Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 689 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
What is Success – Mindshift Monday


Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 689 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.  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.  This past weekend was a beautiful fall weekend filled with many outdoor activities.  The annual Sternwheel Festival in Marietta was this past weekend also  There are always many events going on with the highlight being a huge fireworks display on Saturday night.   It rivals anything that is put on by larger cities with the fireworks being set off from a barge on the Ohio river.  The fireworks display over the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers with dozens of boats watching from the river and thousands of people on the shoreline.  When we are in town, we do try to attend at least the fireworks.  With the great weather, the Sternwheel Festival certainly was successful this year.

With our connected society of today, we hear a lot about success.  So the question has to be asked:
What is Success?
Over many years I have collected inspirational and motivational quotes covering a variety of topics.  Many of them do deal with success, and what success really means.  When they all are synthesized down, I have come to the conclusion that success is choosing to give of yourself to a life of legacy that is greater than yourself which will have a positive impact on your world.  Seven key elements will make us a living legacy.
1.   Knowing the truth and accepting it
Since success is a choice, it involves a decision.  Success is knowing the truth and accepting it.  Our lives are filled with the instant gratification of fast foods, cheap thrills, entitlements, victim mentalities, false hopes, foundations of sand and false hopes.  We live in a day of shortcuts, loopholes, and “one more for the road,” as we look for a way to escape reality.   We are not truly successful though until we know what is right and then do it.
2.   Success is finding a need and filling it
Many people can find a need, point to the problem, and size up the situation.  Only a successful person goes that next step beyond finding the need, they endeavor to fill it.

The story of the Good Samaritan vividly illustrates the difference between finding a need and filling a need.  Here is the story from Luke 10:30-37 Jesus replied with a story: “A Jewish man was traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho, and he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him up, and left him half dead beside the road.

 “By chance a priest came along. But when he saw the man lying there, he crossed to the other side of the road and passed him by. A Temple assistant walked over and looked at him lying there, but he also passed by on the other side.

“Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man,