Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - DON’T LET IT BREAK YOU | Motivational Speech to Start Your Day

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

“If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moments” – Admiral William McRaven

This weekend, I needed to shut off for a little bit. So I got some Chipotle. Yep, big night. Picked a random episode of Game of Thrones, sat on my couch, and I put my feet up. Apparently, though, the universe had other plans for me because I swear I was a few minutes in, and I heard one of the most incredible quotes I've ever heard,

which sent me in 400 directions thinking about how to share it and delve into it with you guys on the podcast. So, hey, sometimes you plan to sit there and watch Make Believe Armies fight, and you end up instead putting together an essay. Life in the Big City, right? But the scene I'm talking about, there's a character named Sonsa Stark, for anyone who hasn't seen it. And at this point in the show, you know, she's lost her family, been away from home, essentially on the run for a long time,

sitting by herself kind of sulking, reminiscing, building. holding a little replica of her old home in the snow that was on the ground as she sat there. And basically just to set the scene, this little kid comes up, stomps on it, Sonsa gets mad, hits the kid, she's just devastated by everything. Exhausted by it all. And roughly that time a second character walks up, a guy named Peter Baylish. And Sonsa, standing up over her broken snow castle, says, I was trying to remember what everything looked like.

I'll never see it again. To which Peter replies, a lot can happen between now and never. If you want to build a better home, first you must demolish the old one. He's implying that Sansa might think she wants to go home, but home is essentially gone.

That place she knew, that place she wants to go back to, it's destroyed. The people she loved are no longer. longer there, she thinks she wants to go back to that place. Because she's lost and scared and alone, and the human condition is always to return to the comfort of what we left, to recapture that feeling of clarity. But to truly find herself, what she needs to do is destroy that version of home and build a

new one. To start again, to become something worthy of a new home, one that's more conducive to life now, which is her character arc for the rest of the show, right? Slowly evolving into that person. See, life is this interesting cycle of dying and being born again. Of leaving old things behind in order to build anew. The old you can only give what the old you always gave. So when life demands more of us, we have a real problem on our hands. What you knew is now insufficient. It's not enough. Sure, it was enough yesterday, but today is a different story.

And we're always put in this situation, where the road before us is asking more of us than we've ever given. It demands more than we know how to accommodate. This is when it becomes very easy to misdiagnose home. To think the answer is behind us. What we need is buried beneath what was. when in reality what was is no longer sufficient. What we really need is to set the past ablaze in order to create space for what must be brought to life.

Home is an evolution, a cycle. As our world changes, we evolve right along with it. As old beliefs fall, new ones are built. As the old way is lost, a new way is found. By clinging to old, you sentence yourself to the, Never, Sonsa was so adamant about it, at the expense of the infinite abundance and opportunity that's out there. It's worth noting that the phoenix does not descend from the clear blue sky.

He rises from the ashes. It's after the old world falls that the new one emerges. I'm not the same person I was in 2014 when I left what I was doing to do what I'm doing now. That version of me died. And then again, when I packed up my things and relocated my life and business of South Florida, and then again, when I changed how I positioned myself, how I thought of myself in the world, and again and a multitude of time since then. This current version of myself is dying as we speak, making room for the new.

Every time I find myself at a transition point, it's pain. It's unlearning things I knew to be true, I was sure of. It's taking a sledgehammer to the old realities so that new ones can take their place. So that saying, a lot can happen between now and never. Yeah, anything can exist between now and never. The world is limitless between now and never if you understand what never means.

Because the old you could never have the things, meet the people, go the places, or become the person that you will be someday. The old you could never see the world the way you do or the way that you will. But the old you was never supposed to. What we once called home, our past, our understandings of life, they were critical. They set the stage for now. They brought us this strange intersection of who we once were and who we now need ourselves to be. It's not that crawling on the ground was wrong.

It's that we are now required to grow our wings, to set ablaze the previous parameters so that new rules can be written. Change hurts, but it hurts far less than carrying the old you into a choice. eternity while infinite possibility is left on the shelf. It hurts far less than equating your life now to what's been taken away or lost. Rise from the ashes of what was.

Life will ask you to be better, more capable, it will ask you for more. Meet its call. Over and over again, meet its call. For anyone willing to let go of the old and give life to the new, A lot can happen between now and never.