Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Your Past Doesn't Define You | Best Motivational Speech

Episode Date: September 1, 2021

You are always one decision away from a totally different life...

Just go. Sure, things will feel strange at first. Abstract at first, wrong at first. It's incredibly difficult to separate from the past. It's hard to detach from the deeply rooted biological whispering of, hey, at least you knew what to expect back there. But that whispering has preservation in mind. in mind, not happiness.

And at some point, we need to stop preserving that which is not ideal. So go. The walls that once existed, they'll crumble. And this will be startling at first. Shocking at first, intimidating at first. It's incredibly difficult to watch foundational structures crumble around us. especially when you know you are the one that lit the fuse. It's hard to walk away from the faint murmur

stating, hey, this was your home. How dare you leave it? But those words, they have status quo in mind, not growth. And home is an idea you take with you. It's no set of parameters. Just go. The stories you told yourself, the narratives you thought were forever, will prove to be nothing more than the end of an underwhelming chapter. This will feel abrupt at first.

Unfair at first will leave you deeply unsatisfied at first. It's incredibly difficult to realize that happily ever-afters aren't linear, they're cyclical. It's hard to walk away from the voices pleading. with you not to turn the page, stating that because their realities will remain the same, so must yours. But those aren't the characters with whom you'll emerge victorious. Some movies must be recast, the setting, reimagined, the hero reinvented. And so it should be known that your greatest strength is the little steps that you are capable of taking. The little decisions you are capable of making. Remember, safety is not safe when it keeps you from what you need

and the wrong nows have a tendency to evolve into the wrong forever's. The small concessions, well, they become the big mistakes. So if it's a sign you're hoping for, let this be it. If there's a time you're waiting for, let now be that time. If it's someday you are dependent upon, let today be that day,

as doing nothing is in fact a decision. but only one of many. One path laid out before you one single grain of sand where the edge of today's world touches the shores of tomorrow's. Sometimes it's about the ability to stand up, face the horizon, and just go. Go, because it's only upon going,

that you realize you're capable of the journey. You finally see in yourself the strength you've longed for. It's ingoing that you realize yesterday's situation wasn't even really the problem. It was your fear of the unknown, of leaving that situation. It was living with the devil you knew. Instead of potentially having to face the devil you didn't.

That's what happened to your wings. They just felt safer, tucked away. But it's ingoing that we acquire perspective, the tragedies, the devastation, the things that kept us awake at night. They really weren't that bad, but how are we to know? When you build walls around yourself, what's within them becomes your entire world.

It's ingoing that you create yourself. And while everything you need is already beating in your chest, the great unknown before you is the water to that seed, the key to that door, what you fear is exactly what you need. And so the beautiful dance through life goes on. Not beautiful because of its elegance, it's rarely that. But beautiful because of its promise, its malleability. Beautiful because we get to move without answers in order to find answers.

Beautiful because what we become is directly proportional to what we're willing to endure. And that means that the universe doesn't judge. It doesn't know us by our failures or our mistakes, but by our courage. Our courage to face all of these things and move forward anyway. way. To relentlessly explore the resilience of the human spirit. An infinite light in an otherwise finite world, a bridge that is built beneath our feet in real time. What a weight off of our shoulders to know this. We don't have to get it right. We just have to

step out the door trusting that we will pick up enough pieces. To put together something meaningful, we just have to go. And then the world, it opens up. Just like that. Leave the old, embrace the new, simple you think to yourself. Well, yeah, of course, the best things in life are always simple. Always have been, always will be. We just imagine them to be difficult.

We have a knack for making simple decisions into complex matrices of cause and effect, pros and cons, wins and losses, we learned to think for years, until we finally come to the brilliant realization that happiness, that meaning that a life well lived comes when we think less. Ready, fire, aim, there is no perfect path, just an adjusted course, an endless series of change, of learning that falling is just a road sign indicating where we need to go next.

You can't plan for that. You can't chart a course that doesn't exist. No, you leave who you were yesterday behind and you set sail. They'll ask you, where do you see yourself in five years and you'll think, who knows? But not here. It couldn't be here.

it must be somewhere evolved, where pieces of the world shaped your outlook and became the armor that you now wear. New game, new rules, new expectations, new people, new places. And what really changed? Well, how you view yourself. It's funny how it all works. How things come together when we look over our shoulders

like it was meant to be, as if this had to be the way things are. No, you could very easily have stayed dreaming, looking out that window, wishing you could leave, hoping for answers that didn't exist. And so the complex now feels as simple as we meant it to. We move forward, not knowing, but trusting, and we look back with the sense of understanding and a confidence that was built over time.

In the game of life, there are people who go and people who stay. People who build and people who don't. And I'm not saying everything will be perfect or everything will immediately snap into place. How could I? But what I am sad is that in moving forward, we pull back the curtain

on the opportunity that is available to us. We move from the physical limitations of the bodies we walk around in, and towards the infinite power of the mind, the powers them. We become who we were always meant to be. How do we know what that is? Well, not until we look over our shoulders, of course.

So go. Go make your mistakes. Go learn your lessons, feel your moments of pain and your moments of bliss, your times of doubt and your times of certainty. Because in doing so, you will have done the very thing so few people get to do with their limited time on this planet. Truly, so go. Just.