Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
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Fri, 08 Nov 2024
Today, we’re digging into those moments that feel uncomfortable—the times we feel stuck, question our path, or lose perspective. Here’s the thing: those moments aren’t mistakes or signs that something’s wrong. They’re features, not bugs. They’re a part of stepping into life, and they’re here to challenge us, to ask: What will you make of this? When life presents a fork in the road, we get to choose the story we tell about it. It’s not about perfectly controlling outcomes, but choosing what each moment means. Jim Rohn often said success is easy—a few small choices made each day. But what’s just as easy is choosing not to take those steps. Every decision, big or small, is a brick in the world we’re building for ourselves. So, the question becomes, What are you constructing? Life will give you the pieces. It’s up to you to turn them into something meaningful, something uniquely yours.
Chapter 1: What does it mean to feel stuck?
Not everything, but one thing. When you are in motion, that world seems to conform, to rearrange around you. So here's to giving life the opportunity to make that happen. To giving yourself the opportunity to experience it. As Tyler stated, just imagine if we implemented wholeheartedly the things we knew to be true.
Not kind of, or sort of, but with the same or greater intensity, and in many cases intentionality, it took to acquire the knowledge. What would that look like? Let's move now. Let's swing away, let's uncover that world where your lessons translate to feet on the pavement and reality in the palm of your hand. We are the stories we tell ourselves.
I used to tell the maybe someday story until I saw the value contained in the why not today story. I was a main character in the how do I not mess things up story until I pushed my way into the how about capturing life's upside story. I believed wholeheartedly in the what will my friends, acquaintances, people I used to know think of me story.
Before I felt the freedom of the you don't live life for them, you live life for you story. My scarcity story preceded my abundance story. My bowing before the odds story preceded my simply do not stop story. My you don't deserve them story preceded my if you're not a net positive on my life, I don't want you around story.
My maybe I can be that impactful, add that much value, make that much money, have that much fun story preceded my, I'm going to do all those things. Now how do I arrange these pieces to support my mission story? As I've grown and learned and changed, so have the stories that I've told myself. And I can look back and always draw a direct line from the stories I was telling and the life I was living
We get in life what we allow, and our narratives, our stories happen to be the gatekeepers. If you want to change the situation, change the story, right? If you're telling yourself the world is against you, you'll live like the world is against you. If you're telling yourself the world is conspiring to help you live your best, you'll find the opportunity where you otherwise wouldn't.
And you'll find it, not through magic, but because you're looking for it. It's that simple. We don't look for things that go against our narratives. We don't seek things out that we don't believe exist. Those internal stories prompt our action, and our action changes our reality. Since finding this a few weeks ago, it's become one of my favorite ideas.
Alan Watts, speaking to a classroom of students, he says, when a flag is flapping in the wind, is it the wind or the flag that moves? Neither. It is the mind that moves. Our minds are moving, they are internalizing and painting the portrait that becomes our reality. If you don't like the reality you're seeing, guess what? It's not the world. It's how you're viewing the world.
It's what you're doing about your world. And I understand how hard it can get. How we all oscillate between periods of struggle and contentment. How low the lows can feel. I get it. But the truth is the wrong stories will simply keep you down. Hold you there. They'll ensure blinders stay on as life rotates around you and the opportunity dissipates. We are the stories we tell ourselves.
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Chapter 2: How do we make choices in uncomfortable moments?
so find something to make yours the simplicity there is beautiful complex ideas expressed in simple ways are always worth holding on to right we are programmed to lose because we are programmed to live according to someone else's standard to think small to ask ourselves how do we not screw up but when you can step outside that little self-imposed circle
And instead ask yourself, what's something I can create that is my own, something I care about, that I can nurture, invest a part of me into? That's when life really starts paying dividends. You're not existing, you're living. Or as I recently discussed, you're empowering yourself to not just sit in the room, but be in the room fully.
I use entrepreneurship as the model for this discussion because that's been such a huge part of my life where I've been injecting my time and attention and yeah, risk. But the point is not that everyone needs to stop what they're doing and become an entrepreneur. That's one path of many, obviously.
The point is that there is a risk-reward dynamic in entrepreneurship that we should all understand, extract, and inject into our own lives where it best applies. We've learned to settle in so many ways that we must know there is tremendous value in asking, what is it in my life I want to invest in? Make mine.
Give myself the opportunity to experience the excitement of defining the things I care about and watching them grow. Whether your current arena is entrepreneurship or motherhood, fatherhood, academics, a particular relationship, some combination of these or anything else. To make magic out of the mundane requires we first make it ours. We take ownership, responsibility for the journey.
We accept the risk and chase down the rewards. You can do amazing things when you realize what you're capable of and commit to its manifestation. So in a world where, yes, we are conditioned to fail, step out from those subtle shackles of learned helplessness. You are anything but helpless. It's just that you've yet to reach out and pull your dreams into your orbit.
You've yet to put a stake in the ground and say this matters and it's time to see it through. Because once you do that, the good stuff begins. Here's to going even when you don't want to go. To moving forward when you're uncomfortable, to stepping up when you're fearful. Here's to courage. I was talking to a friend of mine earlier today about understanding the difference between two things.
On one hand... The fear that presents itself when we're growing, leveling up, right? Like we've all felt nerves before a big event or an important life change, things like that. Then on the other hand, the emotions that arise when we start to feel like something isn't right for us. Similar discomfort, but not quite the same. We feel nervous or uneasy because we know we're misaligned.
And where we landed in our conversation was that when you were on the edge of that metaphorical cliff and your body's pushing back, your heart's pounding, your mind is racing, you're nervous, you're fearful. The question worth asking is, will I be disappointed in myself if I don't go through with this? Will I be letting myself down here by turning back?
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