Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
The Power of Persistence: Dance Until It Rains
31 Jan 2025
Success isn’t about luck—it’s about persistence. Like a rain dance that works if you dance long enough, life rewards those who refuse to stop moving. The question isn’t whether the effort will pay off, but whether you’re willing to keep going until it does. Every step forward creates momentum, and as long as you’re moving, you’re still in the game. Failure only exists when you decide to stop. The truth is, the road to success is built on resilience, commitment, and the courage to keep dancing—especially when the rain feels far away. So, how long are you willing to dance? Because the rain will come, but only if you refuse to quit. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
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Rain dances work 100% of the time, if you dance until it rains. Someone kind of jokingly said this to me recently at an entrepreneur event, and I thought, man, I get it, it's clever, but there's actual genius behind that. You tend to get what you're looking for if you don't stop looking, right? Like you eventually arrive where you need to be if your feet don't stop moving.
The question we often find ourselves asking is, did the dance work? But the real question, the question of value, is how long are you willing to dance around that fire? How much of yourself did you put into the pursuit? You know, it's both liberating and terrifying to find out that there is no failure in life. There's simply the permission we give ourselves to move forward.
That trajectory we continue on up until we reach a point where we look around and say, no thank you, I'm done. Because if you're moving forward, you haven't failed. You have not lost. If you're moving forward, everything is possible. If you're moving forward, you are creating reality. The question is not have you failed? The question is, are you still willing to move forward?
It's not, did the rain dance bring the rain? It's, were you willing to dance around that fire until the skies opened up? I often think about the stoic idea that there are things we can control and there are things we can't. And knowing that difference is wisdom. The same idea that has become, as many people know, the serenity prayer. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. It's certainly powerful to understand the difference between what we can control and what we can't. But it's also worth noting that those things we cannot control, even when they seem to make life harder...
when they're not what we want, when they're frustrating and difficult and exhausting, they can be brought into your world and leveraged as tools to ultimately get you where you need to go. Slingshot to something better, right? There's value in all of it.
And if you're looking at life through the lens of I'm not stopping until X happens, well, then everything that occurs around you is just a vehicle taking you closer to X. Put simply, you can't always control what happens. But you can always control what you do with what happens. And that's power. That is strength.
So using a tangible, practical example, right around the time COVID emerged in 2020, I was speaking about five or six times a month. I had video production clients, and my own personal content creation was relatively minimal. And so that hit to our way of life, the one we all endured, took a lot of companies' budgets, right?
That uncertainty prevented a lot of people from spending the marketing money they were spending. And on its face, it's a bad thing, right? It took a lot of business for me. But I look back now and I'm like, that pivot, you know, 10x'd, 20x'd my digital footprint. I was able to reach more people from my home studio. I adjusted, right?
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