Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - WAKE UP & WORK HARD AT IT | Powerful Motivational Speeches Compilation 2022

Episode Date: June 29, 2022

"Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion" - Simon Sinek

What does it mean to be a little better every single day? James Clearers noted that if each day you improve by only 1%, you'll be a full 37 times better in a year. That's an almost unfathomable number. Unbelievable transformation. Imagine being 37 times better at what it is you're looking to improve on. 37 times more efficient or skilled. All because of a 1% per day commitment.

Almost sounds too good to be true. Here's the catch though. 1% doesn't seem like much. Which is good, one might think, you know, that should make it easier. Well, sort of. The easier and more seemingly trivial something is to accomplish, the easier it is to dismiss it as well.

We've all been there that, maybe not today, maybe tomorrow. No big deal. We don't lose anything. And that's what we must learn to wrestle with. Jim Roan puts it this way. He says being successful is easy. The issue is that being unsuccessful is easy too.

Saying yes to the little things you know you need to do is easy. But so is saying no. Putting your phone away to work on something of substance, yeah, that's pretty easy. But watching just one more TikTok or Instagram or YouTube video, that's easy too. Putting your shoes on, going for a walk or run, heading to the gym. Hey, procedurally, pretty easy. Not that complex, but talking yourself into just going tomorrow instead. Also a rationalization that's pretty easy.

And that's essentially the question, which easy are you going to go with? How do you put yourself in position to select the right easy? Well like so many things, it starts with the worldview and flows out to the tangible actions we take in support of that worldview. first. We have to know that the biggest advantage available is seeing the small things as so much more than small things. It's refusing to fall victim to the disappointment and burnout associated with hoping for one huge jump, a miracle solution, the answer that will change everything. That's deceiving. Winning looks small and consistent.

Progress is boring. It's mundane. It looks like deciding on what matters and then making a pack with yourself every day to keep your own promises. When most would fall off or push things to tomorrow, it's seeing your commitment as everything, knowing that the people who manufacture significance in their lives, they treat what others would call silly and trivial. as life and death. They make the details into the whole storyline. So yeah, it might be easy for someone else to walk away. But when you have given yourself no other option but to succeed,

the little steps to make it happen requires zero thought or internal deliberation. The person who gets into shape over the course of six months, they're not going to be the one who found a secret diet, bought a piece of equipment on Amazon. They didn't do the necessary thing here and there when they had their fleeting moments of inspiration. No, they made better, consistent decisions. No to the soda, yes to the water, no to the alarm, yes to the run, no to the Netflix and yes to the gym. Both options were easy in the moments in which they arose.

But each time only one option mattered. And that's what it's about. tying the prolonged gratification to something that means the world to you, where each step is not just a step, but one step closer to the moon. So no, it's certainly not that a can of Coke or dessert or the day off will kill you, but flip the narrative. It's that when you do stay true to your mission and the promises you make to yourself, you get something so much more back.

It's not, oh, what will I lose by skipping this 1%? No, in a world where excellence compounds, it's look what I am becoming. And this decision is an investment too good to pass up. And every decision to move forward, to embrace the things that align with your true North, is a nod. to that future self.

If you don't allow yourself to be vulnerable, you forfeit your greatness. If you don't risk failure, you have no shot at being the one who makes a statement. You don't risk them laughing at you. You have no shot at them clapping for you. If you don't risk trading today for a future outcome that's uncertain,

You'll never know the fortune that that future help. Yeah, being vulnerable, it's difficult. It's hard, it hurts, but it has to. It's the ocean that separates what you have from what you want. The mountain that stands between who you are and who you want to be. Being vulnerable, it means you stop looking at what can go wrong and you start thinking about what can go right. because every question's a double-edged sword.

Do you release that song? Because it could flop, but it will also kickstart your dream. Do you make that first trip to the gym? Because you'll probably look like you have no clue what you're doing, but it could also lead you to feeling better about yourself than you ever have before. Do you apply for that promotion?

Because you could be let down. But it could also lead to a career transformation. Do you see the dynamic here? Every major decision comes with risk, and that's why people avoid making them. Standing out, taking the road less traveled, they shake our deeply rooted desire to fit in, right at the foundation.

