Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
DON’T WASTE YOUR LIFE - Best Motivational Video Speeches Compilation
Mon, 02 Dec 2024
Dreams and aspirations are the fuel that propels us forward, but what are we doing to bring them to life? As Thoreau beautifully put it in Walden, “If you’ve built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” Dreaming big is vital, but those dreams must be paired with daily action—steps that transform imagination into reality. It’s about maintaining the delicate balance between vision and execution: keeping your eyes on the mountaintop while your hands lay the bricks of the path that will get you there. Every day offers an opportunity to lay another stone, build another step, and reinforce that foundation beneath your dreams. Are you working on yours? What’s one action you can take today to make your castle in the sky a tangible reality? Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: What are the foundations for building your dreams?
So, you have goals and aspirations. Beautiful. You have hopes and dreams. Incredible. But what are you doing about it? Because there's this equilibrium we have to create and maintain as we navigate our day-to-day lives. And no one addresses this, in my mind, better than Thoreau and Walden, When he states, if you've built your castles in the air, your work need not be lost.
Chapter 2: How can daily actions shape our aspirations?
That's where they should be. Now put foundations under them. He addresses the very nature of creation, of dreaming, right? He says, you know, there's an element of idealism and aspiration, but you have to marry that with pragmatism. Keep your head focused on the mountaintop. Dream, aspire. Imagine what life could be, but don't spend your day in thought. Build the foundations.
Put the foundations under that castle in the air by doing, by stepping, by every day creating one more stair in the staircase that will bring that new reality into existence. Over the years, I've talked a lot about Steven Pressfield's book, The War of Art. Really, the impact it's had on me, I think for good reason. Personally, I tend to gravitate away from structure.
In fact, unless I'm being deliberate and cognizant of how I'm planning my day, things can get messy pretty quickly. So I have to really be intentional about that. And there were times in 2014, 2015, 2016, where I had visions of building something big and meaningful and making an impact on the world. and I'd sit down to build it, whether it's write a speech, create a video or episode.
And that particular day, I would feel like, you know, I just don't feel inspired. I wish I did, but hey, can't force creativity, right? I'd close my laptop, I'd get up and I'd move on. And it wasn't until I read Pressfield's book that I understood That's what every writer, speaker, creator, builder deals with. It's on us to say, no, I'm setting this timer for 90 minutes. I'm going to show up.
I'm going to pour my thoughts out, pour my heart and soul into this project. And if something comes from it, amazing. If it doesn't, that's okay. But over a long period of time, that's how consistency is established. That's the only way to create that necessary compounding that actually supports my goals and big picture and long-term vision.
That dedicated effort is an example of putting foundations under the castle in the air. I don't think we do this intentionally, but there's often a misalignment between what we say we want and how we spend our time and how we live our lives. And just being honest, it's challenging to see these inconsistencies in ourselves. They sort of hide within our day-to-day lives.
Which is why that simple alignment exercise of asking, what do I want and Is what I'm doing bringing that to life so critical? It's why Thoreau's question so deeply resonates. I'm saying this now and I'll say it forever, the greatest changes in our lives will never be a product of some huge, complex, complicated series of moves. It won't be 4D chess, calculus, secret codes and strategies.
It's like, no, critical change starts with some simple adjustments. Usually right at your feet, right? It's getting up earlier. It's cutting something out. Adding a new activity for 20 minutes a day, right? These are the things that are life changing. Doing the correct things simply and consistently. The old head in the clouds and feet on the ground adage. Dream like your life depends on it.
Think as big as you can. Have your eyes fixated on mountaintops. Just make sure that your feet are simultaneously moving, that one step at a time you are going that way. Sometimes building those foundations requires more deliberate action added to the day-to-day. Sometimes it means cutting away the outliers and excesses of our day-to-day. It means fully immersing yourself in what remains.
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Chapter 3: What mental shifts empower us to take control of our lives?
I don't remember the last time I saw my struggle not as a necessary burden, but a gift. As something not thrown at me, but presented to me. Think for a second about the finitude of life. The one in 400 trillion odds of being born, A number that I came across somewhere that I certainly can't validate, but I don't think you need to to get the point, right? The odds of being here are incredibly slim.
Yet somehow we won. We all received winning lottery tickets. Here we are. On a strange planet with options to choose from, paths to decide between, and a giant ticking clock. And given these circumstances, aren't we doing a disservice to ourselves to not at least see what we're capable of? What we can do, build, create, and become? I certainly think so. And what is the cost of that evolution?
