Input:Output

What It Means To Me

It is easy to understand that with food what we put into our system affects what we put out (and I’m not talking toilet here). To say bad diet equals bad health is a little simplistic but a fair deduction to make. But we don’t often think of our minds in that way. The psyche is a powerful thing and the senses are constantly absorbing and digesting data for it.

Personally Speaking

That got me thinking. Over the past few years I have been reducing my intake of certain things, from horror movies to chocolate, TV soaps to mainstream music (not to say that any of these are bad things). I replaced these, what were for me merely time passers, with more deliberate choices of past times and subject matters; like watching Youtube videos on quantum physics and dynamic thinking (I adore TEDtalks), reading books and websites on self help and the esoteric as well as watching more comedies and spending more time karaoking with mum.

And has it affected my output? Well I think so yes!

By being more choosey about what I allow in I’ve discovered that what comes out (of me at least) is more focused and constructive. I feel I’m more decisive and more confident in myself, more present in my daily dealings and generally happier and more interested in what can sometimes be the humdrum that is my own life.

Outside Perspective

After several discussions with people on the matter a friend, Life Coach in training and fellow blogger Daniel Whittaker (see the brilliant Each One Teach Won ) sent me the following video after letting the words and concepts marinate.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this video. How does it make you feel? What thoughts/ideas does it conjure?

Ideas and Thoughts

This is the statement this video produced from me (or I from it, or both).

“The infinite perpetuation of the input/output cycle all begins with what you choose to put in...You only need to start”

This really motivated me, both to seize the day and to continue to pay attention to that which I expose myself to. Every time I deliberately choose something for myself I am setting something into motion. That could be thoughts, feelings or situations, but one will lead me to another, to another, to another until I reach the point where I’m faced with another choice and must make another decision for myself.

Looking at it this way makes even the dullest of existences and the seemingly most powerless of people’s lives seem full of colour, choice and options. So why not take some control and choose wisely with your mental input and enjoy the results of what comes out.

Temet nosce, carpe diem et esto perpetua.

Know thyself, seize the day and may it be perpetual.