The quality of your output is highly dependent on the quality of your input. What quality is the input you are giving to your life? Vigorous, healthy activity, good nutrition, positive, truthful information sources all lead you toward favorable outcomes. So do beneficial habits, a variety of experiences, uplifting thoughts, and enthusiastic people. If the results you desire are not coming out of your efforts, ask yourself this. What can you do to improve what you're putting in? You can't make a quality product from inferior raw materials. To achieve the best outcome, start with the highest quality input. Bypass the junk in your food, your facts, your friends, and your activities. Insist on truthful, in-depth information, quality nutrition, challenging work, and positive people in your life. The quality of the life you live comes from the quality of what you put into it. Every day, every encounter, every choice, take the opportunity to give your life the best input. The achievements that are the longest in coming are the ones you’ll treasure the most. For they're the ones into which you put the most of who you are. What comes to you in an instant can be nice for a while. Yet it cannot compare, in value or endurance, to what you build over time. There are no substitutes for effort, commitment and patience. And there are certainly no substitutes for the valuable things they will bring to your life. At first glance, it may seem shrewd to take from life all you can as soon as you can. Yet the far wiser choice is to give to life, as much and as often as you can. For what you give is what ends up lasting the longest. What you give will build value and fulfillment far into the future.