Eddie Pinero

No, but it's usually not the ideal that prompts our most important change.

It's life's turbulence that pushes us to seek out something new.

And I love taking this little trip down memory lane, right?

Because, you know, it's the business ventures that fell apart that caused me to look in the mirror and choose to be more.

It's the projects that just didn't end up being that good, right?

That allowed me to see this journey as a creative one.

Where, hey, some projects hit, some don't, but it's not personal.

It's a ride.

And what an opportunity.

And it's the breakups I went through.

And while, sure, a few were definitely brutal, they gifted me with an opportunity to personally level up, to dial in my understanding of what really matters to me.

I can think of physical setbacks, monetary obstacles, all these things that hurt in the moment.

Now, I'm not sure I could have controlled the initial emotive response, right?

The human reaction.

But learning to ask, well, how can I get better from this?

That's a different question.

How can one month from now be amazing because of this situation, regardless of how it feels in the moment?

It's not the flag or the wind that moves.

It's my mind.

So how will I choose to paint the landscape around me?