Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Stop Making Excuses And Change Your Life (Motivational Speeches for Success)

Episode Date: September 18, 2026

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When it's all said and done, what will your story say? A friend of mine, Justin Prince, once asked me what my dash represented. And I thought, dash. I said, yeah, dash, if you think about someday down the road inevitably when we all die, there will be on our gravestone or tombstone the date we were born, a dash, and the date we died, making that dash symbolic of everything, the little line that represents it all. And so when the sun is setting on your lifetime,

and you've breathed your last breath, and you've enjoyed your last sip of coffee, and you've smiled for the last time, and all that remains are the people that you've touched in what you've built along the way, what will that dash represent? And I hope you'll join me in asking yourself that question. Like truly thinking about it.

No, not just when it's easy to. Not when things are firing on all cylinders. I'm wondering, will you think about it on the days? You've hit that snooze button three times, and you're wondering to yourself, Does any of this even matter? I'm wondering, will you think about it when you feel lost? Or feel that the hope in your life seems camouflaged?

I'm wondering, will you think about it when you've let yourself down? Or feel like you've let those around you down? Or maybe when others have let you down? There's a lot we can control. but that dash I need you to hold that I need you to know that as Victor Frankel alluded to

in a slightly different context that is the one thing that cannot be taken away see the dash at least for me it makes it crystal clear how short our time is and I don't know why it's so effective why of all things it's the dash

that connects. The idea that your life in terms of time is a grain of sand on the beach. It's a raindrop in a thunderstorm. It's a single flicker of light in an infinite galaxy of star. I think about that and it's like, don't you get it?

You're here and you shouldn't be. None of us should. Too many things had to be perfect. Too many things had to be just right. An impossible number of variables had to align. And they did. They did in order to gift you that dash. And that doesn't mean we can't sit down and relax every once in a while.

My point isn't, hey, never sleep in or that you shouldn't be human. I'm coming from a different place. I'm speaking as someone who seemingly always finds the difficulty or trouble or obstacle first. I'm wired to see what's wrong. You know, I've talked about it countless times over the years. I'm wired to protect and preserve. And I have my moments of courage. I wouldn't be here if I didn't.

But my God, if you knew how hard I had to fight to be courageous just when I most needed to be, I think you'd be surprised. But what keeps me fighting, the more I come to understand, is that simple line. I cannot let go of the dash. See, if we were here forever,

then it's like, I get it. Go slow. It's safer that way. Less chance of falling down. Follow your curiosity later. It will always be there. And there will be, at some point down the road, a better time.

Why not wait for the better time? Forever we'll present one. But that's not how it works. And you start to think, oh, sure, that song is going to keep playing. And it might play forever. But me, I only get a few notes. And this march through time is endless. Yeah, but I only get a few steps.

And so you start to ask yourself, why wouldn't you make sure? Like, damn, sure. Why wouldn't you be positive with everything you had that those notes echoed into eternity? And those footsteps took you to the places you most wanted to be. That dash, it symbolizes all that your life can become. So when you need it most, use it. Close your eyes and imagine the highlight real of your life and ask, did I spend that snapshot of time with the people that I loved most? Did I laugh? Did I follow my curiosity?

Did I do the things that lit me up? Did I chase down the meaningful? Cut off the trivial. Invite in the beautiful. In this snapshot, there is a world of possibility. It's your reason to push. because the reality around you now doesn't have to be the one that exists

when all is said and done when the dash is carved into stone today is not the end today is not permanent today is where you begin the journey of recreating what that line will represent the times in my life

where I've found myself at my lowest do you know what saved me it's never been the act of something new, it's never been money or resources or even people. It was hope. It was belief that tomorrow can be different from today. And I can't control everything, but I can control that. I get to decide what that dash means, and that has always been enough to close

one chapter and start anew. So if you're questioning the road, if you're asking yourself why, it's because you are blazing a trail that's currently unmapped. You're designing something that doesn't exist. So understand that not knowing isn't a bug, it's a feature.

You're designing something that you'll be able to smile about when you look back down over your life. And for those looking at the ceiling now, hitting the snooze button now, wondering why, and trust me, I've been there, it gets better. And it will get better because you will make it so. You didn't come this far to let it slip away. You weren't put here to mail it all in. There is outside your front door everything you need to live a life that excites you.

