Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE - Powerful Motivational Speeches - MORNING MOTIVATION
Wed, 27 Nov 2024
Are we truly living, or are we slowly fading away? Each day brings us closer to the end, but the question is: are we making the most of the time we have? Emerson reminds us that it’s not the length of life, but its depth that truly matters. Too many sleepwalk through life, unaware of the incredible gift in their hands. Mistakes and failures are part of growth, but never trying—never truly living—only leads to regret. This episode is a call to wake up, to stumble, fall, and fight for what you believe in. Life isn’t about avoiding the cracks but about leaving your mark on a world waiting for your unique brilliance. So, what does truly living mean to you? How can you dive deeper into making each moment count? Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: Are we truly living or slowly dying?
Are we living or are we slowly dying? It's a question I recently came across and my mind said, hey, the second half of that is objectively true. We are slowly dying. Every day, every morning we wake up, we are one day closer to the end of our time here. Our bodies, the air we are renting with every breath we take, all of it signifies how temporary and finite this journey. We are slowly dying.
Chapter 2: What does it mean to live deeply?
The question worth examining is, are we living? Emerson has a beautiful quote where he says, it's not the length of life, it's the depth of life. meaning it's not inconceivable that one could both have a pulse and sleepwalk through their entire existence. You can physically be present and still not totally understand the gift that is in the palm of your hand.
And so this is not a call for anything but for you to notice, to notice the choice, to notice what's at stake, to notice the fork in the road. In many ways, what happens out there comes down to those who notice and those who don't, those who see the opportunity and capitalize, and those who know not what they have. Remember, mistakes can be remedied.
Chapter 3: How can mistakes lead to growth?
Most missteps are completely reversible, even the most tragic steps backwards. They're often a step forward as the dust settles and time plays its part. What's impossible to justify, though, is never going. Regret is a dead end street. It gives you nothing to rectify or adjust or improve. You can't undo not going, not trying, never fighting for what you believed in.
So perhaps this is what you need right now, where you are, the reminder to go out and stumble, fall even, fall hard. And in the process, make your mark on the moment on a world waiting for you to show it what you're capable of. See, because all that falling day in and day out, when most were sleepwalking through life, it will have made you something they are not. Something they can never be.
Chapter 4: What is the importance of resilience in life?
Unbreakable. Life can't break you. Only you can break you. You can't be both alive and avoiding the limelight. You can't be both in the arena and asleep. So open your eyes and go do what only you can do. Go be unbreakable because you've earned it. Unbreakable because you are resilient. Unbreakable because there is no fear of hitting the ground. No fear of the battles to fight or hills to climb.
Unbreakable because breaking is quitting. It's stopping. It's refusing to take life in. And that's simply not you. In a world where outcomes are never guaranteed, We have to cling to what we can control. Heart. A willingness to fight. A commitment to live. To live like few out there are willing to. So are you dying? Sure. We all are. But not today.
Today is about, as Emerson said, the depth of life. Today is about capturing that fleeting moment. It's about reminding yourself and the world why you're here. I learned recently how grateful I am for storms. Quiet skies don't show you how strong you are. Calm doesn't force you to level up. No, it's when the ground shakes we learn to endure.
Chapter 5: How does discomfort contribute to personal growth?
We're forced to find within ourselves a resilience that was once tucked away. They say confidence is earned. And well, it's earned because when we walk through hell, we give our greatness permission to walk alongside us. we grow in proportion to the discomfort we allow in our lives. Our evolution is tied to the stressors we face.
When we don't know what to do, we have to look in the mirror and find solutions. When we don't know where to go, we learn to navigate foreign, even hostile terrain. When we allow life to push us, we learn to push back. If you want more, allow more to be placed before you. A lot of us want to be slaying dragons, but never find the courage to approach the mountain where the dragons sleep.
Chapter 6: What lessons can storms teach us?
A lot of us want our blades sharpened, but never approach the fire that would forge them. It's not discomfort for the sake of discomfort. No, it's discomfort so that your greatness receives the invite to materialize. It's discomfort so that you can teach yourself what you're capable of. When you stay safe, you remain tied to reality as it is.
When you avoid chaos, you never learn to shape it, and it's in shaping the turbulence that we become capable, that we grow. So remember that voice. That voice telling you to step down, to shy away from difficulty, chaos, and discomfort. That voice is completely at odds with your potential. That voice wants to preserve. It doesn't want conflict because conflict threatens the now.
But a life fully lived takes the current state, it smashes it on the floor, and it rebuilds over and over again. A life fully lived is walking through the fire so that you are forced to become someone who can handle the flames. Be grateful for those storms. They give the excellence within you a face.
They take you by the hand and show you what you've been capable of since the very day you were born. I'm going to start today's episode off with a quote. This is from Seneca, and he wrote, I judge you unfortunate because you've never lived through misfortune. You've passed through life without an opponent. No one can ever know what you're capable of, not even you.
A brilliant member of the Your World Within team, Ashley, she sent me a kind of a thought experiment the other day. And she asked, if you're choosing between two trees, the exact same type of tree, height, everything, one to one, which one is stronger? And one of these trees exists in a very turbulent,
You know, climate, high winds, a lot of fluctuation in weather, extreme temperatures, low temperatures, high temperatures, versus that same tree in a, let's just say, more mild, consistent, way less harsh climate. Which one do you think will be stronger? And why? The answer is, well, one, obviously acclimated and adjusted over time.
It became tougher and stronger, more adaptable and resilient in the face of turbulence. It's proven itself because it exists where it exists, right? It had to evolve. Couldn't survive otherwise. Had to learn to endure. It's by facing the storm that you learn to navigate its chaos, right?
