Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Change Your Life This Year | Powerful Motivation for Greatness
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
You’ve felt it, haven’t you? That tug to go deeper, to focus on what truly matters, to stop scattering your energy chasing things that aren’t yours. Depth isn’t given; it’s earned when you stop orbiting others' galaxies and start building your own kingdom. The crown has been at your feet all along. It’s time to let go of "more" and embrace what’s meaningful. To stop playing by someone else’s rules and recognize you’re already home, already enough. You know what’s required of you—now’s your moment to go all in and let your universe expand. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: What does it mean to go deep instead of wide?
We were sitting outside on the patio when a friend of mine said to me, people think they need to go wide. They're wrong. It's going deep that matters. We celebrate depth. We want to be around deep people. They're the ones who change things. And so-called deep people are not deep because they're born that way.
Chapter 2: How can you find your own kingdom and pick up your crown?
Deep people are deep because they find a world to call their own and lose themselves in it. Depth is creating your own kingdom and picking up the crown at your feet. And hearing that, sitting with that idea, it hurt. It hurt because I knew that I'd sacrificed depth in order to chase more. More of what doesn't matter. More of what isn't me. More of what might make other people happy.
What does that create? Well, surprise, you now get to be mediocre at a ton of things you don't care about. Forget all that. Leave it. Leave it because the clock is ticking. Leave it because you can spend a lifetime chasing distant galaxies and orbiting around someone else's sun. Leave it because you can blink and realize you built your entire world in their image. But what if I were to remind you?
You are made of dust from stars. That's right, the same chemical makeup that once lit up the night sky. My friend, the universe is already inside you. It's just that this one needs permission to expand. This one needs you to stop asking the world for directions and understand you are already home. The thing is, you know. You know what's required of you.
Just like I knew looking at my friend as he uttered those words. Two things. One, stop playing other people's games. And two, go all in on your own. Find your arena and light up the stage. Imagine if you went deeper on that thing that set your soul ablaze. Imagine if you knocked on the door to your own personal infinity. What might live on the other side?
Chapter 3: What does courage to go all in look like?
Because it's easy to go wide, to dabble in many things or everything. But the courage, oh, the courage to go all in on your thing, the courage to admit, yeah, that path over there works, but it doesn't work for me, and therefore, I guess, it doesn't work at all, does it? Your greatness is directly correlated to your willingness to buy in to you, to not float on the surface,
But to submerge to its depths and explore that place so many aren't willing to go. That place you, just a few moments ago, weren't willing to go. But now is a new day. A new starting point. To go, not wide, but deep. Depth is the only thing that will simultaneously save your soul and allow you to gift it to the world.
So down, down, down to the part of you waiting to re-emerge, to light up the night sky once again. Down, down, down to the place where your internal universe connects with the external. Down, Down, down. I'll meet you there. Comparison is the thief of joy. We've all heard it before, and it's true. Sometimes. It seems like there's always a sometimes or an asterisk or a gray area.
Chapter 4: How can comparison be a tool for motivation?
Comparison can be an incredible tool in simply reminding you that you're playing small, maybe way too small. So from time to time, I'll use comparison to help me paint that picture, to create that outlook. Quick example. So on the shelves behind me and on my Audible library, on my phone, there's a ton of books and biographies about the founding fathers and other notable American presidents. Why?
Well, because they lived lives of such courage. They lived with such conviction. They just lived differently than we live today. And it forces me to ask the tough questions. It's like, well, why? What makes up for that difference in magnitude? I mean, was it simply the times? Were they a product of their moment in history? Were they more determined? Did they have more self-belief, right?
Where is this delta that I'm seeing when I look at their reality versus mine? You read Hamilton's biography, who's not a president, but you get the point. You know, and my toughest battles seem to contain the same level of intensity and weight as his decision to swat a fly. Right? So I'm going to run through three bullets that sort of frame my thinking.
It's going to seem like I'm unnecessarily beating myself up here, but the point comes full circle. So bear with me. One, Washington. Everyone knows, right? Led an army initially practically destined for defeat. His execution and death was almost assured. Then I'm like, okay, I led myself to the gym today. Adams crosses the Atlantic four times for his country.
At the time, that just brought unfathomable risk, and he does it with a smile. Me, I'm procrastinating about making a phone call. Jefferson, drafting a declaration. that claimed independence from the strongest, most powerful empire on Earth. Me. I get butterflies before going live on Instagram. We are not the same. Why?
Well, I guess first and foremost, let's make sure we're asking the right questions. Who says you or I don't have the potential to be a Washington, an Adams, or a Jefferson? It's not productive to downplay our own battles, right? However small. After all, that's how empires are built, a stacking of small wins. No one just arrives in a position of influence, right?
And these folks surely had their own battles. That's all subjective anyway. But the comparison here is sacred to me because there is a common theme amongst all of them. And it's not hidden. You don't have to read between the lines to see it. It's self-belief, right?
