Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - FOCUS ON YOU EVERY DAY | Powerful Motivational Speech (2022)

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein

In a way, our eyes are liars. Not in what they portray, but in the implication of their portrayals. Our eyes highlight to us one thing. What surrounds us now. We receive a snapshot of the current moment. And what took me years to understand is that possibility and hope live far beyond. what surrounds us right now.

And it's that pursuit of possibility that saved my life. Immersing myself in the unseen. Perhaps we were given the now, not to subserviently accept it, but to transform it. I believe in our own way, we're all architects. Here's what I've found to be tricky, though,

as I've spent time thinking about what I believe in I've come to recognize is that two things can be true at once. First, all will technically ever have is the present. As Eckart Tolly explains, depression is essentially being lost in the past. Anxiety is being fixated on the future, and that a healthy life is learning to cherish the now. But second is the power and control. of being able to point the now at something far beyond what our eyes convey.

It's the magic of knowing that we spend our days navigating a world of limitation and restraint. And it's not that we wake up and think, you know, I'm going to restrict myself today. I'm going to not live up to my full potential. No, it's that we go on autopilot. We observe this slideshow,

our eyes play for us day in, and day out and exist within those parameters. That seems perfectly reasonable. Our eyes show us a wall, and our brain says, okay, this is where we stop. The end. And what I want to highlight is that world just beyond what our eyes show.

A world that pushes things a little bit. A world in which we ask, okay, but what if I gave a little more? Or why can't I be like those people in my life I look up to? Why shouldn't I change the circumstances that weigh on my mind? Why have I accepted these things that make me unhappy day in and day out? Just because it's the image your eyes show you right now doesn't mean it's where you stop. But we have to learn to look for more.

When I was pretty young, like right about the time home PC, were gaining prominence. My parents got this gateway computer that came with a Star Wars game demo. And you kind of, you have this character, you wander around the spaceship, and, you know, I played it, and I played it, and I played it, and after a while, explored all there was to explore. Or so I thought. I assumed that maxed the thing out because it was a demo. It wasn't the full game. So my assumption was that it wouldn't let me do too much until I went out and bought the real version. Then one day my friend from up the street came over

and I'm showing him the game and somewhere he notices a little button that opens up this door and come to find out there was actually a lot of real estate left to explore a lot of game available. It led to a tunnel that led somewhere else, that led somewhere else. And sure, I felt like a clown

for not realizing that I was needlessly wandering in circles, but at the same time was excited about this new world. There's something about that concept, the secret door, the bookcase that can be moved to unveil a passageway to something greater, to the value locked away and invisible to the untrained eye. One of the most important things for us to understand is how many of these doors exist in our lives, that if we choose to recognize and identify something more, something that that excites us and invigorates us. We can usually draw a line to it.

We can start little by little heading that way. Because within the current moment slideshow we see all around us exist the little passageways, the side streets, the tunnels connecting to something more. That of course those gates won't open up if you've not constructed a destination in your mind worth traveling to. Again, not because you're insufficient or inadequate or wrong, but because our default is to live life on demo mode. We have to manufacture more, build a higher platform,

and then climb up to it using ropes and ladders that we already walk by every day without thinking twice. Our world, our right now, is a toolbox waiting for us to construct a more meaningful piece. peaceful, happy tomorrow. And so again, I present the question, where are these hidden opportunities or gateways in your life? Where can you find the advantages dressed up as the mundane?

Is it in a book? Is it a conversation? Is it applying to that thing you've been hesitant to pursue because you're scared of what might await? Is it understanding the power of 10 minutes a day? and how starting small opens doors that we can't even comprehend. Is it a little boldness? Is it looking in the mirror and realizing you're still shackling yourself to who you were yesterday?

Is it understanding that someone or something in your life isn't conducive to your well-being? Is it an hour in the morning to think, an hour at night to breathe? Is it changing a self-limiting relationship with time or moment? money or resources, what walls can you knock down so that you might open up a world that's meant for you, a world that's malleable and without limitation? Your eyes, they don't tell the story of how things can be or what they mean. They show you the infinite tools at your disposal to build, to create, to design, to never accept a now. that wasn't chosen with intentionality.

That where there exists pain, there also exists a door to lessen and transform that pain. Your journey, it never ends where you are, it ends where you choose to stop. It ends where you plan a stake in the ground and accept the world around you. So if no one has told you recently, let me remind you how powerful

you are. Let me reiterate what you are capable of. And that perhaps your reality requires of you some customization. Perhaps the courage to step outside the routine and the obligation. And as the architect you are, build something beautiful, meaningful, something incredible to stand on. To recognize the distinction between what is and what can be, the second one understands that they are walking by the very solutions they need, that to remain in a state of discontent is simply an indifference to the resources around them. Remember this. What you see, your eyes don't provide an end state, but a path to the next chapter.

a chisel to little by little evolve. As someone recently reminded me, Mark Twain's quote, logic will get you from point A to point B, but imagination will take you everywhere. Why? Because so much exists beyond the parameters of everyday life. It's about mapping new paths with new points and new rules

because some exist and some live. Some comply and some create. Some see what is around them, and some ask, what can I build with what is around me? So built. Towers that touch the sky, bridges that connect the earth. Build like this is a game, and the only way to lose is to stop yourself from experiencing all it has to offer.

Build like there's a world. beyond your front door. Because if you do, that's exactly where you'll find yourself.