One of lifes laws

      Theres a lot of programs out there that help you deal with life. They tell you how to rearrange your life to make it more positive and productive. Indeed, the basis of all self-help books and life mentoring deals with this idea in one form or another. If you spend your life trying to read these books, youll read a lot of different ideas and concepts that seem very different but really very similar. So similar in fact that I can boil almost all of them down to one  simple, easy to remember phrase or acronym: GIGO.

      For those of us who were familiar with computers back in the day when they crashed into the home world and everyone was trying to invent new phrases to go with all that was happening your familiar with the term. If your not then Ill explain it. GIGO stands for garbage in= garbage out. It was a term that originated with computer programmers who were trying to tell normal people why a program wouldn't work and trying to explain that computers weren't thinking for themselves, they had to be programmed. It simply meant that if there was a faulty program to start with, then the end result would be faulty.

       If you have looked at the life coaching programs out there, youll understand that the underlying concept is that you need to control the forces and thoughts acting on your life ( garbage in ). By allowing the negativity in our lives we are creating an environment that duplicates what we allow in it ( garbage out ). By breaking the cycle of negativity, we allow our "programming" to catch up to where we desire to be. Its a really simple concept to apply and live by. When you think of something or someone tells you something to do or think, simply think "GIGO?" and see if its what you want to have in your life. If it isnt, deep six it and move on. If there is a negative person in your life, no matter who it is, remove them. You will never succeed with negativity. Look for more positive people  to talk to and grow ideas with. Another old saw that comes to mind is " Its hard to soar like an eagle when your surrounded by turkeys."

       So by breaking down the influences in our lives we are able to see what is positive or negative and apply GIGO to it and allow us to "reprogram" our lives in the direction we wish to go.