Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - BELIEVE IT'S POSSIBLE AND WIN - Best Motivational Speech | Listen Every Day!

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - The Queen, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 🌟 In this video, Eddie Pinero explores the incredible power of belief and how it can turn the impossible into possible. Inspired by the Queen's quote from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, "Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast," Eddie delves into historical examples like George Washington, the Battle of Thermopylae, and Alexander the Great's conquest of Tyre. These stories show how belief and determination can overcome any obstacle. Remember, leaping a mountain might be impossible, but climbing one rock at a time is doable. The journey to achieving the impossible starts with a single step. Join Eddie as he shares insights on harnessing the power of belief to overcome challenges and turn dreams into reality. YouTube: youtube.com/yourworldwithin

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. That's a quote from the queen in Lewis Carroll's book, Through the Looking Glass. I listen to that, and I wonder, how is it? Or how does it make you feel that the difference between possible and impossible is your willingness to step into chaos? Impossible is just a compounding of smaller possibles. Impossible is a refusal to say no. Impossible is moving forward through those checkpoints in life

where most people look around and simply say, I don't want to pay the metaphorical price. I don't want to give what's required here. I really enjoy history. Lately, I've been revisiting a lot of, various battles from recent all the way to way back, from Alexander the Great's conquest of Tyre to George Washington and the American colonists against the British,

even the famous Battle of Thermopylae with the 300 Spartans that we all know about. You know, all of these have in their own unique way defied the odds. And what strikes me is, you know, if you look at any of these scenarios on paper, They all appear to be suicide missions. It's crazy. You know, the 300 at Thermopyla, obviously being close to that,

and I'll touch on that in a second, but all very special in their own unique way. All took an apparent impossible task and did something pretty remarkable with it. See, when you immerse yourself into something, you've been something seemingly impossible, without the prospect of turning around in your head, there's a shift in your mind you know you have to find a way forward because

forward is the only way and so you do you look at the landscape differently you look at the resources accessible to you differently funny enough you know there always seems to be something to solve the problem some dot that can be connected some loophole some advantage Some tactic that can move you, maybe not directly to the finish line, but just far enough to adapt and survive. Some path to triumph that, you know, when looked at as a whole, gets lost amidst the daunting nature of the task. It's like leaping a mountain is impossible, but climbing one rock at a time is very doable. And it's that, right?

again and again and again that gives you just enough life to cross the abyss. So back to those examples, right? You take Alexander the Great. It was the courage and ingenuity to literally construct a causeway from land out into the water

to the tiny island city state of Tyre. simultaneously using his navy to cut off supply lines and breaching the wall that surrounded the city. On paper, that's an impossible, just unthinkable feat. For Washington, it was surviving winter, a superior army. It was finding a way to manufacture some key battles that were enough to convince the French to come in, and support the cause, one day at a time.

Again, the greatest military force on earth at the time, a seemingly impossible, insurmountable obstacle. At Thermopylae was using the landscape and superior skill to their advantage, holding their ground, and making a substantial dent in the Persian army. Again, one of the most powerful armies on earth at the time, you know, all the way until it was the last of the 300 men, completely turning the numbers game upside down. Impossible is looking at the size and scope of a task,

not the little actions required to bring it to life. And that's generally a rule. When you operate under the premise or the notion that there is a solution, you find one. And I can give you the example of YouTube, as I usually do because it's obviously near and dear to my heart and something that's changed my life, right? A platform of this size and scale 10 years ago is unthinkable,

impossible, laughable. My brain didn't even go there. It's impossible for someone who left their day job, running out of money in a small apartment in Boston to create that, right? But when the door is not cracked, when it's shut firmly behind you, there's no escape plan, when it's, I am going forward,

and that is the only direction I'm going, everything around you becomes an instrument in the symphony that will be your growth. You find a way. It's like, why do people talk about rock bottom being what turned them around? Because in that moment, they had to start using what was around them to win.

