Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Master Your Morning: The Decision That Shapes Your Destiny
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Each day starts with a choice that defines your path: will you embrace positivity or let doubt and negativity dictate your journey? This single decision shapes how you approach challenges and opportunities, influencing your outcomes and growth. In this episode, we uncover the power of framing your day with optimism and intention. Life’s obstacles don’t define you—your response does. The question is: how will you choose to see the day ahead? Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: What is the first decision you make every morning?
Every day there is a specific decision you have to make. It's the first and it's the most important decision because from it you effectively roadmap your destiny. What I'm referring to is the choice to either have a positive outlook or to allow negativity and doubt to chart your course. It's a dilemma that truly is that simple.
Every morning, you choose how you want to view the obstacles ahead of you. And what you get out of life will be very different depending on your decision. There's an old Cherokee legend that touches on this conflict. And in the story, there's an older man, he's talking to his grandson about life. He explains that inside all people, there's this fight going on. The struggle consists of two wolves.
Chapter 2: How can you frame your day positively?
One manifests itself through negative energy. He's anger, envy, sorrow, inferiority, all that is evil. The other is joy, compassion, faith, truth, all that is good. So he finishes explaining this. The boy sits there, he thinks about it for a minute. He asks his grandfather, well, which one wins? The grandfather replies, whichever one you feed.
Chapter 3: What does feeding the good wolf mean?
What we sometimes forget is that we are the soul makers of our own destiny. There are always going to be external factors, whatever they may be, negative people, tough circumstances, maybe a lack of resources. They'll be there. But they cannot dictate your happiness or your success unless you let them. Yeah, they may cause you to alter your approach. You might have to make adjustments.
That's good. That's how we develop. That's how we improve. But no one and nothing writes your story but you. Your attitude, your emotions, they directly coincide with how you see the world. So anytime you feel discouraged, negative, envious, anything that's not positive, just stop. Don't waste your time with thoughts that aren't bringing you closer to your goal. There's just no value in it.
Tony Robbins says this beautifully. He says, you have to be the guardian of your own mind. Allow in only what will help you. Because God knows the world will crush you if you let it. So take the wheel. What you need to do tomorrow when you wake up is look at yourself hard in the mirror. Make a conscious decision to feed the good wolf. You'll be amazed at how far it will take you.
I recently came across a simple yet powerful idea. It's that when you become accustomed to doing the hard things, life becomes easy. When you become accustomed to only doing the easy things, life becomes hard. It's a trade-off of sorts. A little example that I think epitomizes this idea, I recently just started cold plunging in the morning.
So right now, I'm doing about six minutes in 38-degree water. And I'm thinking that my body will acclimate to it over time, that it will get a little bit easier as I move forward into this. But right now, it's pretty uncomfortable. But, you know, you do what you can. You breathe deep, and ultimately, you get through it. And as I was in there today...
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Chapter 4: How does discomfort lead to growth?
I thought of three ideas that I think are worth sharing. So they all have to do with sitting in the cold plunge, which is where I was when I thought of them, and then I'll sort of pull them up, expand them out to everyday life, which I obviously love to do and I think is impactful. Here are the three ideas. The first one is don't give your brain room to negotiate.
When you have your mind made up, when you're set on a target, you go. First thing I was told, you know, when getting in the cold plunge is don't stop, don't feel the water, don't get in slowly, don't give your rational brain an opportunity to do any convincing or negotiating. Go get in, right, before your body realizes how cold it is and can talk itself out of it.
Because by the time you realize what's going on, you're submerged, you've already begun. And as we know, You know, beginning is often the hardest part. Number two is you can do anything if you make the discomfort work for you. You don't work for the discomfort. So it's about positioning yourself to focus on the right things, which this exercise reinforces.
You count the time, you play mental games, you make each of the six minutes its own thought experiment. Whatever you need to do to get through it. And, you know, this video right now, this episode, the idea for it happened between minutes three and four. You know? That's just value that was squeezed out of the process.
I've started calling this 60 seconds between minute three and minute four, the bridge. In my mind, I hype it up as the most important minute, that way the last two feel like a celebration and not the most difficult. And sure, it's silly, it's ridiculous, but that's exactly the point. It's what works for me. It's the name of the game.
It's positioning the little pieces around yourself so that you are able to do difficult things in that environment. And third, the takeaway. I feel amazing afterwards. which I was hesitant to call anything but a placebo for about a week or two, but definitely the inflammation in my body is noticeably lower. That soreness in my forearm and elbow, which occurs after most workouts, is better.
But not only that, everything else throughout the day in comparison is more comfortable. It's that simple. Life is relative. Running a mile is hard. but not compared to running six miles. The work I've scheduled is challenging, but not the same kind of challenging as being submerged in 38-degree water. It creates perspective.
