Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - MORNING MOTIVATION | Listen To This When You Wake Up And Start Your Day Right

Episode Date: March 27, 2023

You know, one of the hardest things to do is to walk away from a situation that's just okay. That's fine, it's doable, livable. There's an idea that the enemy of great isn't its inverse. The enemy of great is not average or insignificant or, I don't know, throw in any similar word. No, the enemy of great is good. Why? Because it's incredibly easy to rationalize. good. It's incredibly easy to sit back and tell yourself, hey, things aren't currently broken,

so why touch them, leave it alone. It's why it's a dangerous place to be. Comfort doesn't, on its own, initiate action or evolution. There has to be some sort of stressor to ignite the flame. And I'll get a response, you know, every now and then, truly in good faith, asking, well, what's wrong with average? Why can't I just be? Not everyone can be LeBron James or Adele or Denzel Washington. Eddie, this convo sends people down a path of false hope. Well, hear me out. Because I'm certainly not saying everyone can be LeBron James, but they can most definitely be LeBron James in their own world. And instead are settling for some sort of bench roll. I'm not saying if you're not a movie star making $20 million a film you've lost.

I'm merely pointing out that perhaps you haven't even found the courage to star in your own movie, the one that is your life. And I can't speak for every human being on the planet here, but I most certainly can speak for myself. The easiest thing for me, the temptation I always find myself grappling with, is the temptation to stay where I am. To accept things as they are, pass change off as something that's just a little bit out of my control.

That's what my lizard brain always seems to want. It's really nice to not have to feel the burden of knowing I can change things around me. That prospect of creating my own friction, my own chaos, so that I can, in a sense, tame it and elevate myself, that can be overwhelming. stressful. But you know what it is at the end of the day? It's thrilling. It's meaningful. And it may

have taken me years to understand, but I'd trade a safe life for a meaningful one any day. It was my coming to understand that statistically we should not be here. The odds are so small that you're alive listening to this, that the word improbability doesn't do it just. It's a miracle in every sense of the word, and so what do we do about that? How do you explain a feeling? How do you explain the cost of not going, of fewer sunrises, less laughter, untapped creativity? Unwalked paths, journeys never started, you can't. Which is why you have to go. Good is not detrimental because it's insufficient. It's detrimental because it gives you you just enough to make stepping out into the world feel illogical. It's a warm blanket

keeping you comfortable enough to forfeit that feeling you truly crave. And I hope it's clear. My take in this is not that we aren't enough. It's that we have to be reminded that our biological compass points towards survival. And survival is, a game of stagnation. Our souls on the other hand they need to run to seek out the magnificence of life and the more times we can be tapped on the shoulder and reminded of this the better. See I don't dream of new horizons because I'm ungrateful. I've learned to chase them down because I'm so grateful that I refuse to forfeit the gift. To leave my curiosity packaged and confined, I want to bask in life's abundance before my

time here is up. And that's just it. That's the whole point. The friction between the knowing and the doing. Making that happen, physically bringing yourself there. It's not an easy thing. Certainly not as easy as putting your feet up and rationalizing the status quo. It's why I listen to voices that inspire me, read stories that teach me, I talk to people who lift me up. Going is harder than staying, but meaning resides in the going. So no, it's not about being LeBron James. It's about getting off the bench and at least shooting a shot. Whatever a shot means to you, wherever you are.

Because if you don't, you'll never experience the thrill of having made one, of having felt that success. It's not about what you're doing. It's about what you're leaving on the table. Is average terrible? I don't know. Is a Ferrari never taken out of its garage terrible? Not really.

It's still a Ferrari. but it won't experience the very thing that Ferrari was designed to experience. Again, how do you quantify that? You can't. Not until you go. So here's the stepping out of whatever the present definition of normalcy is in your world. Maybe not frantically changing the world around you, but certainly questioning the good,

questioning yourself, questioning the rogeron. Has the routine overshadowed the reason you put the routine into place? Has the way things are come to outweigh the way you'd like them to be? Has good become a distraction, misdirecting you away from both life's brilliance and your own?