Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - How to Take Total Control Of Your Mind and Future In 2026 || Powerful Motivational Speeches

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

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My buddy sent me a post today from X that said simply, until death, all defeat is psychological. Why? Well, because if there is air in your lungs, there's an opportunity to find a solution, to move forward, to connect all those dots that will ultimately change your life. But here's the catch.

This is the part that I think we often miss. We think defeat is something life gives us, bestowed upon us by the world. It's a letter we get in the mail. When in reality, it's much simpler than that. Defeat is an internal decision. Defeat is looking around and quite simply saying, no. It's saying, sure, I could have this.

I know I'm capable of it, but I don't want it. I refuse to march on. Defeat is saying the prize or mountaintop or victory. To me, it's just not worth what it costs. And when you believe that, that's when you have officially created and allowed defeat into your life. It's a willingness question, a how bad do you want it question. Because here's the deal, the road to anything meaningful is difficult. A willingness to pivot, to pick yourself up off the floor and continue into an unknown that, let's be real, owes you nothing.

Well, that can hurt. That's not a comfortable process. But the truth is, it hurts less than defeat. Waking up two hours earlier to find a way to build yourself up, to get ahead, that's far less painful than looking in the mirror and saying, yeah, I could have, but I didn't. I could be there, or at least on the way, but I'm not.

And it's amazing to be how the mind will rationalize. We can convince ourselves of anything, which is great when you're your own ally, but it's simultaneously devastating when you're your own worst enemy. The same circumstance that tells you to go can be interpreted as a reason to stop. The brain knows it's been two years since you started your, business. It knows you've been working on your health for six months. It knows the process is

taking longer than expected. And so you're tasked with the interpretation of these data points. How do you interpret that information? What do you make of it? Is it, I've been at this for two years now. Think how far I've come. Think how much I've learned. I've positioned myself. I've for success. I'm one decision away from massive momentum. It's not validation, but continued dedication that will carry me home. This is the path. Or is it, well, it's been two years. And if I can't do it in two years, then maybe I just can't do it. Maybe I should look for something easier. My pride hurts. I'm letting myself down. I look dumb. Right? And the list goes on.

That is the fork in the road that means everything. That's the maze that few find a way out of. Not, as previously said, of an inability to find the exit, but because of a lack of commitment to the twist and the turns. Is it, I've been working on my health for six months. Look at the foundation I've built. When I look in the mirror, sure, I don't know. necessarily see the results I wanted now, but the habits are there. I've made some progress.

I've lost some weight. My ability to run has improved somewhat. Now it's a matter of carrying on to that exponential growth. That may be just around the corner. Or just as in the previous example, is it, if I can't do it in six months, then maybe I can't do it. Might as well go back to McDonald's for lunch and ice cream after dinner every night. It's over. This is not for me. You see how both ways of talking are at surface level, perfectly reasonable. Both make sense, complete sense. But life is not predetermined.

It's a choose-your-own-ending storybook. The story you tell yourself becomes the story you live. And if you hear that and think, ah, cliche. Live news. You're overlooking the story. magnitude and capability you have with regard to controlling your life and your destiny. Something like five years ago now, I created an e-book with some thoughts. And this is one that I continuously go back to.

Quote, when I make myself the victim, I become resentful. When I make myself the hero, I become empowered. With such an array of outcomes, I am forever grateful for the ability to shape my own legacy. And it's summed up with the quote, if you aren't happy with the role you're playing, changing. Right? You don't have to be the one who gives in, who throws the towel or walks away. There's more around the corner if you're willing to walk around the corner. If you're willing to find it. See, we are in life who we believe ourselves to be. And you can take that greatness on. You can become the person who looks in the mirror and sees

determination staring back, sees resilience looking you in the eyes. You can be that. You can become the person who finds the upside, and I promise you that's an incredibly small group walking this earth. Most people do the inverse of that without realizing it, either projecting their inability to move forward onto the outside world, we've all heard this, right? It's her fault, his fault, Their fault, my boss's fault, the government's fault. Or it's simply not realizing that doing nothing is in fact a decision. When we make constant concessions, when we think the current moment was fate or destiny and not an invitation to something better, we are choosing to be less than we can be.

