Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Listen To This Every Morning | Powerful Motivational Speech To Start Your Day

Episode Date: May 3, 2023

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung

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our lives are defined. I want to take a second and explain why I believe this to be so. Sort of a personal anecdote for sure, but a quick glance over my shoulder highlights that the best things in my life seem to have occurred after the quote-unquote adversity. The hard thing, ultimately unveiling something meaningful, taking my hand and leading me down a new path. But here's what's particularly interesting. That same adversity can also be,

and has been in the past, the reason that I've retreated further into myself, that I've doubted my ability, that I've felt down or embarrassed or defeated. It's not the adversity itself, but it's what we decide to make of it that determines our future. And so this is certainly a little heavy, but I think this metaphor sums it up perfectly. Take water. Age 20. It's essential to life. It not only quenches our thirst and allows us to continue on in the world, but it's the foundation for life itself. We can't exist without it. Here's the thing, though, that very same water can be the reason you drown, right? The very thing that gives life can take life away. The very substance required to carry on can be the reason everything stops.

the outcome is dependent on our interaction. And when I think of adversity, I think of that very decision point, the fork in the road. What will this be? The reason despite the pain that I grow and push further into life? Or will it be the reason I shrink? Will it be my excuse to cower in the face of hardship? You know, they say simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Making this concept as simple as I do has saved my life. It's helped me find a way through the down times and turn them into something beautiful. That's all what is pain, if not a spotlight on what your soul truly needs. It's the most reliable of messengers, prompting you to get back up, face the world, find that which is needed to reinvigorate the fire in your soul. So, for example, people. People come and go in life. We all get that.

But every once in a while, someone goes that we didn't anticipate going. Someone leaves, we didn't anticipate leaving. And there's plenty of reasons for this. From the end of a relationship to life taking a loved one too soon, it rocks our foundation. We never thought about it. They were a forever person. And so amidst the emotional distress there appears that fork in the road, that oversimplified black and white decision. Will I let this be validation for why life is no longer worth living?

an excuse to feel disdain and resentment towards what's gone? Or will it be a reminder to appreciate the beauty in life because everything around us is fleeting? Will it be your reason to reflect back and find gratitude for the moments you did have? Will it be the strength you now possess as you move into the world? What will you make of what's been placed before you? Now for the pragmatic,

reminder, sure, it's easy outside the storm to talk about weathering it. You know, it's easy for me to sit here having outlasted some of my greatest distress to look back and say, see, that was nothing. The reality is in the middle of the chaos, when we were standing at that fork, things don't seem so easy. They don't appear so black and white. But those are the moments when we have to dig deep, when we have to remember it's okay to hurt.

It's okay to feel, but it's not okay to let the hell you're going through become the end of you. It's not okay to let the hardship write your story. No, only you can do that. Never relinquish that control. This story will be a story not of defeat, but of a hero's journey. The resistance that makes the main character rise. beyond what he thought was imaginable. It's the turmoil that prompts that average everyday character in each of us

to look in the mirror and say, hey, there's more in there. When things were easy, maybe you didn't see it. But when they were easy, you didn't need to. It's the fork in the road. The same one that brought you to your knees, the same one that split your heart into now it's extending an invitation to rise yes when it hurts

yes when you feel weak yes when it seems like there's nothing to draw from rise those are the moments you transform when it would be perfectly comfortable to hide or quit or point it at life as the excuse but instead of letting life knock you down, you used it like a rope to climb out.

The only difference between beginnings and endings is where we go next once they arrive. The difference between growth and stagnation, contentment and resentment, curiosity, and fear, well, it's not what life gives us. It's what we choose to make with what life gives us. It's while standing at the fork in the road. going one way, when the easy thing to do would be to throw our hands up in defeat and go the other.