Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
STOP OVERTHINKING AND TAKE ACTION | Powerful Motivational Speeches
Wed, 04 Dec 2024
What can you start today? Starting doesn’t mean perfection—it means taking the first step, even if it’s messy. Progress comes from movement, not precision. Each action provides clarity: keep going or pivot. Stagnation comes from staying still, but solutions come from stepping forward, one decision at a time. Life’s road may twist and turn, but every wrong turn or detour teaches you something essential Your dreams aren’t as far away as they seem. They’re built through small, consistent actions. A Greek proverb says beginning is half the battle. Trust yourself, take the leap, and let momentum carry you forward. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: What is the key to overcoming overthinking?
Simple truth. You don't need to get it right the first time. You don't. You don't even need to be close. You just can't do nothing. You need to convince your feet to start moving. You need to generate momentum for some type of outcome. Because what that data, what that outcome will tell you is yes, keep doing more of that thing, or no, reel it in and try something different.
Chapter 2: How do we build momentum in our lives?
But either way, progress is reliant upon that information. Going equals solutions. Staying equals hoping, wishing, lost opportunity. Every journey is a long, winding road. It's comprised of wrong turns and dead ends. There will be maintenance required, issues to be resolved, and narratives to be rewritten. None of which, by the way, is beyond you.
So long as you take these things as they arrive, one by one, you open up your world to allow them in. And you might look at where you want to be and think that's a lot, right? That's a world away. No. It's a few tiny decisions away repeated daily. There's a Greek proverb that suggests beginning is half the battle. Why? Well, because convincing yourself you're capable is not easy.
Chapter 3: Why is starting the journey essential?
Trusting yourself completely hurts. But it's not until we come around and greenlight the process. It's not until we give ourselves permission that life begins. How beautiful is the fact that we don't have to have all the answers. Not even close. We just need enough courage to step out into the storm, to brave the wind and the rain. I frequently allude to this transformation, right?
Chapter 4: What does it mean to trust yourself?
The first time I spoke in front of an audience, I was terrified. The first few times, actually. Then after showing up, getting reps in, and reflecting, I realized, okay, I've earned a bit of confidence here. I continue to go, to speak, more reps, more reps. Okay, now we're, well, I guess now we're getting comfortable with this.
I'm not up all night the night before rehearsing, pacing in hotel rooms. I had a little more trust in my ability. I continue, more reps, more reps, more reps. Okay, now, now I kind of enjoy this. I've broken through. More reps, more reps, more reps. Now there's enough comfortability where I can look at what's in front of me and start asking, well now, how do I refine this to stand out?
How do I make this so valuable that it becomes the 1% of the 1% of the 1%? I've worked hard for my baseline. I feel good. Now, how do I chisel away the little elements of mediocrity sprinkled in there? How do I pull them out one piece at a time? It is a testament to going. to allowing yourself to experience life and data points and ups and downs, all that help you refine the process.
They are the journey. Can you do all that overnight? No, absolutely not. But you can always meet yourself where you are and win that battle. You can always become a little bit stronger, setting the stage for the next level and the next and the next. In fact, when you're in it, it feels so intuitive that you don't even realize what you're doing. One battle at a time.
Chapter 5: How can we navigate through adversity?
You're just stepping on the stone in front of you. Think about it. You don't defeat a storm. You simply navigate through each gust of wind and every drop of rain. You pick apart and outlast the pieces that make up the storm, and you are capable of that. You're made for that.
Again, when you give yourself permission to enter the arena that is adversity, that is the unknown, success is oddly intuitive. It just kind of appears in front of you one obstacle at a time, or one opportunity at a time, depending on how you're looking at. The problem is that too many of us stay on the sidelines. I think you know this, right?
Chapter 6: What is the significance of embracing the unknown?
And when you wrap your mind around the fact that stagnation is the only adversary, you become free. You unlock what you could be and always should have been. I mean, how brilliant the mind. That incomprehensible network behind your eyes. capable of both putting a man into orbit and navigating the depths of the vast oceans that surround us. It is in and of itself a miracle.
But what if I was audacious enough to suggest temporarily taking that miracle, that masterpiece, that network behind your eyes and shutting it off? for a moment, hitting pause on the defense mechanisms, actively painting what ifs and worst case scenarios. Begging you to play small and seemingly always prioritizing safety over meaning.
What if I made the case that the best thing you could possibly do is start now and ask questions later. Begin the journey, start the ride, immerse yourself in the river's current. Ensure you don't know where you'll end up. but it won't be where you currently stand. And that new you contains wisdom. It contains that accrued data to improve upon. It contains the 2.0.
And so the key now and forever is not to expect all the answers before you step foot out the door. It's not to be sure everything will fall into place. It's simply to have the courage to move into the great unknown without any reassurance. It's you, your belief in yourself and variables unknown. You don't have to get it right the first time. You just can't do nothing.
