Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 649 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Don't Avoid Mistakes – Mindshift Monday


 

 Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 649 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 which is a result of changing the way you think.  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 be to 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. As mentioned in a couple of previous podcasts, I am podcasting and journaling the details of my July 8th major fall accident and recovery on the Tuesday and Thursday Wisdom Nuggets.  If you would like to follow along with me, the first episode is on http://Wisdom-Trek.com/day-645

Even with an unexpected major life event, we continue to positively look towards the future and what we can learn from them.  Our mindset is very important with every aspect of life.  If your first inclination is to think negatively, then a Mindshift is required.  You cannot get trapped by your current situation and feel there is no way to change it. Last week I encouraged you to Imagine Life As It Could Be.  Imagination is great and needed, but imagination without action is pointless.  You need to take action.  You might be thinking, if I take action, I will make mistakes.  That is very true, you will.   So on our trek today I desire you to have a Mindshift that will allow you to realize:
Don’t Avoid Mistakes
In most western cultures we try to avoid mistakes and failures as if they were some sort of deadly plague.  This may be based on the Judeo-Christian foundations of our cultures and for many of us reinforced by our Christian upbringing.  Somehow we have twisted mistakes and failures to be equated to sin, which is falling short of God’s standards.  While it is true that we all fall short of God’s standards, and need salvation, we cannot allow our failures and mistakes to be equated to sin.  If we do, we will avoid seeking a Mindshift which is changing how we think and what we think about.  We will be stuck in the same ruts day after day and wondering why our lives do not improve.   While we should learn from our mistakes and failure, they are by their very essence the stepping stones needed to create a Mindshift in our lives.

Here are three common misconceptions that leave most people stuck in the ruts of life.
1.   Believing that mistakes are always to be avoided
The reason people try to avoid mistakes is that they feel they are a sign of failure or weakness.  Mistakes can be and should be learning experiences.  If you haven’t made any mistakes lately, I question whether you are really pursuing the change that you desire in your life.  You have not explored all the trails that lie before you on your trek of life.  Not all streams have been forged, and summits have been conquered.

We learn from our mistakes.  A person cannot grow and learn without making mistakes.  Sometimes they will be big, sometimes small and the lessons learned will be in proportion to the size of the mistake.