Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Stop Waiting for "Later" || Powerful Motivational Speeches

Episode Date: August 31, 2026

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I woke up, put my coffee on the desk, opened my laptop, stared at a blank screen, and a little button popped up in the top right corner. Check for updates. Nope. Ask me again later. Why? Why not now? I don't know.

I don't necessarily care about the improvements. I guess it's just inconvenient. It can wait. And that's kind of it. Let's face it, the laptop doesn't matter. The update in this scenario is not important. But bear with me, because I think what it stands for, and when you apply it to the big picture, does matter.

Our proclivity to take less because less is convenient. Our predisposition to sell ourselves short because it's safer, to leave so much of ourselves on the show, shelf because well things don't break when they're on the shelf. But you can't be both flawless and live your life because life comes with wear and tear. The value is the experience and a flawless existence is void of experience of stories of adventure. There's a little parable about two seeds being planted and one of them just wants to grow. Wants to feel what the sun is like.

Wants to see how high she can get. Experience the breeze, the cool air. And so she grew. And sure, she dealt with hard days. She had her difficult times, but ultimately grew to live her best life. The other seed worried. Worried about leaving her home,

the world that was the ground of, around her, worried about damaging her roots, worried about what could be waiting for her in the dark, about the sun being too hot and the breeze too strong, and ultimately stayed right where she was, playing it safe, until one morning a chicken came wandering by and ate the seed off the ground. And see, this spells out a few things. One, we can, at any moment, decide to step into that next level, evolve, into that next chapter. But also not doing so comes with the cost, sometimes a hidden cost.

There's a tendency to think that preserving the status quo because it's safe is valuable. But understand something, you are not a collector's item. You weren't made for preservation, you were made for growth. growth, to expand, to reach out towards the heavens and feel that sun, that breeze, ensure upgrading means vulnerability. It means accepting that the unknown is bigger than you, but also contains within it everything you need. Whether it was people, things, money, resources, I used to think like that seemed.

How can I hold on to what I have? Contain, play small, I can't lose this, I've come too far, I've worked too hard. What if everything goes wrong? I can't upgrade now, maybe later. Maybe someday when the time is right, when it won't hurt or require that I step outside of this little world I've created. But guess what? Growth always asks of us that we leave the comfort of you. Now, it always offers us the world in exchange for the courage to see the unseen and trust

ourselves to bring it to life. And when I realized this, I saw how the act of trying to perpetually maintain the status quo is debilitating. It's looking at life through a lens of scarcity. It's only when you start to grasp how abundant life is that you realize by simply stepping into that person you are destined to be, you'll attract what matters. Some things will go, you'll leave them behind, but those things no longer serve you. They played their part, they added their value, and are now merely stepping stones as you move to something greater,

and that's just it. Sometimes living means wishing you did things differently, looking back, and acknowledging that you need to be better. Sometimes living means losing the wrong people in your life to make space for the right ones. Sometimes it means spending days, months, even years wandering down the wrong path so that you can get a glimpse so that you can realize what the right path looks like.

Sometimes it means no reward, no validation until that compounding finally takes finally you see just how powerful those small steps were and will always be. It means seeing yourself as the person you know you can be. Maybe not necessarily the one you are today, but betting on yourself when no one else would. There's an idea that people are neither good nor evil, but they have both within them.

They choose through their day-to-day action, they'll live, who they'll be, and sure this is a tad oversimplified, but I think the duality is useful, right? Because in a different context, for everything that occurs in your life, you can find a reason to celebrate or a reason to grief, a reason to grow, or a reason to hide, it all comes down to what one chooses to see, how they choose to look at the world. I'll never forget when Peterson talked about curtains, right, with tears or holes in them. world on the other side, but the opening that you choose to look through paints an entirely different picture, right, contributes to an entirely different understanding.

And look, I'm a pragmatist, I just am, I'd never ask people to close their eyes and pretend everything's perfect, to wander down the path before you, expecting everything to be easy. No, but what I am saying is that the path before you is where you'll uncover the meaning in life and meaning requires that we are from time to time uncomfortable. To go where we most want to go, we must leave something behind. And the reality is that while it's scary, while it can be alarming and even painful, it is always worth it. That what's on the other side is what makes life worth living. I want you to know that you don't need to be walking into the same rooms, talking to the same people, doing the same things.