Just decide to go get it. Decide to craft something beautiful. It may look like just a line on a tombstone, but it is so much more. It's symbolic of what you can have. The decision at your feet now, when life wasn't easy, when you were unsure, when finding meaning felt like trying to squeeze blood from a rock. The question is, did you remember your strength? Did you breathe one million lifetimes into a single, seemingly insignificant, arbitrary line?

Imagine with me a toddler, let's say two years old, walking around a living room and picking things up. And the things that he or she's picking up, they're using for play. In other words, not the original use that these objects were designed for. The kid is picking it up and inserting it into his or her own worldview the way that makes sense to the child. There's not courage involved there. That's innate. That's built into the kid, right?

Like our lungs breathing in oxygen. It's involuntary. It doesn't need to be taught. But somehow, there becomes a point when this is no longer the case. When the object's intended use and history takes center stage, and the launching pad that was once our imagination now exists simply to stack supposed tos and obligations. After all, we no longer need living room tents, flashlights or tire swings.

For what? Our driver becomes not making mistakes, blending in, not failing, falling, or getting dirt on our hands. We won't hold life in the palms of our hands because we fear that life may crack. There's an ancient Japanese idea called Kinsugi, where when pottery is broken and altered, the pieces are collected and it's put back together.

glued with a golden lacquer. But the most important part of this process is that the newly constructed item has not lost but gained value. What makes this unique or special? It's the idea that it is a celebration of life. It's the original object plus authenticity. It now contains pieces of you

in your journey in your world. See, truly living is not following orders or blending in. It's not seeking to avoid scratches or cracks. No, it's stepping out into the world and exploring. Testing, trying, and yes,

at times, even breaking. Because it's in the reconstruction of these decisions that life becomes valuable. It's in failing and falling that we become strong. It's in loss that we've gratitude, it's in not knowing that we find meaning and ultimately wisdom.

This means doing what we did when we were two, even if this go-through requires courage we didn't need back then. See, when the default is to preserve, we must ask what it is we are preserving. And I'm not discrediting the original. Be grateful for the status quo, but pay homage to it. by building on top of it, by breaking and reassembling the status quo so that it transforms for merely an object to a banner,

to a flag, to a battle cry. This world is yours. All of it, a canvas for your painting, a key to the door you want to walk through. But there must first be adjoining of that which surrounds you and well, you. So we talk a lot about mindset on this podcast, obviously. But taking care of yourself is more than just mind.

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It's a tool. The same way that attributing any type of motive to a hammer would be ridiculous, right? I've seen hammers build things and I've seen hammers destroy things. Well, the same can be said for the way. world around you. What it becomes is determined entirely by how you choose to utilize it. You know, there are things we learn as we navigate through life that change us. And one of the most critical for me was understanding that, yes, the world is indifferent to me and no, I am not special. Doesn't mean I can't go do amazing things, help people, change the way things are.

But if those results materialize, it will be because of what I made with what surrounds me. Not because of what the world owed me. Or because I was special or deserving. No, it will be because I set my sights on something and pursued it. And so you ask, why is this empowerment? It's empowerment because it puts things into perspective and perspective is power. It simplifies the road ahead. The bad things that happen, they are not personal, they don't mean the deck is stacked against you, and those good things, they are never guaranteed.

Everything's a question of grit, of depersonalizing the lows in an effort to capture those fleeting highs. Life is not predetermined. Life is a game. A game that you have the ability to win, to leave this place better than you found it. But you're also capable of taking a different path. It's just as easy to highlight the flaws, to take on the role of a perpetual victim. The tools are there to do both. And so the question is, what will you do with what you have?

Because it's not about where you start. It's not about where you came from. It's about choosing to look around you and say, I choose to be an architect. From this reality, I will build. I will contribute. I will go forth and conquer. When the walls cave in,

it's not because you can't or shouldn't. It's because sometimes in life, walls cave in. And now you choose whether to lay in the rubble or rise from the ashes. And this fork in the road, It's going to present itself many times, right? The ones who get angry, who point out, who project blame, who will live very different lives

and the ones who brush it off as an obstacle on the windy road that is life and press forward. You did not arrive here special, but you sure as hell can leave here special. The world may be indifferent, but you are not. If you're passionate, if you move forward conviction, you'll become friends with the trials and allies with the tribulations. You'll see that growth only stops, not when an angry world around you decides it's so,

but when you do. When your feet stop moving and your heart longs for the horizon no more. But until then, it's all systems go. Until then, you build. This is your reminder that it's not permanent. Whatever it is you're going through, whatever it is you're fighting, feeling, or up against. It's not permanent.

