Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Stop Waiting For "Someday"

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

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I am imperfect, a fraction of the man I hope to be someday. You know what? Here I go, and forward I march. If you thought being real took courage, wait until you hear about the courage required to be imperfect, to start before you're ready, to build without all the tools, to present yourself to the world unpolished, anything but buttoned up,

pulled, not by guarantee, but by belief in your heart that something better awaits. I don't really know what prompted it, but I was kind of in my head running an inventory of the last few friends I've talked to on my phone. I want to share a few of them. Tom, a recovered addict and now CEO of a multi-million dollar business in OKC. Terry, similar beginning fought through alcoholism, a liver transplant. Years later, owns a very successful marketing organization. Happy relationship. Michael, abusive childhood, now a legend of a human being, firefighter, builder, flipping real estate.

Eric, ex-cop, saw things so sad and traumatic that it took him years to get over him. In many ways he expresses he still is, and now one of the most sought-after trainers in the country. Work with the list of clients that would make your head spin. Wesley, who I recently met, battled through cancer, health issues, so much more, and is truly a source of light in this world, building his own inspirational brand now. And I bring these people up not because they battled, and they all did. I bring them up because sometimes I marvel at the courage to stand back up after being hit that hard and decide to build again.

Here's what I know. You don't climb your way back from addiction and immediately think, you know what? I deserve to be CEO of a multimillion dollar company. Think about the pain, the identity shift. the process of earning your own confidence, the mornings of self-doubt, convincing yourself that you aren't who you were, you're who you choose to be today. See, we don't talk about those things often, because let's face it, we don't see them that often. It's behind the scene.

But that, as far as I'm concerned, is courage to its fullest extent. I am imperfect. I am a fraction of the man I hope to someday be, but you know what? Here I go. Forward, I march. Because the normal human condition is to be so wrapped up in our own battles

that we sometimes feel we are the only ones going through it. We forget. Others dealt with pain. We overlook the fact that many of the people we look up to push through a fog of doubt every morning so thick that, you know, they aren't sure what the other end will look like. Now, there are a couple of ways to take all this. And let's run that thought experiment.

Route one, you fixate on the fact that the human condition is suffering. It's inescapable pain and anguish. Or you take route two. And you think, despite that truth, look what these people rose to create. create. Look what so many others made with their quote unquote unfortunate situation. And hey, look what I can do with mine. It's funny, I read it so long ago now that I only remember like a handful of ideas from the book. But in Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death, I'll never forget the suggestion that the human predicament is we are simultaneously gods and worms. Worms because we are imperfect flesh, flawed, decaying in many ways lost, yet despite these natural animalistic characteristics,

we have this beautiful, godlike ability to transcend, to walk eyes wide into the abyss, not knowing what awaits, feeling anything but ready, and somehow pushing through. the terror, avoiding the grasp of despair. And then there's the notion that, yeah, it's one thing to survive. It's another thing altogether to come out on the other side and build something beautiful

on the corpse of what could have been your excuse. To dance on the grave of regret as you offer something divine to a world that desperately needs it. It's easy for us to overthink this, right? Especially since on paper, it doesn't really make sense. Ask a five-year-old. Hey, should you go before you're ready? They would almost certainly say no. Is falling good or bad? They would almost certainly say bad. That's sort of intuitive. But these are the truest tests of our courage. Not can I move forward when I feel good. reinvent yourself when you don't. See, what's inside you can take you to the ends of the earth.

It can unlock any door. It can act as a light in even the darkest of nights. But the requirement, the variable on which all of this depends, is can you push through, not as the hero, but as a work in progress. Imperfect. Can you be imperfect? perfect. See, the divine wants to work through you. That's a belief I hold dearly. But you have to trust enough to open yourself up to march forward. Amidst instincts that pull you back,

you have to rise beyond an environment that often tries to keep you down. The courage to carry on when you feel beaten down, small, lost, or hurting. It isn't some of the thing. It isn't part of the thing. It is the thing. The greater your understanding of that, the more that scale shifts away from the worm. Sometimes I wonder,

why does this season of life feel like it's one undesirable outcome after another? What happened to the law of averages? When is the wind? Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? Why would I continue going in this direction? When it feels like that spot on the horizon I've been chasing has eluded me. Why? Why are my results not aligning with my output?

