Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - CONFIDENCE | Powerful Motivational Video | WAKE UP POSITIVE

Episode Date: June 26, 2023

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval" - Mark Twain

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but that you will continue forward. when you don't. Promise yourself, not that you'll avoid pain, but that you'll find meaning in pain as it arises. That you'll use it to shape your destiny like fire-forging metal. Promise yourself not that you'll remain undefeated, but that you will transform amidst defeat

like a phoenix rising from the ashes. We're often inclined to look around, and see the current state as a reflection of our abilities and our potential. But right now is merely a culmination of decisions made up to this point. Just because the map you've been following has led you to a dead end, doesn't mean the world consists only of dead ends. Separate yourself from the walls around you. Separate the map you've been following from the world's landscape in totality.

Let's look at not what has occurred, but what's possible. Let's understand that we all face dead ends. We all find ourselves amidst disappointing outcomes. Times we've fallen short. This is not a you thing. This is a human thing. This is a life thing. And so here's the question.

Are you going to look around and say, this failure is me? This is who I am. Or are you going to understand that life is ups and downed? And the ones who win, who truly live, don't define themselves by their difficult times. No, they depersonalize and leverage that adversity. Those who make it out do so because they saw themselves not synonymous with the valley of despair as they trudged through. They saw themselves as passers-by strong enough to climb out.

destined for higher peaks. That past, it is not you. Remind yourself of that. Say it out loud if you have to. You are your very next step. You're the road untravelled. You're the summits to be reached and the stories to be told. And yeah, you won't have all the answers but they're not required to press on. You won't always be pain free, but it's from that pain you'll find your wisdom and your strength. And of course you won't always win, but every defeat brings you a little closer to what matters. Just as that phoenix rises from the ashes, you too will transcend that which has fallen around you. You too will rise above what is in pursuit of what will be.

Just promise yourself. Not that you'll be perfect, not that you'll always be right, but that you'll have the courage to evolve even when you're not.