Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 523 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Enterprise is Better Than Ease - Activity


Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week, wisdom and legacy podcast. This is Day 523 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 on an extended 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.

We are broadcasting from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, Ohio.  We are wrapping up a busy week of client work and podcast related projects.  Since I will be in Arizona all next week, I will be recording several episodes ahead of time, so I can focus on the financial aspect of our construction projects while I am on site.  The next five weeks will be a busy time of traveling, along with the extra tax work that we need to complete for our clients and our own companies.  There are certain deadlines that have to be met, and we will need to stay very focused on the tasks that need to be completed.  This ties into the topic of our trek today on the Trail of Activity as we will explore why ‘Enterprise is Better than Ease, ’ and we need to plan ‘The Ratio of Activity to Rest’ so we do not burn out on our quest and are unable to complete it.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 Third trail of this extended trek as we cover:
The Five Trails on Life’s Trek – Activity Part 3
As a reminder, our overall extended trek covers these five trails:


Philosophy


Attitude


Activity


Results


Lifestyle


1.   Enterprise is Better Than Ease
If you are involved in a project, how hard should you work at it? How much time should you invest?  Your philosophy about activity and your attitude about hard work will affect the quality of your life.

What you decide about the correct ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic, which is your attitude about the amount of labor you are willing to commit to your potential future fortune, will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be.

Enterprise (or it could be referred to as initiative) is always better than ease. Every time you choose to do less than you could, this error in judgment has an effect on your self-confidence. Repeated every day, you will soon find yourself not only doing less than you should, but also being less than you could. The accumulative effect of this error in judgment can be devastating.

Fortunately, it is easy to reverse the process. Any day you choose you can develop a new discipline of doing rather than neglecting. Every time you choose action over ease or labor over rest, you develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect, and self- confidence. In the final analysis, it is how you feel about yourself that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what you get that makes you valuable, it is what you become in the process of doing which brings value to your life.