Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
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Fri, 25 Apr 2025
There comes a moment when you realize you've let go of the rope. You were climbing, building, growing, but life disrupted the rhythm. Maybe it was a trip, an illness, or a decision to hit snooze just once. But once becomes twice, momentum fades, and suddenly you're wondering if you've still got what it takes. The truth is momentum, like fire, requires energy and care. It takes time to build but only seconds of neglect to start slipping away.Your mind will try to convince you to stay where it's safe, to settle, to build a home in that temporary setback. But your heart knows better. You are not defined by a stumble. You are meant to rise, again and again. Begin again. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s who you are.More from Eddie Pinero:Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletterYour World Within Podcast: https://yourworldwithin.libsyn.com/Stream these tracks on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2BLf6pBInstagram - @your_world_within and @IamEddiePineroTikTok - your_world_withinFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/YourworldwithinTwitter - https://www.twitter.com/IamEddiePineroBusiness Inquiries - http://www.yourworldwithin.com/contact#liveinspired #yourworldwithin #motivation
Chapter 1: What does it mean to let go of the rope?
Every once in a while, there's a point where you're looking in the mirror and you realize you've let go of the rope, right? You were, you were climbing, you were ascending and, uh, you know, moving on to bigger, better, faster, all the things, but then life happened. Maybe you were traveling, you know, there's disruption, you get sick. You sleep in, right?
Hit that alarm clock or that snooze button and you tell yourself, just this once. But I think we've been there when once becomes twice, twice becomes three times. Suddenly, what was second nature now feels like you're climbing a mountain barefoot. Momentum is a lot like fire. It takes time to build and effort to cultivate. energy to sustain, but only a moment of neglect to flicker out, right?
And once that darkness settles in, you start asking yourself all the wrong questions. Well, what's the point? What if I don't have it in me anymore? Do I even have to live like that? What if I was really never that person to begin with? Because the mind is funny like that. It doesn't fight for your potential. It fights for comfort. It wants to take that temporary stumble and build it into a home.
It wants to consistently build walls around you. In fact, I would go as far as to say there's dissonance between where your heart wants to go, where your soul wants to take you, and where some of the most precious things in life are directing you. Your biology wants you safe. It doesn't need you pushing your limits or maxing out your potential.
Societally, it's much easier to blend in, to be average. Even friends and family, the ones that love us most, right? There's innately interest in their part on you being safe and secure, which is fine. But all these things lead you to a status quo, not excellence. Excellence in my eyes is something that is derived from the self. It's a journey that you have to green light.
And so where am I going with this? Well, I'm just coming out of a, we'll say, less than ideal stretch. It's not a remarkable story. It's not going to knock your socks off, but I think you'll find it relatable. Where a few weeks ago, everything was firing on all cylinders in, I want to say, all aspects of life, right?
In rhythm, dialed in, early mornings, deep work, hitting the gym, spending time with people I care about, all things good, right? Had my hands on the wheel. And then something so small, so seemingly insignificant, knocked me off course. Some type of respiratory virus. Nothing serious, enough to keep me in bed for a few days.
But in that time, your discipline, focus, habits, all those things you sort of have to fight to cultivate, they can go out the window. They're allowed to unwind because you're telling yourself you'll get back on track and you need this. You deserve this. You work hard. So the symptoms go away after three days, but energy's a little bit down.
And you're looking at the gym and you're going, you need the rest. You're looking at those creative ideas. Oh, they can wait. You start sleeping in, start hitting the snooze button. And essentially an active choice to recover becomes an unconscious choice to retreat. At some point, you're not healing anymore. You're hiding. And you feel it, right? Just in your bones, there's less excitement.
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Chapter 2: How can we regain momentum after setbacks?
We don't understand our ability to maintain until we've held strong against the winds, until we've allowed ourselves to rise when it feels like the world's pulling us down. The storm doesn't make us weak. It reveals how strong we've been all along. And so understand this when times are great. You know, yeah, why not?