No, not if you've outgrown that reality. Not if you're ready for the next chapter. So let's make a pact to view life not as an obligation, but as an opportunity. Something challenging but beautiful, mysterious but plentiful. Let's view the challenges along the way, not as something going wrong or some kind of alarm, but rather an indication that you are doing something right, that you're stepping into the controlled chaos of your day-to-day, finding the courage to meet new people, try new things, take risks, evolve.

This is what life is about. And if you can find it within yourself to see it that way, to be grateful for the discomfort that makes its way in and out of our lives, You'll know that you are evolving, reaching towards that sky. Because the danger, as far as I'm concerned, is never what happens along the way. It's what doesn't happen because we never let ourselves accept what the world had to offer. So on that note, I think today is the perfect to upgrade. What's up, guys, and thank you for being part of the show.

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Thank you. Back to the show. When you're quote unquote all out of motivation, when you feel uninspired, lost, hopeless. I promise you it's not the world that needs changing. It's your perspective. There are the pieces around you to build your ideal life.

Even when the idea of better seems preposterous, I'll defer to an old Jordan Peterson metaphor about a stage and a theater. Imagine with me, the curtain's down. And this curtain has a series of small tears or holes scattered all throughout it. And you, you're standing behind the closed curtain on stage. You choose a particular tear, walk right up to it,

and kind of peer one eye through to look out at the theater. And you'd be able to see the other side, right? But only a very specific component of the other side. For example, maybe the tear you're looking through points directly at a seat front and center. And all you can see is that seat. Not the aisle, not the balcony, that seat. You might be inclined to think that's all there is.

But no, you take a step back, walk over a little bit, look through a different opening, and the view changes entirely. Maybe this one points directly at an exit sign on the other side, lighting up the aisle and illuminating the door. suddenly it's like, oh, there's an exit, there's a way out. Well, there always was. You just weren't looking at it. I remember in probably 2016, just starting my journey here, roughly, you know, before the Year

World Within podcast, before speaking, before building AGMS. I was learning essentially how to think for myself, how to navigate the world, how to figure your life out. And everything seemed confusing. It was intimidating. The world felt big and I felt small, right? It was downtown Boston. I'm kind of doing the same things.

The hamster on the wheel had sort of emerged, running the same loop around the Charles River. Same T-ride down Calm Ave. Same Chipotle five days a week, right? The glory days. And one day I decided I was going to run a half marathon. I don't remember much other than that, but I don't think any other detail is really important, right?

So instead of circling around the Charles River, like I usually did, I ran all the way down to Seaport. In the view of downtown Boston from the Seaport district is stunning. And I remember stopping, which I never do during a run, right? Just hit pause, hung my feet over the side of the dock. And it just gave me this sense of calm, like, that's the beehive over there. It's a beautiful beehive, but it's a beehive. That's the hustle and bustle.

But it's not life. Go in there. Enjoy it. Try and make something of yourself. But separate you from that. Because you have more control than you know, more power than you know. This isn't a test or exam. There is no year-end review coming.

which in itself is the mindset I had to unlearn, right? It was very boxed in for a lot of my adult life. It was like breathe. And when you step back into that world, know that you are choosing it. And that was all. It was this transformative experience, this sigh of relief.

Like, dude, everything's going to be fine. I don't know how, but it will. See, the old adage, it's not what you look at, it's what you see. is truly worth all the money in the world. Losing something hurts. But also, new things don't emerge unless old ones go.

Are you choosing to see the old or the new? He or she out there is thriving. Okay. Are you looking at that as your loss, as life being a zero-sum game? Or are you seeing their success as proof that it can be done? And if they can, why not you? If you're currently finding yourself at a dead end, please take solace in the absolute fact that the road has not come to an end.

In fact, it's just the beginning. You just need to adjust your route. Maybe that's backtracking a few feet to hit that turnoff you missed. Maybe it's stepping off the pavement and finding a new road entirely. But your journey is just beginning. your story is just starting to be told, and that shouldn't scare you, that should excite you. Because the second you realize you have control over the narrative,

well, you understand just how much you can build. You see that there are no limitations in this game unless they are put in place by you. If what you see is not conducive to what you want, then find a new hole in that current. relocate your gaze until you find a solution. To truly oversimplify the message here, when you are uninspired, you're thinking small.