They conflict like fire and water. See, so much of our stress comes from a need to believe. to preserve a reputation, to be cool. You want a fun experiment? Watch how fast being cool turns into mediocrity. It's doing the things that are not cool over and over again the constitute greatness. The ones who are different, bold, out there,

they change things. The ones who are okay being called irrational, okay being laughed at, okay with failing and not getting it the first time around. time around. If you do not let yourself be vulnerable, you never experience failure on a significant level. You don't fail, you don't learn, you don't learn, you don't grow. And if that's the case, forget about the top of the mountain. Safety, comfort of flawless reputation, gets you a nice seat at the bottom looking up at greatness, at those who saw the opportunity

and we're willing to take a chance. So while you climb, keep your eyes on that big picture, remember that we outgrow our worries. Through each stage of our lives, we look back and we realize that our previous priorities were misaligned. We worried about things that didn't matter. Allowed our decisions to be guided by variables that were irrelevant. And that's the beauty of risk.

It escalates this realization. Pushes this further and further past the line. little things that mean less and less with each step taken. Your mistakes will not matter. Criticism from strangers will not matter. What will matter is whether you took control and did something meaningful with your life. Whether you followed your heart and your instant. And I know it's hard.

I know it's uncomfortable. I can't sit here and guarantee the path will be paved out in gold. Everything will go how you want. But I can promise this, you will learn, you will adapt and move forward. I can promise that the critics and the naysayers get smaller and smaller until they fade out of the picture altogether. And most importantly, I can promise that if you don't do anything, you will not go anywhere.

And that is the only way to fail. So trust yourself. Trust the process, believe that you are extraordinary. And go make your magic. There's something incredible about the prospect of starting over. Not because you're unhappy with who you are. Or because each step that brought you here wasn't perfect in its own unique way. But because somewhere deep down, we can feel the infinite.

We know that when it comes to what's possible, we are a flicker of light in a galaxy of stars, waiting to take shape, find our way to shine out across the very elements from which we came. See, beginning again simply means a new chapter. It means the next adventure. It's places you've never gone, people you've never met. It's stories untold and dreams still dancing around in your head. There's an old Dr. Seuss quote, I remember as a kid. He said, sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

And turning the page on that chapter is, if nothing else, a temporary reminder, that we are in the very moments we'll look back on and smile. It shines a spotlight on the people that mean the most and reassures us that the small stuff just might be. After all, life doesn't dwell on the heartbreak or the times we fell, but the times we got back up, the times we looked with confidence at the road ahead, and smiled at the horizon

as each fleeting moment is discovered for the very so here's to breathing in that ocean breathe laughing until your stomach hurts here's to dreaming like there are no rules and living like there's no tomorrow to creating your masterpiece one word, one note, one brush stroke at a time,

to dancing when the music isn't playing and sharing your song when it is. Here's to seeing the beauty when most walk right by it. Being light in darkness and a voice in silence, here's to living life on your terms, paving your own path and writing your own story. The one where the huge, The hero doesn't stop until the princess is saved and the castle is taken, the one where reality is a reflection of imagination.

Because if you do these things, when you look back years from now, you'll have a lot to say. But I promise you, I wish, won't be one of them. Not because of what you were given. Because of what you should. I wonder how much of you has materialized. Like if what F. Scott Fitzgerald says is true and our lives are defined by opportunity, even the ones we miss, then how much remains in the ether? And I don't think it's about playing a game of what if.

You know, that would be endless. It would be self-defeating. No one's perfect. I don't even really think it's about making a right turn instead of a left. Because as long as you're moving and moving with conviction, life ultimately brings. brings you where you need to be. But more, my concern is the steps never brought to people. My ideas on the hatch, my opportunities,

I either knowingly or unknowingly left on the shelf. Because it didn't seem real enough. Like a Broadway play between my ears, that as a spectator I knew would end. After all, that's what stories do. How much of ourselves have we cast aside as simply the things we don't say out loud. At first, it's infinite.

We've yet to be taught to limit because limits aren't things, their ideas, and ideas must be adopted. That's why they say some of life's best things. We're done by people too ignorant to know they were impossible, too naive of the notion that they couldn't say them out loud. Then it's comparison, they have what I want. But it was meant for them and not me. How delusional to think I could have it.

