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Thursday, September 22, 2005
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Inputs and Outputs
Lately I've been thinking about life as a series of inputs and outputs.
What if state (health, finances, emotions) was nothing more than the sum of outputs?
Granted, this is a vast over-simplification. Our finances affect our emotions which affect our health, and the cause-effect arrow can point both ways simultaneously, or even in multiple directions.
Inputs: level of education, operating principles, beliefs, the watershed of all past decisions.
Outputs: Health, wealth and well-being.
Probably the biggest point of leverage in the whole system is at the level of core beliefs.
Maybe we should question where we got these beliefs.
Do they serve us in good stead?
For instance, I believe that owning a Mustang GT convertible would be a good thing. Why do I believe this?
Perhaps because my mother owned a 1969 Mustang convertible. Perhaps because I read enough favorable articles about it. Perhaps because I saw enough ads. Perhaps because it strikes me as the type of car that will eventually appreciate in value. (Depending on how many units in production for the year I buy.) Perhaps because I was driving behind one, and I liked the sound coming out of the tail pipes when the driver stepped on the gas. Perhaps because I just really like the combination of design and performance.
Plus, some things you just believe because you feel it from the top of your head to the tip of your toes. God exists. Mustangs are cool, especially the GT.
But maybe it's the ideas and beliefs we have about ourselves and our capabilities and limitations that ultimately have the most power over our realities. These are the big inputs, and what's weird is, we somehow put them into ourselves.
What if I believed that I had the power to be extremely well-organized?
What if state (health, finances, emotions) was nothing more than the sum of outputs?
Granted, this is a vast over-simplification. Our finances affect our emotions which affect our health, and the cause-effect arrow can point both ways simultaneously, or even in multiple directions.
Inputs: level of education, operating principles, beliefs, the watershed of all past decisions.
Outputs: Health, wealth and well-being.
Probably the biggest point of leverage in the whole system is at the level of core beliefs.
Maybe we should question where we got these beliefs.
Do they serve us in good stead?
For instance, I believe that owning a Mustang GT convertible would be a good thing. Why do I believe this?
Perhaps because my mother owned a 1969 Mustang convertible. Perhaps because I read enough favorable articles about it. Perhaps because I saw enough ads. Perhaps because it strikes me as the type of car that will eventually appreciate in value. (Depending on how many units in production for the year I buy.) Perhaps because I was driving behind one, and I liked the sound coming out of the tail pipes when the driver stepped on the gas. Perhaps because I just really like the combination of design and performance.
Plus, some things you just believe because you feel it from the top of your head to the tip of your toes. God exists. Mustangs are cool, especially the GT.
But maybe it's the ideas and beliefs we have about ourselves and our capabilities and limitations that ultimately have the most power over our realities. These are the big inputs, and what's weird is, we somehow put them into ourselves.
What if I believed that I had the power to be extremely well-organized?
Friday, September 09, 2005
this isnt the is
when shall pass this
shall overcomes might
want increases want
cause engenders strife
too much living brings on death
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
Time seems foreshortened lately.
Time seems foreshortened lately.
Living life by minutes, a constant stream of email and phone communication. The harder I try to stay on tip
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