Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Discipline is Power - Inspirational & Motivational Speeches
14 Nov 2024
In this episode, we dive into the power of trusting the process and finding meaning in the journey. Steve Jobs once said that we can't connect the dots looking forward, only looking back. The challenges and unexpected paths you’ve taken have shaped you into someone stronger than you ever imagined. Life’s hardest moments often bring the greatest growth, and it’s only when we look back that we see how each struggle was a stepping stone, each storm eventually leaving us better equipped for the road ahead. Life isn’t about knowing every answer in advance but trusting that each step forward is part of building something extraordinary. Like an unwritten instruction manual, the journey reveals its purpose as we move through it. So, when things feel chaotic, or you're hurt by life’s unpredictability, remember you’ve already overcome so much. There’s meaning in the mess, strength in your resilience, and clarity waiting just around the bend. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
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One day, it will all make sense. As one Steve Jobs said during a Stanford commencement speech, you can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. Your job isn't to know, but to trust that someday you will. is to have the courage to paint in real time a portrait that will be ever evolving.
It's the strength to be wrong, the resolve to rise to your feet time and time again. Because one day, it will all make sense. And you'll see. You'll see that the roundabout, often confusing, unpredictable road you walked was the road you had to take. It made you who you are.
And you'll see that all those challenges forced you to become someone that you, at one point in your life, never dreamed you could become. You'll see that those people in your life, the ones you clung to, the ones you saw as permanent fixtures in that ever-evolving story, they were merely temporary, supporting characters, there to teach you about yourself and the world before exiting stage left.
You'll see that the scariest things weren't the failures looming around every corner, They were the magic never created for fear of what lurked around those corners. You'll see that dropped into the heart of even the most violent storms, the darkest of nights, you always had enough to get out. Sometimes the steps were too small and the progress too unremarkable to notice,
Those clouds, at one point or another, always ended up behind you. In life, the game itself becomes the instruction manual. To understand, you have to play. To learn, you have to go. Therefore, a life well lived can't be about having all the answers, You're crafting them with every step you take. It's about trust. It's about belief. Not in a defined trail, but in your ability to blaze your own.
I encourage you, as you navigate the day-to-day unknowns, to remember how strong you are. when you're frustrated at the hand you've been dealt, when you're hurt, when you're saddened by something that's transpired, remember that you can handle it, that there's meaning in the pain, in the chaos, right?
Because I know our default isn't to smile and mentally transport to the value that the pain will someday bring, right? I get it. But you have to know that you can, one, make it through the chaos and know that, two, there will be a point in your future when you look over your shoulder and appreciate the turbulence you endured.
You'll be grateful because of the beauty, the meaning, and the happiness it ultimately brought to fruition. That's what makes life worth living. You'll be grateful for the struggle because it empowered you to push further into life. It taught you to not only endure, but to find meaning in suffering.
To ultimately create something beautiful out of the very thing you wanted to run away from, but didn't. See, life is not all one thing. It's an oscillating wave of circumstances And you'll see at some point that every second mattered in the sense that it gave you exactly what you needed most when you needed it.
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