Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - The Times We'll Remember - Inspirational Speech Compilation

Episode Date: December 25, 2020

"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them." - Ed Helms This compilation is a reminder to cherish the little things. As time goes by, we ultimately come to realize that they weren't so little after all... Tracks: 0:00 Remember The Little Things 5:00 Find Yourself Again 11:36 Scripts and Story Lines

Remember the little things. The ones we all come to appreciate, perhaps a little too late. That feeling of comfort, our little eyes first understood to be home. Those little conversations we still think about, the ones that shaped us. Those little stretches of time we thought would last forever, but to our surprise had a final moment written into this. story. Oh, those little things. I remember going to a concert in high school. It was at the Orphium in Boston, Massachusetts. I went with two of my friends. Had an amazing time in, well, years, and years

have obviously passed. And recently I asked myself, what is it I remember about that day? Why is it such a powerful moment for me? And interestingly enough, I don't remember any of the songs that were sung, or how well they were played. I don't remember what I bought or what I wore or what teenage troubles I was going through at the time, no years later. I remember how it felt to stand there in the center of that theater. Color of the lights filling up the room, the bass drum resonating in my chest, aligning with my heartbeat, the people I was with.

And the funny thing is, 17-year-old me had no clue. He was driving into the city for a night he'd remember forever, but not because of the music, no, because of a feeling. Because he would spend the time with the same people he would have hung out with anyway at home. And perhaps subconsciously I knew, perhaps we all do, but at the time, it all felt like details. The time they were simply included in the story, a buy one, get one, if you will.

Oh, how they hide themselves, those little things. In a way, it's not too different from the oxygen. We breathe in and breathe out, intertwined in everyday life, necessary to carry on, to grow, to evolve. Yet, only missed when it's gone. We don't think. about the air we breathe unless of course we are submerged and without it. So why, why does this matter, why put this thought to paper?

Well, because to use my previous concert hall metaphor, I've spent so much of my life thinking about the stage presence, the accuracy of the notes, the visual appearances, the wrong things. It seemed intuitive, overwhelmingly obvious, but now they're just reminders. How easily we can walk on what matters to get our hands on what doesn't. Do we know what's important? Do we know what we hold dear?

Do we think enough about those little things? Every time the caller ID says mom or dad or nana banana, when my little brother and sister get new apartments, jobs, promotions start navigating. this crazy world, every time I open my laptop and get to bleed my thoughts onto a blank page over a cup of coffee and a sunrise. Running around random towns across this country with my best friends, bringing ideas to life. See, the now tells you they are nice things, happy things, lovely things. But it doesn't let you in on the greatest secret of all. Those little things just might be everything.

So see them while you're in them and hold on tight. Human beings don't see, we interpret. We don't take in what happens. We take in the implication of what happens. Everything in our world is

story. It's similar to the idea of two ideologically different news organizations, right, reporting on the same event. Neither will be completely. completely factual, they'll both uphold their individual narratives. They're not black and white, they're interpreting grace space, and our individual lives are no different. We are our own broadcasting channels.

Using data to support our individual narratives, see, we know what the story's going to say before the story occurs because we will make it so. We'll make life fit our beliefs. our beliefs. That's what means to be human. So here's where the value lives in the context of this message when we find ourselves in a consistent state of despair or frustration or anxiety. It's a fool's errand to look for solutions in the external world. Because everything we find, everything we come across will support our current beliefs, our current story. That's what we'll keep playing in our head.

and it's why money can't bring fulfillment and another person can't take you from incomplete to content. It's why status will never equate to happiness. Those acquisitions are like putting premium fuel in a car with a broken engine. It's just not the answer that we hoped it would be. To change your world, you must change your story. Whatever it is that needs to be changed.

The location, the objective, the characters, maybe the journey altogether, but it's the neural network behind your eyes that must change, not the detail it takes in. And so if you feel stuck or feel like where you want to be seems unrealistic, you have to know right now that the very fact you think that way is the problem. So ask yourself, not your girlfriend or your boss or your neighbor, but ask yourself what a turnaround looks like. Do you know? Or have you acclimated to being unhappy?

