Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Unleash Your Inner Power | Life-Changing Motivational Speech Compilation

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

In this podcast episode, I reflect on a powerful metaphor drawn from the mini-series 1883, where the external healing of a wound represents the things we can control, and the internal healing symbolizes the patience and trust needed for time to do its work. I emphasize that while we can influence and act on many aspects of our lives—whether in times of loss or growth—there are elements that remain outside our control, requiring us to cultivate patience and faith. This delicate balance between action and surrender is a vital part of both personal growth and recovery. I further explore the idea of "aggressive patience," using the example of a bamboo tree, which takes years to break through the soil, despite the diligent care given by the farmer. Like the bamboo, our dreams and goals often require time and persistence, even when the results are not immediately visible. The key is to relentlessly march forward, trusting that time will stitch the inner parts of our journey. Success and healing come not just from our output but from a harmony between effort and allowing time to work its magic. - Eddie

I was on a pretty long flight last week from Europe, and I downloaded this miniseries. It's called 1883, and it's the prequel to a show called Yellowstone. It's basically about, you know, some settlers looking to go out west, right? From, I believe, Tennessee and Texas, taking the Oregon Trail all the way across the country to the west coast. And it's just this brutal journey, right? famine, storms, rivers, wildlife, clashes with natives. I mean, everything you can imagine that would make this trip hell. And the main character is, I think, about 18 years old,

and the whole story is told through her eyes. So, spoiler here, but I can't really avoid spoiling it. You know, she gets hit with an arrow during a confrontation with natives. The arrow goes through her stomach, and it pierces her lo. liver. And so her dad is caring for her, right? She's lying down just in really bad shape. It makes kind of an abrupt movement. And her father, who's leaning over her, kind of goes, hey, hey, hey, slow down, slow down. And then says, quote, they cauterized the outside of you, but time is the only thing that can stitch the inside. And I wrote that down immediately. Beautiful

quote, obviously referencing her wound in that scene, but I think also referring to the wound, this whole thing would leave on her father's heart, whose instincts were correctly suggesting that she wouldn't make it much longer, and she didn't. And I think in our world, to put it simply, there are always two things at play. the things we have control over and the things we don't the action that we can take now and the subtle patience

that exists under the surface in the example you can attempt to close or cauterize the outside of the wound you can monitor it for infection you can rest you can do all the things but what happens in side. Well, that was beyond them. And in both loss and in times of growth, I often find myself

frustrated with that dance. You know, when it's loss after losing something or someone, you can engage with new stimuli. You can attempt to refocus, spend time with people that light you up. You can certainly put yourself in position to move on. That's great, and it's helpful. But we also know that the heart won't move on until it's ready to move on. There are sort of two parallel tracks existing at once. And so you have control, certainly, but how much? And then with growth, you know, you can do all the right things.

You can work long hours. You can plan, seek out efficiency, commit to, consistency and all of that is critical. But that exponential growth curve requires time, days, and often a large accumulation of them. There are the unexpected occurrences, the curveballs, the stepping back to leap forward, epiphanies. And so using this same metaphor, you have control over the outside. It can be cared for and it should. But in this same metaphor, if the inside is a mere representation of time and that which is beyond our control, there's a necessary trust and patience required.

Perhaps the term should be aggressively patient. When I first started doing this in 2014, I heard a speech from Les Brown where he mentioned a bamboo tree. And it came at a time when I needed it most. You know, when I was acting and the wheels were turning and life was spinning, but the results were minimal at best. What makes the bamboo tree special? What less alludes to is that it takes years and years for that tree to emerge from the ground.

But when it does, it basically shoots up immediately, right, overnight, rapidly. And so it appears like it comes out of nowhere, but there's a world of change happening underground with each tick of the clock. And so the farmer has to tend to the soil and water it and commit to its daily maintenance. Well, the rest of the world sees nothing, right?

They look on and think that he or she has lost their mind. But that farmer is merely juggling what he can control. control with the faith in that which he cannot control. Because in all likelihood, there will be a point when the bamboo breaks through the earth's surface and makes a break towards the sky in stunning fashion. So this is somewhat of a different lens. That's what I want this to be, a different way of looking at the world because so much of the time we focus, and I certainly do with these videos, on the things that we can control. Often and what we do is mind-blowing, right, what we're capable of.

We are powerful beyond imagination. But I tell you, the older I get and the more wisdom I'm able to acquire, true strength seems to be knowing how powerful you are and, big and, marrying that understanding to the fact that sometimes no matter what we do, that clock must tick. No matter how hard we march in a particular direction. our hearts must heal on their own. No matter how fast we build or how consistently we show up, the destination requires two or three or five or ten or twenty trips around the sun

until we get what we set out to capture. That reminder is everything when you feel you have received no validation for your work. or your effort. They say it's not the destination, it's the journey. And I believe that to be true, because the destination is merely a reflection of the road you've traveled. It's a summary of the external cauterization of our wounds

and our challenges or difficulty. And each step we took, each head nod as we moved into the unknown, each tick of the clock as our effort, and dreams became reality. When you feel you've lost faith, when you're looking at the ground and no bamboo has emerged, sure, analyze and adjust your approach, pivot,

understand what you can do now. But for the sake of progress and your sanity, marry that with the knowledge that some plants take a long time to sprout. Be willing to do your part, but let the clock do its part. Let time play the role it was meant to play. You know how you do that by continuously marching forward. But it's been so long, march forward. But it hurts, march forward.

But I'm lost, march forward. As my favorite saying goes, time heals nothing unless you move along with it. You doing all you can do now allows fate to do all it can. Too many times we get discouraged or never go or leave too early because we think life is entirely determined by our output. When results are the product of, yes, planting and nourishing, but also when called to be patient, being patient. Time is the only thing that can stitch the inside.

As you make your way to your own personal greatness, whatever that means to you, whatever that feels like to you, I ask that you arm yourself with that reminder. The ones who reach mountain tops, they were relentless in what they could control, but they were accepting of what they could not. This is the dance that reshapes our own.

our lives.