Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 639 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
You Can Be Better Than Average – Mindshift Monday


 

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 639 of our Trek, and it is time for our Mindshift Monday series.  Wisdom-Trek’s primary focus is to assist you in creating your living legacy.  Creating your living legacy can only be accomplished by gaining wisdom in many areas of life.  You can only gain wisdom by changing what you allow to go into your mind.  In other words, to create your living legacy you must choose to be in a continual mode of Mindshift, or ‘changing the way you 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.   Our Mindshift Monday podcast and journal will provide you practical ways to make a mind-shift to a rich and satisfying life. 

We are broadcasting from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, OH. We were able to get some work around the house accomplished this past weekend including transplanting three small vegetable kits that our grandkids Paul, Gideon, and Aurora planted a couple of weeks ago.  We dug up a small patch of ground near the back of the house, so we hope that the 18 different vegetable and herb plants survive the transplanting process.  This is the same little area where my granny had a mint bed.  Paula and I hope to start a mint bed there also in the next couple of years, so it was nice to be able to use that area again.

Our other grandson Kip heads back home today after a two-week stay with us.  It was such a blessing to have him here, and we enjoy many precious moments together.  My desire is to be a living legacy to all my children and grandchildren. What I desire is to be a much better than the average person to everyone I impact.  So on our trek today I desire you to have a Mindshift that will allow you to realize that:
You Can Be Better Than Average
One definition of the word average is:  “Average is the best of the worst and the worst of the best.”  Is that what you really desire for your life?I have heard people say, “What’s wrong with being average?”   My reply to that is:  If you are not a Christ follower, then there is nothing wrong with being average.  If you are a Christ-follower, then you must not be content until you develop to the fullest your God-given potential.  In doing this, you will bring glory to God and be lifted above the average.

I am not saying that you’ll be more intelligent, or better looking because you are a Christ follower.  What should be reflected in your life is: your outlook and attitude towards life, your consecration in service, and your abundant love will lift you above the average person.   Let’s look at three areas where you can rise above average.
1.   To rise above being average, you will need more determination
Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination.  When others would quit and ‘throw in the towel’ grit your teeth and dig a little deeper.  Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying, even when they don’t feel like it.  There is nothing wrong with admitting that as of today you may not be what you want to be, hope to be, or dream of becoming, but the one key to achieving your dream is determining not to quit.Ralph Waldo Emmerson said it this way:  “A man is a hero not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.”  A track star who runs long distances learns to depend on his “second wind.”  He runs until he is weary and exhausted but continues on.