Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
The Courage to Start: Don't Wait to Begin | Eddie Pinero Morning Motivation Inspiration
Mon, 20 Jan 2025
Sometimes in life, we wait for the "perfect moment"—when we have all the answers, tools, and guidance to move forward. But the truth is, life rarely gives us everything. Instead, it hands us just enough to take the next step. This episode explores the power of trusting what you have, embracing action even when you feel unprepared, and understanding that progress doesn’t require perfection—it requires courage. You don’t need a full blueprint to start; you only need to trust that the small steps today will lead to something bigger tomorrow. Together, we’ll unpack the beauty of imperfect beginnings and how the gaps you face now are simply opportunities for growth. What’s stopping you from taking the next step? 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 trust what you have?
Reality comes down to what we do with what we have. This is an idea I brushed shoulders with again right over there this morning, staring out the window. My mind sort of wandered into this place of, I wish I had a few more pieces. I wish I had a few more things in my arsenal. Before moving on to this next chapter, right? And I think we've all been there. More tools in the toolbox.
Maybe more advice or guidance from people that I look up to. Maybe more research. You can go down that rabbit hole forever. Before sort of remembering that life always gives us some of it, but never all of it. And some of it is always enough. Let's call this the law of broken crayons. Go back, go way back. Grade school.
You're sitting on the floor or at the table with the other kids, blank piece of paper in front of you. You reach into that box of crayons. Grab your color, and you go. The crayon's cracked, probably broken in half. Somehow, Always had other colors intentionally drawn onto the wrapping. But like, who cares, right? I don't ever remember thinking, if only this box was pristine.
You know, if a new box is opened right in front of me, that would be amazing. So I could create with the flawless, untarnished instrument. It's like, no, it wasn't even on the radar. We used what we had. And what we had was always enough because we made it enough. So flash through time, boom, back to the window this morning.
I'm longing for, metaphorically, a fresh box of writing instruments, unopened and in perfect shape. The stuff I'm carrying around is cracked and drawn on and feels no longer pristine. But that's not what life provides us when it calls us to grow. When we're ready to step into something bigger. No, life gives the cracked ones.
Maybe you have to grip the little piece that remains tightly with your thumb and your index as though you're threading a needle, but it's usable. Maybe the color you need is missing, but there's a shade close enough to make do. I think you get what I mean. It's a lesson we need more than any other. Because it's not that every once in a while we don't get that fresh box of crayons.
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Chapter 2: How can imperfect beginnings lead to growth?
It's that life rarely ever provides it. Life simply says, here are the fragments, the pieces, the blueprints. They will work. But that's not up to the instrument. It's up to the artists who hold them. And personally, I've been blown away by how many times I've seen the same set of circumstances produce wildly different outcomes depending on who happened to be the artist.
Depending on who was holding the instruments, right? Back in the day, when I was criticized, I would struggle. Someone would say, for example, you're not good at basketball. That comment would make me think less about myself as an athlete, how I played ball. It would plant this tiny seed of doubt that I would have to navigate my way out of.
And then I remember learning about some of the toughest minds, right? Notoriously strong mentalities, the Jordans and the Kobes. You tell them they suck. That doesn't create doubt. That ignites a, well, I'll show you mentality. They shined in those moments. Same instruments. Just different interpretation by the artists. And you realize the world has nothing to do with this.
Criticism has nothing to do with this. It's the relationship I have with me. And if I trust myself, if I believe in my growth and my commitment to excellence, the other stuff... It's just detail, and it will always be detail. Starting a new business, right, no one has ever had what they needed out of the gate, ever.
I think it was Alex Ramosi who said, you know, starting your own business is like running a marathon out of shape and getting yourself into shape along the way. I thought that was spot on. It's the only way to do it, and it's the opportunity perfect. No. Is your body acclimated? No. But life provided those metaphorical running shoes, a road, and a journey, and it turns out that's enough.
So what I'm asking of you... is that you keep this realization as close to you as you possibly can. It's that you remember having everything is wildly different than having enough. One is an illusion and one is your superpower. And maybe you're looking around at a world that feels cracked and flawed. Maybe it feels like it's missing pieces, requiring that you make trade-offs and improvise.
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Chapter 3: What is the law of broken crayons?
That's not the world working against you. That's life placing a map in front of you. Like Jim Rohn has said, it's not where you're going, it's who you become along the way. The truth will always be, if you want it, the pieces to take that necessary first step are there. Some people wait for perfection. Sure, that perfect box of crayons, a life without curveballs, twists, or turns. Great.
But as it turns out, they find themselves waiting a very long time. So why not step into the world now? Armed with two things. First, what you have now. And second, the understanding that what you have now is enough. It will multiply, it will evolve with time, exponential growth is bound to occur down the road. But first, pull up the shades and let light in.