It will subside in what you'll be left with is the calm and the peace and the power that was there the entire time just underneath the surface that never truly left. See, we tend to do something, and this something is the root of a lot of our struggle and pain. This something is particularly in the moment

thinking that what we're going through now will last forever. It's the misconception that it's not a temporary battle but a life sentence. We're incapable of looking beyond the immediate. And I'm here now to remind you it's temporary. It's all temporary. The question is not, will the storm pass? The question is, even though it hurts, can you?

Will you pick your head up and move through it? And I know in the storm it's hard to see anything other than those. gray skies, the thunder, the lightning, the black. I'm not asking you to blink and see some imaginary sunny day. I'm asking you to keep walking even though you feel like you can't. I know it hurts. I know it seems crazy. But I'm asking you to keep one foot in front of the other until once again you find yourself.

Someone once told me success is often a matter. of merely hanging on when most would be letting go. And that stuck with me. I think of it often because when I'm in pain, there comes with it an anxiety, almost a pressure to find solutions, to remove the problem. What if it doesn't go away?

What if this chaos is now just life? But that quote reminds me that I don't have to pull a rabbit out of a hat or run into any miracles, I simply have to hold on. I have to believe in myself enough, trust in the process, enough to not back down or hide or cower.

But continually, like those buffalo are said to do, move right into the heart of the storm. And know that when all is said and done, only one of us will remain and it won't be the storm. See, what you probably don't hear enough is the world needs you

because of sure who you are now but who you'll be on the other side. And so the question is, will you commit to pushing through? What you probably don't hear enough is people need you. Absolutely because of who you are in this moment but also because you

You're the type of person who overcomes the storm and finds a way through. My question remains the same. Will you find the courage to meet those on the other side? There's one true thing about all storms. They come and they go. And we often can't control when, why, where, or how long they exist. Well, it's just sometimes life pulls the strings. But we can be sure that if we hold on and just keep going, remember our worth,

there's a world that awaits. One maybe you can't see now, one that might not even make sense now, but a new world entirely. I once heard a speaker from a stage. Ask the audience if they want a $20 bill. Of course, everyone raises their hand. He crumples it up. Says, now who wants it? Everyone's hands still raised.

He then proceeds, what if I do this? Drops it on the ground, stomps on it. Picks it up, shows the crowd. $20 bills in a ball all dirty. Anyone still want it? All hands remained up. See, it doesn't matter what he did to the money. Value stayed the same.

It's worth $20. Many times in our lives, he goes on to say, we do bad things or in bad situations, bad circumstances. We feel like we have no worth. But like that $20 bill, we never lose that value. That value exists when you are in pain. That calm exists underneath the turbulence. That sun lives beyond the clouds. It's never gone or diminished because of one's current state.

When all you see is what's not there, it's not because you're alone or that you've somehow diminished in value, it's because you're pushing through your story just as I'm pushing through mine. It's because you're seeing a crumpled up $20 bill and not its worth, not the true impact that exists and that awaits.

So whatever you do, keep pushing. Keep going, keep looking for the other side. Whether you can see it now or not, it is waiting for you. And hopefully, innately, you understand that. Not because life as you hoped or wanted was returned to you, but because just like your worth, it was there the whole time. My mornings are when I do some of my best work.

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Now, why is this important? Why is it the framing I so often need? Well, to put it simply, I put a lot of pressure on myself, right, as many of us do, these deadlines and these goals, they hover over me, they guide my decision-making. And, you know, while that allows me to operate at a high level, there's also a flip side. From time to time, it makes me feel like I'm navigating a maze. And I slip into this tunnel vision that makes life seem almost procedural. And every so often, the freedom and the beauty slip away. I forget they're there. So to be reminded of life's abundance, its breath is healing.

It's like step outside your day to day. Try something new. Lose yourself in something. Undergo that audit that cuts away the things that have made their way into your life that add no value. The day is yours and no one else's. Life's not grading you on a one to ten scale. So give yourself permission. to explore, green lights to make mistakes, to adventure, right, for the soul's sake of the ride.

