risk.

17 Stolen bread tastes sweet,
but it turns to gravel in the mouth.

When a person steals or takes advantage of someone, it may appear that it is beneficial and that they have obtained something for nothing, but in the end, it will be a destructive force within them.

18 Plans succeed through good counsel;
don’t go to war without wise advice.

Before making any major decisions or plans, it is best to get advice and counsel from someone who is wise and has a track record of success. This is even more important if the outcome of the decision could be harmful physically, emotionally, or spiritually. The analogy is as if you are going to war and how important good counsel would be.

19 A gossip goes around telling secrets,
so don’t hang around with chatterers.

It is never wise or beneficial to gossip and betrays others by telling secrets. The person who does a lot of talking, or as it is referred to here – a chatterer, is much more prone to gossip. Make a habit of only speaking when it is necessary, and only if it is beneficial to the listener.

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20 If you insult your father or mother,
your light will be snuffed out in total darkness.

As an adult, mistreating your parents in any manner is very grievous. We should love and respect them. Not doing so can have a serious impact on your standing before God.

21 An inheritance obtained too early in life
is not a blessing in the end.

We see this quite often with individuals who receive a large inheritance before they are mature enough to handle the unearned riches. Many time it corrupts the person who is receiving the inheritance. We see a similar pattern from most lottery winners. Within a matter of a few years, they are usually worse off than they were prior to winning.

22 Don’t say, “I will get even for this wrong.”
Wait for the Lord to handle the matter.

It is never good to seek revenge on another person who has mistreated you in any manner. The only one that will ultimately be hurt is you. We need to patiently allow God to handle the situation. It returns us to the laws of planting and harvesting. If someone plants harm in another person, he will harvest a 10-fold increase in harm to himself. Let it go, and let God take care of it.

23 The Lord detests double standards;
he is not pleased by dishonest scales.

Throughout Proverbs we are continually reminded that God is never pleased when we cheat and lie to others. This is especially true in business. Our pricing should be fair to everyone involved, and we should treat everyone the same.

24 The Lord directs our steps,
so why try to understand everything along the way?

It is crucial that we plan and prepare for our journey of life, but realize that it is God that will ultimately guide us if we follow His precepts. While we make plans, we also need to be prepared for the obstacles and detours on the trail. We can never see the end of the trail from the beginning, so it is okay to continue on even if we don’t have all the answers. When you are ready and prepared, then the answers will come at the appropriate time.

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25 Don’t trap yourself by making a rash promise to God
and only later counting the cost.

Always be very careful when making promises to anyone. This is especially true of promises made to God. Prepare first, and then you will be in a position to fulfill promises that are made.

26 A wise king scatters the wicked like wheat,
then runs his threshing wheel over them.

A wise person knows that having negative and bad people around them is not good for them. They will distance themselves from them or put safeguards into place so they are not harmed. If you are a person of authority, then you may also have the opportunity to take action against them.

27 The Lord’s light penetrates the human spirit,
exposing every hidden motive.

We may think we can get away with doing wrong or harming others, but God knows all, and His light will penetrate to the deepest recesses of our minds and expose that which is not good. How much better it is to be filled with light to shine on others.

28 Unfailing love and faithfulness protect the king;
his throne is made secure through love.

When a person who is in a leadership or authority position is loving and faithful they will form a strong bond with others. In doing so, their position will be safe and secure.

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29 The glory of the young is their strength;
the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old.

Young adults have the strength needed to accomplish the tasks that are required of them. This allows them to succeed in many things. If you live according to God’s precepts as a younger adult, then you will be able to enjoy life more fully when you are old. Those who are Godly and older will have the experiences in their lives that have matured them. Then they will be able to enjoy the splendor and blessings that come with old age.

30 Physical punishment cleanses away evil;[d]
such discipline purifies the heart.

When a person does wrong, they should receive the punishment that is due and is commensurate with the wrong that was done. If the person who has done wrong accepts and learns from the punishment, then he will allow that discipline to cleanse him and mature him into the person he should be.

