Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Listen To This When You Feel Like Giving Up

Episode Date: January 27, 2021

"I'm not telling you it's going to be easy. I'm telling you it's going to be worth it" - Arthur L. Williams Jr.

I once heard a metaphor that our existence is like standing behind a curtain with tears or holes, and reality becomes which holes we decide to look through when we're peering out at the world on the other side. What do we want to see? And this message, well, it's for whoever out there feels like giving up or folding their hand. Whoever's been waiting for things to change, but only sees the clock moving forward, This is a reminder that the very thing you need is on the other side of that curtain. And you don't need to change who you are. We just need to position yourself to see it.

Because it's there and you're ready. When life hurts, we might have every reason to be in pain, to feel lost or confused, but I always find it to be a beautiful reminder that we also have every reason to seek out from that pain. something we've never been before. Why is it that our greatest accomplishments come when our backs are to the wall? Our greatest acquisitions after losing something dear to us. Why is it that we find ourselves in our way

only after being lost? I've never heard someone say, thank God I never changed or left or tried something new. No, it's thank God the adversity forced upon me, the courage to evolve. to evolve into something more. Pain is to our potential what water is to a seed. It's the beginning of everything unshackling,

opening the gate and making us realize we were sitting on the answers. That adversity doesn't stop you, it makes you stronger. That the down times lift you up. That when you lose yourself, you find a part of you. that can now become the bridge to your future. See, I understand that things are difficult and challenging. I understand they're not easy,

and I'm not asking you to pretend it's not happening or ignore it or close your eyes. I'm asking you to find amidst all of this, that one thing, one thing that will get you to tomorrow. I'm asking you to find the courage to say, yes, this hurts. Yes, I'm stretched thinner than I've ever been, but I'm still going to find a way.

I'm still going to make it happen. Because at the end of the day, you won't remember what hurt or what stood in your way, but you'll remember what you did about it. You'll remember how you arranged those pieces. How when your instincts said run, you stopped and built something you'll never forget.