Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - YOU WILL MAKE IT - If You Are Suffering This Is For You - Powerful Motivational Speech

Episode Date: November 11, 2024

  Sometimes, the answers we need aren’t out there somewhere; they’re right here, within arm’s reach. In this episode, we’ll dig into the surprising truth that even our biggest obstacles can be tackled with what we already have, right where we are. It’s easy to think that solutions lie in some far-off place, requiring resources or skills we don’t yet possess. But the reality is, more often than not, the next step is right in front of us—small, simple, and incredibly powerful. We often complicate things, layering on obstacles that aren’t really there. Yet, the most profound changes come from peeling back, not adding on. It’s about starting with what we have, embracing the simplicity of immediate action, and letting go of the notion that answers must be difficult to be impactful. This isn’t just a mindset shift—it’s a pathway to real change, right here, right now. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook  YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube 

I have long believed that the solution to even our biggest problems, right? Our toughest tasks, our greatest challenges, they can be solved. Or at least the process of solving them can begin exactly where you are using only what you already have. Right? Meaning the solution to your problem exists in the room with you, an arm. arm's length away. And you might hear that and think, dude, you know, that's way too good to be true. That's too idealistic.

It's too simple. But what I want to try and explain over the next few minutes is how the most important changes we make in life. The things that matter the most, they're simple. Incredibly simple. and it's only our tendency to make things unnecessarily complex that becomes the problem. One of my favorite thinkers, Thomas Sol once said, people who pride themselves on their complexity

and deride others for being simplistic should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth. And he's coming up this more societally from a political angle. But I think so many of these things in the big picture and the macro, they make sense in the micro. Like I hear this and I think at a personal level,

this is so true. You should see the things I come up with in my mind when I'm procrastinating or dragging my feet on something. This angle, that angle, what if this happens or that? Have I thought about A, what about B, what about C? And I usually dance around these things until I remember, Eddie, we've been. here before, no.

Turn the internal dialogue off and start. Go. Put the project into motion. Breathe life into the pursuit. Then it's off to the races. It's not that complicated. You go before you're ready and you adjust along the way.

That's one example. And a few weeks ago, this was sort of reinforced to me in a funny way. It's a seemingly trivial metaphor that I think in its simplicity can be truly valuable. So picture this, right?

I was on a train in Venice, Italy, big family trip. And so we'd all been overseas for about five weeks, so we're not exactly traveling light. We have pretty big suitcases, the standard size you'd have to check if you were at an airport going on to an airplane. But we weren't on an airplane. We were on a train with tight quarters and big suitcases. Big crowds, right? So we board this train. People start piling into their seats.

And I'm like, okay, what do we do with these things? You know, and I'm looking around, seeing if I could find a place to store them. I point to one of them, and, you know, one of the folks working there kind of just scowls and walks by. And it's like, okay, I get it. We're the Americans in Europe with the big suitcases. And it just becomes a circus, right? Now, there's an overhead compartment where you can put bags above the seats. But it just, it looks small, looks tiny.

My brother and I were peering around. We both see it immediately go, no, no chance that's fitting. So I'm like, okay, well, we'll put the bags on our seats and either stand by them or sit on the suitcases, let the people board the train. And then when everyone's sitting, we can move all our bags to the aisle. And, you know, we're solving this thing in real time. And suddenly, I just get this jolt of,

why not? Pick up one of the massive bags and I just start jamming it into the overhead compartment and, you know, people all the way up and down the aisle are staring at me like I'm losing my mind. I'm trying to condense the suitcase as much as I can.

And after about 30 seconds, the thing somehow fits. My brother jumps up out of his seat, we start grabbing the bags and jamming them all in his overhead. compartment. Now, I need you to trust me. I feel dumb as I sit here even speaking this. Imagine how dumb I felt in that moment, right? This whole little traffic jam and commotion was avoidable. Didn't even really want to rehash this. I just want to let it fade into history.

But it's one of those things where it's like, the more you think about it, the more the seemingly obvious solution is the point. I'm drawing. up a plan to sit on a 55-pound bag and all this unnecessary nonsense, when the thing just fit where bags are supposed to go. And maybe it didn't seem like it at first, but regardless, you know, the solution was right there in the overhead compartment. You know, that's like dying of thirst right next to a lake. You're not too far from what you really needed there, pal.

So now, let's take this to where it really matters. our personal lives. The things that weigh us down, the obstacles that feel big and ominous and intimidating. Resolving them must call for some larger-than-life response, right? There must be some 5,000-page answer book to encompass my solution here. Nah, not true.

What's the simple, singular root of the issue and how can you attack it head-on? There's an idea I've talked about before, but I want to bring up again about the idea of little hinges. W. Clement Stone once said little hinges swing big doors, meaning there's certain small things we do that have just this monumental impact. It's just we aren't looking for them. We're not thinking about them the right way,

as simple and obvious as it may seem. I'll give you a few personal examples. Headaches. I've talked about them before. I've battled with them plenty. They've almost completely disappeared from my life, knock on wood. If that was my suitcase scenario, right? I was doing everything but addressing the root cause.

Ibuprofen every day, seeing doctors, different medicines, cat scans, you name it. What helped? Electrolite tablets. It's like I did everything but that. Sports injuries, right? constantly dealing with stuff. And I still am to some extent, but stretching has made a monumental difference. Just waking up in the morning and stretching for 10 minutes.

Or my writing output. Having a block of time in the morning where every day I write no matter what. Diet. Here's the magic solution. Don't have bad stuff in the cabinet. I'm looking at you, Flaming Hot Chitos. These aren't of little consequence. They're decisions that have drastic.

changed my life. And I know they're right, because I look at them now and it's like, it just feels so obvious. Oh, look at the, you know, the rocket scientist over there. He started stretching more, and now he doesn't pull his back every Thursday. But they only seem obvious in hindsight. When you're moving forward, they feel complex and messy and impossible. You know how difficult life feels when you can't open your eyes because of a headache? Last thing I was thinking was get some electrolyte tablets off Amazon. It was way bigger than that. It was I hope whoever has to cut my head open and perform surgery knows what they're doing.

Right? We think the solutions need to be as painful as the problem. No. The reason we're still there stuck in the issue is because we put the problem on a pedestal. And I firmly believe that. And so my ask of you is to take a second and think about your life, truly. Think about where you are and the so-called obstacles before you. And pretend you had to distill life down into its simplest form.

If you had to, and I mean had to find a solution right now where you are, where would you start. If you had to do one thing today that would give you the biggest bang for your buck, what could that look like? Solutions are not as big as the problem. And I think that's why they're hidden in plain sight. I think that's why we walk right by them. We think we need a team of Harvard neurologists when we need electrolyte tablets. We're running around trying to camouflage five cases of luggage

When they can be squeezed in the overhead department labeled, yeah, I know, luggage. Use what you have where you are because where you are answers live. And maybe it doesn't fix the problem overnight. But I promise you, it'll get you closer to a solution than the obstacle you've unknowingly transformed into a seven-foot-eight four-handed monster with razor sharp teeth. You have this. You can slay this dragon and come out on top. Just one, believe it, and two, open your eyes.

That combination seems to work. Miracles.