Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Stop Living Like You Don't Have a Choice (Motivational Speeches For Life)

Episode Date: July 15, 2026

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Remember, life will only give you what you ask for. Nothing more and nothing less. So don't be shy about looking up and asking for a lot. I'm going to go back to the basics here. Because when you miss the basics, you find yourself most off course. I'll swear by this. It's not the complexities or the details that derail us and leave us navigating the wilderness,

hopelessly looking for answers. It's the foundational things. It's missing the pillars. So that said, I'm going to share a little anecdote. Not because, and this is important, this anecdote in and of itself, is super meaningful or profound. In fact, you'll probably find it quite trivial, and I hope you do because it is.

But it's what it represents. It's the symbolism behind it. So as I'm walking you through this, all I ask is that you're thinking about your own life and the places where this could apply. Okay. So the other day, I got invited to an event up in Vancouver. And I'll share more about that soon. It was a great experience. I'm going to drip it, right?

Can't give it all in one take. But regardless, I got invited to this trip and I booked my flight from Phoenix to Vancouver. quick notice, quick turnaround. So I went to find a flight online, and of course, everything's a bit overpriced and a little outrageous, and you kind of expect that, right? I'm scrolling, looking at the options, find one, select it, and I'm like, no,

I'm not going to pay over $100 to choose my seat. That's outrageous. I'm going to roll the dice. And as you guess, that means I landed in a middle seat. seat. Not ideal, but again, first world problems, I'll be fine. And I'm at the gate about 20 minutes before boarding. I remember it perfectly leaning against this pillar with my backpack, watching something or texting on my phone. And it dawns on me. Like I look up at the gate and I think, well, why don't I walk up there and see if there's an aisle or window? It's like, worse they can say is

no. You approach it with humility, but at least ask. So I watch. So I watch. up guys at the counter hi how can I help you and I basically say hey is out of left field wondering you know I got randomly put in a middle seat is there any aisle or window available you can move me to guys kind of expressionless he asked me for my ID doesn't say anything a few seconds go by hands me my ID back with a printed out ticket says here you go moved it to 13 a enjoy just like That's like, sweet, I didn't even have to do anything. Better outcome. And the only job I did, only work I did was realizing that I could have that. You know, and I told you it was a small thing, but man, if that doesn't make you ask, how many times in my life have I just accepted a current situation or outcome as, you know, final when I could have just pushed back against it? It's not even that we get nervous and don't ask.

It's that we don't think to. It doesn't even dawn on us. We forget how much control we have. Like, translate that into everyday life. And it looks a lot like you'll never get that promotion if you don't stop and think, you know what? Like, this role has been great, but I can be a leader or a man.

or whatever stepping up looks like. I can start working towards more responsibility and the rewards and perks that come with it. You'll never date your dream person if you don't think, hey, who is this ideal person? And why don't I level up to become the type of person who attracts them? You'll never change your physique

if you don't look in the mirror and say, you know what, man? I've been accepting this, for years as quote unquote the way I am. But I don't have to. And you know what? I can do something daily to step into that new pair of shoes. Now, all of these are admittedly more nuanced and complex than changing a seat on a plane.

Yes. But the funny thing is, it's like the fundamental idea is the same. You realize that what is is not a permanent state. It's not a condition assigned to you. It's the product of your own actions. That's part one. Realizing that. And then the second part, of course, is doing something about it.

It's walking up to that metaphorical customer service desk and seeking change, doing what is required. And that second part is what I mean when I say the universe will never give you what you don't ask for. As a friend of mine has said, and I've referenced this before, you can't outsource your. push-ups. You have to do them. It's like same deal. You have to identify your mountain top and then climb towards it. But you never get the view, if you don't, one, identify the mountain top and two, climb. I know we're all guilty of this. I know we're all guilty of saying, oh, well, I guess I live at the base of the mountain. That's my reality, when it doesn't have to be. Too often we settle for less than ideal

because we don't even imagine something better. Right? And it's so fun. It's invigorating. It's freeing when that light bulb goes off. It's like, oh my God, I can change this. I can stop X. I can go do Y.

I built a little cage around myself here, here, and here. And I can unlock them and simply walk out. And one by one, you free yourself from those self-made. walls or cages or bars. Let me remind you all, you control how you spend your day. You might not think you do, but you do. And you control who you share time with. And you might not think you do, but you do. You control how you show up. You might not think you do, but you do. This is, one, finding the courage to ask more of the world, and two, finding the strength to step out your front door and take it.