Put yourself through the manufactured stress, duress, and discomfort I mentioned above, you know, when things are smooth sailing. Absolutely. But if you're in it, and I mean truly in the thick of things, right, moving through the storm, the darkness of night surrounding you, I want you to remember that How much of you lives beneath the surface, waiting to be shown, to be let out, to be freed?
Remember that the greatest parts of you need your permission to shine and emerge, but that when they do, nothing, and I mean nothing life throws your way is too much to endure. Will there be turbulence and chaos around you? Absolutely, you can bet on that. But the calm and resilience within you conquers all. Always remember that. You are stronger than you think you are. You, now and always.
When you lose your job and have no idea what you're going to do next, yes, you are stronger than you think you are. You know, when your forever person, quote unquote, ends up not being so forever, you're stronger than you think you are. When your world's tipped upside down, you're stronger than you think you are.
When health issues arise, it was once, you know, very simple, now becomes complex and chaotic and exhausting. You are stronger than you think you are. Strong enough to endure, strong enough to make it through. Again, the storm does not exist to break you. It exists... to remind you how strong you've always been.
I hope you find the courage to make mistakes, to fall on your face, to break things and put them back together. I hope you find the strength to move forward without knowing. A feat that is simultaneously one of the most challenging things to do in life, but also one of the most rewarding. It's perhaps my greatest adversary. Reinvention. Knowing that, yeah, your time has run its course.
Understanding that it's time to break and build again. but being so deeply terrified to let go? What if things don't work out? What if I lose? What if I'm worse off than I was right now because of my ambition, my self-belief, my hope for a tomorrow better than today? What if it all goes down in flames?
Someone once said to me that one of our biggest misunderstandings or misconceptions is that what we've done in the past holds all our value. We can't walk away from what we've made. It's who we are. The mind says it's tied to our identity. When truth be told, What we've done in the past is meaningless. It's symbolic. It's a mirage. It's not tied to potential or upside or what's next.
Your value is not in what you've made. It's in your ability to build again. What truly shines is the warrior you've been cultivating day by day, lesson by lesson, the one who stares back at you when you look in the mirror. In fact, you eventually come to learn that what you've built, believe it or not, is an ankle weight, a false sense of security keeping you from living life.
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Chapter 3: What role does discipline play in personal growth?
You'll see someone who succeeded at X, Y, and Z and think, well, I need to follow their blueprint. Younger me, that is the path to be a B version of somebody else. To be yourself, you have to treat the world like it is a canvas and you are a painter about to paint the most beautiful thing imaginable.
I'm asking, younger me, that you be one of the people with the courage to pick up the brush and paint, to try things, to go into a world that is unknown and uncertain and scary and push boundaries. because you'll fall, but when you get back up and you shake off your hands and brush off your knees, you'll find magic that would otherwise have gone untapped. I know it can hurt.
And I know it can be stressful. And I know it can be overwhelming. But that's not a bug, younger me. That's a feature. That's what it's all about. Ride that uncertainty to something meaningful. Next, We have enjoy the present moment. We're future oriented, and that can be good. It's good to be ambitious. It's good to want things. It's good to push yourself into difficult situations, to grow.
But younger me, all we'll have ever is the present moment. In fact, I heard a quote recently where someone said, you could spend the next 20 years accumulating wealth, millions, dedicate your entire self to creating this world where you have everything you've ever wanted. But at the end of 20 years, you will absolutely, no doubt, Give it all back to be where you are now.
There's nothing more precious than time, younger me. And it's easy to never look around, to never look at the ground at your feet. There's beauty in the mundane things, the things we take for granted, the things we don't understand their value until they leave our lives. Their absence lets us know that, hey, that did mean something to me.
And younger me, what I'm proposing is that you find gratitude and appreciation for those things before they're gone. That you really cherish them while they're here. Because younger me, if you're always looking ahead, there will always be a hole in your heart. If you're always looking ahead, fulfillment will be nothing more than a mirage. So younger me, smile and enjoy this ride.
Younger me, this one's controversial. I've ebbed back and forth, you know, to and fro here, but this matters. Younger me, follow your passion. And I'll tell you what, there's a contrarian argument that says, don't worry about your passion. Do what you're good at. Become skilled in something and learn to love it. And I get it. I understand it. Pragmatically, that makes sense.
