Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Wake Up and Rebuild Your Life in 2025 | Morning Motivational Speech
Mon, 06 Jan 2025
The most profound joys in life are often the simplest, yet we tend to overlook them. The rolling hills of childhood—where freedom meant running until dusk—remain a poignant reminder of that simplicity. Today, we’ve buried those joys beneath layers of expectations, complexity, and the relentless chase for validation, building a world that’s not entirely our own. But here’s the truth: those foundational joys never left us. They’re still beneath our feet, waiting to be rediscovered. This episode invites you to strip away the noise, revisit what truly matters, and embrace the beauty in what’s simple yet profound. Because life’s deepest treasures aren’t on distant horizons—they’re right here, closer than we think. Monday Motivation Newsletter: https://www.eddiepinero.com/newsletter Free Ebook: www.eddiepinero.com/ebook YouTube: www.eddiepinero.com/youtube
Chapter 1: What are the joys of simplicity in life?
Behind our house, there were rolling hills as far as the eye could see. And we would run them, we would run up and down until the sun disappeared over the horizon and we couldn't see our hands in front of our faces. In a sense, it bothers me that 25 years later, I even have to ask why something so simple and elementary could be fun.
How something so out in the open could be profound, something so basic. Oh, how we've flipped the script. Now, today, I build and scratch and claw and fight and chase and seek and climb. But my soul just wants the hills. And you might hear that and think, well, how tragic to live in that gap, to exist without that which you so deeply desire. But let me reframe the scene.
I never gave up the hills, and neither did you. They're there, covered in complexity. deemed at some point to be just a little too simple, a little too elementary, so we built on top of them. We laid a foundation of external expectations. We erected structures that would bring us validation. In other words, we built someone else's world on top of our own, called it a day.
And as in one of my favorite sayings, two things can be true at once. Moving into the world means responsibility. It means more complexity. But it doesn't negate the fact that the precious things are the simple things. And while we often spend our days fixated on distant horizons looking for those things, I continuously find that they're often under our very feet. The ground we walk on.
It might be more conventional to look back on those moments as childish, as kids doing what kids do, but I see it as more. In fact, I see it as the essence of life, the reason we're here. It need not be abandoned. And when you close your eyes, I wonder what that looks like for you now. The air cycling through your lungs, a smile on your face, your hair blown back by the wind. What is that moment?
See, because when that's yours, you ignite. And if you think that's selfish, I have news for you. You pass that light right on to those around you. It comes through in the world you build and the structures you make. When you find those hills again, you give meaning to the meaningless. It's paint on the canvas. It's a melody to the song. And to say, oh, I don't have time for that.
It's like saying, I'll breathe later while your head is being held under water. No, it is the oxygen you need. We get one chance to do this, one ride here. And your gift need be presented to the world. Your heart should race just like it did when the setting sun was calling you in and nothing else mattered in the world. The entire universe is rooting for you to find those hills again.
You have everything. You are everything you need. I just hope you'll summon the courage to grab it and hold on. It's a scene from a movie called Dead Poets Society. And this quote just really hit me, hit home. And to kind of explain this scene, basically Robin Williams is a teacher. He's teaching poetry and I think it's a boarding school.
And there's a bunch of kids around him, and he's explaining to them, you know, these are kids with ambitions. They want to be lawyers and doctors and businessmen. And he's saying, I get that, right? But here's why poetry matters. And so... It becomes a metaphor for life, essentially.
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Chapter 2: How can we rediscover foundational joys?
You just have to open your eyes and invite it in. Why is it that when we look back on our lives, it's never the easy days or the simplicity? It's not the calm that changes our reality or makes us who we are. Don't get me wrong, calm and simplicity, they're wonderful, but they're not transformative. And why would they be? Why would we change or seek to obtain more without a reason or incentive?
It's times of struggle, of turbulence. It's when life was hard that we had to rethink who we are. Reshape the way we look at the world. Because without chaos, you don't get calm. Without the storm, you don't get those crazy neon colors and golden rays it leaves as it passes by. In order to triumph in any capacity or any area of life, there is always a sacrifice that must be made.
