Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - The Simple Secret to Taking Action

Episode Date: May 30, 2020

Contrary to what we may tell ourselves, doing nothing is a choice.  Indecision is, in fact, a decision. That leads to the obvious question: "Well, what do we do about it then?" In this episode I discuss a mental shift that will change how you view decision making and motivate you to begin moving towards your ideal self.

Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero. In this episode, we're going to talk about indecision and how contrary to what we think or what we tell ourselves, not acting, is in fact a decision to stay the same. So what do we do about it? So a lot of you know on my other podcast, Books to Business, I go through a book every week. And a lot of the concepts for these ideas stem from the book that I'm reading at the time. Last week, thinking fast and slow, this week, for our work. workweek by Tim Ferriss, and he has a pretty cool concept in there. I tied it into yesterday's episode a little bit, the idea of sort of indecision and being scared to change, so we disguise it as,

you know, this kind of fake optimism. I'm going to stay where I'm at because I'll change someday down the road, or because everything's going to be fine. I'll just hang in there. I know things will get better, right? Well, in reality, we want to change, but we don't. Well, what is that? it is indecision. And indecision, contrary to what we think or how we think about it, it is a decision. It's a decision to stay the same. See, the way I've always internalized this is there's life and then there's growth. They're stepping up. There's doing something different. Life is a flat plane and you can jump to the next staircase, the next stair, the next level, or you can stay. where you are. And the problem with that is that it essentially rationalizes being where we are,

staying in the same place. Because it's like, well, we can always climb to that next level some other day. It's always going to be there. Right. And tomorrow will be better. Tomorrow will be more equipped. Tomorrow we can make that jump, you know, climb that staircase right now. We'll stay where we are. We're not going to make any decisions today. And as I was taking a little walk yesterday, the beach opened up and man it's been incredible just to be back on there running walking just enjoying it i had this uh this epiphany well what if we didn't look at it like life is stagnant and then we take a step when we want to take a step what if we looked at it like every single day is a fork in the road and every day we're asked whether we want to go left and stay the same

or go right and grow or make a change or do one little thing that will propel us and move us to where we want to be. That makes it at least in our minds, our conscious minds, an active decision. It's not that we're procrastinating. It's nope. If you did nothing today,

it's because you looked in the mirror and decided, and when I say do nothing, I mean, as far as change, right? If you didn't make a change today, it's because you looked in the mirror and decided, nope, not going to do it. changed today. I think bringing those things to the forefront of our minds can be very, very valuable. And I did the exercise, right? It's amazing how quickly we get comfortable and we sort of rationalize our existence. Right. So there are a few things I wanted to do. I had to look at the mirror.

I said, dude, are you comfortable? What are you doing? What are you doing to grow? What are you doing to push yourself? As soon as I get off here, I'm going to email some people. I want one day a week to do an interview. I think it would be fun. I think it'd be different. And it pushed me out of my comfort zone a little bit. I'm not a great interviewer. I haven't done a million interviews.

And it'll be a good way to connect and grow. Same with the YouTube channel. I want to do like kind of a cinematic vlog type video on your world within YouTube channel. But I want to do it in a way that's motivational and still has like this spoken word or the motivational speech feel. I want to grow.

And if that's not a conscious decision, you don't do it, right? So I hope that's clear what I'm trying to say. And I'll give it one more shot just in case it's flipped through the cracks. A lot of us, and the temptation is to look at life like this is how it is, and there's another level waiting when we're ready. Right? So you live your life and when you're ready to step, you step.

But what if every day you looked in the mirror and you thought, fork in the road. What am I going to decide to do today? Am I going to choose to stay the same or am I going to choose to grow, even in a small way? Do one thing. Again, everything's about small incremental steps, right? Do one thing to move towards something new. Growth, what I want to be, what I aspire to be, to create that change. It's about not tucking it away for tomorrow and bringing it to the forefront of your decision making, I think that's going to be an amazing thing. Like, I'm giddy about it. I'm excited about it talking about it right now.

So every day, we are at a fork in the road, and the question is, what are we going to do about it? So I hope you enjoyed this podcast. I hope it helps, and I hope you implement it. I think this could be an important concept here. If you enjoyed it, please subscribe, rate, and review. It helps me get this out to the world. and guys, that is my mission. So thank you for that, and I will catch you tomorrow.