Start conditioning your mind to ask that question. Are things this way because it's ideal and it aligns with what matters to me or are things this way simply because I've allowed it? You get in life what you tolerate. And on that drive-through life, you can ride shotgun and end up where you end up or you can take the wheel. You can hold your hands out and accept what is given to you

or you can use them to build a world that is entirely your own. It goes quickly. So why not start recognizing and unlocking all those little cages we've made ourselves comfortable in? Instead of settling for anything, why not ask the world for everything? One of the biggest mistakes we make is accepting good enough as normal. And normal does not always mean optimal. In fact, a lot of the times it's the opposite. So I've been trying to challenge that mindset in every area of my life,

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Okay, let's go on a quick journey. I'm going to do what I do often, use a big picture macro-aggressive. example to kind of kick open the door on something that I think is a smaller personal problem for many of us. It was recently on X, and I saw a post where someone was referring to some policy changes made by a foreign country. Obviously, no need to get into details here, but the post essentially referred to the country's new direction and said simply, see, you can just do things. Boom. You can just do things.

So the question is, if that's true, why on a personal level do we so often refuse to? Why do we so often carry perceived limitations around with us as though they are these tangible steel bars? Why do we think of an ideal state, sigh, and go, ugh, yeah, but not me. Why do we so easily forget that almost everything existing in our lives exist because we're allowing it to be there?

And by the way, that's a thought experiment that can hurt, right? The people you see, what you do, where you live, you've chosen it, all of it. Maybe not by nodding your head and saying, yes, more of that, please. But certainly by refusing to put your hand out and say, no more. See, the truth is, listening to this won't act for you. It won't write that email. It won't send the application. It won't put a deposit down on that apartment in a new city.

It won't tell a toxic individual in your life that you wish them well, but it's time to move on and protect your peace. Now, this episode will do no such thing. But hopefully, if all goes right, it plants a seed. It reminds you that there is your current world and your ideal world. And the former evolving into the ladder requires you looking around and saying, you know what, I don't like this, so I'm going to change it. It requires you remember how powerful you are, how much control you have. Every once in a while, I think back to corporate America.

And for all the flack it gets, there really are some wonderful things about it, right? There's plenty of wisdom as well as, you know, relationships. relationships that I proudly carry with me to this day. But like anything, there were some things that as a young man really bothered me. And one of them was how many people around me, much older, some of them much, much older, hated everything about their jobs, their day. And I don't mean disliked, I mean loathed. I mean repeatedly checked the weather app for snow days, like a third grader with a test scheduled

the next day. And I would naively ask myself, then why the hell are they here? Now, painting a large group of people with a broad brush isn't always fair, but I feel confident in saying that at least generally, leaving wasn't a thought. Not for many of them. This was just the way things were. It was life. It was going around the track and they were merely passengers.

It took some time, but I started to understand, right? my personal hypocrisy became clear when I had trouble making similar changes in my own life. It was just interesting to me, and I would recognize it, and I would think about it. I'd realize sometimes we don't stop. We don't ask ourselves if things have to be a certain way. We just accept them and complain about them, right? After all, that's easier. And so I don't want this to be complex.

I don't want this message to be some kind of decodering. I want this to be as simple as possible. I want to hand this to you and let you ponder. This question, as the architect of your own life, which you are, are you happy with how things are? Do they align with what matters to you most? Are they pointed towards your purpose? And if there are things consistently weighing you down,

why aren't you chipping away? Why aren't you redesigning? Why are you accepting something as is just because it's where you got dropped into the game. There's a lot of power and emotion behind this next idea, right? So much that it's really hard to grasp it as an idea when spoken. The same way other big ideas or questions like, what's the meaning of life fall flat, right?

It's just too big to fully grasp. But I'm going to try. The idea or phrase is simply this. You are going to die. Life goes by fast, very, very, very. very fast. And we aren't in our 90s yet, at least most of us. But from what I'm repeatedly told, people that age all realize how stupid the helplessness and the hesitation, the fear, all that stuff that kept them small, how stupid it really was. How our imaginary walls keep so many of us locked in. If we're going to be gone in a hundred years anyway, break some things. Take some risks.

Stop accepting standards that are subpar. You don't need to do that. You don't need permission. You don't need a green light or a letter in the mail. In fact, you don't need a reason at all. You can just do things. If you build yourself up, the world. One of my favorite stories is in Gary Keller's book, The One Thing.

Towards the end, he talks about a father and a son. I'm going to kind of paraphrase it and give my best interpretation here. It's been a while since I've read it. But in this story, there's a father and a son. The father's tucking his son into bed. And he says, son, I want you to know tomorrow, I took the entire day off, and it's going to be you and me. And we're going to play and enjoy the day and have an amazing time.

