Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - DON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE | Best Motivational Speech | Wake Up Positive

Episode Date: June 5, 2023

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman

What if those less than ideal things in our lives, right? So our limitations, our constraints, the aspects of life we consider to be, you know, a bad hand. What if they weren't just things we need to learn to accept or little tragedies we have to live with? What if they were ultimately the aspects of our lives that create the best of us? the elements of our world that push us to our greatness and this came to mind earlier I was listening to a book

called How to Think Like a Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson and he explores this point and talks about Socrates in ancient Athens and how he lived in abject poverty how according to the standards of ancient Athens was not an attractive person by any means

just seemed to have a lot working against him. And the question that's posed is whether these exact circumstances ultimately created the man that became one of the most important thinkers in history. He implies that his reality and his surroundings shaped his worldview, so it only makes sense for one to conclude that all of it contributed to the life he lived. If Socrates was born wealthy and attractive and all these things, could he have become the man that he became?

Probably not. And the reason I love this is because, to put it simply, it reframes those less-than-ideal circumstances in our lives. Whether it is a personal trait we have no control over or an occurrence we deal with. It's understanding that a lack of ability in one area helps guide us to that spot where we can thrive.

A disappointment we encounter helps us regroup and make our way to the thing that is ultimately best. The less than ideal, the things that at surface levels seem bad or problematic, they're always working for us to push us towards our contentment and our growth to our greatness. I can say on my end, it was the turbulence I experienced in my life that created that sense of curiosity for me. It was a lack of understanding that pushed me to write about life. Explore the hardships we face and the resilience of the human spirit through it all.

It's a pretty famous stoic idea that states, we can't often control what happens, but we can always control how we respond to what happens. and there lies the power and the understanding that when one door closes as the saying goes, you are pushed closer to the one that will open for you. You have to decide whether you will find it within yourself to open it. Or will you focus on the lack, the gap, what's not there, what you don't have, what went wrong. See, all those things, the things that most people use is their real. to stop or quit or not go.

They can be the reason you lose, or they can be the very reason you win. You find a way. But that means moving forward, trusting there is good to be had, understanding that everything that goes creates space for what truly needs to be there. I understand it's common, right? But it's not just a cliche that adversity creates us,

that difficult times shape us. Why? Because we are transformed by the bad and the difficult, and that which in the moment does not seem ideal. Because they force us to move further into what we were meant to do and who we were meant to be. Just like Socrates was created from his adverse situation, his brilliance derived from his circumstance. your greatness will be derived from yours. So remember that next time you feel as though you've been slighted by life or something's been taken away from you. While it may feel negative and I get it from time to time it does,

it ultimately becomes the wind at your back, bringing you where you most need.