There was no off-ramp. They had to see the utility in what existed around them. The hours I used to waste became more precious. Every dollar, how can I stretch it into something that matters? Boston is a major city. I started asking, who can I connect with and learn from? Even Microsoft Word went from being something

I had to reluctantly open once in a while for an office job to this portal where I could share my thoughts with the world. We don't see life as it is. We see life as we are. And when you're only focused on one goal, you know, you become this vehicle through which magic happens. When I was a kid, like way back, right, 90s computers first became sort of household items. I used to play this Star Wars game. It's just a demo. And I love this metaphor because I, you know, was on level one, wandering around, frustrated, trying to find this door that would bring me to level two and I could not find it. And I looked and I looked and I would spend hours and hours.

and I didn't know about cheat codes or how to research any of that stuff. It's just exploring. And this is anticlimactic, but eventually there was a day where I found it, this camouflage door in the back. And I went through it, and it brought me to level two. And the reason I'm telling you this,

because I believe that door exists for all endeavors. It's always there, right? Sometimes buried underneath layers, of trial and error, sometimes behind miles and miles of road, sometimes hidden in plain sight. And so we need to remember, impossible does not mean cannot be done. Impossible just asks, how long are you willing to look? How long are you willing to scratch, claw, and fight for that result you're looking for? The pursuit does not end until you do, which not only completely debunks impossible, it shows

you just how powerful you are. All things are possible if, if you are willing to bring them to life. I was talking to my friend on the phone this morning and he's been on a very long journey. A lot of highs, a lot of lows. But now he's doing incredibly well. He's heavily invested in real estate, has a very successful business. I mean, you talk about a turnaround.

He's it. And he says, Eddie, you know what the best part of all this is? When I get up in the morning, I think, yes. I don't think, oh, man, I wish I could sleep just a few more minutes. I don't wish for a little longer in bed. I think yes.

And I found that moving. If that's not peak living, I don't know what is the second your eyes open to be excited about what's to come, right? And so I asked him, Tom, you know, what's the biggest mental change you made in your life that brought that about? And he said, essentially, this is a term used a lot by Dan Sullivan. He says, I learned to always be the buyer. Now, I'm just starting reading Sullivan's books, so I'm not too familiar with the idea. I said, Tom, can you explain, kind of expand upon that a little bit? Paraphrasing, he said, he started to look at life like he was worthy of it, like he was the decision maker.

Right? And I don't know if you've been there, I certainly have, where it's like, man, I hope this person accepts me. I hope they hire me. I hope I can be included. Now, that's an existence of constantly selling yourself. But when you make that mental shift of instead saying, I have value to add to this person, I am the buyer here, you empower yourself, right?

A buyer cannot get rejected. Instead of walking around hoping the world accepts you, it's having confidence in yourself and your ability. As my eighth grade teacher, Mr. Bettencourt, used to say when we were kids, the worst thing you can do is hold your hands up to the sky and hope something of value falls into them. The worst thing you can do is take the power out of your hands and outsource it to fate. Because the truth is, you do have value to add. There is change you're going to make in the world.

There's a beautiful mark on humanity to be created by you. And there must come a time where you see that as a valuable resource. You're on a mission. And it's not about other people saying yes or no to you. It's do you want to allow these people to come along with you on your mission? Not selling yourself, but buying the pieces that will comprise your greatness. Subtle shift, but also a powerful. one. And the reality is, people respect it. Right? That's the crazy thing. When you find the courage to

dig deep and unlock that confidence in yourself, you get more of it from others. And this is from experience, right? I've never been the loudest guy in the room, not an attention seeker. It's easier for me to listen, right? But I find that when you live with conviction, the world around you conforms. Respect finds you. People will never believe in someone who doesn't believe in him or herself. This is kind of an interesting note. The good friend of mine has helped do some booking on podcasts and events, right? And part of that's trying to get speakers and personalities to participate.

You have to explain to them the value. And this is what I found amazing. He says a formal, well-thought-out letter stating the ins and outs, how grateful the host would be, how beneficial the experience would be. It gets ignored 99 times out of 100. But as simple, hey, X is happening, going to be incredible. Give me a shout. We'll see how we can get you involved.

