Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
DON'T GIVE UP ON YOURSELF | Powerful Motivational Speeches | 1 Hour
Mon, 16 Dec 2024
What if today wasn’t just another mark on the calendar, but a turning point in your story? Each day holds the potential to be mundane or monumental—it’s up to you to decide. There’s something calling you, something you’ve dreamt about, but have been putting off. It’s there in the back of your mind, waiting for you to act. Today is your invitation to give meaning to the ordinary, to breathe life into your aspirations, and to ignite the courage to begin. You don’t need anyone else to show you the way—you already know. Deep down, you know what step you’ve been avoiding, and today is the day to take it. Because when you bring light to your own world, you illuminate the path for others, too. So, what will you make today mean? Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: How can today be a turning point in my life?
Today, it can mean absolutely nothing. Just one of many. Insignificant. Not so much good or bad as another X on the calendar. Or today can mean everything. And that's quite the contrast to hear me out. My point is you can right now make today matter. Like, in this moment, you can bring significance to an otherwise bland, monotonous endeavor. You can bring light to a dark room. How?
Chapter 2: What steps can I take to ignite my aspirations?
How do I do this? Well, that's what's great. You already know. I don't. You do. You know what's been calling you because you know that thing you've wanted to try, begin, or explore. You know that thing you've been putting off. You know because you think about it. In fact, you probably think about it a lot.
You close your eyes and you dream about a world where you had the courage to simply do that thing. We all do. The other day, I was sitting in the sauna, listening to Sir Jordan Peterson's new book. Read all his stuff. In my eyes, the man is legendary. But for some reason, in that moment, I'm sitting there, I'm listening, and it dawns on me, this is not what I need right now.
My brain just can't go there for some reason. My soul's trying to speak. So I convince myself to listen. Inputs become outputs. And what's lacking for me in this season of my life is excitement. It's adventure. It's inspiration. And so I point all the spotlights to this realization. For the next X number of weeks, I immerse myself in story. It's fiction now for me. Leave home. Do things.
Chapter 3: How do I break free from monotony?
Not forever, but break the cycle. Rent a cabin in the woods. Walk places you've never walked. Run places you've never run. Push creative boundaries. Try new things. Listen. Because you know what you need. And so I mention this to Ashley, who's a big part of the team over here. Send her a picture of some books I have on Audible that I've never read. You know how we do that?
Most books are purchased and not consumed. Guilty as charged. And she says, oh, Tale of Two Cities. I have that one too. Let's both read it. And so it begins. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. In the beginning of the book, there's this note. explaining that Dickens didn't write this all as one book. No.
He released it to the public as a series of individual pieces, one part at a time. Though they've obviously come together to comprise one of the greatest novels ever written. And so I hear that and I press pause. Whoa, what did you just uncover here? How different this approach must feel, setting aside the novel in totality to make each individual contribution impactful.
I guess the same way a Netflix series is so intriguing. We're not watching one 10-hour movie. That would be absolutely brutal. No, but we'll sign the dotted line to watch ten one-hour movies, back to back to back to back to back, no question. Each one with a different problem to be solved.
Whether we realize it or not, each little episode, while contributing to the overall plot, has its own beginning and middle and end. Each one is a journey. Each episode contains a cliffhanger, a bridge to what's next, and how badly do we want to know what's next. That's why we're so intrigued. why we gladly jump from one chapter to the next.
When something feels good, there's a reason it feels good. Maybe I need to stop looking at my life as a movie and start looking at it as a Netflix series, where my day is not some arbitrary chunk of time carved out to contribute to this nice, linear, long-term unraveling of a plot. No. Let's give this baby a pulse. Let's make it mean something, a little hero's journey within the hero's journey.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of storytelling in our lives?
Let's give today life. As if I was planning to put a bow on it and share it with the world the second that sun sets behind the mountains and stars trickle their way into the night sky. Let's make today binge-worthy. I want to be screaming from the couch how badly I need to know what happens next. That's the world that must be created. Oh, but there's no Charles Dickens here.