And, you know, having lived in South Florida for a long time, you see some of these palm trees take a beating during, you know, Cat 3s, 4s, God forbid, 5s, and they're still there, right? The inverse or the opposite example is the tree that's never been tested because they've never had to be tested. See, every single one of us is stronger than we think and more capable than we know.
The question in my eyes, you know, is how often do you give yourself a chance to prove it? How often do you nod your head and kick open the door trusting that you can take on what's on the other side? We have to be tested in order to evolve.
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Chapter 7: How can we see beyond our immediate problems?
You know, the further you're willing to go, the more life will give. The harder you're willing to push, the more opportunities are going to present themselves to you. Comfort isn't the enemy because of what it is, right? Comfort is the enemy because of what it is not. It is not conducive to growth. It's antithetical to any pursuit of meaning. Comfort is often stagnation. So how do we realize this?
Simple. Go out into the world and as the saying goes, do one thing every day that scares you. You'll find what does scare you becomes more and more infrequent. I'm not sure that it's the world getting smaller as much as you and yourself believe and trust in who you are gets bigger. It's earning confidence. Oh wow, the city can fall down and I can rise from the ashes.
Then why not live a life with more skylines? Why not dive deeper into the horizon? Not to prove anything to the world, but to show yourself. And the chisel sharpens the marble. It initiates the masterpiece. So when you look around and think, I'm worthy of more, or my heart's longing for something different, bigger, a life transformed, drop yourself into the storm.
So that one, you become capable of moving through it, and two, you remind yourself, you prove to yourself who you are. That matters. You're not the type of person who sits and watches life go by. You are the person who steps into the abyss and determines what life is. You're not an order taker, you're an architect. Manufacturing opponents not to defeat them, but to elevate you.
While the world slept I stayed awake.
I guess I couldn't bear to close my eyes and drift off into a dream, knowing that as soon as they opened, it would end. I sat up, I put my goals and aspirations into the backpack next to my bed, threw it over my shoulder, and I left, destination unknown. But I was armed with the belief that opportunities exist, wherever you bring them to life. So while the world slept, I stayed awake.
There comes a point when dreaming takes the form of an adversary. I didn't want to wake up and see the discrepancy between fantasy and reality. I didn't want to be associated with wishing or hoping or crossed fingers. See, the beauty of life is that it always provides the necessary pieces to put your puzzle together so long as your eyes remain open. So while the world slept, I stayed awake.
As the mind lays dormant, so does opportunity. As the ideal life remains imaginary, so does the action needed to build it. The best way to find answers is simply to look for them. A folded up map hidden away in your desk, it suggests a million possibilities, proposes an endless journey, but until you grab it, open your door and step outside, It will never truly take you there.
I wanted to feel the wind on my face, the sand on my feet, and even the most adventurous souls in the world don't have time to see everything, to experience it all. Time is the most precious of commodities. So while the world slept, I stayed awake. The secret is not in opening your eyes, it's in what you allow your eyes to see.
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Chapter 8: Why is it essential to take action now?
You know, I think sometimes, you know, we become so pulled in to a specific problem or situation that it never even dawns on us to think, okay, you know, this is life, it happens. But you don't have to stay where you start. You are not confined to where you are. Because if it's not pushing you forward, it can be altered, mitigated, transformed. It's not an if question.
Your ascent is a how question. And one of my favorite ideas, it states that, you know, many of life's greatest accomplishments were carried out by folks too ignorant to understand the odds. When you feel stuck, it's not because you are, It's because your human brain is in default mode. And it's like, no problem, override. There's a way to turn every single predicament into a strength.
As Jim Rohn has famously stated, it's not the mountaintop that holds the value, it's who you become along the way to the mountaintop. And that climb consists of a multitude of these seemingly dead ends. But in recognizing their inability to hold you back, you yourself grow. You arm yourself with that knowledge.
And to sum up the entire message here in its entirety, it's that in a world of infinite possibility, there is a way. I challenge you to find it. The same challenge I look in the mirror and present to myself when I feel stuck or helpless or hopeless. I challenge you to look at your reality in a different light until the light bulb goes off and it's like, oh, this wasn't assigned to me.
I'm choosing this. I'm creating this. And as the architect of my own world, I can recreate the story in its entirety. You know, people just don't go around in life telling us that. It's not normal to hear, hey buddy, you have more control than you think you do. Hey, you're accepting some things that you don't need to accept.
Hey, step back five more feet and build again from a different angle, right? Just like all the money in the world doesn't do much good stacked up in a warehouse that's never touched or utilized, you know, all the opportunity doesn't matter if you can't see it. If you're blinded by the tree, the downside, the limitation, none of that means anything. If your vantage point is one of confinement,
Infinity is always there. So step back, turn around and walk directly into it. Use the resources to build reality, not as it is, but as you want it to be. A world on your terms. It's time. The world will not stop spinning. The clock won't stop ticking. Days won't stop slipping by. It's time. Things won't suddenly get easier. The difficulty does not remove itself. The path does not narrow.
It's time. That perfect moment, it doesn't exist. A flawless beginning is fiction. The stars will never align for you. It's time. Not tomorrow. Not someday down the road. But this very second. See, you don't need all the answers. You don't need to know or be sure or be armed with guarantees. Your job, your only requirement is to begin. It's time to trade fear for opportunity.
Someday, for right now, it's time. To stop thinking small, stop seeing what you want as a reach, to stop looking at success as a stranger. It's time to sit down and convince yourself that what you want can be accomplished when it's as real as the space in front of you. when it's as probable as the completion of a single step, it will happen because it has to. It's time.
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