And so my point here is pretty simple. Doing things that matter is hard. And it's hard because ruffling the feathers of the status quo, comes with unknowns and obstacles. It provides a million off-ramps, reasons to settle or turn around. But to succumb to these outcomes is your decision, not the world.

Life isn't a treadmill with an off-switch. If your feet stop moving, it's because your brain told them to stop. So as you make your way into the next unknown, all I ask is that you remind yourself how powerful you are. Not because you were granted that power, but because you have always been that powerful.

An author of the greatest story ever told. Where perhaps, sure, you can't control every variable that's dropped in front of you, but you can control what those variables mean. You can't control all the factors that comprise the world around you, but you can control where your focus will be allocated and what you will build with what you find. Until death, all defeat is psychological. Until there is no more air in your lungs, stagnation is a choice. Until there is no more blood

pumping through your veins. Quitting is a decision. So ask yourself, what do you want to become? How far do you want to go? How far do you want to go? and then commit to the journey of arriving at that destination. Maybe it takes days, weeks, months, maybe years longer than you anticipated. But it will always be true that if you want it, it's yours. The key is in your pocket, the map is in your hand, and the road at your feet. Arrival at the destination means giving yourself permission

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and thank you for being a part of the process. A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. That's from George Patton, General in the United States Army, integral to the Allies victory in World War II. So why? What makes this statement so powerful? Well, it rings true because we have to move beyond the idea that we can manufacture greatness with one swing of the bat, one stroke of the pen.

That if we wait for the right moment, perfection will come. The light will turn green. The stars will align and the path will emerge. I feel like I could scream this from every mountaintop, and it wouldn't be enough. Life is not a perfection game. Life is an adjustment game. And I'll speak anecdotally here. In my experience, looking over my shoulder, reflecting, you know, those times that I'd clung to perfection,

rationalizing my immobility by saying, hey, you're not ready, this isn't good enough. I'd only have to dig a few layers down to see that my not moving. wasn't out of some loyalty to excellence. No, I was standing still because of fear, a fear of going, of starting, a fear of the unknown. Perfection is the biggest con there is. It's a scam. It says, wait here, your perfect moment will arrive.

Hang tight, the right time is coming. No, there are no perfect beginnings. There's merely the courage to move into something new, into something new or the regret that will ultimately come from wishing that you did. And sure, a part of it's almost counterintuitive. It's like, why isn't it beneficial to wait? Why would you want to take the leap before you're ready? Here's how I see it.

One of the most important distinctions to understand is that between the thinker and the doer. The thinker who ponderes, who reflects, who studies and studies and studies thinking he or she, can create for him or herself a perfect jump-off point, thinking they can obtain for themselves all the necessary information, all the answers before they begin the journey. The truth is greatness is forged through repetition via wheels on the road, and yes, you are terrible at first, completely unsure at first. You get lost at first. But this is, but this is a lot of This becomes the knowledge that shapes the journey. When you go before you're ready, two important things happen.

First, after falling down and feeling embarrassed and insecure, you get back up, you look around and you go, wow, okay, I'm still here. That sucked, sure, but it wasn't as bad as my brain told me it would be. Next, you learn from the exchange. You can start doubling down on what works and eliminating what doesn't. And eventually, as you take this confidence and wisdom onto the next step, repeatedly the curve becomes exponential. In doing, you begin stacking bricks, creating a foundation.

Those experiences that humbled you become what you lean on. They're what turn into the experience, the knowledge, the credibility. And see, thinking you can skip all. all that ugly stuff by waiting on the ledge for perfection to arrive in your hands, that will be your undoing. That's just as crazy as a sailboat waiting for the wind to stop. It's like, no, you need that friction, that resistance to reach your destination. And no, we cannot control everything.

Yes, there are powers beyond us. But if you go now, you learn to use and navigate them. The greatest gift we can give ourselves is permission to go. It's looking a year ahead and dreaming of the moment. We pause and say, wow, what a year. The twists and turns, the lessons, the highs, the lows, the peak moments all brought me here. And how different here is from back there. How far I've come.

