Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 608 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Developing a Sense of Urgency

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week, wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 608 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 have adapted it to The Five Trails on Life’s Trek.

We are broadcasting from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, Ohio.  It has been a busy week of activities with both work and the additional responsibilities surrounding Hazel’s leukemia treatments and testing.  I was able to invest Wednesday with our grandson Gideon on a school field trip and assisting him with a school project.  It was a great day, and although I had to set aside some work duties, this is the type of focus shifts that I desire in my life as I build a living legacy each day.

As we remain in camp for the next few weeks, we will sit around the campfire and review The Five Trails on Life’s Trek that we completed last Friday.  I have a sense of urgency in my life to make sure the trails that I trek each day are creating a living legacy for my children, grandchildren, and others that I influence.  As we wrap up this series over the next few weeks, it is my desire to pass on that sense of urgency to you.

So as we remain at camp, let us ponder and consider the:
The Five Trails on Life’s Trek – Conclusion (1)
As we begin our conclusion, as a reminder, our overall extended trek covered these five trails:

Philosophy
Attitude
Activity
Results
Lifestyle

1.   Developing a Sense of Urgency
In summarizing all that we have shared during the past few months on our Philosophy Friday series, perhaps it would be accurate to say that our ultimate success or failure depends on three fundamental things:

What you know
How you feel about what you know
What you do with, and about, all that you feel and all that you know

There is another fundamental that must be mastered if you are truly serious about making meaningful changes in your life. This last fundamental is where all the individual trails that we have traveled merge into your cohesive life trek.

You see, it is quite possible that even after applying all of the principles I have taught for these many weeks, you could still fall far short of your objectives. Despite all of your efforts to refine your philosophy, to develop an attitude that is conducive to success, to work harder on yourself, to study your results, and to live a more unique lifestyle, all that you dream of becoming, seeing, having and experiencing may still elude you.

Why would you, if you are serious about making these important changes, still be wandering around in circles rather than moving ahead? Why would you, if you are planting the seeds, fail to reap a bountiful harvest?  It boils down to:
2.   The Human Comfort Zone
Perhaps part of the answer to these questions may be that it is because you already have so much that you tend to settle for so little.  Just about everyone has a place to live, a mobile phone, a television, a car, and some source of income.