Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
THE COMEBACK IN 2025 IS PERSONAL - Best New Year Motivational Video Speeches Compilation
01 Jan 2025
What does it mean to create authentically, free from the weight of external validation? This episode explores the power of creating as though it will all be discarded, embracing the raw, unpolished process of self-expression. It’s not about crafting perfection for others but about stepping into honesty and confronting our own shadows. By embracing both our hopes and fears, we unlock a world of freedom where authenticity reigns. Excellence isn’t a static concept—it evolves. It’s the courage to begin, to persist, to stop what no longer serves, and to walk away when necessary. Sometimes, excellence means donning the armor, but perhaps the greatest courage is learning to shed it. This episode invites you to embrace flaws, cracks, and imperfections, knowing that true bravery lies in baring yourself fully to the world. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
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Create like you're going to throw it all away. Like not one word matters. Like there is no audience. Because when you do it for yourself and yourself only, you can finally do it honestly. In so many ways, courage is just honesty. I think the inclination is to hide from our shadows. to attempt to outrun them, leave them behind.
But the world I want to live in is a product of dancing with those shadows. It's in bringing them in and not keeping them out. A world with no separation between your hopes and your fears is one of freedom. See, throughout each chapter of life, excellence has evolved, and it's evolved along with me, like a chameleon of sorts changing bending, transforming to fit the time.
Excellence has looked like the courage to start at times, to continue at times, to not stop the right thing at times, and to walk away from the wrong things at times. It's been learning to put the armor on, and now perhaps it's learning to take it off. To step out and present that same message to the world, unpolished. Less thought through. More flaws, more cracks.
See, to be pristine is to be admired. To be brave enough to be flawed, though. To be so honest it increases your heart rate. To be so much of yourself that it creates a seismic shift. That's excellence. And we know excellence seems to always require of us what hurts the most in the moment. It demands we become what we most fear.
It makes floors out of ceilings, does excellence, as it lifts us up each new stair in the staircase. And it's always amazed me. looking back, how while the context has changed so much over the years, the premise has remained consistent. Do that which you are most scared to do. It's Joseph Campbell's quote that the cave we fear to enter holds the treasure we seek.
Well, one can only peer into that black abyss for so long before the anticipation grows worse than the discomfort of the darkness itself. And so, it has become time. Time to dance with the shadows. Not to destroy, but to make them mine. And so dance we will round and round the flames. Casting shadows and reeling them in. This moment is an inflection point. It's an inception.
The first crack of sunlight at dawn. the first step of a journey to the stars. It is the day you transformed an excellence right along with you. Look, the truth is that what got you here is not always sufficient to get you there. That what's made you will not sustain you. And so the question is, what lives beneath the surface? What lives under the hood and behind the curtain?
And will you dig deeper? Will you allow your younger self to follow you into the abyss? Even if out of sheer curiosity, will you step up and heed the call? perhaps to be less produced, rehearsed, packaged, and in the wake of these things become courageously you. Where courage and authenticity intersect, excellence is born. So what better time than now to rise again, to start anew.
And I know you've pushed. I'm aware you've fought. But for what? To lay down here? To give up now? When the greatest story is yet to be told? when the finale still lies ahead, when all that is meaningful waits just around the corner. No, move further into the darkness. Push higher into the night. Release more of yourself to the world. Go until you can go no longer. Do until you can do no more.
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