It's hard to wake up and do this. It takes all of me. to give this much. Sometimes I wonder where is the delayed gratification everyone speaks of. Where's the fruit of my labor, the arm on my shoulder that says this is why it was all worth it? Why hasn't the payoff shown itself? Why? And why does it seem like every curveball materializes at the worst possible time?

Why won't my body cooperate now when I need it most? when I need it most. Why does my mind play with the worst case scenarios? Why does an already challenging path have to be more difficult than it is now? How many ways do I have to feel pain? Why does discomfort follow me around? Why won't life let me shake this?

Why? Well maybe, just maybe, it's to show you how strong you are what you can endure because deep down in your soul you know you are the one percent because if you can push through this you can push through anything and I don't know why life gives us its lessons when it does why the world seems to stack it on when we're at our most vulnerable when when the ground beneath us is most unstable. But if you can find the courage to step back

and see this for what it is, if you can hold on to the idea that this is happening for you, you'll come out of this a different person. Need to perform a miracle when you're at your lowest. No, the courage, the power, the strength is in showing up. You need to continue forward. Let go of the week, the month, the year. Sometimes we are tasked with pushing through the moment, the hour, surviving the day.

And sometimes there is nothing more courageous than that, nothing more powerful than seeing what it turns into down the road when we look over our shoulders and are grateful we never stopped. So yes, this season might seem like a non-stop. barrage of obstacles and misfortune. Why? Perhaps because it's life allowing you to plant your seed now so that when spring comes around you are provided something you've never had before. You arrive at that spot in the horizon you've been aiming at. And yes, the results might not feel like they're aligning with your output. Why? Perhaps because when the compounding reaches that

magical point, that point of statistical significance. And the desirable things happen then, as quickly as the difficult ones do now, it'll all make sense. You'll appreciate it, value it, and be equipped to handle it. A life might seem to be throwing you curveball after curveball. Why? Perhaps because if you can trudge forward now, when your body's tired while navigating the trials and tribulations of life. When you can bring greatness into existence under duress, just imagine what waits around the

corner. Imagine how you'll perceive those seemingly impossible obstacles that slow everyone else down. There'll be nothing more than a cool breeze and a sunny day as you move towards your best self. Look, it's hard to understand when we are in it. It's hard to make sense of the dark and the chaos and the hurt, but find a way to remember. No matter how hard it seems that this life is happening for you and not to you. This is the seed in the palm of your hand that will mean something that matters. So hold on.

Hold on to see that seed begin to rise from the ground. Hold on to feel the warmth of the sun. Hold on through the storms of life. They will be why when you look back years from now. You'll have gotten from life that which was once merely a dream. Hey, y'all, it's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder, what if? Like, what if it doesn't hold up?

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And sometimes this distinction hurts. But to fail to see it is to shackle oneself to delusion. Right? You can complain about the weather all day, but to complain about it, to focus on it, to be stuck in it is not going to change it. Your time would be better suited looking at how to adjust yourself. to it. And that's what life repeatedly tells us. There's plenty we aren't happy about, plenty we wish we could change. But to stay there in that space is to forfeit your greatness, your strength.

Why? Because there is so much you can control. So much you can do. You can always position yourself to succeed. But that calls for first separating what's yours and what's not. There are people I wish were different. There are situations I prayed were alterable. There are

outcomes that are given without my asking. That's just life. And a losing mentality is to fight that. To feel anger or resentment at the people that let you down. Why couldn't they be

how I want them to be. It's to dwell on the situation that occurred despite your wishes. Why couldn't it have just happened my way? It's to refuse to acknowledge the outcomes that have already materialized. Why couldn't it just have evolved differently? All that, as hard as it is to see, is embracing a mentality of victimhood. It's walking down a path that has no desirable destination in store for you. When you accept the unchangeable, you then become the architect

of your reality. Sure, people, places, and outcomes weren't always the best, but now you ask, how can I navigate around it, or better yet, use it to my advantage. It is, to use the famous metaphor, not shaking your fist at the wind, but building. holding sails for your boat, creating a path to take you somewhere new. So let the energy, the time, and emotion that's wasted on the immovable dissolve. The question worth asking is, where do you most want to be and how can you get there? And while those details outside the scope of your control can feel like a bottomless gap in your way, I promise that what's around you is enough to build a bridge over it.

