We’ve all heard the phrase, you get out what you put in. Or garbage in and garbage out.
The inputs you feed yourself with are important. The things you listen to, the people you hang around. The books you read. the thoughts you entertain. Also the action you take. The things you do forge the habits of your life. The inputs you make determine your results.
Now we take the outputs as a forgone conclusion, as something that we can’t quite determine. And sure, an output is the result. You put in the action and something happens on the other side. You get the output.
But the output is just as much a function of the machine, it is just as much a function of the equation that you feed the inputs into. You can put a lot of energy into a project that is fatally flawed. You can put a lot of energy into the wrong diet. Or invest a ton of money into business that is doomed to fail. You can spend a lot of time at the gym doing ineffective exercises or negating all of that work with a less than ideal diet.
The point of most control we have is at the input level. We can manage the energy and the efforts we put in. Then we can control the machine or the equation, by making our plans as sound as we can, by identifying points of highest leverage, by choosing the best models we can find. Or even by working at getting better at identifying leverage points, the best vehicles for the results we want.
So put your input towards the right things and you will get the right output. Then you can take that output and put it towards something else and continue to multiply.
