What you put in - 11/04/2021

Garbage going in results in garbage coming out. To get a high quality outcome you must provide high quality time, effort, and resources.

What can you do when you’re not getting the results you desire? Take a good, objective look at what you’re supplying to create those results.

Yes, there are unfavorable factors beyond your control, things you cannot improve upon or eliminate. That’s all the more reason why you must maximize the quality of what you can control.

Your results are heavily influenced by your priorities, your standards, and your diligence. When you’re disappointed by anything in your life, look carefully at what you’re putting into it.

You have distinct power over the quality of your career, your health, your relationships, and your overall fulfillment in life. What you put in plays a major role in what you get out.

Life is certainly not fair but it is most definitely responsive. You can’t ever make it perfect yet you can always make it better by improving the quality of what you give.

— Ralph Marston

POSITIVE QUOTE OF THE DAY

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“To regret the experience is to regret the lesson — because the lesson is inextricably contained in the experience.” ~ Chad Hymas 

 

“Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do.  Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities.  You can achieve what you believe you can.” ~ Thomas S. Monson

“Find joy in the journey.” ~ Thomas S. Monson

“Invest in yourself: -Meditate -Read -Eat healthy food -Drink water -Move your body -Spend time in nature -Rest up -YOU ARE WORTHY.”

 

“Life is an echo.  What you send out, comes back.  What you sow, you reap.  What you give, you get. What you put in, you get out.  What you see in others, exists in you.” ~ Zig Ziglar 

“You are confined only by the walls you build yourself."

Life Is An Echo.What You Send Out Comes Back. ~ by Zig Ziglar

 

What does that mean?

This is a neat quote, and it is a twitter-friendly version of a longer quote, which goes like this: “Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you.”

This is the American way of saying that Karma happens. Echos come back. It’s hard to reap what you didn’t sow. We are all cut of the same cloth. These are just the basic facts of humankind.

The quote starts with something we all know is true. Echos come back, even if they sound a little different. The quote then extends itself by reaching deeper into our experiences. Most of us have probably had a time when a kindness (or the opposite) has come back to us.

The next two (in the longer version) work along similar lines. The final sentence is, to me, the most interesting. It reminds us that we are all family. It also reminds us that both the flaws we see in others, as well as their better qualities, also exist within ourselves.

Why is treating others well important?  

As the saying states, being nice to others has benefits. The most obvious benefit is the good feeling you get when you help someone. Another benefit is what the quote says; do good, and good will come back to you.

Even if you don’t believe in Karma or any kind of “good will piggy bank” to which you deposit and gain interest, consider that the more people out there who treat others well improves your chance of being treated well also.

That’s just the way the math works, right? So whether you believe it or not, there is a sound math and science basis for treating others well. And to me, that’s the fundamental underpinning of this quote, the whole reason it exists.

If everyone went out today and did just one nice thing for another person, odds are that pretty soon someone will treat you well. The more often we treat well, the better off we all are, and that’s the most important part of this quote.

Where can I apply this in my life?

I believe that this quote is about how to live your life. I try to help others when I can, and the results have been pretty good for me. I still have my own life to live, but I believe that I am better off for the things I have done for others.

Since the quote is a series of statements, let’s run through them. The first pair are about the rebounding of echos or return of what you have given out to others. Are the echos you hear yours, or can you learn from the echo of someone else?

Consider that the author of the quote is now naught but an echo. Given that bit of information, it is my guess that not only can you learn from the echo of someone else, you are in the process of doing it right now. Isn’t that something?

The second pair are about what you do and what you get back. Take a moment and consider this concept as both the person giving and as the person receiving.

While I enjoy receiving a kindness from others, I also enjoy doing a kindness to others. Now consider how interesting it can be to observe a kindness pass between other people.

The final line of the quote reminds us that the kindness we see in others also exists within us. We can do the same and be kind to others. It is also a warning to us.

It reminds us that if we see others who are being other than kind, that we could be just as mean, if we are not careful. And I would urge you to remember that anyone you see being unkind is fully able to be kind, under the right circumstances.

We all have a great ability to help, to nurture, and to be kind to others. We also have the ability to be much less than that ideal. What do you want to do? How do you want to behave?

How do you want to be remembered? As the person who treated others well, or one who did not? For in the end, your epitaph is the ultimate echo of your life. What you reap will be based on what you sow. 

Roger Gallup ~ “I’d rather be a student of the experience than a victim of the circumstance” ~ Mark McIntosh