Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 694 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Commitment Is The Key – Mindshift Monday


Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 694 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.  When this trek airs I will be in Arizona working with our partners as we prepare for Phase II of the townhome project.  It takes a significant commitment to making projects of this size successful.  There is rarely a short term financial gain so we must be committed long term, exerting blood, sweat, and tears in the process.  Many people today don’t seem to have the commitment to long term success as we have become all too comfortable with instant access and gratification.  We need to have a Mindshift where we come to the realization that:
Commitment is the Key
History is full of people who were advised to quit just short of a great accomplishment.  Experts told Benjamin Franklin to leave alone all that foolish experimenting with lighting, that it was a waste of time.  Fortunately, Franklin did not quit.  He was committed.

Christopher Columbus had to face an impressive panel of experts, headed by Spain’s leading geographer and scholar, who examined his plans and presented their findings to the king and queen of Portugal.  They wrote, “Columbus’s plan cannot be accomplished.  Quite impossible.”   Columbus did not quit.  He was committed.

Orville and Wilbur Wright built bicycles but decided to invest time and energy on a contraption that hopefully would fly into the air.  Finally, in 1908, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright brothers taxied their crackpot idea down a sandy runway and launched the human race into the air.  The Wright brothers would not quit.  They were committed.

Thomas Edison performed nearly 1,000 experiments before discovering the proper material for the filament in the light bulb.  Edison would not quit.  He was committed.

Interestingly, Edison urged his friend Henry Ford to abandon his work on the fledgling idea of a motor car.  “It’s a worthless idea,” remarked Edison.  Ford would not quit.  He was committed.

Experts told Madame Curie to forget her experimentation with radium.  It was a scientific dead end, she was told.  She went onto invent the x-ray machine.  She would not quit.  She was committed.

Abraham Lincoln ran for state legislator and failed.  He started multiple businesses that failed and invested 17 years paying off his debt.  He ran for Congress and was defeated.  He ran for US Senate and lost.  He finally became President of the United States.  Lincoln would not quit.  He was committed.To be committed requires a continual Mindshift to keep on going.  The key that unlocks the door to success is the key of commitment.  Without that key, the doors will never open.  No amount of genius, talent, finesse,