Monitor your INPUT…
Results? Mind blocks? Eye jolts? Positive INPUT?
My wife felt I needed a little boast with my INPUT so she picked me up Joel Osteen’s book “Your Best Life Now”. OK, I have to say the book isn’t bad. Let’s face it, the first thing that effects your results is INPUT.
Joel talks about what you take in through what you watch, listen to and read makes a difference. This one is so important that if we only focused on getting the right INPUT, the desired result would be inevitable.
Stay with me a moment. Suppose you marinated your mind in creative thought, read and listened to teaching materials that inspired and instructed, avoided gossip, shut down negative and licentious input and spent time alone. Yes, quiet time alone. Your thoughts would inescapably be centered on good things, which would unavoidably get into your heart, the abundance from which comes your words, which steer your courses of action, determining your habits. Aren’t your consistent actions (habits) what ultimately produces the results you experience?
Not sure? Look in the mirror and see if you can guess what kind of consistent actions (or lack thereof) are evidenced by the result you see. If you don’t like where you are, look where you’ve been. They’re connected. It’s painful, but true.However, you can change that - Right now. You’ve already made a good decision but reading this blog! So before turning into a couch potato tonight in front the TV watching programs you don’t even like, set aside an hour and get some good input from others.
Who has achieved what you want to achieve? Spend a few bucks and get DVD’s or pod casts featuring highly successful creative entrepreneurs. In fact, we have been researching some absolutely outstanding sources of INPUT. Ones that are significantly impacting our lives and which we plan on sharing with you weekly. The point is there are many excellent sources of INPUT and we all need to partake! Even off beat books like “Your Best Life Now”.
Artwork: Grant Gilliland
May 27th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Great article! Very appropriate for me right now. Reminds me of the idea, “Garbage In, Garbage Out”. I’ll have to check out Joel’s book. Thanks!
May 28th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
These times are not easy so watching your input is so important.
I might suggest Seth Godin’s book “Tribes”. It offers sound advise as being a leader in this age of the creative economy.
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Many thanks for this motivating article and important reminder — it made me think of Emerson’s quote, “We become what we think about all day long.” At the moment, I’m getting a lot of input from “the school of ted”(TED.com).