And you're thinking small in a world with infinite opportunity. I promise you it's not the world that is the issue, that needs adjusting. So change your interpretation of it. And you will change your. So I want to start with a story about cliff jumping with my friends, maybe four years ago. Now we flew into Las Vegas, spent some time in Vegas, and then we hit like national parks in Utah. And then Arizona went all the way up, the coast.

When we were in Lake Tahoe at the very end, there was this spot to cliff jump. This really, really high peak. And, you know, it's notorious and it was just like a scary thing. And I remember walking up, there were three of us. And two other people were there. It's like you have to hike up to it. It's kind of in the woods a little bit. One of my buddies walked up and, you know, we thought he was going to jump right off.

And he stood there and he looked down. And he looked down for, I don't know how long. a while, you know, ultimately jumped. As far as I knew, I wasn't afraid of stuff like that, right? So I walk out and I look over the edge and I could not bring myself to jump. Physically, I couldn't do it. Rationally, I couldn't speak myself or talk myself into it. There was no more rationality going on.

It was just I was frozen in fear. And I just remember sitting there and looking down. And, you know, people would come up. and ask about it and they'd be like, you know, can I jump? And I'm like, go ahead, right? Like, it almost got to the point where it was hurting my pride. And I still couldn't jump. And I just stood there.

And I stood there. And I stood there. You know, I forget how long it took. I don't really know. And time was probably felt insane in that moment. But eventually I did. And it was incredible, right? It was a forever long drop.

and just the adrenaline and the excitement. And you realize for a second, that type of thing, that's peak living. And there's more of that out there in the world. And all of a sudden, you want to capture it and obtain it. And you realize what you had been missing. You know, and then my friend came up after me. He stood there for just as long, too, right? It's just a very weird thing and it's hard to accept.

There are so many situations that are this peak in our life, this cliff, that we know we need to jump from. We know the other side is better or we suspect, but we can't bring ourselves to do it. And this all came from a quote I found from John Green, one of my favorite authors. In his book Paper Towns, it says, it is so hard. to leave until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamn thing in the world. And that's right on the money, right? Being on the edge of that cliff, it is terror, sheer terror.

It is so hard to make that jump. And then you do when it's like life opens up. And it's the same thing in this case, right? It's so hard to leave until you do. It's terrifying to uproot. to change, to go somewhere you don't know. But once you do, life opens up. It's incredible.

The other side is beautiful. And it's waiting for you. All of this is coming to a single point, a rule that I used to guide my decision making. And the rule is simple. If you are not content where you are, that is your reason to jump. Because on that cliff, rationality dissolves. The future is unknown and it's scary. And how are you going to logically talk yourself into a scary unknown

when you're at that point? You can't. It doesn't make sense. And I think that's why so many of us are scared to make that jump. And we ultimately turn back and we concede and go, okay, I'll just stick with what I have. This isn't great, but it is what it is. I can't bring myself to make that jump.

We're all there at some point. I've been there. I've been there with speaking big cliff for me when I first started. Ultimately jumped and put me on a trajectory that changed my life. Same thing with making videos. Same thing with my first client. Like all these things, they're terrifying. And in the moment, you can't logically speak through them,

so you just have to go. And it's like, well, how do you logically, you don't you just go because if if the present here's the rule the present is not making you content go jump right never forget that the path the the future is is comprised of a trillion paths and you can bend them and shape them and remake them and sometimes it won't work sometimes it'll you know blow up in your face but again you're still presented with an opportunity to adjust and remake and bend and re-approach and continue forward. Right?

The only way to lose is to stay on that cliff for the rest of your life. And so if you needed some type of rationality, if you needed some type of reason, I'm hoping that maybe I can give that to you today. If you are not content where you are, jump. Because somewhere along the way, you'll figure it out. Every time I've jumped, it's changed my life for the better.

maybe not immediately, but ultimately. And as I say, that's what life's all about. Hey, I hope you got something from this podcast. If you did, please subscribe, rate review. Helps me get it out to the world. And guys, I appreciate that. And I will catch you tomorrow. We talk a lot on this podcast about showing up with intention.

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Life doesn't hand you certainty. It hands you windows. And when those windows open, hesitation is the enemy. And let's use space travel as an example here. Let's go all the way back to 62. John F. Kennedy standing in front of that crowd at Rice University saying, we choose... to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Here's the thing. When he said that, the United States had no rocket that could make the trip, no spacecraft, no suit, no navigation system. The roadmap did not exist, but the declaration came first. The yes came first. It had to, right? And then the entire decade was spent figuring it out. That one leap of faith sparked innovation that not only took humanity to the moon, but changed the world forever. It's easy to forget that truth. You don't need to know how, right, before you start. You don't need to know the entire path or have it laid out before you.