But younger me, if you want to create from the heart, it's a little bit different. And I'm a believer, younger me, that the things that change the world do come from the heart. There's a sense of curiosity and purpose and excitement. The reason that matters is because doing hard things rocks you to your core. It can break you. It tears you down and you have to repeatedly build yourself back up.
And younger me, if there's no love there, if there's no passion there, what's the incentive? Younger me, I think you can change the world. That's not semantics. It's not conjecture. I believe that you can, which means, younger me, you better care about the path that you're walking. It means when you move into the storm, you better believe in that sun on the other side.
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Chapter 4: Why is it important to embrace change and reinvention?
But that's not how the world works. And so if you feel trapped, if you feel like you're playing a game that doesn't feed your soul, take a step back. Breathe. Look at the board in front of you and ask, is this truly mine? Because you don't owe the algorithm anything. But you do owe yourself everything. What if everything you've worked for has become the very thing holding you back?
Life is a continuous game of reinvention. It's a process of building, breaking down what you've built, and building back again better. So story time. I've been at this for 10 years, gang, a decade. And over that stretch, it's been a roller coaster. I've experienced some of the craziest, hardest, sometimes loneliest, most challenging times of my life.
But simultaneously, some of the most beautiful, exciting, fun, and fulfilling times in my life. The thing is, right now, in this moment, life is asking of me what ultimately it comes to ask every single one of us to break down and build again. It's asking and calling for reinvention. A new chapter. You might be wondering why. Well, for a few reasons.
Other than it just being intuitive and that gut feeling that when you know something you know, there are some pragmatic components too. First and foremost, a shifting media landscape. A lot's changed with media in the past few years, and in this arena, if you don't adapt, you die. And that's accompanied with data. pointing at that same thing.
And then lastly, and I think most importantly, it's that dimming of the light in my soul. Because when you proceduralize anything to standardize and systematize, it's very easy to lose the very thing that made it beautiful to begin with. These things indicate to me it's time to reinvent. And you might hear that and think, okay, great, so make a change. You're not wrong.
But I'll tell you what, when you're starting out, it's a lot easier to adjust course, to pivot, to change things. It feels as though there's less at stake because what I've come to realize is that once you've built something, letting go and jeopardizing that stability that you finally assembled after years and years of turbulence, that feels like doing heart surgery on yourself. But truth be told,
this situation or this operation needs a heart transplant. I've known that for a bit, and perhaps you have too. So before I dive in further, I want to share an anecdote with you about a sailor and his ship. Now this sailor, he constructed his own boat, his own vessel, piece by piece. And he was incredibly proud of the work that went into it and the ability to master his craft.
And when he finished, he dropped it in the water. And he set sail and he made the harbor and the surrounding seas his world. He would navigate the ship all around the area. And that was essentially where he stayed until one day. He heard rumors of treasure and adventure out there. And that's what got to him. What if, he thought, I've been playing too small.
What if I've outgrown this little area that I've become so comfortable and accustomed to navigating? What's more important? The safety of the harbor or the opportunity outside it? He knew the answer, right? But he also knew that the boat that he made, that little vessel, it couldn't sustain itself out there, right?
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Chapter 5: How do we confront our fears and challenges?
There's just no better time than now. And while the transition might be turbulent and scary, while the unknown might intimidate, it's all untapped opportunity. It's all oil under your feet waiting for nothing more than you to find the courage to reinvent yourself, to start that new chapter
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The pain of hesitation often hurts worse than the very fall we're afraid of. And when you learn this, you can be proactive in mitigating that pain, the self-induced torture that is waiting, the agony of knowing something more is required of you, but refusing to act. Because that little purgatory is a special kind of hell. Check this out. Quick metaphor. We'll call it the man on the high dive.