Knowing, by the way, that life was never asking me for perfection, but rather a willingness to start, to dive in, to adapt along the way. I know a lot of people with businesses that exist in their minds, but not in reality. A lot of people in shape when they close their eyes, but not when they look in the mirror. A lot of people living their best lives when talking about the future, but not when they pull up to work on a Monday morning. We shorten the gap between our ideal existence and the present moment. by going, by stepping now.

Even when we can't imagine how the process will unfold. Because let me tell you, life will bend and twist in ways you can't even fathom. It'll take you places that ignite your soul, show you things you never dreamt of seeing, but you have to put yourself in position to receive you. that from life the world wants to help people who help themselves so give yourself

the gift of progress of momentum if a dream is only worth the action one is willing to take to bring it to life let that action start now move beyond the illusion of perfection and towards the opportunity to take the imperfect every single day and transform it into greatness. Every time your mind says you're not ready, let that be your invitation to step forward. See, life may not be a race, but that doesn't mean time will politely wait for you. We must say goodbye to perfection as we evolve, as we grow. I can guarantee you it won't. There's a threshold you can't. see. That is, until you cross it. Think about this. A world you don't even know exists. And you

never encounter that reality until you leave the comfort of the one that you've always known. I've learned this again and again, and I will learn it many times into the future. You think you know your limits. Maybe because you feel like you're playing on the edges. touching the walls of your routine and calling that the perimeter of your power. But that's not the truth. That's just what you've grown used to. And see, there's a monumental discrepancy between those two things. There is a version of you right now, living in the shadows of what could be.

A version you'll only meet when you go farther than you. you've ever gone. But the only way to find out how far you can go is to risk going too far. That's when the walls break. That's when the illusion

of normal crumbles. Because as comfortable and familiar as normal was, it was never your ceiling. It was, and we'll call it more of a sandbox, a cage, a box you unknowingly

chose to live in. And when you step out, when you face the resistance, the fatigue, the voice screaming, enough, I'm done. And still, you don't stop.

You see it. For the first time, you feel it. Not some facade. Not some made-up story or narrative. No, you come face to with that version of you that has always been there, just buried, right beneath the comfort and fear and excuses,

right beyond the normal sea that clouds our vision. This is the belly of the beast. And contrary to how I've thought in the past, contrary to maybe the easiest trap to fall into, that chaos is not there, to break you, it's there to introduce you to the real you. The one who does not run from challenges, but instead walks towards them with open arms. Because in this place, you learn the most important lesson of all.

You have been playing small. You've been living at half speed, simply telling yourself that it was full. throttle. And maybe it wasn't intentional. Maybe you've wanted more all along. Well, surprise, this is your reminder that it's there. But unpacking it, unboxing it has to be intentional. Now that you know, once you've seen it, it can never be unseen. This is just the beginning, knocking down wall after wall, breaking barrier after barrier. So go. Don't go far.

Go too far. Go further than feels necessary or rational. Go further than your mind in its present state can even comprehend because that's the only way to find out how far you can truly go. When you look at the mountain, it's easy to see how far you can truly go. When you look at the mountain, it's easy to find out how far you can truly go. to be overwhelmed by its size, to let fear and doubt paralyze you. But what if I told you the summit is never reached in one heroic leap?

It's conquered one quiet step at a time. One subtle movement into the abyss after another. It's not about the impossible. It's about seeing the impossible as what it truly is, shrinking it down, making it small enough to manage. So let's talk about taking the mask off of impossible and revealing what it is, those manageable people. And I've learned this truth,

not in some grand lecture hall or because of years of school or the pages of a book, but in the echo of my own breath. Doing, creating, building out in the world, growing a business, putting my body through difficulty, putting my mind through the battlefield that is self-discipline and essentially commitment to the promises I make to myself. And that's what I want to echo today, how, one, we are capable of way more than we can

possibly imagine. So let's just get that out of the way. We're all operating at a fraction of what we could be doing. And two, it's never about the obstacle ahead, the size of what waits before us. It's how we assess and internalize and break down those obstacles. It is doable. Again, your mind just has to perceive it as so. No one leaps a marathon as much as we wish we could when we're tired and worn down and hurting.