The adversity is the fire that forges the iron. There's a saying, hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. It's a cycle. And this is generally used in a socio-political sense, and I think in a lot of ways it applies today. But where I've really found it useful, where I've found value in it, is at the personal level.
Because what I've noticed is that growth also appears to have a cyclical nature. And when we're in a rough situation or overcoming an obstacle, we have to push, we fight, we grow together. sometimes without even realizing it, we achieve a result and by default this transformation that in one way or another makes us something new. But then it becomes easy to level out, right?
And that's the challenge. It creates this period of stagnation. It's like we made the jump and it becomes real easy to stay there. And that's why I have found value in when life is not providing resistance to manufacture some. Because that's the only way to grow. Progress is happiness. Viktor Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning, you know, he says purpose is to find from struggle.
If things are too calm or simple or quiet, life begins to lack meaning, and that's never a spot we want to be. Life is about the pursuit of something. You just have to figure out what that blank will be. You get to decide which mountain to climb. There's a story about a butterfly making its way out of a cocoon. And it makes a little hole. It starts attempting to push its way out. Someone walks by.
They see it struggling and open the cocoon up to help the butterfly out, right, thinking that they did this great deed. But in doing so, that butterfly has now lost its ability to use its wings to fly. Why? Because the strength that was necessary to fly would have been forged when he fought his way out.
The butterfly was deprived of the very thing it needed to become something more, and that's the point. It's easy to get lost in the now and seek to eliminate everything that doesn't make the moment more comfortable, to remove that which doesn't make things easier.
But whether we're talking about collectively or the complacency in our individual lives, we have to remember that avoiding discomfort isn't the answer. When your biggest problem is Amazon taking five days to deliver or that your feelings are hurt by someone's comments or opinions on social media, you've lost track of yourself.
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Chapter 3: What is the importance of embracing complexity?
See, we're lucky and fortunate to have the things that we have. The quality of life we lead now far exceeds those that came before us. Life is convenient, incredibly convenient. But what is convenience if it comes at the expense of purpose, of meaning in life, because that's what steers the ship. A crisis of meaning ultimately mitigates everything else. There is no exploration without meaning.
And without exploration, tomorrow becomes a repetition of today, not an evolution of today. And what's incredible, truly incredible, is that our purpose can be rediscovered, our paths redefined. How? By having a long conversation with, you guessed it, yourself. by putting the phone in another room, by disconnecting the Wi-Fi and spending time with you.
Something along the lines of, dear self, what matters to me in this world? Where am I going right now? Is where I'm going right now aligned with what matters to me in this world? And sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes no, great. But what we have now is a foundation to work off of. an awareness that should be celebrated, that you created.
It's so easy to walk through life and never have that conversation. It's so easy to sleepwalk to the tune of someone else's song, the beat of other people's drums. But when you open your eyes, you see the correlation between your thoughts and your actions, your actions and your reality.
You realize that when you wake up, that tendency to ask yourself what you have to do today, to reflect on your problems, those questions you assumed were normal, that you never gave much thought to. Well, now you'll see you can dismantle that notion. Now you'll see that if you can ask yourself what you have to do, you can just as easily ask yourself what you want to do.
what you get to do, what life is inviting you to do. If you can reflect on your problems, you are just as capable of reflecting on the opportunity at your fingertips. If you can spend time dwelling on whether you're walking the obligatory dotted line that's been laid out in front of you, you're just as capable of redrawing that line and allowing it to pull you into a new dimension. Listen again.
20 years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Explore, but for you. Wander down those paths that have for so long piqued your curiosity.
Try things you once felt like other people were entitled to, but you'd never given yourself permission. Be that for yourself, because no one will come up to you and randomly give you that green light. Dream, because without building your castles in the air, as Thoreau calls them, you live your entire life on the ground. You'll never hit targets that you don't create.
And sure, there'll be a time that only you see the destination. Great, that's life, but with each step forward, as it becomes more real for you, it will make sense to others as well. Trust each step like it is, in and of itself, a miracle. And you'll find in time that that's exactly what each step was. And lastly, discover. Discover who you are, what you're capable of becoming.
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