Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
THIS IS THE YEAR YOU FOLLOW THROUGH || 2026 Motivation & Inspiration
16 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What mindset shifts are necessary for personal growth?
Today is not like any day I've lived before. And why should it be?
This very second, there are roads to be explored that I've never before walked down. There are actions to take that I've never before taken, and ideas to bring to life that I've never before given the respect they deserve. That's saying, my golden rule, you are always one decision away from a totally different life.
You are always one realization from pulling the lever, opening the door, finding the answer you've been walking by all your life. The problem is you don't see today as today. You see it as a continuation of yesterday. The same movie with the same characters and same rules without even realizing you need to change the script.
Emerson said, write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Why? Because it can be. Your job is to remember that things will continue on and on and on until we give them an end. We must manually close the book on yesterday's story and start anew. Because we can. We often don't realize, but we can. And that is why the morning, each new day, is so precious.
It's taking the mistakes and sometimes disappointments of yesterday and transforming them into today's lessons and the opportunity to begin again. A new journey seen through a new lens, walked through a new pair of shoes, a new sense of self. So here is your reminder that the words were and are, they're very different.
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Chapter 2: How can we overcome the feeling of being stuck?
That's why each sunrise transcribes into the sky the hopes and dreams of the you that you've always wanted to be. It's not a crazy formula or some secret code. It's simply untying your boat from the harbor that is yesterday and moving towards tomorrow's tomorrow.
I once heard a metaphor that our existence is like standing behind a curtain with tears or holes, and reality becomes which holes we decide to look through when we're peering out at the world on the other side. What do we want to see? And this message, well, it's for whoever out there feels like giving up or folding their hands.
Whoever's been waiting for things to change but only sees the clock moving forward, this is a reminder that the very thing you need is on the other side of that curtain. And you don't need to change who you are. You just need to position yourself to see it. Because it's there and you're ready. When life hurts...
We might have every reason to be in pain, to feel lost or confused, but I always find it to be a beautiful reminder that we also have every reason to seek out from that pain something we've never been before. Why is it that our greatest accomplishments come when our backs are to the wall? Our greatest acquisitions after losing something dear to us?
Why is it that we find ourselves in our way only after being lost? I've never heard someone say, thank God I never changed or left or tried something new. No, it's thank God the adversity forced upon me the courage to evolve into something more. Pain is to our potential what water is to a seed.
It's the beginning of everything unshackling, opening the gate and making us realize we were sitting on the answers. That adversity doesn't stop you, it makes you stronger.
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Chapter 3: What role does fear play in our decision-making?
That the downtimes lift you up. That when you lose yourself, you find a part of you that can now become the bridge to your future. See, I understand that things are difficult and challenging. I understand they're not easy. And I'm not asking you to pretend it's not happening or ignore it or close your eyes.
I'm asking you to find amidst all of this, that one thing, one thing that will get you to tomorrow. I'm asking you to find the courage to say, yes, this hurts. Yes, I'm stretched thinner than I've ever been, but I'm still going to find a way. I'm still going to make it happen.
Because at the end of the day, you won't remember what hurt or what stood in your way, but you'll remember what you did about it. You'll remember how you arranged those pieces. How when your instincts said run, you stopped and built something you'll never forget. What you look for in life tends to be what you find. What you believe is usually what you see.
Which means your existence hinges on where you build your walls. And part of the reason stories, music, movies, they move us is because we're allowed, even if it's for a short period of time, to change our parameters on these things. To let the mind navigate through a world without any limitation.
When you think about it, we never fast forward through a movie so that we can quickly check off the box and complete it. Right? We never rush through to move on to the sequel.
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Chapter 4: Why is it important to recognize our past achievements?
No, we want to experience it. We want to be overwhelmed by emotion, captivated by excitement, lost in the mystery. And then when it's over, we retract, we return to reality. The walls come back up and the rules are reinstated. And from a 10,000 foot view, you can't help but look at that and wonder if there's more there.
Why do we have to retreat to this microcosm of our ideal world where we're not rushed, we can enjoy the moment? Why does it take a dark room and objects depicted on a small screen for us to feel like it's acceptable to step outside of this everyday script? And the question isn't who's enforcing these rules. The answer is always us, it's internal. But the question is why?
Is it incomprehensible that the same excitement be inserted into your world? Is it out of the realm of possibility that the rush of adrenaline, the peak experiences, the laughter, love, twists and turns be inserted into reality? It's like we choose to be chased through life by ticking clocks and measured by socially constructed checkpoints.