Gets responded to way more often. Why? Because you're not selling, you're buying, right? People want to be around those who live with conviction, who have value to add. So make that clear, right? Instead of writing up those four-paragraph emails asking the world for answers, for assistance. You weren't put here to wait for permission. To tiptoe through life and not make any mistakes.

You weren't put here to impress others or be accepted by those around you. You're here to live life on your terms. To make magic. To enjoy the passing moments with the ones you love spent how you choose to spend them. Never forget how much you mean and how valuable you are. forget that you have every right to wake up and say yes I get to get out of bed to him I get to chase my dream and bring along with me the people and things that are worthy of the pursuit that's not arrogance that's confidence that's confidence that's not existing that's

living in a world of conformity of please take what I have to offer in a world of concession in a world of I don't want to but okay, you have to get to the yes. You have to become the buyer, not only in each specific exchange, but the buyer of a destiny that belongs to you. The sunrise is not the best part. I want to explain something I've tried to articulate over the years,

but at least in my mind, have never quite captured how I feel or what I mean because I think it's important. Now, a tad trivial or could be seen that way. In fact, I picture one of those memes where the top says nobody. The bottom would say Eddie's screaming about the sunrise for 10 years. Whereas a buddy of mine recently said, you know, a bird flies over my right shoulder and I want to go home and write a knock.

about it. But, you know, truth be told, there's beauty in the mundane. And I think when looked at correctly, some of our greatest lessons about ourselves, about the world, and about how those two things often aren't as different as we might be inclined to think, shine through. So we're going at this again one more time. The beginning, 4 a.m. I couldn't sleep last night. So I got up, I got dressed, went to the Dunkin' Donuts, drive through around the corner,

and I was sitting there right as it opened at 5.30. Got my French vanilla coffee and headed to the beach to see night turn today. And here's an interesting thing. If you were to search sunrise, Pompano Beach, on that particular day, it would have told you 6.28 a.m. I got to the beach around 540.

and this will become more and more relevant as I sort of progress here. But when I arrived, it was dark. It was not a soul outside, except for a man with a dog, who for some reason warned me that he had a dog, and another man twirling around a glow stick. Listen, Florida's the best place I've ever lived by far, but it keeps you on your toes, man. So I walked by them and found a spot by the water.

I sat down, and it was truly theatrical. It's almost hard to find the words for the South Florida sky in the morning as night turns today. And as I'm sitting there looking out over the Atlantic, you can see right where the ocean and sky touch these little patches of teal and orange and pink that start to slowly break up the darkness. almost like someone's dipping their brush in paint and just flicking it at a canvas. Random assortments of colors. And it's very interesting because it happens subtly and somehow all at the same time. Piece by piece, these little neon strips start making their way over the horizon. I just sat back with my coffee and I watched the world around me come to life.

birds start flying over the water. The sand rake, if that's what it's called, started driving around, preparing the beach for everyone that would come visit that day. You start to hear voices and laughter, infiltrate the beach around you. And here's my thing. Here is that thought

that I truly feel is important but have a hard time with the why. It's how people show up at 615 and make their way to the sand to watch the sun come up. Obviously, understandable. It is an incredible sight. To see that giant ball of fire emerge in the distance seemingly make its way up into the sky. I get it. I just can't help but feel like in some way.

you know, it's similar to fast-forwarding a movie to the point where the villain's already been defeated, where the problems already been solved. It's like it's the post-game interview after the Super Bowl. The magic in my eyes is the before. Before the sun rises. It's watching something so dark, so empty, so hopeless, replaced by a masterpiece that takes,

It makes your breath away. It's seeing out in the distance the light that was coming. It was always on its way. Make itself known to you for the very first time. And as that extravagant march from nothing to something takes place above and all around you, suddenly you can see your hand in front of your face. It's like you blinked and night became day. That type of transformation, that journey from one extreme to the other, it's so incredible, so emotional, it screams hope.

It makes it that much harder for me to say, I can't, I can't change, I can't let go, I can't build. It's like, look, you just watched the black of night become day. It's a reminder that things are always dark until they're not. We can never see until we can. It's just make-believe until it's real. It's a process of holding on. Sometimes it's just holding on. Until that paint begins to color in the world around you.