But we can't. But what we can do is utilize what's around us in a way that helps us win. We can rig the game in our favor. And so here's a quick example that I wanted to share. I like to put myself in these circumstances because it's truly an exercise in taking these giant things and turning them into very real practical roadmaps. A few days ago, I did an afternoon bleacher workout

in an empty stadium in Phoenix, Arizona. Very simple, right? Sprint up the bleachers and then you walk down. recovering. As soon as you get to the bottom, you turn around, you sprint up again. And the goal was to do 30 of these, right? 30 sprints up, 30 walks back down. And like so many things, it's a cake walk until it isn't, right? I remember hitting sprint 12 or 13, you start going, oh man.

I better recruit the mind to start painting this picture as something fun and beautiful and exciting because the body wants to revolt. You get that sort of mini panic that's like, bro, I don't know how long you can sustain this. It's just reaction, it's real. And at the start, standing there, looking up at endless rows, the towering steps, the mind, you can't help but watch it,

observe it, question, how can I possibly do this? 30 sprints up? That's a lot in this heat. That's a tall order. And on top of that, The hardest part is no one's around, right? I technically don't need to be there.

Why not leave? Or why not do 20 instead of 30? What's keeping me committed to such a quote-unquote foolish pursuit? That, when I start engaging in suffering, is always the talk that goes on in my head, the negative self-talk, that whispering, again, you're not at gunpoint here, buddy. Walk away. But I think that's the secret of any great feat, right? Whether it's something as trivial as running up steps or, you know, something as grandiose as starting a business, pursuing a degree, starting a family, you know, raising kids, whatever it is, it's never accomplished all at once.

It's never one single push, one massive effort. It's the ability to break it down, to divide it, to transform the colossal into manageable pieces. If you understand this, you possess a skill set that makes everything else in life doable. You're holding a key capable of opening any door. And on those stadium steps, I leaned heavily back into the games I used to play with numbers

while running so many times in my past. I didn't think about 30 sprints. I thought about the first one, just one. I'd trick my mind into seeing less into shrinking the impossible one sprint, one effort. Then I'd reach the top, I'd smile because, well,

the next one was the same, just one more. Turn and go. Turning go. 17. One becomes two. Two becomes 10. The numbers grow, but the method remains.

At 13, you know, we're not even thinking about 30. That's crazy. Think about getting to. 15. That's only two away, two sprints away. And then guess what? I'll be halfway. What a celebration. How amazing. What an honor. You're about to hit 15. Focus on that. We're only five away from that. It's all you think about. It's all that occupies your mind. Anyone can do five more. Five. Five. And guys, I want to be clear. I understand the simplicity and seemingly trivial nature of this.

I'm emphasizing it because I don't want you to dismiss it thinking, oh, this is just semantics, or oh, this is just how you talk to yourself. It's everything. It's giving yourself permission to win. It's unpacking the grandiose into the manageable. And that's why it's been so effective for me. I've learned to count in fives, to count in tens, to create milestones and markers along the way.

Each one, a small victory, a reason to keep going, which in and of itself is power. Right? It's like you create this little validation, you build it into your process so that you're going to bed feeling like a winner because you are. It's not, oh, I don't have the mountain top eight miles away. It's another L for me. No, I took three steps today. I pointed out what they would be. I planned them and I hit them.

That's winning. Each one is a reminder that the summit is not some distant place. It's right here in this moment, in this step. And see, in life, especially when we're going through our most difficult times, it's incredibly easy to get lost in the enormity of it all. The weight of the journey in totality can be paralyzing. That's true in the stadium, but it's just as true in life. We look at our dreams, our ambitions, the vast landscape of what we want to build,

and we think I'm not enough. It's too big, it's too much. I am one person in a very vast world. But let me tell you this. It's never too big when you expose it for what it is. It's never too much when you find the pieces that comprise it. Everything can be broken into small manageable parts. Everything.