It's as though I've built a foundation to do the hard things with less trepidation and far more enthusiasm, which is a beautiful thing. So let's take these three thoughts and bring them a bit outside of the cold plunge. Why do we not want to give our brains room to negotiate? Why jump right into the metaphorical ice water? Because when we go, we give ourselves something to react to.
We create change. The worst thing we can do is very often nothing. But that doesn't keep our brains from screaming, stop, it's too dangerous, it's too uncertain, it's too cold or hot or different or challenging. The simple act of moving forward with conviction is so powerful. Teach your brain that losing isn't whatever exists outside the door. Losing is doing nothing.
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Chapter 5: Why is personal agency crucial for growth?
If you don't like what's coming out, change what's going in. You are your own experiment. You are responsible for closing that gap between the real and the ideal. If the people you're spending your time with don't make you feel good or bring you down, adjust the inputs. If you aren't happy with your financial situation, adjust the inputs.
If you aren't happy with your physique or overall health, adjust the inputs. If your business or platform or personal brand isn't evolving the way you'd like it to, stop blindly repeating what you're doing day in and day out and adjust the inputs. The real world results will change right in front of your eyes.
Not because anything was given to you, but because your persistence, your adaptability, and your commitment to growth demanded it. The world reflects back at us what we currently are, like a giant mirror projecting the movie that's playing in our heads. We lay on the horn in traffic, not when we're at peace with ourselves, but when we're in duress.
We gravitate towards the negative, not when we're living in abundance, but when we're living in scarcity. We quit, retreat, contract, not when we're confident in the road ahead, but when we're doubtful, alarmed. In other words, we find out in the world what already lives within us. Life, in many ways, is not absolute. It's evidence.
It's evidence that we'll use to justify the things we already believed. Wayne Dyer used to use the metaphor of an orange. It can be squeezed and squeezed and squeezed, but there will never be grapefruit juice pouring out of an orange. No, grapefruit juice doesn't live there. You can only find on the outside what lives in the inside. You can only extract from the orange orange juice.
Recently, a good friend of mine said to me that they'd like to change their financial situation. To which my response was, perfect, you most certainly can, right? Like anything, yeah, it'll take work and some planning and some restructuring, all that good stuff, but you most definitely can. And his response was, sure, that's what all you motivational people say.
Okay, smart guy, now you're an example on a podcast episode. Congrats. Why? Because you want the people around you to realize how much is possible for themselves. It's not sorcery or witchcraft to believe something better is possible. In fact, if one doesn't believe it's possible, they're effectively cementing their feet to the ground, at least with regard to that particular pursuit.
Let's face it, you don't begin journeys that are not possible. We don't allow ourselves to do that. And so to not believe in an outcome and somehow still wish for that outcome, well, that's essentially our orange metaphor. Can't squeeze financial freedom out of a mindset that only sees monetary constraint. Believing it's possible starts the journey. See, there's so much pragmatism in growth.
You know, people talk a lot about the law of attraction. And yeah, I get it, right? It sets targets, right? But the picture of, let's say, a dream house on your wall is not why you'll eventually have the dream house. The picture of the dream house on the wall reminds you. It helps you believe that you're someone capable of someday acquiring that house, obtaining that type of success.
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Chapter 6: What does 'burning the boats' signify?
There's a beautiful mark on humanity to be created by you. And there must come a time where you see that as a valuable resource. You're on a mission. And it's not about other people saying yes or no to you. It's do you want to allow these people to come along with you on your mission? Not selling yourself, but buying the pieces that will comprise your greatness.
Subtle shift, but also a powerful one. And the reality is people respect it, right? That's the crazy thing. When you find the courage to dig deep and unlock that confidence in yourself, you get more of it from others. And this is from experience, right? I've never been the loudest guy in the room, not an attention seeker. It's easier for me to listen, right?
But I find that when you live with conviction, the world around you conforms. Respect finds you. People will never believe in someone who doesn't believe in him or herself. And this is kind of an interesting note. A good friend of mine has helped do some booking on podcasts and events, right? And part of that's trying to get speakers and personalities to participate.
You have to explain to them the value. And this is what I found amazing. He says a formal, well-thought-out letter stating the ins and outs, how grateful the host would be, how beneficial the experience would be, gets ignored 99 times out of 100. But a simple, hey, X is happening, going to be incredible, give me a shout, we'll see how we can get you involved, gets responded to way more often.
Why? Because you're not selling, you're buying, right? People want to be around those who live with conviction, who have value to add. So make that clear, right? Instead of writing up those four-paragraph emails asking the world for answers, for assistance. You weren't put here to wait for permission, to tiptoe through life and not make any mistakes.
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Chapter 7: How do you redefine your standards for success?
You weren't put here to impress others or be accepted by those around you. You're here to live life on your terms, to make magic, to enjoy the passing moments with the ones you love spent how you choose to spend them. Never forget how much you mean and how valuable you are. Never forget that you have every right to wake up and say yes. I get to get out of bed today.
