Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Don't Compare Yourself To Anyone | Best Motivational Speeches
04 Apr 2025
The world isn’t just happening to you—it’s reflecting you. Your beliefs, your mindset, and your actions shape the reality you experience. If you don’t take control of that narrative, you risk becoming a bystander in your own life, mistaking external circumstances for fate instead of seeing them as opportunities to rewrite the script.True power comes from within. As Marcus Aurelius said, you have power over your mind, not outside events—realize this and you will find strength. When you shift your perspective, you shift your world. This episode is a reminder that you are not just a character in someone else’s story—you are the author of your own.More from Eddie Pinero:Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletterYour World Within Podcast: https://yourworldwithin.libsyn.com/Stream these tracks on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2BLf6pBInstagram - @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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Reality is a mirror, reflecting back at you not the world as it is, but the world as you are. The idea here is that if you don't pause and remind yourself how much control you have over your own reality, over what you're seeing, you start thinking you're at the mercy of someone else's story. A character in a play that is not your own. You forget that in your own movie, you're the scriptwriter.
Or as Marcus Aurelius wrote, you have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. I recently heard this referred to as the mirror principle. But really, for obvious reasons, I'm more partial to calling it your world with it. An echo of Tolstoy's classic line, everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
And that is where our power lies. Or, using the same example, you can't change the reflection you see by shaking the mirror. You change the reflection by changing your relationship with yourself. By changing how you treat and view yourself. Which not only alters your actions, it alters how the world views you. One of the first things we notice about someone is whether they are confident.
Whether they operate with conviction and self-belief. We notice how they view themselves immediately. The greatest gifts I've been given from mentors and people I look up to in life, they haven't been material. No, they've always been subtle reminders that I set the guidelines and the world conforms.
It's always been, hey, Eddie, if you only view yourself as someone who charges a little bit of money to clients, that's how potential clients will view you. Eddie, if you surround yourself with people who think small, that's exactly what you'll become accustomed to doing. Eddie, if you don't believe you can do amazing things, people won't walk up to you and believe it for you.
All of these have been reminders that the reflections that I'd created for myself at those points in time were limiting. The reflection I was allowing was narrow in scope. It was safe. It was small. And if I wanted more, it wasn't up to the world. It certainly wasn't a matter of crossing my fingers and hoping that that mirror would randomly tell a different story.
It was seeing myself as someone who creates a new picture altogether. And that can be a difficult thing to grasp, right? Like, you can't change the mirror at all. You can only change what you bring to the mirror. So what are some examples? What are some pieces in the past that I've worked on? One, first and foremost, imposter syndrome.
One of the cool things about having speeches blow up on YouTube before I ever gave a keynote speech on stage is that I started getting invites to speak all over the place. The flip side to that is that I felt like someone who didn't belong there. It happened too quickly. It was outside the comfort of my studio. It was like, oh no, the world's going to find me out.
And that's what I brought to the mirror. And of course, for a while, that's exactly what the mirror showed right back. I had to convince myself that I could speak anywhere, through practice, through affirmation, trudging through the mud of doubt and uncertainty and earning a different reflection. I say that not to pat myself on the back, but to demonstrate a battle fought mostly in private.
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