There's no Netflix producer. There's one author. And just like before, you know them well. And if you don't, go look in the mirror and introduce yourself. That lovely face staring back will do more for you than anyone you could ever meet. You want excitement? inject the excitement. You want more noise, make more noise. You want a reason to tune into episode two, write that reason in.
You can do that. I swear to you, you can do that in your own life. And in the story of our lives, which sounds a lot like the soap opera my mother would listen to when we were kids, but I digress. Focus in the story of our lives. All that's beautiful must be cultivated by us, by you, by the doer. You have more control than you think you do. You have more control than you can even fathom.
And from your end, it might be like, yeah, okay, I've heard this. Sure, you've heard it, but have you heard it? Do you believe it? You're so much more powerful than you think. If you just drop a little more of that into every day, imagine what the product could be. And I'm not sitting here begging you to be more of someone else.
I'm proposing, I'm showing you what could happen if you gave a little more life to a little bit more of you. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Whatever. All of the time is your time. Every day can be your day. Just write it into the damn story. Let it be so. Stop hushing your soul and let it drive your character arc. Today can be nothing or it can be everything.
Do with that information what you will. Everything happens for a reason. That's what they say. But what's not often said is that you get to decide what that reason is. Every occurrence is a tool, only as valuable as its utilization. In other words, as the famous saying goes, it's not what happens, it's what you choose to do about what happens.
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Chapter 5: How do I build a meaningful narrative for myself?
A great painter wouldn't let a dollar store paintbrush and cheap paint get in the way of excellence. No, they'd find a way to transfer their genius to the world. I remember, you know, growing up a Red Sox fan. And Boston's one of the toughest environments for athletes to play in, just because of... You know, the pressure of the city, the media, the fans, you know, every pitch is scrutinized.
There's a very, the expectations are high there. Sometimes even unrealistic, you know, and that was the situation. That was the reality. And I remember seeing players join the team and some of them would just light up. They would thrive in that environment where every pitch is watched. You know, every game is talked about. They'd show up and they'd feed off the energy.
And then there'd be some players that would fold like a lawn chair. The pressure was too much. Players that, by the way, were stars in other cities. Another way of saying, you know, same situation, same resources, different outcomes. Different players built different realities with what was at hand. And that's one example of many I could give, right?
But the idea here, if you think big picture, is that life is an infinite assortment of tools. It's not provided to you pre-assembled. It's there for you to build, right? Reality is your responsibility. You've just been handed supplies. End of a relationship. You're sad. I've been there. We've all been there, right? So what are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna make with it?
And that might seem insensitive, disheartening, even impossible while you're going through it. But if you wanna build something precious from the pieces that remain, you can. As crazy as that might seem amidst the storm, you can. You can take what you've learned, you can pick your chin up, you can find out in the world what you thought you already had.
Or let's say you had an opportunity of some sort fall through the cracks and you wanted this opportunity. You wanted it bad. You thought the deal was sealed. The reality is different. It's gone. Missed it. Swing and a miss. So what now? Again, same question. What will you build? A statue to remind yourself that you're not good enough? Or a bridge to the next thing?
Will you allow that disappointment to become armor that you wear? And that's exactly what it is. It's like you just, you lost. You know, you scuffed your knees. Maybe your ego's hurt. Your pride's hurt. You told people great things were going to happen and they didn't. Well, you look to your left, look to your right. Maybe you realize, hey, I'm still here. Life is still going on.
Maybe worst case is not that bad. And maybe I can take that knowledge and that confidence onto the next thing. Maybe I can be a little bolder. Live with a greater sense of curiosity. Be more determined in my exploration. Everything happens for a reason. So why not manufacture the best reasons? Everything happens for a reason. So why not reason your way into that ending that's meaningful?
