Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Your Obligation | A Motivational Speech About Not Giving Up

Episode Date: December 28, 2020

"It's not your responsibility to have everything figured out in the moment, but it's your obligation to move forward anyway" - Eddie This episode reinforces the idea that consistently showing up, even when things are difficult, is life's greatest differentiator.

Your obligation is a simple one. No, it has nothing to do with breaking any records. No miracles here. You don't have to be the first or the best or the greatest. No, those things by themselves are meaningless. You can't perform them. They aren't verbs. They're consequences.

Consequences of your much simpler obligation. To not stop. To carry on. to hush your mind and move your feet. No, not at the beginning. Everybody loves the beginning. And no, not towards the end. Anyone can find the strength when the adrenaline is pumping

and the finish line is in sight. I'm talking about the middle. That dreaded space. Brian Moran's Valley of Despair. Jim Rones' winter. When nothing around you is reassuring, and I don't mean in some, metaphysical way. I mean

when you're just not winning. And no winning means no validation, at least not right now, and no immediate validation means you begin to question things, question the work, the initiative, your ability to carry it out. See, I've come to form an important bond with this place every time I wander in its direction. It's where lives truly change. So long as you can get beyond that first trap, that trap of thinking that it's a reflection of you as opposed to what it really is, the test that guards and protects the realm of excellence, the invitation to become who you've never been.

There's a saying that everything looks like failure in the middle. one's ability to see through that haze that eventually makes the middle something meaningful. That obligation not to stop, not to let the external world do internal damage. The obligation to depersonalize the bumps along the road, the people in your way. The chaos, the difficulty, the uncertainty,

it's not about you. It's about everyone trying to figure your life out. trying everything and looking everywhere but the road in front of them. Your job is not to leap a mile or change humanity with a single act. No, it's to carry on. And don't discourage yourself by thinking you owe more than that. Because all you can do in a single moment is not stop. I've always said one of the most beautiful things about victory.

is that no matter how big it can be simplified, condensed down to those who could have said no, but didn't. And that when your plan is to show up no matter what, you have made yourself elite, you've built a template for the results to model, to catch up, you're there. When you win and when you lose,

when you're excited and when you feel tired, when you're certain, and when you have no clue, you are there. That is your obligation. And win those steps, when those decisions, when that persistence comes together, they tell a story so incredible that we can't help but stop and admire the result. One decision at a time. without seeing it in the moment has come to be something larger than life. Saying yes once, it likely doesn't mean much, but saying yes in the face of adversity every day,

recreate your world. So stay true to your obligation. Whether you're in the valley of despair, winter, or some other hellscape we referred to as the middle. Remember that an ending is not required of you. No, not right now. All that is asked is that you don't stop. That you see hope when so many are unwilling,

that you see the temporary nature of the state you're in and believe with all your heart that you'll emerge victorious. One simple decision.