Give life a chance to enter the equation. Let's not forget those basic unspoken truths, those things that at one point, way back in the day, were intuitive. Open the box of crayons. Turn on the camera. Make the call. Write the book. Try the workout. Apply for the position. Share your thoughts. Is the moment perfect? No. And maybe even a hell no. But is the moment enough?
That's the question you should be asking and the answer is yes. There's a quote that states, life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Which means that your reaction is drastically more important than the circumstance. And that's critical to know. It's critical to understand that nothing, no one in life has more power over your own situation than you.
And there's an old story that hits on this point exactly. There's a father and a daughter. And basically the daughter's complaining. She's complaining about life, how difficult things are. She doesn't know how she's going to make it in whatever it is she's doing. I mean, the bottom line is she's tired of the day-to-day, right? And her father gets this idea. He says, come with me into the kitchen.
And he gets three pots of water, puts them on the stove, and turns the burners on. As soon as they start boiling, he drops a potato in the first one, an egg in the second one, and some coffee beans in the third one. And after some time goes by and they boil a little bit, he pulls them out, right?
He puts the potato in a bowl, he puts the egg in a bowl and he takes a ladle and he puts some of the coffee in a cup. And he says, what do you see? She says, well, I see a potato, I see eggs and I see coffee. He says, yeah, but look closer, there's more there. And she goes and she touches the potato and it's now soft. And he hands her the bowl with the boiled egg.
And she takes the shell off and breaks it open. She sees that it's hard inside. Then finally, he asked her to take a sip of the coffee. And, you know, she smells it. She takes a sip. A smile comes to her face. She says, so what does all this mean? What are you trying to say? And he says, well, the potato, when I dropped it in the water, it was rigid. It was tough. It was uncompromising.
But in the boiling water, it became soft, weak. Then you have the egg that was basically the opposite. This delicate layer protecting a liquid center and the boiling water made it hard. And then there was the coffee. That wasn't just changed by the situation. It created something new. It took the same adversity and used it as a lever to bring something beautiful into existence.
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Chapter 4: How do our perceptions influence outcomes?
It's slowly stacked piece by piece and brick by brick, realizing that every situation provides you with tools to make something out of an apparent nothing. and then it waits because fate is in your hands. And I can certainly think of times in my life, that's one of the reasons I love these stories, I can reflect where each one of those pots of boiling water was relevant.
I can think of times I was too headstrong, like the metaphorical potato, I thought success would be easy. I thought projects would be simple to execute. I spent months doing things that just weren't good because I didn't ask what does the world need? I asked myself, what do I want to give the world? And there has to be a marriage there, right?
And it was a quick reminder that the world owes me nothing. I was humbled or softened as the story goes. I've been the egg. I've been timid. I've been uncertain, thin-skinned, worrying about what people would say or the content I was creating, worried about perception. How would things look if I failed?
And very quickly, I learned that when life is a game of comparison or one-upmanship, when you do things for reasons and people other than yourself can't win, you overcompensate. You do things for the wrong reasons and you lose yourself. You become hardened. And then there's the good stuff, right? Getting to the coffee, not bowing down to the circumstances, but shaping them.
Not letting life dictate how the story goes or the fate of your character. And what's interesting is I'm pretty sure that being that metaphorical egg in the potato, they lay the foundation to become the coffee, the life lessons, the falling down, the picking my ego up off the floor, learning to trust myself, not be led by the opinions and expectations of others.
You essentially learn that you can take the world around you and change it, that it is malleable, it is flexible. You have that power. You have that ability. It's up to you to believe it. And that's critical because no one comes along and cosigns that understanding for you. It's an internal process. You start to learn that things aren't there to provide instruction. They're there to propel you.
But can you see the unknown as the opportunity, the obstacle as the way, and the loss as the armor that you pick up during the journey? And so, you know, all of these words essentially come to one point. And that point is you have so much more control over your life than you think you do. As I've said before, you are stronger than you think you are.
You are more resilient than you can even imagine. And when life tests you, and again, it will, remember that the challenges are not happening to you, but for you. The world isn't taking away what you have, it's giving you what you need. So long as you're willing to adapt to grow, expand out, because you not only have the ability to change yourself, but the world as well.
Empowerment is knowing that you have control of your life. That you create the expectations and you carry them out. Whether it be tomorrow, in a month, in a year, or even longer. It's knowing that the image in your head is the standard. It's fact. Because when you leave the door open, when you leave the door to your ambitions cracked, even the smallest amount,
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Chapter 5: Why is starting a business like running a marathon?
