Being a Wisenheimer

Being a Wisenheimer

Have you tapped into your wisdom? Have you found that place of brilliance within yourself?

You are so smart. You have learned so much as you’ve lived your life. You’ve learned how things work, how people think. You’ve learn about motivation and desire, you’ve learned facts, and how to draw conclusions. Oh, do you know stuff!

So often we forget to remember how much we know, how smart we are, how much wisdom we have. We hurry and rush and run around doing stuff and forget to stop and think about stuff.

Wisdom gets better with exercise.

What’s that you say? How do I exercise my wisdom?

The same way our bodies get strong with exercise, the same way we build physical endurance by using our bodies, we build our wisdom up by using it.

When we take time to consider things, to think about how we are doing, where we are at in our lives, in the world, we are exercising our wisdom.

When we take time to think about what we actually want to spend our time doing, what we want to accomplish, how we want to do it, we are exercising our wisdom.

When we think about why we may have made a certain choice, why we do a certain thing, we are exercising our wisdom.

When we take time to read stuff about theology or philosophy, to read on spiritual topics that interest us, but that also might challenge our beliefs a bit, or stretch our ideas a bit so that we need to consider them.

The same way a few minutes of focused exercise can make our bodies strong, it only takes a few minutes of exercising our wisdom each day to keep it sharp and useful.

Not only does that little bit of exercise keep our wisdom wise, but we also end up with some wonderful results:

By thinking about what we really want, we know what we really want. That puts us way ahead of the game.

By thinking about our beliefs, and challenging them, we experience our beliefs as more fluid, and can change them way more easily.

By considering the whys of our bad choices, our bad patterns and habits, by tracing them back to their inception, we can change them way more quickly and efficiently.

By practicing being wise, we have the path to infinite intelligence well worn, and that makes it easy to get to our wisdom whenever we need it.

How have I changed from distrusting what I know to owning my smarts?

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