But we can move beyond that, much beyond, in those checkpoints. They're just as imaginary as the talking raccoon you set aside three hours to watch last night. So, by the way, you could escape from a manufactured reality. Right, there's a powerful authoritative line that separates our day-to-day from the imagination, and every second is about pushing that back.
Never fast-forwarding through life, but making it unlike anything else. Never applying the word mandatory to things that don't warrant the term. We need to think bigger. Working like a madman to build someone else's dream is not mandatory. Enjoying two-sevenths of your life is not mandatory. Being confined to one road when there are infinite paths to travel is not mandatory.
They're components of a bad movie. And my point is not to be ungrateful. It's not to be resentful. It's to remind you that things are the way they are because you've allowed them to be that way. Nothing in life is destined, predetermined, or meant to be. Everything is decided. Life is chosen. Paths are taken.
And sometimes a simple reminder that you have the flexibility to redefine the rules can make all the difference. You are entitled to happiness. Every day is a continuation of the extraordinary, not a break from it, and you have to see that. You have to believe that. You're not alive so that you can every so often escape. You're here to feel the imaginary, to challenge the make-believe.
Our view of the world without a concentrated effort, it seems to contract. And this is your reminder to disallow that, to stop living for the 5 or the 10% and flip that ratio on its head. Now is the time to rewrite your script, recraft your storyline.
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Chapter 5: How can we transform adversity into opportunity?
And if what you look for is what you get, then it's time to see what you've never seen before.
Remove the lifelines.
Eliminate plans B, C, and D. Let the curtains close and the lights dim. See the beginning of something new requires the ending of something current. So make life propel you into chapter two. Let the door slam and lock behind you, throw away the key. With the boats burned and turning back off the table, we have to make it work. We have to figure it out.
Well, how, we might ask, with only these pieces, with only this circumstance, with only these resources. Well, it's funny how when walking away is no longer a possibility, so many other possibilities are born. When we're stuck between the wall and our demons, we roll up our sleeves and do that which we have been, let's face it, running from.
we fight we become proactive we take initiative it was always there we just never had to so if you can't do it on your own make life make you because the bottom line is there are new horizons that await your arrival they are always there but they require you to make the trip To look out over the vastness of what's before you and convince yourself that what's ahead can become your new normal.
And oh, how I wish we weren't biologically preconditioned to preserve, to stay safe, to stay the same. How I wish we weren't constantly being pulled to stay right where we are. Our minds, they love it here. With the rest of the world, the change, the hope, the progress, all on the other side of that window. All outside, all foreign to us. You don't need any of that, it'll tell you.
Or maybe, after you conjure up a little courage, it might compromise. It might say, fine, it's worth a try, put one foot out the door, but don't forget, you can always come back to me. You can always retreat. It's warm here, safe here, it's predictable here.
The mind wants you to know that when things get tough, mediocrity and comfort are always right behind you, ready to embrace you with open arms. And it's for this reason that those boats must be burned, that the door must be locked, and that chapter must be closed. The journey before you, it's going to be difficult. There's no question about that. Anything of value brings difficulty.
And when faced with the adversity, the only way to defeat it is to know there is only one way. one option available to you and that one option is forward it's through there is no backwards or compromise there is no safety not if you want from life that which is extraordinary not if you want the things we covet dream of whether they're interpersonal
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Chapter 6: What steps can we take to initiate meaningful change?
But victory is forever. Knowing that you pushed forward when most wouldn't is forever. Transforming potential into strength when your knees shook is forever. So burn the boat. For no other reason that there is no way forward so long as there remains a way back. Make life make you win.
And where most would look around and see evidence of defeat, you'll find again and again in the same quote-unquote evidence, the tools to build ladders to new beginnings and bridges to new worlds, there's a saying that I love. That most of life's successful people were too ignorant of the odds to know their accomplishments were considered at one point impossible.
And I love it because it highlights that there was never a fallback option, a concern for the statistics. There was no worry or exhausted energy on what if. Rather, it was constant building and adjusting, finding ways over, through, and around the walls that inevitably stand before us. There was no way home. So they pushed forward into their greatness.
And so can you, whatever shape, form, or color greatness looks like in your eyes, whatever mountaintop appeals to you, if you want it, if you're willing to decide before you go that you will one day stand amongst the clouds, peering out at that world you deemed wasn't against you, but for you, anything is possible.
Why chase down the difficult things?
It's certainly not being productive for the sake of being productive. It's not for the flex or the trophies. It's because meaning in life is directly tied to conquering the unconquerable. Harnessing the outside world It's about seeing what we can become when we put ourselves in position to grow. The adventure of a lifetime that awaits anyone who chooses to accept. That's why.