I get to chase my dream and bring along with me the people and things that are worthy of the pursuit. That's not arrogance. That's confidence. That's not existing. That's living. In a world of conformity, of please take what I have to offer, in a world of concession, in a world of I don't want to but okay, you have to get to the yes.
You have to become the buyer, not only in each specific exchange, but the buyer of a destiny that belongs to you. If you believe the answer is within an arm's reach, it is. Let me explain what I mean here. This is the closest I've come to in years of getting into kind of a back and forth on social media, on Instagram. But I thought, you know, let's not go down that road. Take a walk.
Think about it. Play pros and cons with your point of view and see if in an hour, hour and a half, you still feel the same way. And I took my walk and I came back and I can tell you that I absolutely, unequivocally still feel the same way. And I want to dive into it with you.
See, anytime you talk about making the most of what you have, anytime you talk about not being a victim, anytime you talk about always blaming yourself because no one else can fix your life, there's this sort of... subtle, unspoken unease. It's hard to almost articulate. You know, like, how can you tell people in adverse situations to go figure it out, right? Have faith.
Go pick up the pieces along the way. You don't know what they've been through. You have no idea, right? There are some people out there in immense pain and suffering. Who are you to advocate for internal strength in an unfair world? Which was basically the crux of that Instagram comment that prompted me to grab the mic and yap a little bit.
And you know, in its own unique way, I think it's correct. There's merit to that, right? There's a misfortune that I just can't and don't understand. Look, I grew up and live in the West. The most difficult decision I made today was do I make my own coffee or do I go to Starbucks? I'm just being real with you. I've always had running water. I have access to food and shelter.
I grew up in a middle-class family in the suburbs of LA and then Boston. Two parents in the home. Always had lunch in my lunchbox going to school. I'm relatively healthy, right? Minus the occasional injury or headache. You know, I don't know what it's like to open my eyes and hope I feel well enough to function that day. That's suffering that I cannot relate to.
But I know that regardless of one's pains, This has to be true, right? A choice must be made. Perhaps the most important decision one is presented with, that we are all during those times presented with. And to frame it, I'll start with a quote from Viktor Frankl. He says, to draw an analogy, a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of gas.
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Chapter 8: What is the importance of inspiration in life?
It never helps for someone to say, hey, you know, this isn't your problem. This is beyond you. You're helpless. Let's be mad together. Hey, we weren't dealt a good hand. I'm sorry. That's the way it is. Right? That in the short term might feel good because you don't have to fix the problem. You can remove accountability. But in the long term, you are hurting yourself.
You are disempowering yourself, disarming yourself. removing the one thing that can change your life, and that's personal agency. Again, when you're at that rock bottom, you have two options, own it or blame, period. And you can hear that and think, what? It's not my fault he walked out of my life. Hey, I certainly didn't give myself this health problem.
Hey, I didn't pick to be born or grow up in this neighborhood. True, true, true, check, check, check. This is not about blame and it has nothing to do with blame. It has everything to do with ownership, with empowering yourself. This is about saying, I didn't put myself here, but I sure as hell can take myself there. Not enough people are comfortable with that message.
From every corner of life, you get the opposite. You have politicians saying, hey, son, the deck is stacked against you. You're powerless, but hey, vote for me and I'll help. You have the media, you have TV showing you tragedy after tragedy, pointing fingers, blaming others. Let's make sure people live in fear. So they have no control over their own destinations.
So they feel small and helpless in a world that's bigger than them. You have social media algorithms, right? Positioning victimhood as currency. Hey, look how marginalized I am. Poor me, right guys? Clicks, retweets, likes. That's the magic. This is way of looking at the world is destroying us.
It's destroying us personally, it's destroying our communities, it's destroying the fabric of society, right? You can't have a functioning society with no personal agency or individual accountability. There's just no foundation to build on. Everything starts with the individual, everything. As the saying goes, no one is coming to save you.
No one's coming to fix all your problems, even the ones you didn't create. No one's going to fix a cycle of poverty or crime or obesity. You have to want that. Now, is that complex? Yeah, absolutely. I'm not delusional enough to think that I can solve these things on a microphone. I'm not. But what I can tell you is I see its complexity the same way I see a car is complex.
I can't put a car together. There's thousands of parts. But I can tell you with conviction that car is not going anywhere without the engine or motor. Just like your willingness to own the situation, your personal situation, Your agency is the engine or motor in your life. You go nowhere without it. There is no vehicle without that ownership.
In other words, everything revolves around that phrase, what can I personally do about it? So when you're frustrated with the current moment or the pieces you were given, And trust me, I can empathize, man. Life is unfair. It's brutally unfair. Remember those two options. You can point out, blame, and beg to be saved. Or you can point in and find a way to capture light in darkness.
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