The nuggets of wisdom that we gathered in verses 16-30 of Proverbs 20 provide more tasty morsels of wisdom, insight, and understanding. Regardless of your faith walk, if you follow the precepts in Proverbs, your life will be rich and satisfying. Take them and plant them in your heart so that you will reap a harvest of goodness.

Tomorrow we will hike another short trail of Wisdom Unplugged where we will discover an inspirational wisdom quote. So encourage your friends and family to join us, and then come along with us tomorrow for another day of our Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.

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That will finish our trek for today. Just as you enjoy your daily dose of wisdom, we ask you to help us grow Wisdom-Trek by sharing with your family and friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, or in person and inviting them to come along with us each day. I would challenge you today to take just one precept that we learn today in Proverbs and commit yourself to applying it to your life.

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.

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!

Day 450 Eliminate the Non-Essentials – Wisdom Unplugged

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Welcome to Day 450 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Eliminate the Non-Essentials – Wisdom Unplugged

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 450 of our trek, and it is Tuesday and time for our 3-minute mini-trek called Wisdom Unplugged. This short nugget of wisdom includes an inspirational quote with a little additional content for today’s trek. Consider this your vitamin supplement of wisdom each Tuesday and Thursday. So let’s jump right in with today’s nugget.

Today’s quote is from a Lin Yutang, who says, “Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

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We all seem to be so busy in the relentless pursuit of fame and fortune that we sometimes miss the important aspect of life.  I would conjecture that there are many activities and pursuits in life that are just not that essential to living a happy, joyful, and peaceful life, which is a life that is rich and satisfying. I am a driven and disciplined person and certainly fall prey to the trap of trying to get so many things done that I too miss the forest for the trees.

Let us have the wisdom to diligently eliminate those activities and goals that are not helping us to fulfill our true purpose in life. As the Apostle Paul encouraged his apprentice Timothy in his first letter to him in 1 Timothy 6:11, “But you, Timothy, are a man of God; so run from all these evil things. Pursue righteousness and a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.”

That’s a wrap for today’s Wisdom Unplugged. If you enjoy these quotes, I have created and published a searchable database of over 10,000 quotes that I have collected for many years. If you would like access to my database of inspirational quotes, the link is available on the main page of Wisdom-Trek.com.

Encourage your friends and family to join us, and then come along tomorrow for another day of our Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy. Thank you for allowing me to be your guide, mentor, and most importantly your friend as I serve you through the Wisdom-Trek podcast and journal each day.

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As we take this trek of life 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 for Wisdom Wednesday!

Day 449 – Responsibility Is the Key to Success

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Welcome to Day 449 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

Responsibility Is the Key to Success

Never Give Up Responsibility

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 449 of our trek, and today is Motivation Monday. Every Monday we hike the trails of life that will encourage and motivate us to live a rich and satisfying life this week. Today we will explore how Responsibility Is the Key to Success.

We are broadcasting from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. If you were able to listen to last Friday’s podcast, then you know that this past weekend we moved permanently back to The Big House in Marietta, Ohio.

I shared a few details on the reason for the seemingly abrupt decision although we have been planning and praying about it for several months. The final details came together much faster than we anticipated. I recorded this episode last Friday in the middle of our packing and preparation for the move. I will update you on the actual details that transpired over the weekend in Wednesday’s Wisdom-Trek.

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The choice to move back to Marietta full time was a difficult one, but one which is responsible for us. And we are confident that it is a prudent choice. As with all choices that we make in life, we need to be responsible and take responsibility for those choices, regardless of the outcome.

To be responsible, you need to be prepared for the challenges and obstacles of life so that you have the ability to respond properly. It could be said that Responsibility = Response Ability. Let me explain on today’s short trek what I mean as we look at…

Responsibility Is the Key to Success

Today on our hike, let’s start with an applicable statement from a letter that the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Thessalonians 4:11, “Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.”

One of the great principles we need to emphasize to keep ourselves and our society healthy and productive is the principle of personal responsibility. It’s a principle that needs, through repetition, to be programmed into our core belief system or as we shared on Friday, our philosophy. It needs to be taught and demonstrated in the home and at every level of society—including among the highest business and political leaders in our communities and nation.