How crazy to think that life has yet to be written. and I am an author. My date is with normalcy in the box where I keep those things we don't say out loud. And then we look around and we see highlight reels. We see awards and vacations and smiles. But we don't stop to think maybe they're just like me. Maybe they're people who struggle and question themselves and doubt the road ahead. No, it must be the past diverged.

They took happiness and I took those things we don't say out loud. And then there's everyday life when things don't go as planned. When the world presents curveballs and you haven't learned to hit off. speed so you feel small and you feel inadequate and ill-equipped and you could reach out but that's not cool that's not right that's something that you don't say out loud but we keep it in like all in and eventually it becomes the if only's and i wish i had it's the quiet envy gazing longingly towards those who just cared less who realized maybe life's not as serious as we make it out to be who turn thoughts to things not by burying but by embodying them and maybe that's the trick

to unlock the gate, keeping your perceived reality from the possibility of a new one. The one you could create, if only you promoted your fleeting thoughts to forward progress. See, dreams can fail to come to fruition in two places in your head and outside of it. But at least outside, it has a chance. At least outside, you can take the common, normal, everyday background and make it the backdrop to your movie, where you play a lead role. But it must be accepted and acknowledged, not thought of or even whispered, but screened so that the details and the trivialities that exist now work for you.

That's right, they are now yours. Not because you thought about it, but because you reached out a hand and you took. You asked the world for something. And in life, it will always be true that you don't get what you do not ask for. So when you find yourself staring up a wall comprised of self-defeating narratives and manufactured limits, be ignorant, be irrational, be the reason your dreams have a chance. And when you look around and you see more and wonder why you don't have it, know that you can, you're allowed to, if you sacrifice you will, but you must believe you are worthy of it. Not in the back of your head where you keep your locker combo and movie quotes, but in reality. where words bounce off lips.

And when you feel like life is treating you unfairly, like they're happier or have it better, know that life is peaks and valleys, not just for you, but for everyone. And how you internalize that and carry on makes the difference. And when you feel lost or stuck, you are not hopeless, but in progress. Being broken down so that you can be reconstructed,

stronger, better. Victory is not. Not in hiding those struggles, but accepting them as the difference, as the reason you created the miraculous. Not because you had dreams, but because you said them out loud. 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 the story. Oh, those little things. I remember going to a concert in high school. It was at the Orpheum 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. 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 of 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. Hold on tight. Every single dream, vision or idea in your life starts with a simple understanding. that it's obtainable, that you can make it real.

That's the beginning of everything. Self-belief is the gatekeeper that stands between current and future. See, if you think of reality as these city walls you're living in, it's not crazy to think that there are going to be people that only know that existence within the walls, right? That's what they see, that's what most believe.

it's how they live. It is only self-belief, a confidence in something greater outside those walls that opens the gate, that expands your reality. And if you don't believe anything good exists on the other side, why begin? If you don't think you're capable of getting there, why start? And this formula is simple, right?

Let's not overthink it. We only move towards outcomes. that we believe to be possible. And that's more important than ability, skill set, strength. I mean, you name it, believing in yourself trumps all that. Because the person with an inferior skill set, maybe an average natural talent, but they believe in something and they move towards it.

They give everything for this idea. They know it to be true. It will always beat the talented person that's unsure, that procrastinates it as one foot in and one foot out. And if you don't believe in yourself, you're building a city on sand because I'll tell you what, great things, they're great for a reason. They're in rare supply. They're limited, which means not everyone can have them. Which means those who do have them have to fight for them.

Have to deal with being uncomfortable. Have to give more, sacrifice more, pay a steeper price than the masses. And if you don't look in the mirror, stare yourself in the face and know you are one of those select few, what's going to happen when life kicks back in you? You'll fall. You'll resort back to what you know.

You'll flee the battle for safety, security, and comfort. But when you know your movie ends at the top of the mountain, when you know at the end of the day, you're going to cross a finish line. or hold a trophy, your brain internalizes conflict differently, very differently. For someone with self-belief, obstacles don't make you wonder if you should keep going. Because you already know you have to keep going. I mean, come on, you haven't arrived yet. There's still a road to travel. No, in this situation, obstacles simply prompt you to ask how.

