Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
DON'T BE AFRAID | Powerful Inspirational Speeches for Success
26 Feb 2025
Hesitation is often more painful than failure itself. The longer we wait, the heavier the weight of inaction becomes—the agony of knowing more is required but refusing to act. That self-imposed purgatory is its own kind of suffering, a slow erosion of potential.But what if you stepped forward instead? What if you embraced the fall, knowing it's the only way to rise? Action is the antidote to doubt, the bridge between where you are and where you want to be. The moment you decide to move, you reclaim your power. The world belongs to those who dare.More from Eddie Pinero:Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletterInstagram - @your_world_within and @IamEddiePineroTikTok - your_world_withinFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/YourworldwithinTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/IamEddiePineroBusiness Inquiries - http://www.yourworldwithin.com/contact#liveinspired #yourworldwithin #motivation
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The pain of hesitation often hurts worse than the very fall we're afraid of. And when you learn this, you can be proactive in mitigating that pain, the self-induced torture that is waiting, the agony of knowing something more is required of you, but refusing to act. Because that little purgatory is a special kind of hell. Check this out. Quick metaphor. We'll call it the man on the high dive.
So this man wanted to jump off the high diving board at the community pool. So he walks up and he begins slowly ascending the ladder, his hands, you know, sweating against each metal rung as he makes his way up and below only a few minutes before the entire thing seemed manageable, fun even. But now as he makes his way to the top and stands on the edge, looking down at the water below,
This simple activity now feels impossible. Everything's different. The air is much thinner up there. His heartbeat thuds in his ears, right? He wraps his toes over the rough surface of the board, gripping it like the ledge of the side of a mountain. And he's telling himself, okay, it's time, like, go, just jump. But his body's refusing it. He turns, glances back down the ladder.
He's got that sort of chirping in his ear. Hey, you know, you could just climb back down. People do that all the time. No big deal. And then, you know, something relatively unexpected happens. A boy, let's say no more than 10, starts making his way up the ladder.
He gets to the top, kind of peeks his head over the board, and, you know, bright-eyed, obviously unbothered by the height, and he asks the man, hey, are you going to jump? And the man, you know, pretty embarrassed at this point, says, well, I don't know yet. And the kid shrugged and in complete innocence, right, just speaking his mind, goes, that used to happen to me.
The longer I'd wait up there, the harder it would get. The man laughed, you know, but he knew it wasn't funny, it was true. It bothered him. And suddenly another realization crept in, right? This is not about the jump. but about the weight of standing there. Because just like the innocent child suggested, the longer he waited, the worse it felt.
And that feeling already had him in crisis territory. It's not just the fear, but the frustration, the doubt, the slow, gnawing discomfort of knowing he'd climbed all the way up there. Would he really just turn back? He looked down at all the eyes of the pool staring up at him. What a situation. Right now, the guy's in a place of limbo, right?
It's like, do you step into the courage, do something you've never done, or do you back out entirely and, you know, retreat back to the only world you've ever known, taking some perhaps regret and what ifs along with you? Because that is the thing, right? Fear doesn't just stop you from jumping. It changes you to perhaps the worst place of all, the in-between.
Not quite safe, no, but certainly not free either. And sometimes that place, that limbo between who you are and who you could be hurts more than the fall ever could. He started realizing this with increasing intensity. The mental discomfort had gotten to the point where, you know, the fall is preferable, right?
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