There's enough there for you to find your way. So long as we learn to separate the gap from the bridge, the details from the solutions, when all you see is why you can't go or how it can't be solved or how impossible something is. It's not that you are looking at an unfortunate truth, it's that you are looking at the wrong supporting evidence. When we stop seeing the details and outside circumstances as the deciders of fate, we win. When we place our eyes upon the controllable,

when we step into what is ours to move and shape and transform, we finally see that the journey to something bigger is not only possible, it is inevitable. We all enjoy the prospect of perfection. Everyone has an ideal outcome. We all make plans. But very rarely do they unfold as they were drawn up. Why?

Well, because life is predictably unpredictable. It's mysterious. Yet for some reason, we may, march on toward the acquisition of a flawless existence. Scared of anything but an undamaged, untarnished, immaculate reflection staring back at us in the mirror. But in the real world, you know, our happiness, contentment, growth, progress that are not a product of perfection. They're built from the imperfections that we collect along. the way, the trials, the tribulations. You know, when you piece all that together, like little

puzzle pieces, they depict the beauty. They show the image that's always been so highly coveted. In other words, the process of rebuilding creates something more valuable than the same pieces before they were broken down, when they were untouched. In Japanese, philosophy, there's a concept known as Kinsugi, which is the art of repairing broken pottery with a golden lacquer. It's the idea that we don't want to hide the damage, but we want to rebuild it into something more meaningful, more valuable, embrace the imperfect, own, and cherish it. There's an old story about a tea master known as Rikyu, and he was attending a Japanese tea ceremony with one of his followers, and the follower tries to

to impress Rakew by buying this fancy clay jar and making it visible during the meeting. But Rikyu never, you know, once acknowledges it. The praise never comes. So the student, you know, obviously upset by the lack of recognition, he pushes the jar off the counter. It falls to the floor. It breaks into a bunch of pieces. And another student ultimately repairs it using Kinsugi. He puts the pieces back together with a gold lacquer.

And next time Rick Hugh attends the tea ceremony as a guest of honor, he sees the jar, rebuilt, and says now it's beautiful. Now it has character. He acknowledges its value. And this story reminds us about the myth of perfection. My life's not about dodging and avoiding the difficulty. It's about facing it head on. Because when we come out on the other side, we transform. into something that was previously unobtainable

and rise to a world beyond imagination. See, we change not by running around life's obstacles, but by running directly through them. Like a muscle being repeatedly broken down and built back up, the pain, the exhausted energy is the vehicle. The micro creates the macro. The difficult becomes the exceptional. We need the very things we're inclined to avoid.

Our shortcomings, they not only precede and establish our greatness, they are our greatness. Being broken is not a tragedy. It is a step along the way. It's the beginning of something new, a launching pad, a chance to be better than you have ever been. Because look, here's the reality. If your status quo has never been shaken, it is. foundation, if you've never stopped and questioned the way things are, reality as it is, if you don't take risks, there will be no fragments to take and rebuild. You won't have the

tools or capacity to change the world around you. And that is the thing of note. Beauty is not fearing the rebuild. It is the rebuild. It's not feeling sorry or hopeless, but hopeful. Seeing your situation for what it is an opportunity. It is what you need, a blank canvas, your chance to make art while redrawing creative boundaries. If perfect is the goal, why take the step? Why take the chance? Why risk messing things up? It's never been about perfect. It's about picking up the pieces and rising again. How do you visualize the road you're on with its twists and turns? Smooth terrain, rough terrain, straightaways, hills, what is it all mean? Do you find it odd that it gets more challenging as you get closer to your destination?