Chapter 7: How can we reclaim our power amidst challenges?
Remember what's yours to control and what's not, what must be let go. Remember that nothing is so futile as attempting to move the immovable or change the unchangeable. Remember that your greatest strength is focusing your time, talents, and efforts, exhausting your energy, on that which you can control. And sometimes this distinction hurts.
But to fail to see it is to shackle oneself to delusion. Right? You can complain about the weather all day, but to complain about it, to focus on it, to be stuck in it, is not going to change it. Your time would be better suited looking at how to adjust yourself to it And that's what life repeatedly tells us. There's plenty we aren't happy about, plenty we wish we could change.
But to stay there in that space is to forfeit your greatness, your strength. Why? Because there is so much you can control, so much you can do. You can always position yourself to succeed. But that calls for first separating what's yours and what's not. There are people I wish were different. There are situations I prayed were alterable. There are outcomes that are given without my asking.
That's just life. And a losing mentality is to fight that, to feel anger or resentment at the people that let you down. Why couldn't they be how I want them to be? It's to dwell on the situation that occurred despite your wishes. Why couldn't it have just happened my way? It's to refuse to acknowledge the outcomes that have already materialized. Why couldn't it just have evolved differently?
All that, as hard as it is to see, is embracing a mentality of victimhood. It's walking down a path that has no desirable destination in store for you. When you accept the unchangeable, you then become the architect of your reality. Sure, people, places, and outcomes weren't always the best, But now you ask, how can I navigate around it, or better yet, use it to my advantage?
It is, to use the famous metaphor, not shaking your fist at the wind, but building sails for your boat, creating a path to take you somewhere new. So let the energy, the time, and emotion that's wasted on the immovable dissolve. The question worth asking is where do you most want to be and how can you get there?
And while those details outside the scope of your control can feel like a bottomless gap in your way, I promise that what's around you is enough to build a bridge over it. There's enough there for you to find your way.
So long as we learn to separate the gap from the bridge, the details from the solutions, when all you see is why you can't go, or how it can't be solved, or how impossible something is. It's not that you are looking at an unfortunate truth, it's that you are looking at the wrong supporting evidence. When we stop seeing the details and outside circumstances as the deciders of fate, we win.
When we place our eyes upon the controllable, when we step into what is ours to move and shape and transform, we finally see that the journey to something bigger is not only possible, it is inevitable. You can salvage the day. You can salvage the week, the month, the year, the years. All is not lost. It's never lost. The trap is looking back and using what happened to define what will happen.
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Chapter 8: What lessons can we learn from the sunrise?
Its beginning so convoluted and so bleak that it's only logical one would look around and fail to see reality stretching beyond those desolate confines. The world seems to like pointing out the shiny things and the obvious spectacles. But if you ask me, the power precedes that sun rising.
The power is navigating through nothing, knowing that things will not only be different, but that a light show is soon to emerge. That the line between possible and impossible, between heaven and hell, is showing up. It's settling in and hanging on as the darkness fades and gives way to mornings. certainly reminds me to hold on.
It reminds me that amidst every storm, I'm living moments that when zoomed out, comprise the masterpiece. It reminds me to hold on, to find color, to see the beauty, to appreciate the journey, because the sunrise is not the best part. If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. Charles Bukowski. So last week, I was in Utah.
And while I was there, I did some guided breath work, which I'd never done before. And honestly, I was a little skeptical at first. But I tried to keep an open mind and gave it a shot. Happy I did. It ended up potentially being one of the most important things I've ever done. And I want to share why.
because this breakthrough or aha moment, if you will, was exactly what I needed when I needed to hear it. So this episode is going to be a little different than usual, but I feel compelled to pass it along. So to set the scene, I arrived with a friend of mine to the instructor Jen's location.
She gave us an overview, kind of explaining what the next hour is going to look like and handed me a notebook to write down my goal for the session. And the notebook becomes pretty important as the story goes on. But I opened it and I wrote what I'd like to use this session to reflect on. It happened to be the walls that I have a tendency to build around myself.
That day, that felt like the most pertinent obstacle of my life. I saw it as an opportunity to push back against that reality that human beings love to create normal and then latch onto it. And that's not ideal, because when we do that, we stop looking for places to grow, we stop pushing, we stop seeking to live life to the fullest. In other words, we settle. And so I wrote that down.
I closed the notebook, laid back on this incredible fuzzy blanket, and the music got turned on. We began the breathing pattern, in, in, out, in, in, out. Jen started guiding us, verbally taking us back to a conversation with our younger selves. The journey had begun.
And this is the part where things get really interesting because my thoughts really did feel like some strange mix of dreaming and hallucinating, just from breathwork. But at some point, she referenced the need to let go and said the words, you know, we weren't meant to suffer or hold on to suffering.
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