You Can ONLY Improve What You Focus On...So Choose Wisely | Morning Motivational Speeches
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What is the significance of the parable of the two wolves?
The parts of you you choose to nurture are the parts that will grow the strongest. Your thoughts, habits, focus determines which wolf inside you wins the battle. Let's go back in time to one of the most powerful stories I've ever come across. The tale of two wolves. It's one of the first stories I've ever told on this podcast.
How do our thoughts and focus influence our outcomes?
At the time, only a YouTube channel. And in a few sentences, I want to quickly revisit it. You'll understand why in a second. There's an old parable about a grandfather and his grandson. They're sitting around a campfire, and the grandfather's telling his grandson a tale of two wolves. One wolf is good, and he's joy, kindness, strength, love. The other's evil, envy, betrayal, hate. And they battle nonstop, every day, in fact. And the grandson looks at his grandfather, mid-story, says, well, grandpa, which one wins? To which the grandfather replies, whichever one you feed. And when I first heard this story, the tale of two wolves... I thought it was about good versus evil. It's a very simple dichotomy, right?
An easy thing to comprehend. No overthinking required.
What personal experiences shaped Eddie's perspective during COVID?
But old man, Pinero over here, 38 years under my belt, you know, I look at this a little bit differently than I did a decade ago. Mainly because I've come to realize that life is just a bit more complex than that, a bit more nuanced. 10, 11 years later, it's less about morality and virtue attached to a particular wolf and more about understanding your personal power, understanding it's less about morality and more about attention because the truth is what you give your energy to grows teeth. Is aggression, for example, always bad? Definitely not. Is skepticism always bad? Certainly not. Is vulnerability always good? Absolutely not, right? There's too much gray space in the world to speak in absolutes.
But what I've found, and why I still believe this is such a powerful parable, is because it emphasizes that what you water grows. What you give your attention to responds. What you give your energy to will evolve. And when a situation occurs, there's almost always the opportunity to see the negative, to play victim, to feel sorry for yourself. That's sort of the natural inclination. It's like to dwell on what's missing. And that's not necessarily evil, as much as it's just not conducive to an ideal outcome. It reminds me that when life gets difficult, it will simultaneously become more difficult to feed the wolf that's best for us in the long term. The wolf containing rationality. The wolf that understands one step forward can change everything.
Life's not ending. Things aren't over. But that's the very wolf that requires nourishment. That is the wolf we want to equip with teeth. I want to give some real life examples. I'll start with some obvious ones, and everyone here will remember, right? COVID, that chapter of life and how our governments, for the most part, essentially shut the world down, right? People were losing jobs. Economies were crashing. It's insane to look back on. I mean, that immediately put an end to COVID. a huge part of my business, right? Like so many people, the keynotes I was doing regularly, the time I was helping a handful of clients write speeches and make videos, almost all of them had to drop me for budget reasons. And I remember at that time that feeling, right?
I was feeding the wolf who constantly whispered of despair, my defeat. I felt like I was suffocating, right? There was genuine fear for a while. because that was the voice I entertained, the fire I pumped oxygen into. Until I had this realization that, look, someone's going to win from this. And it can't just be Zoom and pharmaceutical companies, right, who are taking home the W. Why not me? If clients are gone, if speaking is a no-go, find another way to win, right? Make your YouTube channel double down as a podcast. Post more regularly. Create longer content. Expand your online footprint. if the stage is no longer an option, blow up the digital realm, right? And the COVID situation became my springboard because eventually I fed that wolf.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the significance of the parable of the two wolves?
0:00–0:26
2
How do our thoughts and focus influence our outcomes?
0:26–1:25
3
What personal experiences shaped Eddie's perspective during COVID?
1:25–7:40
4
How can we shift our focus from negativity to growth?
7:40–17:14
5
What lessons did Eddie learn from his business ventures?
17:14–23:58
6
What role does vulnerability play in personal growth?
23:58–32:45
7
How can discomfort lead to significant change?
32:45–38:15
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