Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 234 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
Your Life Plan Blueprint - 4 Checkpoints
Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 234 of our Trek, and we are continuing on our current Trek, ‘Your Life Plan Blueprint'.   Yesterday we discussed how the Wisdom-Trek plan is a powerful and unique concept and worthy of taking our trek slowly through the process.  We also looked at some examples of how the blueprint is powerful, yet very easy to implement and achieve results.  During the past four days, we hiked the trail of the 10 key principles of setting goals.  Those goal setting principles are:

Ensure Congruency with Your Life Purpose.
Ensure Your Purpose Represents Your Wheel of Life
Understand Your Motivations
Identify Your Objective Goal First, then Activity Goals
Plan for B3 Goals
Be Specific With Your Goals
Make Goals Measurable
Start with Long-Term, then Break Down into Short-Term
Set your objective goals as end outcomes, not tasks
Use Positive Framing



Today we will explore the checkpoints of how to manage goals once we create them.

These 10 principles and today’s follow-up are part of the Establish phase of what we refer to as our WESPER framework which stands for: Wisdom, Establish, Strategy, Planning, Execution, and Review.  I am incorporating all of this information, along with worksheets, into an easy to use workbook and I will let you know when it is complete. If you have any questions, or would like additional information as we go through our daily trek leave a comment on Wisdom-Trek.com or email me at guthrie@venturecg.com.   If you miss any days of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.

We are recording our podcast from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, OH.  The single digit temperatures continue in southern Ohio this week, and it is possible we may receive some significant snowfall this coming weekend.   It is still a bit too early to tell, but we will be watching.  Since we have no place that we have to be, and since we work from home, I am inclined to say, ‘let it snow.'  I am not sure everyone would agree with me.

Work is very brisk this week, which requires putting in a lot of hours to make sure we are able to accomplish everything necessary.  Particularly to meet the quickly approaching tax deadlines.  For some reason, the tax entities don’t understand that we are just too busy.

Let’s head on the trail for day fifteen of our Wisdom-Trek Life Plan process which we refer to as:
  Your Life Plan Blueprint©
After you have set your goals within the guidelines of the 10 principles, you are almost ready to move on to the third phase of the WESPER framework. However, before that, there are 4 steps, or checkpoints, about your goals you need to understand first.
1.   Write Them Down
Write down your final objective and activity goals in each of the 7 areas of life.  Follow the example that we explored yesterday. Begin with the end in mind.  Which is your overall objective goal in each of your 7 areas of life.  Then back into your activity goals for 1 year, 1 month, 1 week and each day. These goals should be placed prominently in a place you will always be referring to.  I will include worksheets you can use for this process in the course I am creating.


2.   Develop Absolute Mental Clarity of Your Goal