All of these people were in an environment where change was warranted and all of them believed they themselves could be levers to help shift that status quo. It's like for no reason, the buck stopped with them. And you see that from childhood on. It suggests that if you believe you can be great, and I do, and by the way, so should you,
then understand that it's not possessing of courage that is the issue. The issue is that you're merely holding what amounts to a bucket of it. When the true depth of your courage reaches miles and miles down beneath the surface, there is so much more. So much that it's incomprehensible. The problem, Eddie, is you can't hit targets you don't aim for. If you don't stretch, there will be no growth.
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Chapter 5: What lessons can we learn from historical figures?
Easy wasn't a choice, not for them. It's why their faces comprise the bookshelf behind me. Now, does everyone want or need that type of personal assent, growth in the face of adversity? That's for you to look in the mirror and decide. But you're here, so I'm going to assume you do, and if you do, it's critical to know that, one, that type of result demands more of you, and two, you have more.
Comparison isn't always about inadequacy. Sometimes it holds that mirror to your face. Sometimes it reminds you what mankind can produce with courage introduced into the formula. You just need to be reminded that you're looking at the jar right now from inside the jar. Expand your thinking, see there's more, right?
Roger Bannister, probably my favorite example, first one to break the four minute mile. Prior to that, it was not possible. Humans didn't do it, couldn't do it, wasn't reality. Everyone, quote-unquote, knew that. Then Bannister does his thing, breaks it. Suddenly, whoa, it's possible. Now it's real, it's tangible. Runners around the world adjusting their targets. They demand it of themselves.
Rapid fire, globally, runner after runner starts breaking that mark. Why? Well, people didn't get more talented overnight. They always had it in them. They just finally allowed themselves to be as good as they were capable of being. And that thing you're fighting, that you're dealing with, it's not nothing.
In fact, the battle you're navigating is everything, and I commend you for pushing through it. But take this idea and let it be a part of the arsenal you own and possess as you navigate life's storms. The challenge of today is ultimately small compared to what the best of you is capable of overcoming. What's now the ceiling will be the floor tomorrow.
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, they were not gods. They were principled men driven by a purpose bigger than themselves. The scope of their belief in what's possible was monumental. And so to maintain proportionality, they too grew to be momentous, to fill the shoes of self-created expectation.
Sometimes the best thing you can remind yourself is how big the world is, how much you can shape and bend your reality, how powerful you are. You're not a quiet observer, but a builder of this world. Then risking execution makes more sense. Smiling at the prospect of death at sea becomes reasonable.
Giving the metaphorical middle finger to the king of the most powerful empire on earth becomes a little easier to understand. It's like, I get it now. The world is malleable. And they knew with courage it could be shaped in their image. Insert you. Different theater, different time, different characters, different objectives all together, but same premise.
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Chapter 6: How can we take ownership of our lives?
A malleable world and an opportunity to shape it. So here is to finding the courage to shape your life. Never to dismiss or belittle your own small wins, for all big things are comprised of only small things, but rather to remember where you are now is not the final destination. It's one step on your own personal staircase that ascends to the heavens. Where you stop is a decision entirely yours.
See, something beautiful happens when you set the standard so high that it hovers above the clouds. The obstacles along the way become far less intimidating, less significant. The story doesn't end down here, so there must be a way. And when we tell ourselves there must be a way, we simultaneously increase the odds of finding one. Right now is not the final boss, the coveted mountaintop,
Right now is a small win that will help shape you into your evolved self. Right now is a mere challenge, an obstacle, a slight inconvenience, a story to tell, a data point as you etch into the ether your reality. As you dream larger than life and grow into those shoes, you could have played small. But then you woke up.
You saw beyond the manufactured finish line that was turning molehills into mountains and realized if you want it, this world is yours. And I say, let it be so. What you're not changing, you are choosing. In other words, Nothing happening or quote unquote the same is a decision. We just don't think of it that way.
And this is an idea that was shared with me under one of my recent YouTube videos by username Night Owl. So dude, love the name and appreciate the sharing of the quote here. And I think it's incredibly pertinent. You know, I talk a lot about the finitude of life. how time is our most precious commodity because each second that ticks off the clock is the only thing you can't get back, right?
You can always reacquire money in these tangible things. Time is, you know, once that elapses, it's forever gone. So it makes sense that we ask, well, how do we maximize it? How do we make the most of it? And I wonder this, I want to pose a question. When was the last time you were disappointed with your day.
Not because you did something, but because it was underwhelming, because it felt like that sort of cyclical 24 hours. You didn't make any steps towards your goals. You know, you didn't feel like you made progress. It was just more of the mundane. And you thought to yourself, I allowed this.
You know, when was the last time you were somewhere you didn't want to be or around people who didn't let you up, didn't energize you, they're not conducive to your well-being, and you thought, I chose this. A lot of times we just assume we have to do these things because it's life and it's outside of our control. The vast majority of the time, that's simply not the case.
