Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Go Hunt Your Dreams | Motivational Speech

Episode Date: February 10, 2021

A lion placed in a cage is still a lion. It still has its instincts and the characteristics that make him who he is. In fact, if the cage were removed he would return right back to being himself. This episode suggests that we are the same way. We already know what we need. Our instincts are dying to put us on the path most aligned with who we are. We just need to find the courage to ditch the cage and hunt our dreams... 

What if I told you that you already know what must be done? You just need to put yourself in position to do it. You need to unlearn the rules that crippled you, the ideas that confined you. We are in constant pursuit of the thing that will magically write all our wrongs. The answer that will give us something we've never had. Know everything you need you have now. You just need to allow it to flourish. Declutter.

Simplify. Remove all that unnecessary stuff. And walk your path. Einstein once said, everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. And what's great about this is the idea that who we are is not found. It's acknowledged.

It's accepted. And I think in our world, there are so many fish, as Einstein says, trying to climb trees that it creates. that it creates a sense of learned helplessness. We are judging ourselves using the wrong metrics, equipped with the skills, the characteristics, and the abilities to win in our own arenas, but playing in someone else's. How loyal are you to your own instincts?

Do you do what you know is right? or what you feel obligated to pursue. When was the last time you listened to you? In Tim Grover's Relentless, he introduces a brilliant metaphor. He says, A lion doesn't have to be taught to be a lion. It just is.

It hunts, runs, roams, explores, lives life, the only way it knows how. Now, if you capture a lion, bring it to the zoo or put it in a cage, who will carry itself differently, will lie down, move around lazily, sluggishly navigate its little space.

To passers-by, they'd never know what that lion really is. They'd never know what it looks like in its element. But despite all this, it is still in fact a lion. It maintains that killer instinct. His characteristics haven't disappeared, and if it were released from the cage, it would go right back to doing what lions do, being what lions are meant to be. It just has to ditch the cage. And the point is, perhaps so do you. There's a little light in your soul that waits day and night to explode into something meaningful. Where your nature meets your environment.

Where the, I shouldn't do this, the odds are impossible, the I'm not good enough, I can't lose what I have now, where all that fades away, where it's left behind you. And you're finally free to reign over your own territory, your own life, your own empire. See, we constantly feel like our glasses are empty, like we're missing pieces in need of something. Just one more thing. That will be our answer. That's all we need. And I can say with confidence, it's not a...

about what you need. It's about what you no longer need. It's about mitigating the noise so what matters can shine through. Removing those people in your life that drag you down or add no value. It's about getting rid of the things that make your world unnecessarily complex. Removing the need for immediate validation, success, and accolades. And instead, embrace the need for immediate validation, the little hinges in your life that, as W. Clement Stone said, will ultimately swing the biggest doors. We all have the lock, the key, and the map right there amidst the trivialities of our day to day. And we walk right by them, look right at them, we pick them up and put them down. But have we learned to truly see them? Everything starts with that awareness.

And my life did not change until I recognized that. Until I began asking myself questions I'd never asked before. Big picture questions. Obvious questions. But just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's always intuitive. What do I want out of life? What is important to me? What's something I love doing that I can dedicate myself to?

That I can commit to being great at long term. That I'm so immersed in that when the inevitable down times arrive, the losses, when the doubt and insecurity creeps in, I can keep moving forward because I'm so in love with the process that I don't let the little things like that define me. As Jordan Peterson famously puts it, choose your sacrifice. A life of meaning isn't easy, but there's nothing more fulfilling. Because when you embark upon that journey, it allows for the evolution of the self. We can become something more.

As Nietzsche says, those who have a why to live can bear almost any how. We equip ourselves for anything the universe can throw at us. We position ourselves to evolve. Victor Frankel says man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain, but rather to see meaning in his life. To align yourself with and pursue that which is your reason for living, that's how we transcend the day-to-day life we've come to know. When we breathe in possibility, dance with the infinite,

and of course something of this magnitude, it consists of ups and downs. It's not the easy road, but it's the one worth taking. Our metaphorical lion doesn't succeed every time he's prowling for food. But he doesn't roll over and die. He doesn't recede or quit being a lion. He gets up tomorrow and does it again.

Because it's who the lion is. And while life doesn't unfold until you find that same thing for yourself. And people say, well, I don't know. That's the problem. I have no idea. That's not the problem. That's the essence of life. That's the beauty.

You're here to explore and find that for yourself. But the power is knowing you're not looking for something or someone to save you. You're looking for an environment in which you can best be you. You're looking for the right terrain to share your gift with the world. If you have what you need, then you're not looking for the product. You're looking for the delivery mechanism, the vehicle to nurture and transport your value to a world that desperately needs it. You're looking to build yourself up and in the process amaze yourself. Look, what you're capable of is beyond comprehension. It's limitless, almost unfathomable.

But it is, as Ryan Holiday says, a confidence that must be earned. So start now. earn it. Let yourself succeed. Your intuition knows what feels right and what doesn't. But the seed must first be planting. So make today about setting yourself up for success, turning off the idea that you're one piece away from completion, one minute away from starting, that you're almost ready. No, you are ready now. You have what you need now. You know what's necessary now. have to be your own ally. Put yourself in position to be yourself. Let your values shine, double down on what matters to you. Look, it's not a game of acquisition. It's a game of courage.

Do you have the courage to be who you are? To follow that potential, that possibility into the great unknown.