Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
FAILURE - Best Motivational Video Speeches Compilation for Success, Students & Entrepreneurs
14 Nov 2024
In this episode, we dive into the powerful paradox of growth: to become who we’re meant to be, we often first have to feel small. It's an uncomfortable place, yet it's here that we start to see the walls we’ve built around ourselves. When we understand just how vast life is—like standing before the Grand Canyon or staring up at a stormy sky—it puts our problems and self-imposed limits into perspective. Recognizing our insignificance isn't a setback; it's freedom. It takes the pressure off and makes room for us to move forward fearlessly. Life offers endless opportunities and abundance, yet so often we fall into patterns of avoiding risk and playing small. When we understand that we’re just "raindrops in a thunderstorm," we can finally let go of our need to control every outcome. That understanding sets us free, emboldens us, and opens us up to living authentically. It’s not about diminishing our value but, instead, realizing that letting go of our inner constraints is what allows us to be truly powerful. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
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Sometimes in order to feel bigger than we've ever felt, to grow into our potential, we have to feel small and insignificant. And what do I mean by this? Because in many ways it sounds counterintuitive. No one wants to feel less than, no one wants to feel insignificant. But it's in positioning ourselves to feel that, that we understand the walls we place around ourselves.
We understand how big life is. And us, while we're here on planet Earth, walking around, navigating our day-to-day lives, we are but raindrops in the thunderstorm. We are a snap.
And I think understanding that, understanding that we are a pawn on the chessboard of life, we are a cog in a wheel, it allows us to take some of that pressure off and free ourselves up to be our beautiful, authentic, powerful selves. Life is a game. It's an opportunity. It's abundance. Yet we default to, well, I don't want to screw up. I don't want to lose what I have.
I don't want to make mistakes. And that's the wrong way to look at life. The other day, I was at the Grand Canyon, and I'm sure most of you are familiar with it, but for those who aren't, it's one of the most beautiful, magnificent, almost hard to comprehend you know, just incredible landscapes I've ever seen. It goes on forever. It's breathtaking.
It's almost like as you're standing on the edge of that cliff looking out at forever, at infinity, you realize how small the corner of life you live in is compared to this. You realize how big and grandiose the world is, and by the way, the Grand Canyon is just a small part of it. Yet, we are often confined to four walls.
It just makes you realize how small we tend to think, how we box ourselves in, how we limit our potential just by stepping out and looking at the sheer magnitude of this landscape. Which, by the way, would swallow you up and continue moving on as if nothing happened. It screams of your insignificance. Now again, you might think, well, that's negative. I don't want to feel insignificant.
No, insignificance in its own unique way is freedom. It's freedom to make the move. It's freedom to try things. It's freedom to take those steps you've always wanted to take because why not? Because at the end of the day, the clock is going to run out. There's no escaping that. The phrase goes, the thing about life is no one makes it out alive.
And when you think of yourself as sort of high and mighty or avoiding the wrong things, trying not to break things, you miss out. The beauty of being a raindrop in a thunderstorm is there's flexibility, there's freedom. No one's looking at you, no one's pointing and waiting for you to mess up. These are things that we create in our own minds about ourselves.
These are stories and narratives we write about why we shouldn't. But when you're on the ledge or the edge of that cliff looking out, you realize maybe things don't matter that much. And maybe that is a beautiful thing. Because maybe that's your reason to try the craft, start the journey, make the call. Maybe that's your rationale for looking around and going, I've been standing here too long.
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