The reason that's so significant is because there's no difference between making a film or realizing a dream. Either way, there's no rewards, there's no applause, there's no assurances until you're done. Until you've crossed the finish line. Just like a client can only point to things they've seen as a reference point, well the people around you, they only know the present moment.
They only know how things are. And so it's borderline crazy to put those opinions on a pedestal, right? To absorb that criticism, to adhere to those rules. They navigate around the now, the present, not the future, not where you're going, right? Who cares about the now? You'll just be looking back at it as you make your way on to your next goal.
See all this circles back to those dots that need to be connected. Because the places you're going, the things you're becoming, they require three things. The understanding that all problems have solutions, the certainty that you will find them, and the persistence to power through. That's all. That's the mentality that will put you in a position to do anything you want. It will empower you.
It's not that the people around you are dumb or that the world wants you to fail. It's just that placing your fate in their hands is meaningless. To discount your dream based on how things are or the opinion of someone else is like a pilot worrying about airspace he's already flown through. Or asking the random dude in seat 22B to fly the plane, right? They are passengers on the journey.
A journey that is worth the climb, that will be rewarding, that is waiting, but you have to be the one to see it. And you have to see it before the world does. You have to believe it before anyone else will. Because you'll build brick by brick on a foundation that the rest of the world would simply walk right by. Why?
Because right now it's not a skyscraper with a beautiful architecture, 50 floors and an incredible view. Right now it's an ordinary plot of land that no one would think twice about. So remember... Yes, it's possible. Yes, there is a way. And when we focus on the vision and connecting the dot in front of you, the world opens up. Be your own biggest fan.
Learn to cherish the sound of your own applause, because that is always what must come first.
ausgeruht sein ganz einfach trainiere deinen schlaf und werde auch du zum morgenmenschen mit der galaxy watch 7 oder dem galaxy ring und der samsung health app
Sometimes what you don't do is more powerful than what you do. Sometimes the answer is not the home run or some lifetime achievement award. No, sometimes the answer is simply hanging on. Realizing that the yeses, they're important. But they're nothing compared to the no's. No to the faint whispering that you can't.
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Chapter 6: How do we transform through challenges?
To stand firm when the people around you turn back. To believe in your foundation when the walls close in. It's running a race with eyes fixated on each step.
not on the finish line no the finish line doesn't do anything but distract it reminds you of the road to be traveled your job is not to make a finish line appear it is to say yes to the step in front of you and no to everything else see anyone can take one step anyone can progress one foot
races, journeys, life is simply a culmination of those steps, a culmination of little decisions to not let go. So when your arms shake and the voice in your head screams, when your thoughts beg you to stop and your mind starts to rationalize,
possibility of surrender remember that big things are broken into little things minutes are merely seconds mountains are merely rocks and success is simply hanging on when others would be letting go Being lost is not about what you don't have. It's about temporarily forgetting what you do have.
Forgetting that contained within every dark room is a little light switch that hangs within an arm's reach. And see, the reason this is so powerful, the reason it's been so important to me, Because every time I'm in a lull or navigating a low point like we all do, I remember something that acts as that hand to pull me back up. I remember that everything I need, I have.
See, I used to use the word stuck as to imply immobility, being powerless to the outside world, when in reality, I just had to remind myself that the path to recreation is always in front of me. And the map needed to navigate is always folded up in my back pocket. In essence, what I learned is that helpless is not a situation. Helpless is a decision. And one I'd simply never choose.
Life's challenges They are not a display of your insufficiency. No, they are a reminder of just how powerful you are. If you never let yourself fall, hit a low, or lose your way, you'd never get to see the miracle that is your resiliency. You'd never get to look in the mirror and see the reflection that is the conqueror of worlds and the slayer of dragons.
You'd never get to climb the mountain from which you'd ultimately look down and see a world of your making. There's a story about some frogs. And these frogs as they're sort of making their way through the woods, the ground breaks underneath them and two of them fall into this little pit. way, way, way down. They tumble and eventually they hit the bottom.
They're looking up and they're realizing how far they've fallen, right? Moving around, panicking, essentially coming to grips with the situation that they're now in. They start frantically jumping, trying to climb the walls. And as they're jumping, the frogs on top are looking down. And they're basically yelling, look, we're sorry this happened to you. But this is a lost cause.
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Chapter 7: What role does self-belief play in success?
Which means your existence hinges on where you build your walls. And part of the reason stories, music, movies, they move us is because we're allowed, even if it's for a short period of time, to change our parameters on these things. To let the mind navigate through a world without any limitation.