And when we take extreme ownership of everything, when we realize that anything happening in the status quo is because we are green lighting it, we're allowing it to take place, that empowers us. And if you think of your life as an arena, it takes you from the stands as an observer. Oh, look, here are things happening to me in my life.
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Chapter 7: What is the power of consistency in personal growth?
You'll find yourself pulling your hair out about problems that are tangential at best to what really matters. The right things are simple. A happy, healthy, effective life is minimalist. Protect it. Preserve it. Keep the complexity out. Remove the clutter in your environment. Clutter in your thoughts. Revert back to what's simple because there, everything of value will emerge.
And number six, it can be right, but wrong for you. That means in your case, it's wrong in totality. Look, there will always be available off ramps. There will always be he did this and it worked, she did that and it worked. Stay true to you and your world, your North Star, Even the people trying to help you, right, they can only advise on what they know, their experience.
Their experience is not yours. This is the evolution of insanity. It calls for one to be crazy until they are quote-unquote experts, to be lost until they are found. And if you avoid pointing to other people for the answers and find the courage to carve out your own path, eventually people will point to you for the answers.
And number seven, as a friend of mine once said, walk into every room like God sent you. You are there for a reason. You have something to offer, something to give, something precious. The world won't know that until you know that, until you live and breathe that, until you operate with conviction. Give yourself the respect you hope to be granted by other people.
The reflection pauses one more time, looks at me through the mirror and says, it's time to rise. Life has given you some obstacles. It's placed some valleys before you. Some of those were dictated by life. Some of them are your fault, but they are all, all of it, every single piece yours now. We get in life what we allow.
And pain, the internal turmoil, that's a sign that you may just be allowing the wrong things to exist alongside you. The wrong thoughts, actions, ideas, stories, people, and places. So Eddie, I hope those reminders provided some clarity. I hope they reminded you who you are and that you already have what you need. Time to rise.
So go.
Don't think so much. You might overlook the obvious. You might see past all that you've achieved. Don't move so quickly. You might overstep the moment. You might miss all the beauty you're creating. One can wake up, get dressed, walk out the door thinking that they're on their way to a someday achievable brilliant finale and simultaneously fail to understand the miracle of the now.
It's in what you're doing now, who you're helping now, what you're becoming now. Your miracle is now. and you can't see your impact because it materializes behind you as your back is to it and you step toward those distant horizons. There's a direct link between always wanting to be better and never feeling like you're good enough. If you don't properly compartmentalize the two,
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Chapter 8: How do we redefine our supposed-to's?
Whether you run or go to the gym, whatever it is, it's much easier to stay home and take creatine, protein, supplements, than to actually show up to the gym every day. Than to actually put in the miles every day, right? But without showing up, all that other stuff is meaningless. And that's the heart of what I'm getting at. It's the lifting that's transformative. Everything else is supplemental.
It's even in the term, right? Supplements. Now, is this obvious? Sure. But man, do we forget the obvious, and there is a hefty price for doing so. It's like, yeah, we should look for advantages along the way. And this becomes more and more relevant the longer we've been immersed in the process.
Those little details mean more and more, but they never mean more than having a goal and committing to it every single day. Never forget that. Showing up is power. There's a few quotes I like by James Clear, who's considered by many to be an expert on habit building, that hammer down on the power of consistency. He says, improving by 1% isn't particularly notable.
Sometimes it isn't even noticeable, but it can be far more meaningful, especially in the long run. He goes on to say, if you can get 1% better each day for one year, you'll end up being 37 times better by the time you're done. And I think that's what gets me, right? That line, 1% better every day means 37 times better in a year. Nothing can replicate that.
There are no shortcuts to arrive at that type of progress or growth, none. And sure, the environment can change. There are times when the landscape shifts right under your feet. You have to reach further outside your comfort zone than you ever have. But that's still a product of your commitment to improve every single day. The context changes. The details change. But you still show up.
1% is essentially a rhythm. It's automated. It says, just like breathing air and drinking water, this is what I do. A dollar in the bank every day. What you're doing is giving life to a compound effect that will change everything. In my world, my showing up is every day, how do I become a little bit better at storytelling?
How do I refine that intersection of personal development and entertainment? so that we can enjoy and get the most out of the journey? How do I make this brand matter a little more, mean a little more, be a little more effective? That's my Super Bowl every day. And funny story, I was driving this morning, listening to a podcast about AI.
Everyone seems to be talking about AI right now, and for good reason. I heard one of the guests say that in 10 years, there will be two types of businesses. Those that successfully leverage AI and those that failed and are no longer in existence. It's a hypothesis, obviously, but it's eye-opening. AI is going to change everything.
And I had to check my initial instinct that was honestly, oh, here we go, right? Another way for people to cut corners and cheat. And I had to pause and think about it. Like, that's just a terrible way to look at a new technology. That's a scarcity mindset. Instead, think about the opportunity. Remind yourself that you show up every day with the same mission and the same goal.
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