Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - THE MIRACLE OF YOUR MIND | Powerful Motivational Speech | Start Your Day Right

Episode Date: May 15, 2023

No matter how lost or stuck you feel, you are always one decision away from a totally different life...

I've always been amazed at how much life can change with a small perspective shift. You hear something the right way, maybe even something you've heard a thousand times, this time you just hear it differently. And suddenly the light bulb goes off. Suddenly, it all makes sense. I was talking to one of my friends recently about how he threw discus in high school. And he was incredible at this sport. but for a long stretch he was inconsistent with his release.

And coach after coach, after coach would try and help him with it. But it wasn't until one said to him, hey, instead of sprinting to the release, think of it as a scissor motion. Right now, I don't know much about discus, but for whatever reason that clicked for him. The gear started turning, he went to states. had the best performance of his life. All because he looked at the same situation through a different lens.

He found clarity in what was around him. Now, you might be thinking, what does that have to do with me? Well, I'm of the thinking that in our own lives, the battles we are all individually fighting, the struggles we are going through, you know, amidst that storm, we are one little light bulb moment from the clarity we need to re-engage, to create momentum. We're never as far from what we need as we think, but what we do is we convoluted things. We tell ourselves that, you know, the change required is monumental.

It's some larger-than-life transition. You look at my friend, the difference between a good season and an amazing season, it wasn't a year in the wait room away. No, it was a small mental shift. And even in your world, if the shift is just the beginning, great. Everything of substance does in fact have to start. And it's arriving at that point. giving yourself the gift of clarity in a pursuit that becomes critical.

I've always visualized that epiphany as me sitting in a dark room pitch black, which is intimidating, it's intense, feels even helpless at times, but understanding there is always a light switch and arms reach away. There's always the thing that will be transformative. We just have to keep reaching, keep stretching, keep feeling around for it because it exists. And with an outstretched arm, the very thing necessary to get us out of the dark and into the light is waiting. And that's just it. You know, we can't conflate the goal with the delta between where we stand now and the goal.

No one can run a marathon in one giant. step. It doesn't matter how strong you are. You're not leaping the course and diving through the finish tape. No, you're running thousands and thousands of little manageable steps. But we come face to face with situations in life where we know the finish line, whatever it is in your particular case, is way out there in the distance. And it's overwhelming. It's intimidating. It places us back in that dark room where we're surrounded by the unknown and inundated with stories we tell ourselves about how difficult life is, this is where you need to reach out and look for the light switch. It's where you need to remember you're not responsible for the finish line because how could

you be? Humans are only capable of moving forward one step at a time. It's where you have to understand that the greatest impact on the discus right now is a change to your release point, a perspective shift, something minimal, that gets you the distance. Every time I've been stuck or lost, it has been an adjustment to the way I'm looking at the world around me that's ultimately made the difference. A little reminder to take the pressure off, at least in the sense that we can only control, what we can control. And usually that's the step right in front of us.

So my suggestion is to stop looking up at the mountain and look down at the very next step. Because from where you stand, there is a path to get you there. But the process calls for you to, one, believe it's possible and two, make the little adjustment in real time that will put you in position to do just that. You're never down and out.

Not so long as there's air in your lungs and blood pumping through your veins. You are, rather, one decision away, one epiphany away, one flick of the light switch away, from recapturing momentum

and finding yourself again. Thank you.