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Chapter 6: Why is it crucial to keep promises to myself?
I point to 26 as the age I learned that, you know, I can choose my own outcomes, create my own reasons. Because prior to that, it was, you know, this is the hand I'm dealt, so this is what I'm supposed to do. This is how life is supposed to happen. But there are no supposed tos, none, zero. There's what you choose to build with what you have. And by the way, indecision is also a decision.
Not doing anything at all is often the same thing as building a cage around yourself. Let that news hit you like the miracle that it is. Sure, it's tough, it's humbling. But the truth is, everything around you, what you call reality, you've chosen. You've allowed to exist the way it is, and you're capable of changing that at any moment, redefining the quote-unquote reason.
So perhaps it's not as much that everything happens for a reason as much as it is that everything happens. The reason is entirely up to you. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Of all the people on planet Earth, it's most critical that you believe you. That when you commit, you show up. When you make plans, you follow through.
When you tell yourself you'll do something, you actually do it. Here's what's interesting. Being that this is, I believe, the North Star, I'm consistently chasing down this standard, right? Trying to be better and better and better at following through. as I clearly think we all should, but keeping promises to yourself is different than keeping promises to others.
When you let other people down, especially those close to you, you feel the social repercussions. And for human beings, negative social repercussions are painful. We care greatly about our reputation. Don't want to let others down. Don't want to be known as the person who doesn't show up. And that's incentive enough to push us towards following through with others.
But with yourself, where do the repercussions go? What are the consequences? You tell yourself, today is the day. I'm starting, beginning, trying something new. and then you don't. There's no phone call with someone on the other end saying, hey, where were you? Hey, you promised. Hey, you owed me this.
No, when we break promises to ourselves, it seems like the situation, after maybe a second or two of disappointment, just floats away into the ether. It feels as though there is no substantial cost. But I actually think those broken promises stick around. I think we wear them. We feel them. We see them when we look in the mirror.
And sure, maybe there isn't that friend or family member staring us down with disappointment in their eyes. But how we see ourselves changes. Every broken promise to yourself reinforces the idea that not having high standards is okay. Every time we let ourselves down, it supports a narrative that being let down is normal, par for the course.
If you don't show up for you, it begs the question, why should others show up for you? Why should others follow through when you wouldn't even do it for yourself? I've always believed that so many facets of life start internally and are projected out. How you see yourself, treat yourself is the sun around which all that other stuff revolves, right? Like the world will notice and act accordingly.
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Chapter 7: How can I redefine my narrative and aspirations?
Well, time to bring that to life. So sure, that means be careful of the promises you make to yourself. Don't take them lightly. But once they are etched into the universe, they must be law. And I'm not talking about failure to adapt or try things. I'm not talking about being stubborn. I'm talking about the initial follow through that precedes all that. Will we do what we said we would do?
And I'm not emphasizing, you know, making this the standard because life should be some perpetual boot camp. but rather because discipline is freedom. Because when we go to bed at night knowing we set goals and meet them, we see ourselves as winners. People follow through on who they believe themselves to be. It's an endless feedback loop.
You see yourself as a winner, you carry yourself as a winner. You carry yourself as a winner and other people see it. They treat you as such and around and around it goes. So when you feel like skipping or procrastinating or quitting on yourself, remember that it's not just that immediate moment at stake. It's not a little thing. It's one brushstroke on the mural that is your current reality.
It becomes you. And again, you wouldn't let other people talk down to you. So stop doing it to yourself. You wouldn't allow being stood up by others. So stop doing that to yourself. Become the king or queen of your own empire. Rule over yourself like it all matters because it does. To keep the promises you make to yourself is playing offense.
It's essentially building a bridge to the outside world so that you may go shape it. As opposed to merely putting up your hands and living at life's mercy. Never forget how much control you have, how powerful you are. And that you don't need to convince others, you need to convince yourself. During the highs, the lows, the ups and the downs, the sun and the rain, you need to be there for you.
