Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Master Your Morning: The Decision That Shapes Your Destiny
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
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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.
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.
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...
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.
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