Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 624 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Walk Your Talk – Mindshift Monday


Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 624 of our Trek, and it is time for our Mindshift Monday series.  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 how you think will direct you towards a life of peace and success or a life of unrest, drama and continual hardship. As a human, you are designed to be God’s image bearer, but 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. It is easy to get stuck in a mindset that your current circumstances cannot be changed.  This is not true, but you must understand this fundamental principle: 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 your responsibility 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 young hawks that were born this year are starting to venture out of their nest onto adjoining tree limbs.  They appear to be nearly full size but are not quite ready to fly yet.  It will not be too many more weeks before they set out on a life of their own.  It has been enjoyable to have observation deck from our 2nd story office windows into their world.

Our granddaughter Hazel’s leukemia treatments continue to go well, and her blood test results are improving each week.  The oncology team is very pleased with her progress, and we are grateful to God for their wisdom and to live in a time where Hazel can be treated effectively. When this episode is originally released, I will be back in Arizona for a week working with our friends and partners Charles and Alison Mecom on our construction projects there.   We have finished up with Phase I of our Mesa project and are scheduled to begin Phase II on or before September 1st.   In the interim, we have several smaller projects that are scheduled for the summer months that will keep us very busy.

As we continue to look at the crucial subject of mind-shift on our trek today one area that is vitally important is our integrity.  It is very easy to fool ourselves into thinking that what we say is the same as what our actions are.  Unfortunately, this is not always the case.  How you act or react to a situation truly reveals how you think at your very core. The true test of your integrity is: “do your actions and reactions mirror your speech.”  So on our trek today we desire to reach the point of:
Walk Your Talk
How you really think about others will show up in how you treat them.  If you find yourself treating others harshly and without a loving spirit, then it is time for a mind-shift in how you think.  Jesus taught us this lesson in Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much.