Right? The further along you get, the more tension life puts between you and the finish line. Almost like the universe is adamant about weeding out those who think they can skate by. What is the difference between saying you want? I want it and really wanting it. Perhaps it's a willingness to fight through a storm just for the opportunity to find calm and serenity in its... This morning, as the sun was coming up, I went for a run a nice five mile run down the coast,

and the way I planned it out was simple. 2.5 or halfway up in soft sand, and then I'd stop, and I'd turn around, and I'd run 2.5 back. 2.5 back but on the harder surface, right? Easier to handle, almost like a reward for pushing myself on the way up. And things were going perfectly. I made the 2.5 mile run up. And when it came to stop and turn around, I realized what should have been obvious from the beginning was high tide, which means I didn't get that hard surface to run back on instead. Not only was it

softer than the way up, but I was running on a slope. And that just threw my mind for a loop. I'm embarrassed to admit, I was actually angry about it. You know, I pushed myself hard going up and wanted that breather. Almost felt like life pushed the finish line back 2.5 miles. And then trust me, as I'm writing this, it seems ridiculous to talk about. But in the moment, just irrationally annoyed. That was the carrot that had been chasing the whole time. So I begrudgingly, you know, moved forward, kind of trying to figure out what to do.

and ultimately just continued forward and the emotion subsided and as usually happens you pull yourself out of the weeds a little bit the big picture tells a different story different story means different perspective and that's what I came across right this idea or this question

well why do we expect life to be flat ground why was that my assumption to begin with the easy to navigate past Why is that the standard? And the more I thought about it, right? The more I wondered if that's the very reason why we underperform. It's the little spark that ultimately lights this wildfire of regret.

Because when convenience is the standard, everything else becomes unfair. Everything else is a burden. When the road should be flat, what are we to make of the hills, in our path. Thinking life should be easy, it provides oxygen to a victim mentality. And sometimes it takes these little experiences for me to refocus on these subtle realities.

The flat ground is not the standard. It is earned. It's a gift. It should be cherished and appreciated because guess what? Life wasn't easy. It isn't easy and it never will be. But I believe the differentiator

knowing that. So I kept running on the slope, feet sinking into the sand. I got my teeth kicked in just a little bit longer and life didn't end. In fact, I think the mental aspect was tougher than the physical. We're only talking five miles here, but when the standard changes, so does the performance. It's about just moving forward. And like poetry, with about three quarters of a mile left, right? The beach widened.

It leveled out, the ground became harder. Each step became easier, and yeah, I was running. But in my head, it felt like I was lying on a bed of feathers. Because when you prepare to face life's demons, when you're ready for battle, when you anticipate you'll have to give everything. Any adversary that falls short of that feels like wind behind your back.

We can endure anything. The question is whether or not we, We put ourselves in position. Mistakes, they don't define us. Heartbreak, it doesn't kill us. And criticism, it doesn't shape us. But I'll tell you what. The fear that they do stops a lot of people from becoming who they're capable of becoming.

Panicking at the slightest sign of discomfort moving away from anything but the convenient when in reality inconveniences are the path. As Ryan Holiday famously put it, the obstacle is the way. See, satisfaction, it doesn't even exist without a will to overcome. What meaning does the finish line have without miles of self-doubt and questions and fear and dragons being slayed while you prove to yourself over and over again that you know what I am more and I can be more and the crazy thing is that there's not even a stopping point here this rocket will propel as high into the ether as you choose to take it and look it's not about running on slight inclines or sinking a few inches into the sand it's It's not about being rejected, losing or castigated by seven billion self-interested souls.

No. It's about not being scared to take the bridge that connects current to future. Complacency to recreation, the known to the seemingly impossible. You're made of so much more than you give yourself credit for. You are so much stronger than you're you're so much stronger than you. than you think you are. So for yourself and for the world, capture that. Own it and redefine what it means, not to simply exist,

but to your core with every ounce of your being, your soul, every fiber in your body to truly live.