Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Life Is Short | Best Motivational Speeches Compilation

Episode Date: November 27, 2020

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” - Dr. Seuss Speeches: 0:00 While The World Sleeps - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MctKBaxc1Sc 3:57 The Little Things - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bv-0ok_8ko 9:01 When I Was A Kid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EzRybEo4Pw

While the world slept, I stayed awake. I guess I couldn't bear to close my eyes and drift off into a dream, knowing that as soon as they opened, it would end. I sat up, I put my goals and aspirations into the backpack next to my bed, threw it over my shoulder, and I left. Destination, unknown. But I was armed with the belief that opportunities exist, wherever you bring them to life.

So while the world slept, I stayed awake. There comes a point when dreaming takes the form of an adversary. I didn't want to wake up and see the discrepancy between fantasy and reality. I didn't want to be associated with wishing or hoping or crossed fingers. See, the beauty of life. life is that it always provides the necessary pieces to put your puzzle together so long as your eyes remain open. So while the world slept, I stayed awake. As the mind lays dormant, so does opportunity. As the ideal life remains imaginary, so does the action needed to build it. The best way to find answers is simply

to look for them. A folded up map hidden away in your desk. It suggests a million possibilities. Proposes an endless journey, but until you grab it, open your door and step outside, it will never truly take you there. I wanted to feel the wind on my face, the sand, on my feet, and even the most adventurous souls in the world don't have time to see everything. to experience it all. Time is the most precious of commodities. So while the world slept, I stayed awake. It's not in opening your eyes.

It's in what you allow your eyes to see. It's easy to live while being asleep, to completely disregard or walk right by the advantages, the opportunities, the pieces that we can work. reach out and use to shape our lives. Look, it's not about being right or wrong. It's about trading what you kind of want for what you really want.

It's about walking down your street and viewing every single thing in front of you as perfection, as the stars aligning as the perfect ingredients to create whatever you choose. Leave nothing for sleep. Let your dreams envy your reality. And while the rest of the world sleeps, I dare you to stay awake. I dare you to get everything you've ever wanted. Remember the little thing. The ones we all come to appreciate perhaps a little too late.

That feeling of comfort, our little eyes first understood to be home. Those little conversations we still think about. that shaped us. Those little stretches of time we thought would last forever, but to our surprise, had a final moment written into the story. Oh, those little things. I remember going to a concert in high school. I was at the Orphium in Boston, Massachusetts.

I went with two of my friends. Had an amazing time in, well, years. and years have obviously passed. And recently I asked myself, what is it I remember about that day? Why is it such a powerful moment for me? And interestingly enough, I don't remember any of the songs that were sung

or how well they were played. I don't remember what I bought or what I wore or what teenage troubles I was going through at the time. No, years later. I remember how it felt to stay. stand there in the center of that theater. Color of the lights filling up the room, the bass drum resonating in my chest, aligning with my heartbeat, the people I was with. And the funny thing is 17-year-old me had no clue. He was driving into the city for a night he'd remember forever,

but not because of the music, no, because of a feeling. Because he would spend the time with the same people he would have hung out with anyway at home. And perhaps subconsciously I knew, perhaps we all do, but at the time, it all felt like details. The time they were simply included in the story of buy one, get one, if you will. Oh, how they hide themselves those little things. In a way, it's not too different from the oxygen. We breathe in and breathe out, intertwined in,

everyday life, necessary to carry on, to grow, to evolve, yet only missed when it's gone. We don't think about the air we breathe unless of course we are submerged and without it. So why, why does this matter? Why put this thought to paper? Well, because to use my previous concert hall metaphor, I've spent so much of my life thinking about the stage presence, the accuracy of the notes, the visual appearances, the wrong things. It seemed intuitive, overwhelmingly obvious, but now they're just reminders how easily we can walk on what matters to get our hands on what doesn't.

Do we know what's important? Do we know what we hold dear? Do we think enough about those little things? Every time the caller ID says mom or dad or nana banana, when my little brother and sister get new apartments, jobs, promotions start navigating this crazy world. Every time I open my laptop and get to bleed my thoughts onto a blank page over a cup of coffee and a sunrise, running around random towns across this country with my best friends, bringing ideas to life.

See the now tells you they are nice things, happy things, lovely things. But it doesn't let you in on the greatest secret of all. Those little things just might be everything. So see them while you're in them. Hold on tight. When I was a kid, I saw everything upside down. I remember spending all my time in the now, right? I hadn't yet learned to contemplate worst-case scenarios.

When I was a kid, I was pretty much detached from reality. I'd have my Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers battling on the bedroom floor. I hadn't learned that playing with action figures doesn't get you a job. When I was a kid, I wanted to be the next Steven Spielberg, or play in Blink 1282, or maybe be the president of the United States. What excited me, I gravitated toward. I hadn't yet learned that the statistical likelihood of accomplishing something like that

was 0.001%. When I was a kid, I was so captivated by imagination that I wouldn't even want to go to bed, right? The excitement and the mere possibility of the world around me kept me awake. I hadn't learned to settle down or go with the flow. When I was a kid, I did what felt right. I was led by curiosity, by a sense of exploration.

I hadn't yet learned to weigh the opinions of others or the pressure of conformity. When I was a kid, I saw everything upside down. And when I was a kid, I was right. And perhaps there is no message more important than that. To move forward without leaving the best of you behind. Not to grow away from what matters most, but to grow into it. See, every so often I take a step back and I look at the world around me, pushing, pulling me to be something I'm not, and I think back to my younger self.

A life without walls or barriers, a life in pursuit of happiness. And I'm always amazed at how. Fast an exceptional existence becomes a checklist. Look, life changes. Responsibilities change, parameters shift, but it will never be wrong to ask yourself what matters. Are you waking up for you or for something or someone else? So stop, look in the mirror and decide which way is up and which way is down.

Because the journey awaits.