Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Life Is A Marathon

Episode Date: June 19, 2020

In this episode I discuss the idea that life is a marathon.  Not a black and white solution to some problem waiting to be solved, but a beautiful culmination of peaks, valleys, wins and losses that come to define our experience and make life worth living.

Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero. And in this episode, I'm going to talk about how life is a marathon. And you don't need to know where every road ends or have the answer to every question. Because life is about the journey along the way. Happy Friday morning. Hope everyone's doing well. End to another amazing week.

And today I'm going to play for you guys an old speech called Life is a Marathon or video if you're watching on the YouTube format. And this is an idea that really resonated with me about a year into my entrepreneurial journey. And, you know, it's funny because you hear it said all the time. But when you're living something, it feels different than hearing it or reading it or being told. Right. And, you know, it was about for the first time feeling like I didn't have all the answers, feeling like life was this mystery, was very uncertain, but that that was okay. right because it was not about the trials and the tribulations in the way of the answer it was no the trials

and the tribulations are the answer they are the fun they are what makes life worth living life is not a sprint to a finish line it is a marathon in which every part has its own unique space and its own unique lessons learned and ultimately you know it it shapes you then sure You run a marathon to get to the end, but you run it to run it. There's something unique about the race that builds you up and makes you who you are. And that is the magic of life. And so as a young entrepreneur in Boston, you know, and interestingly enough, I'm about to hop on a plane and head right back there today.

But it was that realization where, you know, congrats, right? It was like, it was like, congrats for putting yourself or immersing yourself in a world that is not certain, that is not known, but has all the potential, the opportunity, the upside in the world. And I think all of us owe that to ourselves in some capacity to look at life a little less seriously, a little more adventurously, and, you know, see what we're made of. because those trials and those tribulations, sure, you know, they can be point A in pursuit of point B, but they also can be the best experiences we have in life. And we certainly don't want to miss them or run by them without capturing all their worth. So without further ado, this is called Life is a Marathon. Recently I had writer's block.

Couldn't think. So I completely removed myself from my work. I put on my running shoes and I ran, down the steps to the front door and down the street. It was a Tuesday afternoon when traditionally we're taught to either be at work or in school. That's just where we are. And I laughed because a year and a half

after deciding to leave to pursue my own things, start my own business ventures, the simple idea of being outside on a weekday raises a tiny red flag in the back of my mind, as if to suggest I shouldn't be doing this. And that's what 26 years of main. containing a certain mentality will do. Changing the way you see things doesn't happen overnight.

It takes time. So I'm running. I'm making my way downtown with the sole thought of needing content for this next video. My mission was to think, to run, and to think. And I ran a few blocks. And I'd see people walking to school, going to and from work, taking the train, carrying shopping bags for Christmas. And all these things really make you question,

question the big picture. How can so many different priorities be right? Are the things we place most value on, truly most important? And I thought about it, and I thought about it, and I thought about it, and didn't come up with an answer, so I kept running. And at this point, I'm well on my way. Past the ballpark where my grandfather spent his whole life cheering for a team that consistently ripped his heart out.

And I thought about how they finally won in 2004, days before he died. and how one person can have such a tremendous impact on your life. And onward I ran, I passed the library where I glanced over, and my mind went right to the issues, the struggles, the challenges we face in the world today, and how so many of the answers sit right there on the other side of that wall, on bookshelves. But how we're moving away from that, right? How can anyone truly grasp the depths of history with an attention span of 30 seconds or less? You know, I started thinking about what's going to happen, how this is going to affect mankind.

And I bounced this around for a few minutes and then move forward, step by step, acknowledging that, you know, I'm spending time asking questions but haven't come up with any answers. Right? I have no content for this video, not yet. So I ran. And I ran through the common where the trees have no more leaves. It's winter, everything looks dead. And this brought me back to the summer. summer when everything was green when the sun was out and I had to ask myself did I take the

time to truly appreciate that because now it's gone and I made a promise that this summer I'd never walk through the Boston Common without being grateful for it it's a little thing but it's a reminder that nothing lasts forever and I figured I'd come this far I might as well go to the harbor right so I continued on to the very edge of the city and I stopped. I turned around and stared directly at what I've been looking for this whole time. A skyline with hundreds of thousands of people and things and places. It was the culmination of all those little questions I'd been asking and I realized that to know everything, to pretend to know everything is all wrong. That's not what it's

about. It's about progress. It's about learning a little bit at each stop along the way. never allowing yourself to be stuck or closed-minded in a way that inhibits change or growth. Life is a marathon. It's not a sprint. You don't win your first mile. You win by trusting in your ability to figure things out as they come, to evolve, to adapt. And above all, to believe that even though something may not be happening right now in the present, It can and it will be done.

The finish line isn't there two, three miles in. You can't see it. And if you're moving solely off of what can be seen or guaranteed, you won't get there. But if you trust that each step you take is one piece of something far greater that you deserve that was meant for you, the sky is the limit.