Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - STOP NEGATIVE SELF THINKING | Listen To This Everyday (motivational speech)

Episode Date: November 15, 2021

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

In his play, measure for measure, Shakespeare wrote in 1603, a line that I think adequately sums up the reason so many of us fall short of what we are capable of becoming. He wrote, Our doubts, our traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win

by fearing to attempt. Our greatest tragedies and regrets in life tend not to be our mistakes. They're not when we try and we falter. Now, the vast majority of the time they arise when we do not even attempt because fear is prevented that very first step. It's when we have that perpetual light

shined on all that can go wrong while the upside and the opportunity sits in the dark, just out of frame. and in a world where you get what you focus on, to only focus on the worst possible outcome, it's a death sentence. It's debilitating. The way I see it, there are a million ways to improve something. There are infinite roads and paths and possibilities.

None are certain, but what is? Here's the interesting thing, though. The only certainty, the only thing that is, is for sure is that if you don't go you will not arrive. One will never finish what they do not start. Listen to this quote from Thoreau. It's from his book Walden, which he wrote after about two years and two months of living in the woods

by Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. He wrote, I learned this at least by my experiment, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary. New, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves

around and within him, or the old laws be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense. In other words, the world does not dictate, it reacts. It becomes what we decide it will be.

And I was thinking about this recently. Have you ever thought about the utility of water? Just water. How it is obviously essential for life. Specifically, humans can't live longer than about three days without it. Yet, we can also very easily drown in too much of it. The same thing that's required for life can easily take life away. It all depends on how it's being utilized.

And so when I think about this, my mind goes to Shakespeare's message on our doubts, making us traitors if we let them. Or the rose passage about moving with conviction towards the things that matter, towards our dreams. And what I see is an intentional restructuring of the world around us. The idea that life can work for us or work against us. It can be our headwind or our tailwind, the reason we stay or the reason we leave, and who decides that? You. You decide that. I often think back to my first creative project once I took the

entrepreneurial route years and years back. I referred to the project as quiet desperation in reference to actually another thorough quote, most men lead lives of quiet desperation because I realized around that time how easily that could become reality and decided to do something about it for me. For me, it was a huge step out of the routine and the cycle. I finally, finally asked myself who I was living for. Where did I lose myself? Or had I simply never bothered to find myself?

And I don't know the answer to that, but I know at the time, if you asked me, Eddie, what are you truly excited about? Probably be a lot easier for me to tell you about the things I didn't like. I was afraid of that I was unhappy with. That's what I saw, that's what I focused on, and that's the point. Until then, I was immersed in Thoreau's dreaded common-hour thinking, and so used to it that I thought nothing of it. There was no next step or other side.

And then I arrived at that moment. That moment I hope we all get to at some point, realizing there's very little to lose and everything to gain. And it drives me crazy how hard we have to fight for this understanding. How much easier life would be if it was intuitive, but it's not. It's a journey, a muscle that must be built, and so we must build. We have to prove to ourselves that what's big and intimidating can be broken down. That what we visualize can materialize.

That will always be true. But we, we need to make ourselves believe it. Identity is scripted, confidence is earned. Not once but every day, and we must understand. The pain associated with staying far exceeds. The pain associated with moving towards our dreams. The former is destructive and the latter is what we need. They are not the same.

So being as we choose what we see, how about a commitment? Not a commitment to be perfect. Not a commitment to have all the answers or avoid mistakes. No, how about a commitment to allow ourselves the courage to be imperfect? A commitment to go when we don't have the answers. A commitment to see mistakes as a necessity instead of a. catastrophe in this world of subjectivity make sure that movie playing in your head illuminates the opportunity not the loss so that when you fall the inclination

isn't to run from the bad but to look for the good because I promise you you will get what you look for that perspective will alter your actions which will alter how you see yourself which will alter the trajectory of your life. Let's leave that mediocrity, that common hour thinking behind as we head for higher ground. Commonality being average, it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. It seems simpler. Sure, it seems easier. But the ones immersed in that world, there's depriving themselves of the answers they desperately need. They're refusing the hand that is perpetually reaching out. When we turn our backs on the extraordinary, it is because fear has gripped the wheel and we are now passengers along

for the ride. But you have the ability to be more. You have the ability to move towards what matters to you. To take the steps one at a time, bear the discomfort one second at a time, acclimate one day at a time, this is a journey dependent entirely on you and your willingness to step out the front door, to finally see the things you previously disregarded. And when your eyes open, you'll see that you can be your ally or your enemy. This can be the beginning of a new chapter or the continuation of a current one. This is your story. And by the way, That doesn't mean others wouldn't love to make it theirs. Wouldn't love to tell you that life is beyond your control.

Wouldn't love for you to think that you are dependent on the outside world, that you need them and what they are willing to provide for you. But no, this is about you. Understanding that the first steps start with you, your decision, that your autonomy is a strength and a chance to begin again. Change the way you think. think and what you get changes. It's not magic but practical evolution. When we force ourselves to see the positive, when we look for a way we, that's reality changing because you decided that

and that's what the power of perception is. Nothing more than unlocking the gate that was previously placed before you. There's no better time than this very moment walk through it. and rewrite your story as it should.