And it's not even a me thing. When I live with an abundance mindset, I'm able to be a better version of myself, which means I can better help others. It means I can show up the right way for the people in my life. See, we need to remember that we are freer than we think. and why we need to be perpetually reminded of this, I'm not sure, but we do. It's incredibly easy to fall in line and turn autopilot on. Then the situation becomes mundane, even counterproductive, and we just submit to it. We say, oh, this is life.

No, it's not life. And in fact, by adopting that mindset, you're forfeiting the greatness within yourself and the greatness that surrounds you. You're ignoring the very reason you are here, bowing to the dictator that is safety and monotony. Are you personally growing, progressing? Are you challenging yourself? Are you finding the courage to step outside the box,

the walls you've built around yourself? Are you spending time with the people who matter? are you seeking out peak experiences? Because you not only can do those things, you should. And every morning that sun coming up should be a reminder that all of this in life is available to you. The caveat being no one gives you permission to pursue it. As the saying goes, no one comes along and saves you.

It's up to you to look out your win. window and see not confinement, but possibility to inject yourself into the meaning that is available to you. Today is yours. So long as you find the courage to make it so. I was on a pretty long flight last week from Europe and I downloaded this mini-series. It's called 1883. and it's the prequel to a show called Yellowstone.

It's basically about, you know, some settlers looking to go out west, right? From, I believe, Tennessee and Texas, taking the Oregon Trail all the way across the country to the west coast. And it's just this brutal journey, right? Famine, storms, rivers, wildlife, clashes with natives. I mean, everything you can imagine that would make this trip hell. And the main character is, I think, about 18 years old, and the whole story is told through her eyes. So, spoiler here, but I can't really avoid spoiling it. You know, she gets hit with an arrow during a confrontation with natives.

The arrow goes through her stomach, and it pierces her liver. And so her dad is caring for her, right? She's lying down just in really bad shape. It makes kind of an abrupt movement. And her father, who's leaning over her, kind of goes, hey, hey, hey, slow down, slow down. And then says, quote, they cauterized the outside of you,

but time is the only thing that can stitch the inside. And I wrote that down immediately. Beautiful quote, right? Obviously referencing her wound in that scene. But I think also referring to the wound, this whole thing would leave on her father's heart, whose instincts were correctly suggesting that she wouldn't make it much longer. And she didn't.

And I think in our world, to put it simply, there are always two things at play. The things we have control over and the things we don't. The action that we can take now and this subtle patience that exists under the surface. In the example, you know, you can attempt to close or cauterize the outside of the wound. You can monitor it for infection. You can rest.

You can do all the things. But what happens inside? Well, that was beyond them. And in both loss and in times of growth, I often find myself frustrated with that dance. You know, when it's lost after losing something or someone, you can engage with new stimuli. You can attempt to refocus, spend time with people that light you up.

You can certainly put yourself in position to move on. That's great and it's helpful. But we also know that the heart won't move on. until it's ready to move on. There are sort of two parallel tracks existing at once. And so you have control, certainly, but how much? And then with growth, you know, you can do all the right things, you can work long hours, you can plan, seek out efficiency,

commit to consistency, and all of that is critical. But that exponential growth curve requires time, days, days and often a large accumulation of them. There are the unexpected occurrences, the curveballs, the stepping back to leap forward, epiphanies. And so using this same metaphor, you have control over the outside. It can be cared for, and it should. But in this same metaphor, if the inside is a mere representation of time and that which is beyond our control, there's a necessary trust and patience required.

Perhaps the term should be aggressively patient. When I first started doing this in 2014, I heard a speech from Les Brown where he mentioned the bamboo tree. And it came at a time when I needed it most. You know, when I was acting and the wheels were turning in life was spinning, but the results were minimal at best.

What makes the bamboo tree special? What less alludes to is that it takes years and years for that tree to emerge from the ground. But when it does, it basically shoots up immediately, right, overnight, rapidly. And so it appears like it comes out of nowhere, but there's a world of change happening underground. with each tick of the clock.

And so the farmer has to tend to the soil and water it and commit to its daily maintenance. Well, the rest of the world sees nothing, right? They look on and think that he or she has lost their mind. But that farmer is merely juggling what he can control with the faith in that which he cannot control. Because in all likelihood, there will be a point when the bamboo breaks through the earth's surface and makes a break towards the sky in stunning fashion.