It's discomfort. It's forging our future by walking through fire. It means intentional hardship. And to not see that as the gateway to life's infinite opportunity is missing the mark. Why shouldn't you feel lucky about yourself transforming in real time? Why shouldn't you feel proud of paying a steeper price for a better view?
Why shouldn't you be delighted to unpack the mystery and the adventure contained in life? This isn't something you have to do on your way to point B. This is something you get to do on your journey to become whoever you choose to become. So when the pressures of life press down upon us, test us, perhaps solely acknowledging its utility is insufficient, Maybe it's more.
Maybe it's something that should be celebrated, adored. Today was a reminder to be thankful for the body that can endure the turbulence. Thankful for the mind that can manage and overcome the chaos. Thankful for the opportunity to be here to begin with and the freedom to choose the difficult thing. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for the opportunity to live in such a way that as I place my head on the pillow each and every night I'm grateful for the privilege. We have a desire to define that which is often undefinable. When it comes to life and its highly coveted outcomes, assessing the things that we want, we use probability to solidify things that are entirely fluid.
For example, you often hear about the odds of becoming a professional football player, the odds of becoming a CEO, going to Harvard, making six or seven figures. Numbers that often paint a picture of why you can't. When you hear only one in however many millions of people accomplish something, the intent is to show you that you're more likely to fall into the millions bucket than the one bucket.
To show just how rare or difficult or out of the ordinary achieving that thing would be. Almost like they're being compared to a lottery, a random number generator, luck, a pursuit in which you have zero control. Think of a huge glass jar, right?
One red marble, three million green marbles, and it's like you close your eyes and you better pull out that red one, otherwise you won't become the Oscar-winning actor that you dream of being. And the problem with looking at life that way is that it overshadows the most important element of success, understanding just how much control you have.
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Chapter 4: How do we define success in our journey?
You watered it, and so it grew. Recently, I was thinking about something a friend of mine named Tom told me a few years back. He owns a company in Oklahoma City and was telling me about how someone he'd hired essentially stole from him. And the first question that came to my mind as he was telling the story was, okay, what are you going to do about it?
And I asked him the question, and he was kind of quiet for a second, and then asked in his southern accent, Eddie, if a snake bites you, are you going to chase it into the woods to get your revenge, or are you going to get the medical attention required to save yourself? Basically, are you going to focus on the past or on what to do from here forward, right?
Basically, he cut ties with the person but had moved on. was already thinking about next steps that were best for him, his family, and his business. And I can tell you since hearing that, it's become an incredibly valuable idea in my life. Especially as you realize that there will never be a shortage of problems. You do what you can to avoid them.
You try to steer clear when possible, but adversity will always be a factor. It's about knowing that and stepping into it regardless. It's just, it's something that's always intertwined in our development. And I find value in asking myself, is this action I'm about to take conducive to my growth and my happiness? Or am I just chasing snakes?
Does this just feel good in the short term because I'm angry or I've been wronged or something along those lines? Especially since most harm inflicted on others derive from incompetence, not malice, and I truly believe that. I think very frequently we attribute sinister motives to others when 99% of the time it's sheer stupidity. It's imperfect humans trying to navigate an often complex world.
We make mistakes. Now, I'm not suggesting you don't stand up for yourself when you've been wronged or slighted. Of course you should. But the magic is in not personalizing the situation. Possessing the emotional IQ to understand, hey, look, it's not about me, but whether I can salvage the situation from here. And that depends solely on how I choose to look at it.
Emerson wrote, people do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. And what a powerful point. The flexibility and the leeway available to us when it comes to making sense of the world speaks to not how the world is, but how the onlooker thinks and interprets it. Depersonalizing the situation is one of the greatest superpowers at our disposal.
When you're angry and accusatory, you will, as Tom put it, end up chasing snakes. You'll end up breaking things that will need to be rebuilt and uttering words you'll wish you'd never spoken. But the five seconds required to pause, to collect yourself, and realize that you're in control is everything.
The ability to see the person, the situation, or the world not as an adversary stacked against you, but as an inevitable challenge that must be managed. So how will you choose to manage it? How will you choose to arrange the pieces? And by the way, I'm fully aware the constant theme for my speeches and podcasts and videos is the act of pointing not out at the world, but in at ourselves.
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