So this man wanted to jump off the high diving board at the community pool. So he walks up and he begins slowly ascending the ladder, his hands, you know, sweating against each metal rung as he makes his way up. And below, only a few minutes before, the entire thing seemed manageable, fun even. But now, as he makes his way to the top and stands on the edge, looking down at the water below,
This simple activity now feels impossible. Everything's different. The air is much thinner up there. His heartbeat thuds in his ears, right? He wraps his toes over the rough surface of the board, gripping it like the ledge of the side of a mountain. And he's telling himself, okay, it's time, like, go, just jump. But his body's refusing it. He turns, glances back down the ladder.
He's got that sort of chirping in his ear. Hey, you know, you could just climb back down. People do that all the time. No big deal. And then, you know, something relatively unexpected happens. A boy, let's say no more than 10, starts making his way up the ladder.
He gets to the top, kind of peeks his head over the board, and, you know, bright-eyed, obviously unbothered by the height, and he asks the man, hey, are you going to jump? And the man, you know, pretty embarrassed at this point, says, well, I don't know yet. And the kid shrugged and in complete innocence, right, just speaking his mind, goes, that used to happen to me.
The longer I'd wait up there, the harder it would get. The man laughed, you know, but he knew it wasn't funny, it was true. It bothered him. And suddenly another realization crept in, right? This is not about the jump. but about the weight of standing there. Because just like the innocent child suggested, the longer he waited, the worse it felt.
And that feeling already had him in crisis territory. It's not just the fear, but the frustration, the doubt, the slow, gnawing discomfort of knowing he'd climbed all the way up there. Would he really just turn back? He looked down at all the eyes of the pool staring up at him. What a situation. Right now, the guy's in a place of limbo, right?
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Chapter 6: What lessons can we learn from overcoming adversity?
But then... comes the bridge of the song. And it kind of smacks you in the face because it abruptly diverges into this deeply meaningful post. You know, a girl puts up a picture of her mom and the write-up talks about her mom's passing and how much she misses her and how difficult it is to merely go through life every single day without her mom's presence and being on the front porch with her.
And it's getting a little bit easier, but mom, you'd be proud of the person I'm becoming, right? It's this beautiful tribute to someone else. who clearly means the world to this girl. And it's, you can't help but feel broken open, right?
Almost embarrassingly so because the beginning of the song is just so like intentionally dumb and trivial and you're sucked into this little piece of reality that's like, whoa. And then he immediately pulls you back out and starts talking about posting goat cheese salad and, you know, quote, incredibly derivative political street art. It's this roller coaster, right? But so is life.
And I think that's the message. It dawned on me the other day, you know, I have no idea if he meant to or not, but this song has been stuck in my... I can't stop thinking about it. It's been like three months that I've had this thing on in the car. It's a little bit weird, but there's something about it that just... It pulls me in. It's so intriguing to me. And the light bulb goes off.
It is the perfect encapsulation of this balance of... You know, the tightrope we walk that Ernest Becker alluded to, where life is, or at least certainly can feel, so trivial and so dumb and generic and even meaningless. Like, we're going to die in 80 years. Who cares? But also, so beautiful and meaningful.
Comprised of the blessings of being with those around us, the people that mean the most, the things that light us up, the chance to pursue purpose, the gift of being able to leave this place a little better than we found it. And there is just nothing trivial about that or meaningless about that. Those things are a miracle. Nothing and no one could convince me otherwise. And so what?
I've settled on the acceptance of this truth. Power lies in embracing both sides. Accepting the roller coaster for what it is. Leaning into the absurdity without losing sight of depth. But then conversely embracing depth without drowning in it. Because yes, we are dirt for worms, and yes, we are God-like beings.
Both are true, and if both are true, then every moment, no matter how big or small, has meaning. The avocado toast, the morning light hitting your coffee cup just right, a text from a friend that makes you smile, these things are not insignificant. They are in fact proof that we are here, that we exist.
Proof that even in the face of impermanence, life is not only worth living, it's worth living fully. And at the same time, the grief, the loss, the deep yearning to make those around us proud, they're not a distraction from life. They are life. They're why we show up. They're why we keep going. They're why we love. So what do we do with this paradox? Well, we live in it. We let it all in.
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