When you think about it, we never fast forward through a movie so that we can quickly check off the box and complete it. We never rush through to move on to the sequel. No, we want to experience it. We want to be overwhelmed by emotion, captivated by excitement, lost in the mystery. And then when it's over, we retract, we return to reality. The walls come back up and the rules are reinstated.
And from a 10,000 foot view, You can't help but look at that and wonder if there's more there. Why do we have to retreat to this microcosm of our ideal world where we're not rushed, we can enjoy the moment? Why does it take a dark room and objects depicted on a small screen for us to feel like it's acceptable to step outside of this everyday script?
And the question isn't who's enforcing these rules. The answer is always us, it's internal. But the question is why? Is it incomprehensible that the same excitement be inserted into your world? Is it out of the realm of possibility that the rush of adrenaline, the peak experiences, the laughter, love, twists and turns be inserted into reality?
It's like we choose to be chased through life by ticking clocks and measured by socially constructed checkpoints. But we can move beyond that, much beyond, in those checkpoints. They're just as imaginary as the talking raccoon you set aside three hours to watch last night. So, by the way, you could escape from a manufactured reality.
Right, there's a powerful authoritative line that separates our day-to-day from the imagination, and every second is about pushing that back. Never fast-forwarding through life, but making it unlike anything else. Never applying the word mandatory to things that don't warrant the term. We need to think bigger. Working like a madman to build someone else's dream is not mandatory.
Enjoying two-sevenths of your life is not mandatory. Being confined to one road when there are infinite paths to travel is not mandatory. They're components of a bad movie. And my point is not to be ungrateful. It's not to be resentful. It's to remind you that things are the way they are because you've allowed them to be that way. Nothing in life is destined, predetermined, or meant to be.
Everything is decided. Life is chosen. Paths are taken. And sometimes a simple reminder that you have the flexibility to redefine the rules can make all the difference. You are entitled to happiness. Every day is a continuation of the extraordinary, not a break from it, and you have to see that. You have to believe that. You're not alive so that you can every so often escape.
You're here to feel the imaginary, to challenge the make-believe. Our view of the world without a concentrated effort, it seems to contract. then this is your reminder to disallow that, to stop living for the 5 or the 10% and flip that ratio on its head. Now is the time to rewrite your script, recraft your storyline.
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Chapter 8: How do we see opportunities in adversity?
See, you have everything you need, and life is not always perfect, but it is always what you make it. How things are is not how they should be or need to be, but how you've allowed them to be. And most importantly, black and white does not describe reality so much as it describes what's not there, what's missing from reality.
And my hope is to never conform to that sketch or outline that masquerades as truth, but to see beyond it, to find the strength, the courage, the self-belief to pick up the brush and live life in color. Sometimes success is merely hanging on when others would let go. Not doing anything spectacular or out of the ordinary. Not leaping a mile or jumping over a mountain. But simply carrying on.
Thomas Edison has a famous quote that's really stuck with me over the years. He says, many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Right? How close they were to the finish line when they turned their back and said it wasn't worth it. It's really an interesting thing to grasp. Success is seeing what others can't.
It's believing when others don't. It's taking the abstract, those visions, those pictures in your head, the make-believe, and finding the courage to make them real. Bring them to life. It's this constantly evolving process and it grows a little bit every single day. Sometimes we feel that progress. We feel the momentum. We do something big and it's exciting. And sometimes the progress feels small.
And then there are times when we get knocked down and we don't see it at all. We feel like because we weren't validated that we lost. that we failed, that it wasn't enough. We forget that's part of the process, that progress is a journey. And it goes when you go, and it stops when you stop. Just like that famous Dalai Lama quote, right? The only way to fail is to quit, period.
No one ever stops because they can't. They stop because they decide to. They stop because they see that huge mountain and they think that's impossible. They forget it's only made of little rocks. They stop because they get so disheartened by the distance of the finish line that they forget it only takes a collection of little steps to get there. You don't have to leap the entire distance.
You know, I've been there. This is me speaking from experience. It took me years to figure it out. And even now, life is rapidly evolving. I've poured my heart into things that, let's be honest, no one cared about. I've invested in opportunities that fell apart right in front of me. And each time it felt like the end of the world. I've been lost. I've been unsure.
Gotten up after things didn't go as planned and felt like a loser. I had to look myself in the mirror and pick myself back up off the floor. But there's one thing that I kept doing that I never thought twice about. And that's continuing on. Whether life lifted me up or it beat me down, my plan for tomorrow was always the same. Get up and try again. Keep going.
And as I sat down this morning with my pen and a piece of paper, I thought, what's the one thing I would want to be told if I started out again? What's the one thing that people need to hear most? And it's to simply keep going. Keep taking steps. Because one day the world will start to make sense. And you'll look around and you will be thankful for one thing.
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