It seems that, especially in the western world, we have lost the sense of what responsibility really means. If people don’t believe they are responsible, they will not act responsibly. On the other hand, if we emphasize the principles properly and people believe and know they are responsible, most will consistently act responsibly.

Obviously, we weren’t responsible for much of our background and upbringing, but we are fully responsible for what we do about these and for what we become. The world doesn’t owe us a living. As the Apostle Paul wrote in his 2nd letter to the church in Thessalonians 3:10, “Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: ‘Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.’”

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When we repeatedly do anything for others that they can and need to do for themselves, we can make and keep them over-dependent, immature, and irresponsible. It is not the loving thing to do.

I remember reading about some seagulls in a fishing village that, for many years, fed on the scraps the fishermen left. When the fishing industry in this place closed, the seagulls had forgotten how to gather food for themselves. They died of starvation.

The same principle applies to people. When we do things to keep them over-dependent, we destroy their growth and maturity. It’s the same with God, He will bend the heavens to touch the earth to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves—such as giving His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross of Calvary to pay the just penalty for all our sins—but He won’t do for us what we can and need to do for ourselves. Think about it this way, “God feeds the sparrows, but He doesn’t throw the food into their nest.”

One effective way to program responsibility into your unconscious mind is by constantly saying to yourself, either silently or out loud, “I am responsible. I am responsible. I am responsible.” Say it with the feeling that you really mean it and believe it. Just mouthing the words is meaningless. Don’t stop there, actually become responsible in all areas of your life. To paraphrase James 2:14, “What good is it my friends if you say you are responsible but don’t show it by your actions?”

As we end our trek for today, think about the areas of your life where you can become more responsible. Prepare today, so that when the opportunity to act responsibly arrives, you will be able to show your intentions with action.

Tomorrow’s short trek is part of our Wisdom Unplugged series that we are now hiking on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These 3-minute wisdom supplements will assist you in becoming healthy, wealthy, and wise throughout the entire week. 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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That will finish our trek for today. As you enjoy these daily doses of wisdom, we ask you to help us grow Wisdom-Trek by sharing with your family and friends through email, Facebook, Twitter, or in person when you meet with them and invite them to come along with us each day. If you would like to listen to any of the past daily treks, they are available at Wisdom-Trek.com. Don’t forget to subscribe to Wisdom-Trek so each trek will be downloaded to you automatically.

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

As we take this trek of life 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!

Day 448 – The Five Trails on Life’s Trek – Philosophy (6)

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Welcome to Day 448 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

The Five Trails on Life’s Trek – Philosophy Part 6

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy podcast. This is Day 448 of our trek, and today is Philosophy Friday. Every Friday we will ponder some of the basic truths and mysteries of life, and how they can impact us in creating our living legacy. Currently, we are in a multi-week trek as we explore the teachings from some of my virtual mentors, such as Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar, and Earl Nightingale.

The core of our current trek is based primarily on Jim Rohn’s book called The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle. I have learned a considerable amount from reading and re-reading this book on my own trek of life, and I trust that it will benefit you also. Keeping with the continuity of Wisdom-Trek, I will be adapting it to The Five Trails on Life’s Trek.

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We are broadcasting from our studio at Home2 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Just as the seasons of the year are changing rapidly, sometimes the seasons of our lives do also.

As you know if you have journeyed with us on our Wisdom-Trek for any length of time we travel monthly between The Big House in Marietta, Ohio, and Home2 in Indian Trail, North Carolina. A couple of weeks ago Paula and I made the decision to consolidate back to The Big House full time and sell our North Carolina home. We knew that we would eventually make the move, but it came much sooner than we anticipated.

After analyzing the current housing market and looking at our longer-term financial goals, we feel that it is prudent for us to make the move now. Once the decision was made, the pace of the move accelerated. Based on our realtor’s advice, we have decided to move all of our household belongings and vacate the house this week. This will allow the home to be on the market and available immediately.

So, if all goes according to plan, we will be heading north on Saturday with a U-Haul truck full of furniture and other household items. We would appreciate your prayers as we make this move. We do know that it is God’s will for us, but it is difficult leaving family and friends in North Carolina. Of course, we also have family and friends in Marietta, Ohio, as well. This decision is certainly in line with our personal philosophy that we have for our lives.

