Day 734 – Outside Influences – Mindshift Monday

Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy Welcome to Day 734 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom Outside Influences – Mindshift Monday Thank you for joining us for our 5 days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. This is Day 734 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 mindshift to a rich and satisfying life.  We are broadcasting from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. Do you consider yourself an influential person? Who or what impacts your life choices and decisions the most? On our trek today, let’s look at… Outside Influences Too many times we allow outward circumstances and influences to control our actions and mold our thinking. Too often we limit our happiness by submitting to the constant pressures all around us. It is vitally important to realize that either the situations around us control our lives, or we control them. For instance, we don’t need to wait until we are happy before we sing. We can sing to make us happy. Indeed, we can create our own environment. We can make our own bed in which we choose to lie down in. We truly can color our own world with the colors that we choose. Have you ever known someone who could walk into a room full of people and within a few short moments completely change the atmosphere? How about the person who seemingly keeps their head above water while everyone else is drowning in confusion? Do you know people who, while others are bitter and critical, can smile and spread joy? What is their secret? Those individuals have learned to control their situation instead of allowing outside influences to control them. They have realized that the outlook of their world...