Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - NEVER THE VICTIM | Powerful Motivational Speech

Episode Date: May 10, 2023

"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life." - Paulo Coelho

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Win the tech search for business PCs at Lenovo.com. Never let yourself be the victim. If I could go back in time and have a conversation with my 8 to 10-year-old, self, that would be the message I would give. Because when you think about it, you're a kid, things don't go your way, what do you do? You cry, you whine, you throw a fit, you want your parents to feel sorry for you. You feel sorry for yourself. It's how you deal with things at that age. And then you grow up, but you don't necessarily shed that habit, that mentality. And it becomes

obvious, right? I mean, you can talk to someone for 30 seconds and you, you know, know right away if they have that victim mentality, the world's falling down, they're tired, they have so much to do, they're so busy, X, Y, and Z. Look, having that mindset does two things for you. One, it makes you come across helpless and weak, and no one wants to come across that way. Two, it does not get you to where you're going. It does not change the situation. Right? Here's the reality. There is always a way to get what you want. There is always a way to position yourself to move away from what you don't want. You can quite literally become what you want to become, but you cannot look at life like it's this problem, like it's against you. The ball is in your court. You know, it wasn't that long ago, two, three years ago that I was not the happiest guy in the world. Did not like what I was doing, did not like how I was spending my time, was not energized, was not passionate about very much. But the time came where I didn't want to live like that.

I had a conversation with myself. I stopped being the victim. I stopped complaining and I asked myself, dude, what do you want? What is your purpose? What is your goal? Who do you want to become? And I literally made the decision and walked away a different person. and the things around me changed, my life changed,

because I made a decision to never be the victim again, to get what I want. I became the author of my own story. And you realize just how simple it is to transform your situation. Not easy, right? And it takes time, but there's always a way to get from point A to point B. And this separates the world into two kinds of people. people. People who look at how things are, who accept reality as truth, who complain, and people

who look at what can be, who make the most of any situation, look at life as if it's clay, to be molded, to be shaped. It seems funny to me, knowing what I do now, that I went through any of my life like a hamster on a wheel, that I talked to people every day who didn't energize me, that I didn't want to be around, that I did things I wasn't passionate about, that is insanity. Because if you don't like something, but you do nothing to change it, what's left for you to do? Complain, whine, stay where you are, that's it. See, one of the reasons I reference athletics so much is because they bring this mentality on you. That when things become difficult, when things become challenging, your job, your one job is to find a way to

figure it out and I always did and I took that and I brought it to everything else I do. And now it's eye-opening to see people achieving success, financial freedom, these things everyone wants and know that the difference between them and everyone else is that they felt like they deserved it. A lot of the time they weren't smarter, stronger, they weren't more gifted starting out, but they moved toward what they wanted. They didn't cry or groan about the problems. they didn't look for sympathy, those at the top of the mountain are not victims. They would never let themselves be victims. It's about the other side, the opportunity, getting from where you are to what you want.