As we consider our personal philosophy, on our trek for today, we will continue on the first of five trails on life’s trek, which is the Philosophy Trail. Specifically, we want to continue our exploration of How to Develop a Powerful Personal Philosophy.

If you have missed the past few Philosophy Friday treks, it would be good to go back and review them to get caught up on our progress so far. We have a lot of ground to cover today, so let’s break camp and continue on the first trail of this extended trek as we cover…

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The Five Trails on Life’s Trek –Philosophy Part 6

As a reminder, our overall extended trek will cover these five trails are:

  1. Philosophy

  2. Attitude

  3. Activity

  4. Results

  5. Lifestyle

Last week on our hike you discovered how important self-improvement which leads to self-mastery is to an overall successful life. If you do not improve yourself, you are doing a disservice to you and those you impact.

In your continuing search for knowledge and understanding, there is another major discipline that will help you to capture the information around you so that your future will be better than your past. That discipline is keeping a personal journal. A journal is a gathering place for all of your observations and discoveries about life. It is your own handwritten or application driven transcript, narrated in your own words, which capture the experiences, ideas, desires, and conclusions about the people and events that have touched your life.

A journal provides you with two remarkable benefits. First, it allows you to capture all aspects of the present moment for future review. The events that take place in your life, experiences that you live and learn from, should not just “happen.” They should be captured so that your lessons can be an investment in your future. The past, when properly documented, is one of the best guides for making good decisions today that will lead to a better tomorrow.

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While it is true that every event is recorded in the brain, you cannot always access the specifics surrounding those events at will. Often, the details can become blurred or distorted over time. You may remember the outcome, but you may have forgotten the exact sequence of events or the decisions that were made. Without accurate information to enhance your recall of the past, you run the risk of repeating many of the same errors over and over again.

Without a journal those special moments and those milestones of emotion and experience will be blown by the winds of your own forgetfulness into a deep corner of your mind where their value will become lost forever. The emotion of that special moment, unless captured in a journal, will soon fade. You may recall the event, but you will have lost the emotion.

The second benefit of keeping a journal is that the very act of writing (either manually or electronically) about your life helps you to think more objectively about your actions. Writing tends to slow down the flow of information. As you pause to gather your thoughts about an event you are trying to capture on paper or within an application, you have time to ponder and to analyze the experience.

You begin to see more clearly the sources of your information, the facts on which you based your decisions, and the action you are taking in response to your beliefs. In other words, it is not just the event but also your personal philosophy that comes under intense scrutiny in the process of capturing your life and recording it. It is this intense scrutiny that enables you to make refinements to your philosophy that are truly life-changing.

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The discipline of keeping a journal also develops your ability to communicate more effectively. The more you practice capturing events and emotions with words, audio, pictures, and videos, the more clearly you are able to communicate not only your ideas but also the inherent value that exists within you.

Most men and women of accomplishment maintain and frequently review their personal journals. It is second nature to them. They seem to possess an inherent instinct that tells them that a life worth living is a life worth documenting. In fact, the process of making a deliberate and consistent habit of recording in journals may well be a major reason for their rise to above-average levels of achievement.

It is the small disciplines in life that lead to great accomplishments. When average people give care and attention to important matters, their own growth into greatness merely awaits the passage of time. Both small disciplines and minor mistakes in judgment tend to accumulate the former to your benefit and the latter to your detriment.

Neither success nor failure occurs in a single cataclysmic event. Both are the result of the accumulation of seemingly small and insignificant decisions whose collective weight over the period of a lifetime presents the individual with his or her proportionate reward. It goes back to the laws of planting and harvesting.

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The use or the neglect of journals is not indispensable to the achievement of success, but the use of a journal is an important piece of the trail of life called philosophy. By neglecting the journal, life’s trails may lead you off course.

Surely your life is worth more than a birth certificate, a gravestone and a million dollars in consumed goods and services compressed between those major milestones in your life. Journals are the tools that enable you to document the details of the failure as well as the progress of your existence, and in the process, allows you to become more than you otherwise might have been.

