Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - THE DISCIPLINED MIND | Powerful Motivational Speech

Episode Date: November 29, 2021

Keep your head in the clouds and your feet on the ground....

Hold the vision, but trust the process. An idea that should act as our North Star, right, as we make our way through life, it proposes believing in a goal, but at the same time understanding that its manifestation will be unpredictable. Challenging, it may not unfold the way we thought it would. To me, though, the most challenging aspect of personal growth. of building the things that matter, creating realities we dream of. It's the mandatory dance we must do with time.

The patience that's woven into the equation, it's the empty spaces that we tend to use for manufacturing doubt and disbelief when life is given us nothing to react to. It's like we create monsters in our heads. And it's really an incredible thing. when you think about it, right? I look back on the past decade of my life in the hardest parts,

and some were excruciating. They were pain derived from what I knew I hadn't yet accomplished. It was a feeling like I wasn't moving fast enough. Like the winners in life had that over there, and all I had was this over here. Completely nonsensical narrative, but one that certainly felt real.

Discomfort. from the delta or the gap between what I wanted and what I had, a feeling that would randomly dip in and out of my conscious mind as I sort of chipped away at my goals day in and day out. And I started to wonder, how can I better position myself to grow, to maintain that ambition, but also to do it with less anxiety, right?

As I stated a few seconds ago, hold that vision, but perhaps improve my trust and relationship with the process. My ability to immerse myself in various pursuits without dwelling on the fact that I hadn't yet arrived. Because look, I know this game. We all know this game. There's always going to be another finish line to cross.

That's a great thing, but can also, when we're not looking at it correctly, be to our detriment. There are always higher numbers to achieve. Again, incredible opportunity, but with the wrong perspective, dangerous. If you can't find a way to appreciate the now while you climb, you will be forever lost. There will always be a hole that's never filled. I think we need to be better about supporting ourselves along this journey. No one can be there for me like I.

I can. And I think that's true for everyone. We need to be our greatest allies. So I brought this question up, as I tend to do, with a few of my friends, right, with different perspectives. They look at the world a little differently and basically ask, you know, how can we get out of our own ways? Is there a lane to both be tenacious in our pursuit of evolution to continue doing the things that excite and challenge us while also being a little easier on ourselves, trusting that we do with time as the process unfold. And so I present this question to one of my friends sitting across me at the table and he thinks about it.

He says, Eddie, well, that's what's got you where you are. That feeling like there's always more. It's the reason for the success you've had and the success you'll have in the future. It's what will push you. It's why you will succeed. People that accomplish things are never satisfied. Jordan was never satisfied.

He was never happy. And in that context, greatness and happiness are not compatible. And, you know, I took it in. I certainly appreciated the perspective, right? In many ways, I think he's right. Sort of reminded me of the idea behind Tim Grover's book, Relentless, that it's an obsession that must take place. It doesn't leave room for much else, right?

Incredibly valuable to understand, if anything, just to see, just to grasp what it means to achieve in a world of life. obstacles. But truthfully, I wasn't entirely satisfied. How can we better visualize the process so that we're more powerful allies to ourselves? That's what I wanted to understand. And a short time later, I'm at the kitchen table, kind of going over some analytics for social media, YouTube channel, podcast, stuff like that. And my father, who happened to fly in from Boston, he's at the kitchen table with me. We're having to be. some coffee and I made a comment about the trajectory of the numbers. You know, I forget that

particular week, maybe it was higher or lower than expected. I don't really remember, but he made this comment about the patience that I've had with the channel over the years. Just an offhand remark. You know, he said the numbers are like the SMP 500, right? The stock market. There are days when it drops. There are days when it rises. But over the long haul, it's steadily pointed. up and it continues to point up. And I found that so interesting. You know, I harp on the small things a lot on this channel, the little breakthroughs that paved the way for larger transformation, ideas that change the way we look at things, which ultimately

change the way we act, which change the results we get, and this happened to be one of them. You know, it hit me just right. What is perhaps the most important piece? in the famous book, The Intelligent Investor. What is the idea that made Buffett a billionaire? It's that you invest in things you believe in and you remove the emotion. You hold the dips. Right?

When the stock market takes a hit and everyone's panicking and acting emotionally and selling, you don't sell. You buy more. When the world emotionally rushes out, you rush in. And when the world emotionally rushes in, you step in. out. Well, in life, there will be days when your metaphorical stock drops, at least you feel like it does. Those YouTube numbers, perhaps numbers in the old bank account,

maybe fitness goals fall flat, maybe you're just not seeing a return on investment. But we are never defined by the events of the day. Even the worst of days, they're merely a small part of a much larger pattern, and the truth is Sometimes success is so small, you can't see it. Of course you're going to be anxious if you think every day should be comprised solely of mountaintops and finish lines, if you're always looking, comparing, contrasting. But sometimes success is 0.0001% better.

Sometimes success looks like the S&P 500 taking a hit, dropping for a day, a week, or a month. Sometimes growth doesn't look like what we're going. We want growth to look like. But just like intelligent investors, you are putting your money in the belief that at a certain point down the road the value will be higher then than it is now. And this idea has been everything to me, particularly on the days when it feels like things are going backwards over periods of time where I feel like I've been standing still, where the voice in my head is presenting all kinds of scenarios that I could have been better or

done more and maybe so. But these times are nothing more than data points. They are steps along the way. And knowing this, it essentially frees me from the delusion that growth is always visible, that I can always look around and see visible triumph. It allows me to march towards my goals and my dreams, having a renewed relationship with each step. You know, there's a saying that we need to keep our head in the clouds and our feet on the ground. Life is a continual juggling of extremes, and I think this gets it right. Our strength is in the

ability to take those steps, each one a message to the universe that we are stronger than we were yesterday. But what makes our journeys truly divine is that they aren't comprised of or built with those steps like a house of cards, where one wrong move or some delay will cause the whole thing to fall to come crashing down. No, what makes the journey divine is the infinite number of paths

that can bring about its materialization. There are no wrong paths. Some arrive sooner, some arrive later, some mid-jurney, causes to realize that the compass This wasn't even pointed in the right destination, right? They change what it means to arrive. But the point is every step is required, every step is a miracle,

but the power is not contained solely in one step. But rather, what we choose to make of all the steps combined, the dips, the lows, and the losses only have significance if we give them significance. Otherwise, there are just a few stops along the way to something beautiful. So why exhaust energy on data points that haven't arrived yet, on destinations in the future? Destinations that we trust ourselves to figure out anyway. Our emphasis should be on the present moment, on gratitude for the fact that we get to wake up and choose the pursuits that we've chosen. Some days those pursuits will feel like the miracles that they are.

We'll see the finish lines, the mountaintops. We'll feel triumphant. And some days those victories will be hidden in plain view, but they are there nonetheless. As we make our way into the great unknown that is life, piecing each second, each minute, each hour together to become the path leading us where we need. need to be most.