The son is so excited to hear this that he can barely fall asleep. It just makes his day, lights him up. So father says, good night, walks out. Eventually the kid falls asleep. Fast forward to the next day. Bright and early, the father's downstairs sitting at his table. He hears his son, you know, the little footsteps sprinting across the hall. And he goes, here we go.

Down the stairs, the kid comes, sits at the kitchen table right across from his father. He goes, Dad, let's go. Let's go. It's time. Let's go play. Let's go have fun. and the father's excited, right? The dad is ready to rock and roll,

but he also thinks, as many of us have, it would be nice to just get 15 or 20 more minutes here to enjoy the morning, right? Sip the coffee, finish reading the newspaper. And the dad comes up with an idea. He says, okay, son, how about this? He rips a page out of the newspaper he's reading, and he tears it into about 20 pieces.

And on this page was a globe. It was a picture of the earth. He places these 20 pieces of the earth in front of his son. And he says, the second you complete this puzzle and you put the earth or the world back together, I'm going to be done with my coffee. We'll go right outside and the day will begin. Picks up his newspaper, continues reading, smiling to himself, thinking, hey, you know, I just earned myself that 15 minutes.

Well, sure enough. A minute, minute and a half goes by, he fills a tug on his newspaper. He looks up, he goes, no way. Son says, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I finished it. He looks over, sure enough. The puzzle is complete. He says, son, how did you do that? The kid said, well, a piece fell on the floor.

They have a glass kitchen table. And he said, and when I went down to pick it up, and I looked up through the glass, I could see that on the other side of the globe was a picture of a man. And so I put the man together because that was easier. The idea being, the concept being, when you build the man, when you put the man together, the world falls into place. And that right there is, I believe, one of the most critical things I've ever learned.

and I'll talk a little bit about when I feel like that light bulb went off for me. But that was everything, right? Jim Rohn says it a little bit of a different way. Again, I'm paraphrasing, but he says, you know, it's not getting there. It's not the result or the mountaintop. It's who you become along the way. It's those instances where you look over your shoulder and you realize during the pursuit, throughout the process, you've become more capable.

you've become wiser, more competent. And that's the ticket to so many doors opening. So I want to talk about three things that I believe help you build yourself. The first thing is identifying a North Star, or identifying an ideal. Which might seem simple, but again, it's the simple things that we often overlook. And by the way, there's often a hefty price for overlooking. looking at them, right? So that's the first thing, identifying the North Star. The second thing is, okay, we have our North Star, but what can we say goodbye to? What can we cut off that we no longer

need? And the third thing is, once we have that information starting, which is a project in and of itself, and I'll talk a little bit about the mindset behind that. First things first, identifying your North Star. To me, this comes down to a simple understanding. You have so much more control of your life than you think you do. And it's not your fault for not thinking that or not seeing that. It's just something we do without being conscious and being aware. We conform. We live the life. We feel like we're expected to live. I've often talked about in my videos being 26 years old. and that being the moment, the turning point for me. Why?

Well, because I went to high school, to get to a good college, to get a good job, to move up the corporate ladder. I was four years into that job, and I looked around thinking, maybe I don't need to live for the weekend, right? Maybe I don't need to get up every day feeling obligated to do something that doesn't light me up. maybe I have more control over my life than I thought.

There's an idea that everything around you, everything in your life is there, because in some way or another, you've allowed it to be there. You've said yes to the people you see every day, how you spend your time, where you go, what you do, all those things. If they are in your life,

you know, whether it's subconsciously or, you know, very blatantly, you have said yes. And so it's realizing, hey, there's something else out there for me that matters. That's meaningful. You know, the last 10 years, it's been the hardest 10 years of my life. There's no question. Bringing something into existence that was not there. working to grow it, to expand it, working to grow myself as a person, right? But throughout it all, I've cultivated meaning.

I get up in the morning and I think this matters. I have a purpose that I care about that lights me up. To me, that's the goal. And to find that and identify that is everything. J.R.R. Tolkien in Lord of the Rings, he says, It's not all who wander or lost. We need to give ourselves permission to seek that out. To look around and realize, hey, some of this, some of my life, some of the things I do every day, I'm sure some of it's beautiful, right?

But some of it just happens. That's life. Some of it falls into place and doesn't make us better and doesn't excite us. And there's nothing to do with where we want to go. And so we need to be able to differentiate those things and start gravitating towards something. something that matters. The second one is a little bit, it's quicker, it's associated to the first one, right? The idea of, okay, now you have that thing, or you have an idea of that North Star.

