Your Input Is Your Output

Your input is important. What you put into your body, whether in the form of food, entertainment, or knowledge will have a profound effect on what comes out.

Your output can only be as good as your input allows it to be. In the words of author and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar (1926-2012):

Your input determines your outlook. Your outlook determines your output, and your output determines your future.

When you have a free moment, whether you’re commuting to work on public transportation, or waiting in line at the post office, what do you do? If you pull out a book, or an article on your phone, this input will likely have a greater impact on your later output than if you start subconsciously playing a game or scrolling Instagram.

Similarly, if you prepare healthy meals every night, or batch cook them to eat over several nights, you’re going to feel better overall than if you get takeout five nights a week. (There’s a joke about your input literally being your output in this case, but I am much too mature to make it. lol)

There’s a term in computer science known as garbage in, garbage out (GIGO). It means that the output of a computer program is only as good as the data put into it.

Your output can only be as good as your input allows it to be. What are you consuming on a daily basis that can have an effect on your output, positive or negative?

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