In many places of the world we are rapidly becoming passive intellects. The continued neglect of your reading and your writing skills will lead to increasingly undisciplined thinking habits. How many of our citizens are involved in violent or white-collar crimes? How many of our children are dropping out of school? We are becoming a society of poor thinking habits, poor values, poor decisions, and a lack of personal responsibility.

Society as a whole cannot become stronger until our attention to the essentials of life begins to change. We need to infuse values and integrity that do not change with the current winds of political correctness into our society. The ability to establish more competent leadership in our government, our schools, our churches, our businesses, and our communities lies in the emerging value of the individual.

Before society at large can change, we must first change ourselves. That is why you must make a commitment to develop your full human potential, one discipline at a time, one book at a time, and one small entry in your journal at a time. By changing your personal philosophy, your life will change, which in turn, will change the lives of those you impact. If you don’t currently journal, I will encourage you to start. Check out the Wisdom-Trek Journals that are available in the Legacy Store at Wisdom-Trek.com.

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We are deliberately taking our trek slowly as we ponder How to Develop a Powerful Personal Philosophy on our continued hike up the Trail of Philosophy today. This is not an easy hike to make. It requires studying and absorbing new information that may challenge your current philosophy. It requires the discipline to journal your activities and progress that will help to build a strong foundation in your life.

Next week during Philosophy Friday, we will explore the importance of the decision-making process in your pursuit of a powerful personal philosophy. Make sure to join us for the continuation of our trek on the Trail of Philosophy next Friday. I know you will find these insights interesting and profitable in living a rich and satisfying life.

Our next trek will be Motivation Monday when we will explore more trails of how to get and stay motivated to bring value to your world. So, encourage your friends and family to join us, and then come along on Monday for another day of our Wisdom-Trek, Creating a Legacy.

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That will finish our trek for today. As you enjoy these daily doses of wisdom, we ask you to help us grow Wisdom-Trek by sharing with your family and friends through email, Facebook, Twitter or in person and inviting them to come along with us each day. If you would like to listen to any of the past daily treks, they are available at Wisdom-Trek.com. Don’t forget to subscribe to Wisdom-Trek so each trek will be downloaded to you automatically.

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.

As we take this trek of life 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!

Day 447 – The Bridge of Disappointment – Wisdom Unplugged

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Welcome to Day 447 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.

This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom

The Bridge of Disappointment –  Wisdom Unplugged

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Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 447 of our trek, and it is Thursday and time for our 3-minute mini-trek called Wisdom Unplugged.  This short nugget of wisdom includes an inspirational quote with a little additional content for today’s trek. Consider this your vitamin supplement of wisdom each Tuesday and Thursday. So, let’s jump right in with today’s nugget.

Today’s quote is from Nancy Ferrari, who says, “Believe it or not…there is a gift to be discovered from moments of disappointment when things don’t always turn out the way we want. The beauty of disappointment, though, is that it provides us a bridge to its other side where the acceptance of reality, wisdom, and the energy to begin again can be found!”

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None of us like to be disappointed with anything in life, but disappointment is part of life. Disappointment can truly be a gift to us. It gives an opportunity to grow, to mature, and to gain wisdom. If it were not for sadness, our joy would not be as sweet.  Disappointments are truly the bridges across the chasms of failure and defeat to the glorious land of victory. So, when you are feeling disappointment, remember Psalms 118:14, “The Lord is my strength and my song; he has given me victory.”

That’s a wrap for today’s Wisdom Unplugged. If you would like access to my database of over 10,000 inspirational quotes, the link is available on the main page of Wisdom-Trek.com.

As you enjoy these daily doses of wisdom, we ask you to help us grow Wisdom-Trek by sharing with your family and friends through email, Facebook, Twitter or in person and inviting them to come along with us each day. If you would like to listen to any of the past daily treks, they are available at Wisdom-Trek.com. Don’t forget to subscribe to Wisdom-Trek so each trek will be downloaded to you automatically.

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.

As we take this trek of life 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 for Philosophy Friday!