Same industry, a couple decades later, take Elon Musk and SpaceX. To me, it's even more remarkable. Musk wasn't a rocket scientist. when he decided to build rockets. He literally taught himself aerospace engineering in textbooks. First three launches failed. Of course, everyone told him to quit. Critics said it was impossible.

But he'd already said yes. He'd committed. And because of that, yes, he kept adjusting, kept learning, kept adapting until the fourth launch worked. And by the way, saved the company. That's the Branson, quote, inaction. You say yes and you figure it out. And lately, in my own little world, I've been seeing this principle play out.

You know, I'm going to go back to athletics. Again, I go to this drawing board a lot. Just because there are a lot of metaphors you can make, a lot of parallels you can make, to me none are as clear, concise, and really depict that one-to-one ratio the same way that fitness does, running does, lifting does. That struggle to me is life. So I pull from it off. My trainer started giving me on top of the regular workouts these fun but ridiculous weekend challenges. He makes this video, sends it to me.

You know, sometimes playfully, like super intense, like here's your mission, you know, and it gamifies it a little bit. But the workouts are hard, right? They push me way out of my comfort zone. Whether it's an hour-long kettlebell carry, 15-minute wall, extended treading water, putting on a rock and climbing my 12-floor stairs for an hour, 200 burpees in 25 minutes. You get the idea. Stuff that's not climbing Everest, but you hear it and you go, ooh, that doesn't sound fun.

Maybe on the surface it even sounds a little absurd, and you want to stop and think, can I even do this? But that's the beauty of it. It conditions me to say yes first. And once I commit, there's no more debate, right? The question is no longer if, it's how. And that transition is everything from a starting point. There's no if, this is happening, how is it going to happen?

And when you do that, my God, you empower yourself. Right, sometimes it's brutal, right? The burpees are a great example. I underestimated those. And I paid the price, right? Got it done just with probably more suffering than, you know, if I respected the process and came out slowly and methodically, as opposed to just thinking I could blast through them.

You live and you learn. But again, I got through that might grow hell. And that's the pattern of life itself. We spend so much time waiting for certainty, waiting until we feel perfectly ready, forgetting that readiness is a myth. If you wait until you have every detail mapped out, you'll never move.

The opportunities that change your life rarely come with instruction manuals. They show up wrapped in uncertainty, in discomfort, in risk. Your job is not to have all the answers. It's to step forward anyway. And what these challenges remind me of is this. I am stronger than I think.

Not because I know everything. But because I trust myself to figure it out as I go. You don't discover strength by watching from the sidelines. You discover strength. You discovered in the fire, you discovered in the chaos, the willingness to step into something, you don't fully understand,

but you know you'll adapt. Kennedy certainly didn't know how to get to the moon, but he declared it anyway. He put it into the universe. Musk didn't know how to build rockets, but he started anyway. He committed. Branson was right.

Opportunities don't wait for your permission. They don't wait for you to feel ready. So when the next door opens, and it will, don't hesitate. Don't hesitate. Don't overthink or wait for certainty. Understand the power in saying yes, stepping in and figuring it out later because that's how change is made. That's how we grow. And that's how we uncover the strength we've had all. There's a quote from Henry David Thoreau that I've learned to love over the years. He says, we are constantly invited to be who we are.

Essentially, there is always a hand, you know, reaching out to invite us to leave the confinement that we've allowed to become our lives, the pressure of the outside world, and attack a world that means the most to us, not obligatory, but for the opportunity. Because it's there, it's perpetually available, and that's what Henry David Thoreau means. And what's interesting is the second we lose sight of this. Our lives become consumed with things that really have no relevance to our goals or our objectives. In fact, the daily routine becomes the goal. It's the box that needs to be checked to feel accomplished.

We do things because, well, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Adhere to rules and processes and guidelines, almost like we forget why that routine matters. Like we forget the car has to go somewhere of relevance. You don't just get in and drive it to drive it. That doesn't make sense. And a friend of mine recently showed me this book of insights from different photographers. It's called the photographer's playbook, and it's life lessons that helped each one of them along the way. And one that stood out to me specifically was Andrea Parleto.

