Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 619 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
I Couldn't Care More – Mindshift Monday


Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 619 of our Trek, and it is time to continue with our Mindshift Monday series that we began last week.  The more I observe people, the more I consider and ponder creating a living legacy, the more I am convinced that much of our life turns out exactly as we think it will.  Your mind is powerful and can direct you towards a life of peace and success or a life of unrest, drama and continual hardship. As a human, designed to be God’s image bearer, He has given you a free will.  As a human, you have the tremendous capacity to rationalize your behavior and actions and then convince yourself that it is truth based on what you allow yourself to think.  In order to change your life, you must change how you think and what you think about.  Each week, the focus of our Mindshift Monday podcast and journal will be to provide you practical ways to make a mind-shift to a rich and satisfying life.  Come along with us each Monday as we take our trek on the trails that will direct you to this destination.  Of course, it is up to you to hike and complete the trails needed to make your mind-shift. 

We are broadcasting from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, OH.  The two chicks from our hawk family are growing rapidly, and I suspect that it will not be too many more weeks before they set out on a life of their own.  The meal deliveries require both parents to be actively involved in more frequent and larger portions of food.  It is enjoyable watching the activities that are involved in caring and preparing for the young hawks.  We are blessed to have such a great view of the activities.

With our grandkids out of school for the summer, and Hazel’s leukemia treatments set for once a week, our schedules are starting to settle into more of a routine.  Our lives will never return to what they were previously, but that’s ok because we realize that life is always in a pattern of constant change.  Some changes are more dramatic as we are experiencing now, but with the proper mind-shift, we can maintain the proper outlook on life.  We are willing to invest whatever time is needed to pour into our children and grandchildren lives as part of our living legacy.  The impact that we have on their lives each day is the only thing that we will truly pass onto them through the generations to come. All of us go through experiences that will bring us joy and cause us sorrow.  You must learn to change with the seasons of life, just as you change with the seasons of the year.  Expect it, and prepare for it. You must first prepare in your mind before you can prepare and impact your world.  A powerful mind-shift that most of us need to reinforce in our lives is our compassion and care for others.  This begins by changing the way you think about compassion, especially to those who are less fortunate than you are.

Since your thinking has such an impact on your life and consequently on the lives of others that you impact, you need to know how to think properly, and what to think about.  So on our trek today we will consider how you can get to the place where can say:
I Couldn’t Care More
How many lives are wasted and destroyed because the world’s attitudes and actions toward people in need shout to them “I couldn’t care less”?.   How much better would the world be if these attitudes and actions were replaced in your life and the life of others where we reached the point of saying:  “I couldn’t care more”!  In order to change the world, you must think differently than the world.  The only way this will happen is if you change the way you think about those less fortunate.