A resource for sharing and receiving wisdom and insight.
Every person’s journey in life is unique but challenges can be similar. How does someone become wise and experienced? Education, for sure, living long enough to reflect back, and by doing. But, also by making bad decisions and then by learning from those bad decisions. It has been said that a smart person learns from the mistakes of others. A less intelligent person learns by making the mistakes on their own! Do you know which is more painful? That’s right… learning from our own stupid mistakes! When humans stop listening we stop learning. The consequences are staggering when we learn only through bad decisions. This blog is intended to provide you with a new thought, a new insight, a new outlook to help you through life!
Be Open to “Old” Insight
Discover what the experiences of others can do for you!
Choose to Learn “Smartly”
Come to grips with the idea that you may not already know it all.
Grow by Listening and Learning
Enjoy watching yourself grow!
Meet Jim Chamberlain
Jim’s values are a result of his beliefs. Understanding that it takes much more faith to believe that everything came from “nothing” than to believe that there is a Higher Power that created life and all that goes with it, Jim’s experiences come shining through a God-centered filter. Jim is a retired pastor, a former missionary and a semi-retired eye doctor (optometric physician). He “was” an avid athlete and competitor. Good at just about everything but not great at any one sport, he learned to focus and find what is most important in any given sport, as well as, life itself. That means he is a “bottom-line” thinker. He has a wife of fifty-three years, two adult children, one “daughter in love” and three amazing grandsons. His personal experiences in eye care, business, shepherding people, competition, family and parenting give him a unique perspective that might help someone (or many someones) who are searching for answers.
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I never really wanted to write a book, so I thought blogging might be the thing. I understood that providing interesting content, a storyline, characters and a plot took more than just a casual approach and I was not much interested in learning how to “become a writer.” I took a couple of college courses in writing and journalism, but not enough to make me a “writer.” Also, I have lived a busy life and time kept marching on. Now, I am retired (and have a bit more time on my hands) and God has placed a very special desire inside me that I hope to fulfill. That desire is to leave something behind that would help my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren become really good people. Productive and dependable people. Kind and compassionate people. People of faith.
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I never really wanted to write a book, so I thought blogging might be the thing. I understood that providing interesting content, a storyline, characters and a plot took more than just a casual approach and I was not much interested in learning how to “become a writer.” I took a couple of college courses in writing and journalism, but not enough to make me a “writer.” Also, I have lived a busy life and time kept marching on. Now, I am retired (and have a bit more time on my hands) and God has placed a very special desire inside me that I hope to fulfill. That desire is to leave something behind that would help my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren become really good people. Productive and dependable people. Kind and compassionate people. People of faith.
Moving Toward Wisdom 