So it's not that the others are wrong. Again, I totally get it. I get the appeal of putting the beach chair down at 615. Snapping some pictures of the sun in its magnificence. I get it. It's real. It's tangible. It's the shiny object.

Theoretically, it's what we should be looking at. But let's not forget that magic in its infancy. Because for everything that is, for every sun that rises, its origin was once darkness. It's beginning so convoluted and so blizzard. 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 sunrising.

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 mourning. It 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.

Deciding who you'd like to be most often starts with leaving the parts of you you no longer want to carry around. So reminisce. Think back, examine. Because you didn't just arrive at today. This moment is the result of thousands upon thousands of steps and conversations and decisions. Our lives are sculpted like ocean shores, one wave, one gust of wind at a time.

And sure, there were certainly events that expedited the prehistory. process. But the point is, holistically, landscapes take time to materialize, as did this one. But you're not confined to this moment. In fact, you in and of itself is an idea. You is a story that incorporates the things you used to do, places you used to go, people you used to know. You is not right now, you is how you summarize the path that created right now. But you can change because you will always mean what you decide it does. So reminisce, think back, examine, and feel the warmth of the good times, bask in the moments that lit up your soul. But don't be afraid to pull back the curtain on those things that, well, maybe you aren't too proud of,

the things that no longer defined you, perhaps never defined you to begin with. Because see, before we cut ties with those stories and send them out to see, we must do the hard work of recognizing what they are. Before we can identify the life to be lived, we have to be able to see the one that will live no more. And so it's okay to walk down that road. Those things are no longer you. They are ideas, old ideas, bad ideas, and so they will be relegated to the sands of time.

They played their part as everything does. And now it's time. So reminisce. Think back, examine, grab what you love and let it become your guiding light. Take hold of the meaningful and pour it into the new you, the one you're making now, the one that matters now. You'll need it.

Because the old you, it'll try to reemerge. It'll present itself in the shape of old faces with old expectations. Old places connected to old habits, old stories. that just don't want to end. But these characters, they played their part. And thank God they did, because now they're recognizable. Now you know to cut ties. You know, I wish it weren't so.

I think we all do, but sometimes life requires that we touch that burning hot stove in order to understand that it's hot. It's easy to dismiss these occurrences as a bad thing or wasted time but I think they're a beautiful thing. Recognizing and mitigating our mistake leaves us with a new foundation to build on a blank canvas.

It makes you not a prisoner to yesterday's work, it makes you an artist again, a designer, a creator. So reminisce, think back and examine. But not to hold on. Reminise to let go. To say the goodbyes that will make space for the hello's. To free yourself of excess that will make space for the necessities.

You've spent a long time designing you. Some of it ideal, but all of it, valuable in its own unique way. The reality is that now, in this current moment, not all of it needs to come with you. So reminisce. Think back, examine, so that before you move ahead, you know exactly what needs to be left behind. I could walk, but what if I ran? I could learn the rules, dedicate myself to efficiently following them.

But what if I learned the rules to break them? What if I created a new game entirely? I could take who I was, polish it up, change my approach. But what if I completely recreated myself? What if I pushed yesterday out to sea like a paper boat in a storm and watched it sail away? Life is a game of levels. And believe me, no one understands the importance of showing up more than I. Fulfilling that promise to yourself that you'll be there for you.

Standing tall and ready, willing to take the world on. But isn't it logical once showing up has been instilled into one's DNA, once stepping forward has become second nature, to look around and ask, how can I show up in an even more powerful way? How can I take this walk to a sprint? Turn the few into many. How can I transform the I participated into I dominated?

Because it's subtle. Right, moving from one level to another. There's no indicator. When does the right thing suddenly become not enough? When are we ready for more? It's a tough one. But for the few who really, truly, with all their heart, want it, it's a question that must be asked. Perhaps it's when the hard thing becomes, well, routine.

