Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - NEVER GIVE IN | Best Motivational Speech About Life

Episode Date: April 26, 2023

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” - Mary Anne Radmacher

This has been on my mind recently. The things happening around us that go unnoticed. The work that's unseen. Let me explain. There's an idea that a fish has no idea. It's in water as the water is all it's ever known. And I like to draw parallels to this frequently because I think it's representative of the human condition in so many ways. It has to be.

We necessarily block out an infinite number of things in order to focus on what we've decided matters most. In other words, our eyes are spotlights. And the beauty is that this allows us to say yes to that which will push us in a given direction, disregarding everything else. The challenge is that sometimes what's disregarded has value. We can't see the progress we're making as we're building because to build we have to be focused on the very next brick on what's in front of us.

Step by step, day by day we see what's next. But what often lives outside that field of vision is what we're becoming. The foundation we're building. That's why the journey can feel frustrating and feel helpless. A lot of the real value kind of floats overhead unnoticed. Now I have infinite examples here. I'll give you one of my favorites.

Almost a decade ago, I wanted to make a little acoustic album, singer-songwriter stuff, and I called it Painting the Mississippi, which, if you're ever going to come up with a band name, make it something people can spell, just a side note. Okay, but I was locked in. My heart at the time pulled me in this direction and I thought of nothing but writing songs. Recording, learning pro tools, how to edit and mix music. I thought about promotion, designing album covers, making videos.

I'd never done anything like that in my life before. It was all new. And because of that, I'm sure it's no surprise that it was bad. Reality was about to confirm this. I didn't know it yet. But it was coming, right? And I sent it everywhere all over Boston. It got no traction.

I remember just being baffled. My mind went to all those little steps. All the time, all the commitment. I would just sit there thinking, you know, what about all that effort? My eyes were focused entirely like a spotlight on making this happen for months and months and months. And now, what do I have to show for?

Nothing. Even worse than nothing, embarrassment, a bruised ego, fear of what comes next. If I were a fish, that process was the stream I'd been living in. Not only that, my understanding of life was effort and validation having a one-to-one relationship. Long-term value was something I understood less than Mandarin. It just wasn't something I thought about. But here's what lived outside my field of vision, all that I was becoming. And listen, I know some of these things are said so often that they feel cliche.

I get that, right, the classic. Well, son, at least you learned. But this, quote unquote, loss, was truly the foundation I would build the next decade on. Here's what younger me learned. Sometimes you work and you work and you work and you work and the results are not there. See, reality is a free market. It'll let you know if you're adding value and if you're not.

And what I saw is that sometimes you swing and miss and it's not personal. In fact, learning to depersonalize these outcomes is what separates the true winners and losers in life, because winning requires taking that data and info and going back to the drawing board. Losing is derived from looking at that result and saying, oh, I must suck then.

I must not have what it takes. It was the hardening that I needed. Impossible to see that in real time. That was life outside the stream I was swimming in. But oh, how great for you. I am for it. To ultimately learn that life does not give charity, no one deserves anything. You either evolve until you can get what's yours or you miss out on all of it.

And see, what I'd love you to do as you march forth into your next unknown is understand that so long as you are humble enough to adapt and learn and grow, there is value happening in real time. And I only remind you because it's very likely that right now in this moment, you can't see it. You can't see how what you're going through now will make you stronger.

How the setbacks will ultimately make all the difference. You can't see how strong you are because all you're looking at is what's next and you have to. You're not thinking about what you're. you've conquered or how far you've come. No, that somehow eludes us. So don't let the disappointment of the no results now intimidate you.

This is the good stuff, the meaningful stuff. If you're willing to learn as you go, I promise you, even when life seems to be at its darkest, you are ascending a staircase that will bring you where you need to be. As the saying goes, sometimes the quote unquote wrong choices bring us to the right place. Trust in the value you cannot yet see as you make your way through life. Trust that the dots will connect, that this will all make sense. You simply cannot be effective without some trust in the process.

The reason life is not a standardized test with true and false questions because it's figured out as we go. So don't deprive yourself of that beauty when the reward is delayed because my friend, the magic is now. It's in the will to move forward and the courage to keep your head up. It's in what all this becomes. So believe in you. Trust in yourself.

Have the patience to walk that path and see it all materialize.