George Eliot wrote, it's never too late to be who you might have been. See, you are a storyteller, a creator of narratives. And what you see when you look in the mirror are stories. Stories about your past. I am the type of person who does X, right? X being an accumulation of history, of things you've done, you used to do. And in theory, you know, there's truth to that.
We are what we repeatedly do. But here's where it becomes a problem. When you confine yourself to that narrative, when you become stuck there, when you are unable to become something new because you're telling yourself, that's not who I am. Just because that was the narrative doesn't mean it always has to be. You can always pick up the pen and start writing a new chapter.
I put on a green shirt last year, last month, every day last week. Therefore, I am someone who wears green shirts. Therefore, tomorrow, I must put on a green shirt. It's who I am. Seems a tad ridiculous, right? Until you change the example a little bit. I was called out recently for saying, I am a runner trying to put on weight. Building muscle in the past has been a challenge for me, right?
Because I am a runner. And I was, I was running seven to 10 miles a day. Well, now in the present, the story's changed. I've essentially stopped running, at least distance running. I'm focusing on the gym. And in a group setting with my trainer there, I recently said, it's been challenging for me to put on weight as a runner. He looks up and he says, ah, limiting belief.
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Chapter 8: What does it mean to have control over my own reality?
Just because that's what you did doesn't mean it's how you must identify. No, it's time to flip the script. And when you start unpacking this idea, you know, it gets crazy quickly. Like you realize how many areas in our lives we create these limiting beliefs, how much we adhere to or shackle ourselves, tie ourselves to old narratives. They're everywhere. I make $80,000 a year.
I'm looking for a new job that pays about $80,000 a year. It's like, why 80? It's just as arbitrary as 25, which is just as arbitrary as 175. Like, why can't you aspire to be more? Why don't you feel deserving of more? And I'm not talking about snapping your fingers, right? There's no magic involved in this. It's very practical.
It's when you decide something is what you deserve or something is what you're gonna be, my friends, that's what you will get. You know, you have to decide you are worthy. You have to improve your worth. You have to see yourself as something different before the world will ever adhere to that or give you something new. You know what one of our greatest superpowers is?
The reminder that we can change, that we don't have to concede or accept anything. If it isn't adding value in some way, it can be changed, transformed, mitigated. I think the issue is that sometimes we just forget that we are the ones telling the story. I was reminiscing recently about 2013, 2014, commuting to work from Boston to Worcester with a friend of mine.
and didn't particularly love the job, right? And so on the commute, we would, you know, joke around every day, you know, and I put joking in quotes because we were truly hoping for it, right? It's like, you know, wishing we'd get a flat tire or something would derail the commute. And you know, as time goes on, hindsight's 20-20, you look back and you realize just how
Like, weak and pathetic, that is. Like, hoping for external circumstances to guide you where you most want to go because, you know, I won't speak for him, but me personally, I couldn't manufacture the courage to change, right? Not for a long time, at least. Because here's the deal, no one was forcing me at gunpoint to be there. I didn't have to do anything.
It was as simple as the story I told myself was every day, over and over again, this is what you're supposed to do. It doesn't matter if you like it or not. It doesn't matter if it lights you up. It doesn't matter if this is the best use of your skill set. This is what you do. That was the narrative playing in my head. And therefore, it's what I did.
Changing that thought pattern was one of the most challenging things I've ever done, but it's unequivocally true that at any point, I could have looked around and said, this isn't me. I'm going to start building a life that is. Eventually, I got there. It just took time. It's one of the reasons I'm so passionate about trying to give others that nudge.
to empower people to make change in their lives, as opposed to looking around and hoping outside circumstances push you to where you need to be. It all comes back to that idea that we have way more control than we think we do. We just have to be aware of the lines we draw around ourselves. There are so many places where it's like, oh, we can't step over there. Why? I just never have.
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