Have you even asked yourself what happiness looks like? Or is your personal broadcasting channel so hell-bent on ensuring your life outlook stays the way it is that it's not even paying attention to the data it takes in? See, I believe wholeheartedly that the first step in any facet of transformation is remembering that you have control that things in your life

that bring you down or hold you back can be changed. In fact, the very things working against you can work for you, but you have to be aware. You have to think about it. Now, I'm not a believer in magic, right? I don't think you sit back, say, I don't want to be unhappy ever again,

snap your fingers and smile until the end of eternity. But I do believe that once we're aware of our manufactured shackles and our self-imposed limitation, we can start chipping away, doing the one, two, or three small things every day, tiny swings at the tree until it falls. If it's, I'm not happy with my work life, well, what does a better situation look like?

What bridge is that gap? I'll wake up 20 minutes earlier on weekdays and master Microsoft Excel. I'll send one message on LinkedIn asking an expert about the field I want to move into. I'll read 20 pages and, in a book related to business. You think those things are small.

See what they look like compounded in a year. Not only that. This is the most important part. You are taking the power back. You're taking control. And that's what feels good. That's where we get our identity. You get a little disappointed at how you've let your physique slip when you look in the mirror.

Don't be sad about it every day. Again, ask yourself what the inverse looks like and start doing small things. Subtract one sports drink and add one green smoothie. Double your water intake. Do a 10-minute daily workout on YouTube. The pieces are out there. And to find yourself again is to realize that they're out there. Realize that you're playing a movie on loop in your head that isn't right.

It's just not you. And well, what movie do you want to be playing in an ideal world? Scroll through the library, find it, click play, and start doing the small things that make it real. There's so much power in progress. I've seen this unfold in different areas of my life, but particularly as a writer, as a speaker, it's like you identify who you want to be,

you start making tiny steps, and after a while, you're surrounded by the change that you've created. How can you not believe something that you're starting to live? It has to become your identity because it is you. It's around you. You breathe it. So look around and realize the malleability of your situation. And if what you find is not you, good.

Here is your opportunity to tear down the old. and construct the new. You can do that because you have control because it's within your grasp. So start the new movie, the new story, make yourself the hero and set out to find yourself again.

What you look for in life. tends to be what you find. What you believe is usually what you see. Which means your existence hinges on where you build your walls. And part of the reason stories, music, movies, they move us is because we're allowed, even if it's for a short period of time, to change our parameters on these things.

To let the mind navigate through a world without any limit, When you think about it, we never fast forward through a movie so that we can quickly check off the box and complete it. Right? We never rush through to move on to the sequel. No, we want to experience it. We want to be overwhelmed by emotion, captivated by excitement lost in the mystery, and then when it's over, we retract, we return to reality. The walls come back up and the rules are reinstated. And from a 10,000-foot view, you can't help but look at that and wonder if there's more there. Why do we have to retreat to this microcosm of our ideal world,

where we're not rushed, we can enjoy the moment? Why does it take a dark room and objects depicted on a small screen for us to feel like it's acceptable to step outside of this everyday script. And the question isn't who's enforcing these rules. The answer is always us, it's internal, but the question is why? Is it incomprehensible that the same excitement be inserted into your world? Is it out of the realm of possibility that the rush of adrenaline, the peak experiences, the laughter, love twists, and turns be inserted into reality?

It's like we choose to be chased through life by ticking clocks and measured by socially constructed checkpoints. But we can move beyond that, much beyond in those checkpoints. They're just as imaginary as the talking raccoon you set aside three hours to watch last night. So, by the way, you could escape from a manufactured reality. Right, there's a powerful authoritative line that separates our day to day from the imagination, and every second is about pushing that back. Never fast-forwarding through life, but making it unlike anything else.

Never applying the word mandatory to things that don't warrant the term. We need to think bigger. Working like a madman to build someone else's dream is not mandatory. Enjoying two-sevenths of your life is not mandatory. Being confined to one road when there are infinite paths to travel is not mandatory. They're components of a bad movie. And my point is not to be ungrateful. It's not to be resentful.

It's to remind you that things are the way they are. Things are the way they are because you've allowed them to be that way. Nothing in life is destined, predetermined, or meant to be. Everything is decided. Life is chosen. Paths are taken. And sometimes a simple reminder that you have the flexibility to redefine. The rules can make all the difference.

You are entitled to happiness. Every day is a continuation of the extraordinary, not a break from it, And you have to see that, you have to believe that. You're not alive so that you can every so often escape. You're here to feel the imaginary, to challenge the make-belief. Our view of the world without a concentrated effort, it seems to contract. And this is a reminder to disallow that, to stop living for the five or the 10% and flip that ratio on its head. Now is the time to rewrite your script, recraft your storyline.

And if what you look for is what you get, then it's time to see what you've never seen before.