Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 654 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
When You Fall, Get Back Up – Mindshift Monday


 

Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 654 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. I am finally caught up and back on schedule with the Wisdom-Trek podcasts which were delayed due to my accident.   I will be releasing a couple of more episodes this week covering my accident and recovery on Tuesday and Thursday.

Since I have always been a person, who enjoys working long hours and am very active, this time of recovery has been a mindshift challenge for me.  I know if I am to recover properly, then it cannot be business as usual for me.  Paula has been assisting a lot, and we are adapting to this change in our normal schedule.

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.  Just as my literal fall and accident two weeks ago, we will have many times in our lives where we will fall.  The key is that each time we need to get back up, recovery as needed, and then keep moving forward.   So on our trek today I desire you to have a Mindshift that will allow you to realize:
When You Fall, Get Back Up
When you are teaching a child to walk, they will fall down.  Usually many times.  They may also get bumped and cry.  When they do, we don’t tell them to give up, no we encourage them to get up and try again, as many times as necessary until they are able to walk, and then run.Life is very much like a baby who is just learning to walk.  There are days in which the going is smooth.  Success is ours to enjoy.  There are also many days of distress, hours of hindrances, minutes of misunderstandings, and seconds of stumbling falling flat on your face.  Since the path of life’s trek is rocky, and the trail to the top has many unexpected turns, it is important for you to realize three things concerning the obstacles, and wash outs, on the trail to the top.
1.   There will be times when you will fall
Anyone who hikes down the trails of life not only has the privilege of enjoying all that is around them but also must take the risk of falling.  When you rise to the occasion, you may fall prey to the enemy.  Any person that is willing to stand for something may at times be knocked down.  Just like a baby learning to walk, we become careless and get in a hurry.  Many time this happens just before we reach our goal.  It looks as though we’ve been successful.  The obstacles have been overcome.  The sweet smell of victory permeates the air.  But then…we lose our footing,