Find the courage to cut away those things that aren't going to help you get there. Another form of freedom, that shackle around your ankle that you've been carrying with you. Greg McCune, his book, I scream it from the mountaintops. Essentialism was the first person to teach. me, hey, growth is not always acquiring. Sometimes growth is getting rid of those things we are carrying around. We carry too much. Empty your pockets of the burdens. Free yourself of those things. And that, again, comes back to this awareness. It comes back to looking around and doing an audit of how you spend your time. And it's mind-boggling. Like to take a day, for example, and really pay

attention to everything you did and try and look into the rationale behind it and where it's taking you. A lot of things we do just to do. That's what you need to take an axe to. It's been said, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. The internet attributes that quote to everybody from Lincoln to you know, Da Vinci. But it's absolutely true. When you can identify what matters and allow your world to revolve around that magic. That's number two. And number three is go. Start.

Which seems easy, right? You take a step. How complicated could that be? Perfection. Fear. Not knowing. All those things keep us from moving forward. And I want to gift you with this thought that helped me tremendously.

You're not supposed to know. You're not supposed to know how things work out. You're not supposed to have the answers. you're not supposed to have a perfect map or game plan. Life is chaos. It's supposed to be messy. And the people that get the most from it smile and step into that abyss

knowing they'll pick those pieces up along the way. That's not a little detail involved in personal growth. That is personal growth. That's the whole thing. That's the story. You go before you're ready. Because you'll never be ready. And I can find those people.

I can point to them talking about what they're going to to do if only. They're going to start something when X, Y, and Z happens. Well, that's a forever game. You go before you're ready. Even this studio, right, this is a new studio, it's a new setup, just a little spark to reinvigorate creativity and production. It's like moving things around. Is it perfect? Is everything lit up? Should I be closer to the camera further from the camera? all these things that I'm, you know, going back and forth with until I hit that ultimate, you know, lightball moment, who cares?

Pick up the mic, say something, and iterate. Ten versions from now, 10 videos from now, this probably will not be the same. Perfect. But there will not be 10 videos from now if you don't go. And so that's what I encourage you. I encourage you to remember that perfection is just fear in disguise, The people that wait for all the answers before they start, they wait forever.

Your time is now. So go. I'm going to leave you with that. The beautiful story from Gary Keller's book, The One Thing, when you put the man together, the world falls into place. So give yourself permission to put the man together. The world wants you to win. It has all the tools.

It has everything you need. You just got to go. Put the man together. and the world will fall into place. There's a notebook in the top drawer of a desk that hasn't been moved in years. Second drawer down, left side, under things that used to matter. It's black leather still stiff at the spine like it's never been asked to open all the way. If you did open it, you'd find one sentence written slowly and carefully.

Quote, this is where everything changes. And then nothing. No second page or mistakes. No proof that anything ever followed. Just the idea of a beginning. He remembers the night he bought it. Sitting on the edge of his bed, turning it over in his hands like it meant something.

For a moment it did. So much promise. A symbol for everything that could be. There was a feeling not like. loud or dramatic, just this quiet certainty that life could split right here, that fork in the road. There was a belief that if he started, really started things would be different. He even turned to page two, held the pen above it, let it hover long enough to almost become real. And then, eh, not like this.

Not tonight. I want to take my time, I want to do it right. He looked around the room and thought, I'll wait for the right energy, the right clarity, the right version of himself to show up first. You know the things we tell ourselves. Because in his mind, it was going to be a perfect day. Clarity, no distractions,

that energy you get from the feeling of a new pursuit, right, time stretching out in front of you like it finally made sense. He closed the notebook and set it in the drawer. It was going to be such a perfect day that day that never came. The next morning the sun came up. It didn't feel like a beginning.

It felt like traffic. It felt like emails, like small things stacking into a day that didn't really feel worthy of something big. This was the ordinary. Nothing to celebrate here. So we waited again. Not out of fear. This isn't a monster in the day.

closet thing it's just out of respect maybe that's the best way to put it I don't want to rush it I want to do this justice this is going to change everything let's give it the respect it deserves and that's the part that hides because hesitation dressed up as intention can pass for discipline so the drawer stayed closed and the idea stayed perfect Untouched, unchallenged, unreal, in his mind, it still glistened. It was such a perfect day. That day that never came. Years didn't pass all at once.

That's not how they slip by. They elude us quietly, in between routines that felt productive enough to avoid asking harder questions. Every so often he would open that drawer. look in there. Not to write, just to check. To remind himself that it was still there, that he hadn't given up. No, not him. He could start, but not yet. And that was enough. It was enough to keep the story alive without ever having to live it. Because as long as it stayed untouched, it stayed perfect.

