Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - You Are Always One Decision Away From A Totally Different Life | Motivational Speech

Episode Date: January 13, 2021

"Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent and committed decision" - Tony Robbins

It may be that our greatest gift in life is that we're always one decision away from transformation. We're always one decision away from a new path with new experiences, new beliefs, new identity, one decision away from a totally different life. It's almost incomprehensible. That all the days leading up to now, everything we knew ourselves to be can be discarded and left. with one swing of an axe gone. What is more miraculous than that?

We live at the intersection of two imaginary worlds, right? The past and the future. Past is gone and essentially meaningless. Yet as the provider of our identity, it still rules over us. Our sense of who we are comes from our collection of past memories. That imaginary world of yesterday, like the elephant tied to the chair with the rope. It hasn't realized it's strong enough to break free.

It doesn't know that what confines him is not the rope, but acceptance of a lie. And that's what the past, that's what identity is, a lie. We are not yesterday, we are right now. And from the trivial things to the significant things we get wrapped up in that lie. We overlook the gift of control we have over our future. What does it mean to say I'm not a mourning person?

That in your past you hadn't conditioned yourself to wake up early? Okay. What does it mean to say, oh, I let people walk all over me? That in your past you didn't stand up for yourself? What does it mean to say I'm awkward or shy or I struggle with writing or running or public speaking? So maybe you did. But what does that have to do with right now? What does that have to do with realizing the conversation

control you have over your life. Because simply realizing you can disconnect from these narratives that they are not you is a superpower. Realizing that calling yourself a bad student because you fail the test, it's like never taking off your raincoat because it rained yesterday. It's like, no, the sun is out. Adapt. And once you realize right now is the beginning of the rest of your life, you can start making little changes.

Identify not who you were, but who you'd love to be, and move towards it. Read the power of habit and atomic habit so that you can understand change isn't crazy or big or scary. It's moving little things in your life around so that they work for you, not against you. Start waking up and thinking about not what has happened but what can happen, not what can go wrong, but what can go right. You are always one decision away from a totally different life because you're always one decision. away from change, from walking away from the narratives that you have accepted. And so remember that. But remember it not just when things are fine.

Remember it when you're struggling, when you feel restless or uneasy, unsure, uninspired, sad, angry, not content with the reflection in the mirror. When you feel that negativity, you're not looking at what can be, you're looking at what you have been. been and there's no room at the table for that distraction not when you can reach out and start building something new not when you can put on a new pair of shoes and walk down a different path you are always one decision away from a totally different life and that decision should be first and foremost to choose future

over past your next step over the last one Choose your ideal world and start building.