Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - IT'S TIME TO START | Powerful Motivational Speech | Listen When You Wake Up

Episode Date: June 7, 2023

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly - Friedrich Nietzsche

It was an ordinary run on my ordinary loop, on an ordinary day, right in the middle of an ordinary week. I rounded the last corner that I'd encounter before finally returning back to the street that I lived on. Beautiful sunny afternoon, I remember the sun bouncing off my skin, the sweat dripping down my face. I was looking ahead, but not really at anything, more so lost in my thoughts. Then out of nowhere, this little butterfly kind of swooped in, appeared right beside me. And it seemed, as it floated through the air, to link its pace with mine, effortlessly gliding. I looked over at it and back at the ground, over at it again, back at the ground. And for a second, I wondered what it would be like.

to be one of those flying machines, the ones built for flight, navigating the sky with no restriction. What a feeling that must be. And as I looked over for a third time, it had slipped back into whatever types of things are important to a butterfly on a warm June day, but realized, as I carried forward, alone again,

that for a few seconds, we were side by side. It in the air and me on the ground. I hung in there with the flying machines. That's right. The creatures with wings designed specifically for flight. I was for a time amongst them. So what truly separated us?

See, my whole life, I have drawn lines. The lines that separate them from me. From can and cannot, from possible. and impossible. There have been times where I saw reality is pre-packaged. Basically as though you get what you get, factory, stock, out of the box. It took a long time to see what I wanted.

And instead of saying, hey, must be nice, or they have it made, to instead ask, how can I reverse engineer that outcome? What do I need to do now? to get what is ultimately available. Because it's very available, and it's very real. Just because you are not built like those flying machines doesn't mean you can't run alongside them.

Join their ranks. Become one of them. The thing is, instead of drawing walls and building parameters, you have to give yourself permission to adapt and evolve. I was thinking about this the other day, as one of my best friends was sharing some of the work he does with his real estate portfolio. He was talking about some of the lessons learned on social media, and it was met with resentment, disdain.

You have X, I don't. You make Y, I don't. You came from Z. I didn't. And I read the comments, I just shook my head and thought, they don't know. They don't know he grew up on a farm in Michigan. spending a long time working for less than minimum wage.

They don't know that he put himself through college. They don't know that he took out a loan, having no clue what he was doing and learned how to renovate a home by himself. See, here's what he didn't do. He didn't point up and say, wow, look how free they are. Must be nice.

No, he asked, how do I run alongside them? I am not an observer. I am a flying machine. Because the truth is, we can do so much, become so much. Once we've erased the mental lines that we've drawn over the years. Once we give ourselves permission to join that little segment of reality, we've deemed to be ideal but have yet to walk towards.

Nothing happens to the ordinary moments. ordinary days or weeks or months until you realize ordinary is just a label you've been placing on the pathway to extraordinary. Everything you need is there, except your past willingness to walk through it. And today is a new day. You will take to the sky in your own life when you stop drawing lines around everything you want and compartmentalizing it is not for you. and instead run alongside the life you want as though it was already yours.

Life is not a game of those who are and those who aren't. It's a game comprised of those who will and those who won't. Those who see how they can and those who see how they can. You can wish, hope, and watch time fly by, or you can join the ranks of the flying machines that leave all that behind and take to the sky.