After all, that's what they are made of. The tiny building blocks are what come together to create the enormity people see from afar. But you, you're not fooled. You know you're not climbing the mountain in one step. It's a bunch of micro steps, one then another and then another. In fact, it's not even really a mountain when you're on it. It's an assortment of little rocks.

And I think about the times that have very, faced obstacles in my life. Projects that seemed too big or overwhelming, relationships that felt too complicated to fix, dreams that felt too fragile to pursue. The lesson of the bleachers, right? The lesson of one sprint at a time carried me through all of it.

Building this media company, every single creation, every video, every story thinking this could be the one. This will connect with people. This will change the traditional. of what I'm doing here. It allowed me to stay focused, one release at a time, one message at a time.

Forget the larger-than-life aspirations. You can only focus on now. Life is the same as that stadium. The outcome is not guaranteed by our intentions alone. It's shaped by our approach, by our willingness to find a path that makes the outcome actually plausible. Not about erasing pain, but about making pain a companion.

About turning the discomfort into an ally, part of the process, turning the task into a series of sprints instead of a single marathon. Never forget, anyone can do one sprint, right? The fun part is 30 is just one, 30 times. Anyone can say, do a wall sit for 15,000. wall sit for 15 seconds. Well two minutes is just 15 seconds eight times. Eddie, this is just semantics. Time is time is time. No, it's not. It's how your brain processes and manages what's in front of it. That's what determines whether you win or lose. Again, a lot

of people I know have quit things out of frustration with how far away the finish line is. What they failed to realize is they shouldn't even be looking at the finish line. They should be creating benchmarks, hitting those little victories sort of celebrating. Because when the time comes and they look back, they'll see a trail of success so pronounced that it will be mind-blowing. That's how you win. Whether you're climbing stadium steps or building a dream from scratch, you win by shrinking the problem. By making it so small, your mind can't find a reason to quit or be intimidated. Take a breath.

look up at that towering set of steps in your life and then begin one step at a time. You're not responsible for anything else besides that step. And as you know, anyone can take one step. So by refusing to sit in awe of the challenge before us, by pulling out its pieces and stacking them so that they become our foundation, Well, that's how we win. That's how we defeat the impossible. By refusing to let it stay impossible.

So question, how many best-selling books were almost written? And how many Oscar-winning movies were almost made? How many multi-million dollar businesses were almost started? how many lifelong relationships almost initiated but weren't. So a few years ago, I was going to run a half marathon with my sister. We were in Cape Cod, Massachusetts,

visiting our parents. And I think it was a Thanksgiving half marathon. Or maybe it was so. I can't remember. So, you know, I've been training and working towards it. And the day of the race, I'm super sick. Like stuff knows, all congested, coughing. And so obviously I'm kind of weighing the pros and cons and thinking,

I'm not going to do this today, right? It's unfortunate. I'll cheer my sister on. But as we get there, I think, what's the worst that could happen? Right? I have to walk. Who cares? So I lace up and I go, which seems like a very unremarkable thing.

until I start going and feeling really good. And I don't know how to rationalize that or why I felt so good. But it carried on throughout the entire race and I ended up getting a personal best. And the reason that that race stuck with me and I never forgot about it is because of how close I was to saying no. How close I was to missing what would have been the best run of my life. at the time in that distance. And how many times in life we do the same thing?

Like, how many times do we turn our backs on what would have completely transformed our world? Or maybe not even quit before we began, but stopped early. You know, felt too much doubt and insecurity, became too impatient. And if we just hung on, right? Like there's an idea that so many people gave up not knowing how close they were to the exact result they were looking for. When any action can bring you that much closer.

And every day is another step towards that goal. So you have to remember that. There's so many things in life that you're capable of bringing to the world that you're, that you're. that you're stopping just short of. Two and five Canadians will hear the words you have cancer. That's why every step and dollar raised matters. On September 19th, join thousands in Toronto for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation Walk.

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