When you find yesterday's ceiling under your feet. Perhaps it's when the excitement has subsided. So look around and ask, is it time? Is it time to find a new level to elevate yourself to? Is it time to open the cage and let yourself further into the world? Because few find the courage to go, but even fewer find the courage to repeatedly ask more of themselves when life is heavy, when the road is untravelled.

So, yes, you could walk. But what if you were? What if you gave every ounce of yourself to the journey so that when it ends, as all journeys do, you can say you held nothing back. You conceded zero. Life is a game of levels, and should you decide the ascent is where the magic lives?

You'll find yourself with a view that only the few will ever get the luxury of laying their eyes. You'll find that every time you were tired or depleted, or unsure and you stepped forward anyway. You were creating the life of your dreams. The other day, I was sitting in Miami traffic, looking out the window, and it dawned on me. How interesting that human beings haven't solved for this.

Like, this is a major annoyance in a lot of people's lives. Now, we put human beings on a rocket ship. We've navigated them beyond the Earth's atmosphere. We've landed them on the moon, but still are unable to effectively get around between 4 and 7 p.m. on weekdays. Kind of interesting to realize. Now, there are very practical reasons for this, sure. Not to mention people studying and invested in the problem. And I think most noteworthy, I'm not even saying one is very practical reasons.

more valuable than another. This is merely a thought experiment. We get the results where we place our attention. We valued going to the moon. Because of this, humans walked on the literal moon. And we're so used to this having happened that its shock value isn't quite there, right?

But for a species who 100 years ago was traveling by horse and buggy, it's pretty impressive. I just think it's a cool reminder that where we place our focus is where we'll get our positive results. We can change everything if we place a spotlight on it. That begs the question, where are you placing your spotlight? As John Maxwell said, nobody ever went up a hill on accident.

There was intentionality, which gave life to focus and action, planning, growth. We only evolve or we shine that spotlight, or as I've said in previous episodes or videos, what you water grows. I've certainly spent my fair share of time, angry, annoyed by things that have, by no coincidence, given zero effort to fixing.

And when you do nothing to solve a problem, all you can cling to is the ability to complain about it. If you're not putting energy and resources there, you most likely won't win. Some of the best advice I got from a friend a few years back was to highlight the things that matter to you and measure them. Because this allows you to be aware, to be intentional with your action. It's deciding which handful of things are going to be your quote-unquote moon landing and then watching over them like they are precious. Let's say a goal of yours is to increase your net worth. If you're looking at your bank account every day, you're much more likely to make better monetary decisions than someone who keeps their finances in the dark because they hate thinking about it.

There are deliberate actions that must take place to bring about that change. When I look at, say, YouTube, I tend to know a substantial amount about my metrics. Because I really care about the channel and its growth and its impact. I watch it and I monitor it. Things dip, I need to know why. If they took a sudden upswing and they're great, I need to know why. If success on a platform is my metaphorical moon landing, I'm locked into every up and down. I have to understand what's going on so I can make the necessary adjustments to grow.

And then when the growth happens after time has elapsed, I can think, in my own little world, that was space travel. I was driving that metaphorical horse and buggy not all that long ago. But I stayed locked in. And this may seem simple, and it is. But for what it's worth, my biggest breakthroughs always tend to be. I've exhausted a lot of energy, and in some cases even paid a decent amount of money, so learn the simple things. Nothing is that complicated.

We just think it is. Which is why we do nothing and then complain about the delta between the real and the ideal. But I'm here to tell you that if you decide on a few things that matter to you and then measure their progress, allocate the energy to moving along with them, where you'll be in months or years from now will astound you. It will be breathtaking. But you have to be willing to peel back the curtain and immerse yourself in it. Prove to yourself that, sure, it might feel big and feel.

complex. But once you give something that time and attention, it becomes clear pretty quickly how simple it all is. What's one thing you can do every day in each meaningful category in your life that will get you closer to where you want to be? If you watch over that process and you adjust along the way, the amount of opportunity available, the amount of change you'll create is unbelievable. And someday to others, On the outside looking in, your progress will seem out of this world larger than life. It will appear a moon landing. But you'll know it wasn't the miraculous.

It was just a simple decision to give it time and attention. You watered it, and so it grew.