And she talks about a concept called hibernation or cutting off, temporarily leaving your day-to-day or your craft, so that all the have-toes and the should-bees can dissipate. And you can ask yourself the question that we so quickly lose. question that should be the target, that should be the foundation we build upon. Who do you want to be? Because when all is said and done and you're looking back, that's what will matter. That's what will dictate your happiness. Not that you were five for five on your checklist every day on your 20s, 30s, 40s, and on.

No, what does it look like when you peel that back? What does it look like under the surface? is what makes you, you. And sometimes we have to step back, go away, leave the day-to-day world we've created to see life from a different angle. Eliminate the steps, the requirements, the technicalities, and what are you left with?

When you put your head on the pillow at night, what makes you smile? Ronnie Ware states in her book, Regrets of the dying that not living a life true to oneself was one of the greatest regrets people experienced. Isn't it worthy of your time, your attention? Don't you owe it to yourself to make sure that your vision is defined and your actions support that?

See, anyone can move just to move and anyone can breathe just to breathe. With the ones who make the most of each step, each breath, they put themselves in position to live life differently, to accept the invitation to be who they truly are. To take their inspiration, their gifts, and their dreams, and never look back. So imagine you're sitting down, having something to eat, thinking, relaxing, reading, whatever you're doing. Someone walks up to the table across from you, pulls out the chair, sits down, kind of leans back, puts one leg over the other.

casually tells you, you know, you probably don't have what it takes to do anything significant in your life. What would you say? It would be outrageous, right? That's a ridiculous scenario. Well, let's say that the next day you get up, you go to walk, run, work out, and he shows up again. Starts running next to you, casually reminding you that the odds of you changing, doing anything for the better or slim to none. This is kind of a waste of time for you. You brush it off, you go to work, and guess who?

He passes by your desk, leaves a little note saying that your bosses, your higher-ups, they're cut from a different cloth. They just see things in a way you can't. You'd probably tell that person to take a long walk off a short pier, right? Or at the very least, you'd understand how absolutely insane the situation is. People can't just walk up and talk to you like that. But now imagine that same person is you. living rent free in your head.

And here's the catch. You invited him in. You allowed the negativity and the doubt to live there. See, every time I think about that self-talk, I can't help but wonder in a world of obstacles to navigate and challenges to tackle, why is it acceptable for your biggest obstacle to be you? Why should you allow or be okay with that?

And I'm not saying everything's perfect all the time, every thought's pure bliss, but I am posing this question. If you don't believe in yourself, how do you expect anyone else to? If you're not your biggest ally, if you don't respect the person staring back at you in the mirror, how do you expect the world to? Why is our inclination to tense up and refute the negativity from others, but sit back and accept the same nonsense? in our own head. If those words don't support what you're trying to build, I don't care who they're from, where they come from, why they're there, they don't deserve your time.

And it's a simple awareness that they are not truth, but merely your fears and your insecurities trying to stop you from becoming who you might be. My biggest leaps in life, they didn't come from physical milestones or benchmarks. They came from mental shifts, convincing myself, believing myself, trusting in myself. When the road is untravelled, when the story is untold, the positive and the negative are both

make-believe. They are both fairy tales, their options, their theories, and guess what? You get to choose which option, which one will be yours. My favorite quote is, you are always stronger than you think you are. Not so much because it reiterates how high the bar is, but because it reminds me how low we often set it for ourselves when we're not paying attention. How loud that negative voice can be. You know, when I was unemployed, I was writing, I was running out of money, my life changed because I stopped seeing myself as some lost, jobless mess,

and I started seeing myself as one of the greats with a hell of a road to travel. See, people always follow through on who they believe. themselves to be. I refuse to hear that you might fail and the not good enough and I buckled off for the road ahead and when you believe you can change and know that the road to your goals will be rocky, it will be uncomfortable but worth it. You are taking that hostile voice and making him or her a spectator, not a decider of fate and yeah, you will lose, you can't win all the time and you will feel stuck but life's not always smooth sailing and sure you'll be mad at yourself, not every decision is a home run.

But these situations are the byproduct of a journey, and here is my point. Self-belief is being able to differentiate your situation and pointless negative talk about the situation. It's about remembering that you are the gatekeeper of your own mind. When you believe in you, it places your faith, your strength, and your determination in the driver's seat. It makes everything else triple. meaningless it makes it an option that you are simply not going to choose