But it's not a one and done affair. That's the thing. Life has a way of filtering out the timid and the unsure to identify those that really want it. As though it sees us sign that dotted line and asks, is that so? Let me remove that comfort and predictability, see if then it still sounds good. Let me place the value on the other side of the paint.
See if you're still enthusiastic about the pursuit. In fact, let me burn the map, dim the lights, add some obstacles along the way, see how giddy you are about all this now. And see the difference between those who make change and those who dream about change comes down to one simple thing. How do you view the obstacles Are they a problem? Are they an anomaly, a red flag?
Because if they are, you've lost before you started. But the ones who see adversity as simply the expectation, the water that grows the seed, the wheel that turns the car, the switch that lights up the room, well, for them, it's a little different. They have armed themselves with adaptability. See, life is not smooth sailing with aberrations in the form of rough waters.
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Chapter 7: How does self-assessment contribute to personal development?
No, flip that on its head. The expectation is turbulence. Calm is a rare gift. And as it turns out, you were built to endure. So when the waters are rough and the many turn back you, you push forward. Because this is not the world saying no. It's certainly not a referendum on you. It's the cost of admission.
a chance for you to prove yet again that where you place your focus, you emerge victorious. If only the world could see, could understand that the challenge isn't the problem, it's the answer. If only everyone knew what you know. That the great tragedy isn't falling down, it's avoiding discomfort in order to preserve what? Mediocrity. Why do you want this? Because you know it's an option.
It's there. You know that if you move forward when you're fearful, push harder when it hurts, find something in yourself when there appears to be nothing left, the game of life becomes one of unending reward, beauty, and prosperity. For those few, it's simply knowing that you can have the world if you just give yourself permission to take it.
Falling through the air, A million thoughts came into my head. Would this be the end of my journey? Was it the wrong decision? Did I not appreciate what I had enough?
See, just a moment before, peering down at the ocean below, I could see just how long the fall would be.
watching the waves crash against the rocks, the birds glide through the sky. Well, it makes a human feel awfully small. Detached.
I couldn't help but think maybe there was something more that perhaps with all this seeing, this wishing, this wondering, I'd forgotten to feel. I'd become a spectator in my own life, a silent observer. Because years and years had gone by and nothing changed. I'd waited, I'd hoped, I'd believed, but the goal escaped me.
And at some point, enough has to be enough.
I walked up to the ledge, looked back one last time, held out my arms, and I stepped off. They say that if you wait for the perfect moment, you'll be waiting all your life. And while that was a possibility I couldn't entertain, I was scared, unsure, ill-prepared, but as I forced my eyes open, they were greeted with the promise of a destination unknown, the beginning of something new.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of showing up consistently in our lives?
My free fall evolved into a calculated flight. I was in control. I'd traded every fear I'd ever had for a freedom I'd never known. This is what it means to live. to learn to fly on the way down.
It's never the fall itself, but the idea of it that scares us. The what-ifs that corner us and lobby for our submission. What I've come to realize is that having no wings was simply my excuse. Finding them was my solution.
Had a window seat on the plane a few days ago, and during the descent, I watched as we lowered into a thin layer of clouds. which anyone who's flown before knows creates turbulence, right? The plane starts to shake. For a brief moment, can't see anything outside the window, only white.
And no matter how many times I watched this happen, and at this point, probably in the hundreds, I can't help but feel a little uneasy. Heart rate increases a little bit. It's just an uncomfortable thing. And here's the deal. Not only is a plane going through turbulence safe, a quick Google search will explain to you that no plane was ever brought down by turbulence.
They were built specifically for that, to endure it. And I know that, I understand it, I believe it. I guess that faint nervousness, I feel, highlights the divide between my mental capacity to understand something and my physiological reaction to it.
It shows, to put it simply, that often what's necessary will be uncomfortable, will get easier over time, but the point is there's a very real biological resistance associated with doing what's necessary. Even when we know the necessary thing is the right thing. Even when we know we're capable of enduring the journey, right? Just like that plane was built specifically to endure turbulence.
Well, in your own world, so were you. And yeah, that world might shake. Yeah, you might look around and see an unknown providing no clarity or visibility, at least in the moment. But that feeling of discomfort should not be interpreted as negative, a sign to stop or turn back, as a signal that the world is too much.
No, it's where you close your eyes and remind yourself how much you can handle, despite life trying to make you feel to the contrary. You were built to overcome, made to push into uncharted territory, to take your losses and uncover the hidden away value within them.
Sometimes to grow, it's required that we learn not to resist that trembling, but to see it as the courage to say yes when it would have been infinitely easier to say no. And that's what this is about. Nothing groundbreaking, no secret formulas, just the reminder we often need but don't hear enough.
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