How can I get through this? And that's a small discrepancy, the change. changes everything. Because at some point you'll look to your right and you'll look to your left and you'll find very few people get to the how question. They all stopped at if. I wonder if I can do this. I wonder if I'm capable. Well, they'll never know. They'll never see that sunset beyond those metaphorical city walls

because they never truly believed in themselves. They never opened that gate. Look, I went through 16 years of education without a teacher or professor telling me, Eddie, 99% of life is just believing in yourself to figure challenges out as they come. To figure life out as it comes. That's it. Only X percent make it through law school. Only Y percent succeed at this and that.

That's what you hear. But no, none of that matters. It's simple, it's simple, it's simple. Most of the world quits when things get challenging. If you don't, if you have the courage to believe in trust in yourself, you'll succeed. Why? Because you won't stop until you find a way. That's the power of self-belief.

It's not quantum physics. It's not complex. You know, at one point, I didn't think I could make a living outside of a cubicle or office building. then I saw others do it. And for the first time in my life, I believed it was possible. I changed my actions to support my beliefs, and here we are.

At one point, I didn't think certain financial goals were reality. I didn't know about a free, flexible lifestyle. I wasn't aware of the type of relationships that would change my life. Why? Because they existed outside those city walls. I didn't believe they were real.

I didn't believe in my sense. to create them, to make them in my own life. But with the change in belief comes a change in reality. You will always follow through on who you believe you are. So let's go back to that mirror visualization. At some point today, look at your reflection and think about nothing but what I'm about to tell you. Everything you need, you have.

I promise you, you are equipped to change your life, your life, the lives of everyone around you, and the world in which you exist. So take that back. Feel it and never ask it again. From now on, the question is how. Your fate is not a coin flip, it's a puzzle. It's about arranging the pieces. And those two eyes looking back at you are more than capable of figuring that out.

Ask simply, do you want it? And if yes, always, Open that front door, take that first step, and inject yourself into a journey that will be unlike anything you've ever experienced before. A journey where you have the answers, the aptitude, and now the self-belief. And when you find yourself in the lowest of lows or the darkest of nights, find solace in that fact that that will be more than enough to get you to dawn. story about some frogs. And, you know, these frogs as they're sort of making their way through the woods, the ground breaks underneath them, and two of them fall into this little pit.

Way, way, way down. They tumble, and eventually they hit the bottom. They're looking up, and they're realizing how far they've fallen, right? Moving around, panicking, essentially coming to grips with the situation that they're now in. They start frantically jumping, trying to climb. the walls. And as they're jumping, the frogs on top are looking down. And they're basically yelling, look, we're sorry this happened to you. But this is a lost cause. There's no way out for you guys.

There's no need to jump around. This is a futile situation. But they continue to jump and they're not willing to come to terms with that possibility. Not yet. And again, the frogs up top, They yell down, you know, there's no way. It's over, you're going to die down there, guys. You need to ultimately face that. And one of the two frogs in the pit does concede to the situation. He hears the voices and, you know, he stops jumping and makes his way further down the pit and he dies. But the second one, the second one keeps jumping and jumping and adjusting his approach.

Trying different things. Ultimately, he does get out. He climbs over the ledge, and when he gets to the top, he's confronted by the others. And they come up to him, they ask him, hey, didn't you hear us yelling down that this situation was impossible? Didn't you hear us say there was no way out? And as it turns out, he didn't hear.

Because this frog was deaf, right? So we couldn't hear a single word, and this ultimately saved his life. Not because it helped him do the miraculous or the impossible, But because it blocked out the outside voices attempting to tell him what possible is. Look, there will always be doubters, skeptics, and cynics. As Aristotle said, there is one way to avoid criticism. Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

But the beauty is that these voices have one thing in common, and that's their irrelevance. Because there's one voice that matters in the writing of your story and that voice belongs to you. Never forget how much control you have. Never forget who holds the pen. Things are real when you make them real. Things stop when you stop. Things change when you change them. So here's the following, not orders or expectations, but that spark that guides you to what feels right,

To what means the most, here's to an everlasting self-belief. That will lift you out of any hole, carry you over any mountain, and most importantly turn blank pages into a story that is truly your life.