No bad chapters, no doubt, no proof or evidence that he wasn't who he imagined himself to be, just potential, preserved, just possibility in a glass casing, waiting for a version of life that would finally feel worthy of it, waiting for what he knew would be such a perfect, That day that never came. Now you've probably put this together.

It's always easier to from the outside in, but he never did. He never realized that there is no day that arrives on a platter. Clean, perfect. No morning where you wake up fully aligned, fully ready, without resistance. There is only this. There is this unfinished moment. This imperfect opening. opening this version of you as you are.

The same kind of moment he had that night with the pen hovering over page two, the same one most people step away from. Everyone has that drawer. Everyone has that notebook. Just different targets, different goals, different dreams tucked away. Because starting, it does something dangerous. It makes it real. And once it's real, it can be wrong.

Once it's real, it can be criticized, it can be messy, it can fail. But we forget once it's real, it can also become something. And that's the trade-off. You either protect an idea of perfection, or you build something that can tangibly matter, change your life, affect the world, around you. You don't get both. And one day that drawer becomes a memory. That notebook becomes something else entirely. Not a beginning, but a question. And you know the question. What if?

And when you look back, you don't remember the days you waited. You remember the weight of knowing you were close and didn't move. You remember the version of you who stood at the edge of a new life entirely again and again. You remember how good that felt in the moment, closing your eyes and imagining what it could be, waiting for life to feel just right. You could feel it move through you. It was such a perfect day, that day that never came. Someday, the things that you currently don't understand will make sense. Someday, the big things you're dealing with won't seem so big anymore. Someday the doubts you have about yourself will be revealed as false. Someday you'll see that the things you worry about didn't matter at all.

Someday you'll see that the road before you wasn't something you had to walk flawlessly, but rather something you had to trust and believe in. Someday you'll look in the mirror and see that you had it in you the entire time, that there was nothing you needed or should have been hoping for. Yeah, someday. Someday that will all be true. But what about some days from the past? I remember years ago thinking someday I would venture out into the world.

Someday I'd speak my mind. Someday I would start my own business. I would surround myself with people who believed in what I believe. Someday I'd make a little more money, have a little more time to do what I love. Someday I'd have all that. And as I look around, I realize it looks a lot like someday. But guess what? As we grow, so do our some days.

It's a chase that never end. There's always something more. There's always something bigger and better. And the problem is not the ambition. The problem is forgetting that in so many ways, you've dreamt of being where you stand right now. You have arrived. You're not the same person that 10 years ago,

was throwing some days out into the universe. No, you have grown. You have learned. You have evolved. Why does this matter? It matters. Because without acknowledging how far you've come, you cannot acquire the strength needed to go where you must go.

When you don't feel good enough, It's often because you haven't looked over your shoulder and opened your eyes. The evidence is right there. It's hiding in plain sight. There's proof that you've been there. That you faced demons and conquered them. Endured your battles and overcame. You did that.

And at one point not that long ago, you couldn't see. say that you had. You weren't yet that person, but things are different. Now, what you have today was once only that hopeful someday. It was a fleeting thought. It had no merit and no value, yet you brought it to life. Look what you've done. Understand how far you've come, how you ran when you could, you walked when it was possible. You crawled. when you had to, and continued on to arrive at a someday that is right now. You, my friend, are a maker of things unseen, an architect of tomorrow's and some days, so don't you dare, don't you ever entertain the delusion that this gift suddenly stops now.

Suddenly the burden is too much. The mountain is too tall. No, what you do is overcome. That is who you are. You've done it for you. You've done it for the ones you love. And in some cases, the ones who didn't even understand, but you kept going,

marching through the fires of hell to turn some days into right now. And I get that the road before you is uncertain. There's no way to know exactly how life will on But that's besides the point. A bird can't predict every gust of wind it's going to encounter. It spreads its wings, takes off, and adapts because it can, because it always has, because that's what it does.

I'm not advocating that you should have all the answers. No, I'm suggesting that you trust yourself to find them. To move forward into the haze that surrounds you, to make sense of the seemingly illogical, bring about reality from the make-believe, someday you will have what you're aiming for. But here's to never letting a today go by without realizing that you are always living out a someday from your past, you are always arriving and leaving simultaneously. The accomplished and the student crossing a finish line and on the starting block with another race around the corner another chance to stretch your legs and reach for the heavens. If you ever forget that,

I ask that you find it within yourself to look over your shoulder, to remember what you once asked for, and to appreciate the journey that you have undertaken. You did that. Now onward you go, you have more some days. to bring to life.