So this is somewhat of a different lens. That's what I want this to be, a different way of looking at the world, because so much of the time we focus, and I certainly do with these videos, on the things that we can control. Often what we do is mind-blowing, right, what we're capable of. We are powerful beyond imagination. But I tell you, the older I, get, and the more wisdom I'm able to acquire, true strength seems to be knowing how powerful you are and, big and, marrying that understanding to the fact that sometimes, no matter what we do, that clock must tick. No matter how hard we march in a particular direction, our hearts must heal on their own, no matter how fast we build or how consistently we show up.

The destination requires two or three or five or ten or twenty trips around the sun until we get what we set out to capture. That reminder is everything when you feel you have received no validation for your work or your effort. They say it's not the destination, it's the journey. And I believe that to be true, because the destination is merely a reflection of the road you've traveled. It's a summary of the external cauterization of our wounds and our challenges or difficulty. And each step we took, each head nod as we moved into the unknown, each tick of the clock as our effort and dreams became reality.

When you feel you've lost faith, when you're looking at the ground and no bamboo has emerged, sure, analyze and adjust your approach, pivot, understand what you can do now. But for the sake of progress and your sanity, marry that with the knowledge that some plants take a long time to sprout. Be willing to do your part, But let the clock do its part.

Let time play the role it was meant to play. You know how you do that by continuously marching forward. But it's been so long. March forward. But it hurts. March forward. But I'm lost. March forward.

As my favorite saying goes, time heals nothing unless you move along with it. You doing all you can do now allows fate to do all it can. Too many times we get discouraged or never go or leave too early because we think life is entirely determined by our output. When results are the product of, yes, planting and nourishing, but also when called to be patient, being patient. Time is the only thing that can stitch the inside. As you make your way to your own personal greatness,

whatever that means to you, whatever that feels like to you, I ask that you arm yourself with that reminder. The ones who reach mountaintops, they were relentless in what they could control, but they were accepting of what they could not. This is the dance that reshapes our lives. I was taking a walk a few days ago

and was listening to an audio book called 10X is easier than 2X by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy and this is a book essentially about how exponential growth requires a reframing. A change to the way we think about

ourselves and the journeys that we're on. And in it, Sullivan states, and I'm paraphrasing, the things that brought you to the current moment will keep you there. Powerful. In a lens through which I hadn't really looked at my personal growth or journey before,

I've always thought of progress as a stacking of repeatable habits over and over again. And while this may not be wrong, Sullivan and Hardy make a pretty effective argument that it's only part of this story. See, if you show up and you do the exact same thing, thing every day, you'll get growth, no doubt, but it will be linear in nature. Exponential growth requires instances of self-recreation, of evolution as we make our way forward. It's a continuous pushing aside of things we don't need to be doing and a simultaneous deep dive into the things that bring us the most return. They use the example of the famous

Michelangelo, who is known for his paintings, right? And then some time goes by and he produces a 17-foot statue of David. And then he pivots again, as he's commissioned by Pope Julius II, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and then moves on to direct even larger project. And each example here is a 10x evolution. Certainly not a road that could have been mapped out from day one, how would he ever have known? But it's a series of sometimes even lateral moves. Instances of following your intuition, your strength, doing what felt right, instances of breaking down and building back up the self.

Same foundation of talent and skill, same general competency, but he continuously stacked new and enhanced. versions of himself on top of one another. Sometimes reminders hit you exactly when you need to hear them. You know, personally, I loved everything about this message. The idea that there should be more emphasis, encouraged, for that matter, on one's 10x trajectory, multiplying my strengths on taking the value I bring to the world and putting it through some stressors, seeing what comes out the other side.

Because the danger in playing it's safe, which the second we stop being intentional about things is ultimately what we tend to do, it's that you don't experience that transformation. It was not safe, using the same metaphor for Michelangelo, a painter, to create David. The safe thing would have been to keep doing. same thing every day. But you have to trust your skill, your heart, and your intuition. There's immense value in all of us understanding that and to some degree emulating it. There's value in all of us finding our David. Stepping into that, which is a little unclear, makes us a little nervous. But at the same

time allows us to take the skills and talents, the parts of us that are most meaningful and inject them into the world in a bigger way, which would never have been possible had we stayed the same. The things that brought you to the current moment will keep you there. Well, here's defining your 20%, that which matters and using it as the template with which you paint. Not getting so stuck in the routine that you forget, the routine is a means, not an end.

You have the ability in your own unique way to change the world around you. The question is, do you have the courage to reach for it?