Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
WHEN LIFE GETS HARD | Life Changing Motivational Speeches
Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Frustration comes when we focus on the wrong things. The power to change your life is already around you—it just gets buried under distractions. Strip away the extra, refocus on what truly matters, and you’ll see… you have everything you need to move mountains.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 inspired the story about the man and his in-laws?
And he goes, you want to hear a good story? Me, of course, yes. I'm a story guy. And he said, okay. And he was off. He starts this story about a married man. And this man is living in a hut with his wife in a little village. And the man's in-laws lived in a hut one village over. One day he woke up to the news that his in-laws hut had totally burned down. So what would happen next? You guessed it.
The in-laws packed up what remained of their belongings and headed over to live with the man and his wife. So now he had the in-laws living with him in his hut. How bad could it be? Well, a few weeks go by and he realized it can be that bad. He just couldn't stand, you know, the living situation, constant nagging, judging, lack of personal space, all the things, right? He says, I need help.
So he goes to a village elder. We'll call her the sage. He goes to the sage. He says, look, you're incredibly wise. I need some help. My in-laws moved in, and it's hell. My life is terrible. I can't stand this. Please help me. And the sage thinks for a second, says, okay. Let me ask you something. Do you have any chickens? He says, chickens? Yeah, I have chickens. Why?
The sage says, well, go get them and bring them into your hut. Let the chickens live with you as well. The man, somewhat confused, he thanks the sage. He goes, okay. He goes home, brings all his chickens into his hut. Then another week goes by. As you'd expect, things are just absolutely chaos. Chickens running around, feathers everywhere, things are dirty. A nightmare.
So he goes back to the sage and he says, look, I don't know what the idea was here or what the intent was, but somehow my life is worse. Can you please help me make it better? And the sage says, I think I can. Do you have any pigs? He says, yeah, pigs? Sage says, perfect. Invite the pigs into the hut to live with you. Again, he looks at her confused.
Invite the pigs to live with me into the hut too? Yes, she says. So he leaves, brings all the pigs in. After about a week, he looks around and just a dystopian situation. disaster, and he's furious. He goes back to the sage. He says, look, you have made my life somehow way worse. Do you know how disgusting pigs are? This place is just out of a horror movie. The sage says, I see.
He says, you see, are you going to help me or not, right? Please give me some guidance to make my life better. So the sage sits there, silenced for a few seconds. Finally, she says, okay, listen to me carefully. If you want to make your life better, here's what you do. Go home and remove the chickens and pigs from your hut. You're welcome. It's a message about perspective.
It's gratitude for the things that, in the moment, we might not see or appreciate. I'll never forget the quote, a healthy person wants a million things. A sick person wants only one. It emphasizes how much we take for granted. We don't appreciate the day-to-day or our normalcy, our reality, until it's pulled from us. We have to be reminded, hey, there's a lot to be thankful for here.
And I inject this because this is personal experience. It's anecdotal. But it was really a big deal for me. Like, I used to think of gratitude as woo-woo, right? The way it's used, it's like, okay, go around saying you're grateful, that's nice. I didn't understand the tool that it was and that it shines a mirror on all those things that we don't see.
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Chapter 2: How can gratitude change your perspective?
You are always one decision away from a totally different life because you're always one decision away from change. From walking away, from the narratives that you have accepted, and so remember that. But remember it not just when things are fine. Remember it when you're struggling, when you feel restless or uneasy, unsure, uninspired, sad, angry, not content with the reflection in the mirror.
When you feel that negativity, you're not looking at what can be, you're looking at what you have been. And there's no room at the table for that distraction. Not when you can reach out and start building something new. Not when you can put on a new pair of shoes and walk down a different path. You are always one decision away from a totally different life.
And that decision should be first and foremost to choose future over past. Your next step over the last one, choose your ideal world and start building. Not too long ago, I shared a few thoughts related to stoicism with one of the most important messages in my eyes being, you can't always help how you feel. There are biological elements, there are emotions that we as humans simply cannot escape.
But what we have control over is how we act, right? What we do amidst the feelings of sadness or anger or despair. Well, As it happens, fate brought me face to face with that lesson once again. And one of the most interesting aspects of life is that the lessons often have to be relearned, right?
As the context around us changes, we are forced to draw from that well, to take what we knew and transform it and level up. And so, quick story. Two weeks ago-ish, my Facebook account was hacked. which happens to a lot of people. It's not uncommon. And to be honest, I'd never really thought much about it. But I'm sitting there and I start getting these emails coming in, right?
Telling me my phone number's changed, my email address has changed, my username's changed. All this stuff is changing. I'm like, what's going on? And before I could do anything, I go to look and realize I'm locked out of the account, right?
Then I go from my personal page to my business page where I share thoughts like these, these episodes, videos, writings, and basically, you know, stuff I've been working on for years and realize I'm locked out of there as well. So whoever has the account is now operating it and for whatever reason, posting like spammy images and videos, replying to people, pretending to be me.
And there's just nothing I could do, right? I'm just locked out watching this happen. And when I say I felt angry, it's probably an understatement. I was surprised at how furious I was. It was a rage that I wouldn't have anticipated in a million years. I could not help it. And, uh, you know, maybe it was vulnerability, right?
That feeling of helplessness that some stranger had access to, um, you know, around a hundred thousand people that trust me. Um, They had no idea what was happening, right? Or maybe it was anger at whoever it was doing this. Anger at Facebook for being non-responsive. Maybe a fear that, look, you can work so hard for so long and have something taken away incredibly quickly.
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Chapter 3: What does it mean to be one decision away from transformation?
Well, personal note, this has happened before. Today was not a good one. At least not until now. Not from a productivity standpoint. I just got back from Europe. A little jet lagged. I've never had more to do, but simultaneously done so little with my time, which is frustrating.
But I'm going to the gym in an hour, and that leaves me 60 minutes to salvage what could easily have been looked back upon as a lost day. See, something that I think is beautiful about life is that you can get countless things wrong. You're afforded substantial room for error. And it's often, you know, you only need to get one thing right. Like take dating, right? Countless wrong relationships.
You only need one to work out. entrepreneurship, ton of mistakes, lots of swings and misses. That's built into the process, but the one win can change everything. Or these stories, these ideas I share on social media, a lot of them totally miss. They resonate with me and sometimes me alone. But if one resonates with others, one gains traction, there's a lot of impact to be had there.
And so I wanted to share this because it's a slightly different angle to what I've talked about before. Of course, this has elements of, yeah, you don't feel like it, well, do it anyway, right? David Goggins would have an aneurysm hearing that I even contemplated not writing today. But here's the thing. It's very easy to group a period of time together and call it a loss.
Eh, it didn't happen today, it might tomorrow. It's easy to look back on what you were and use it to build walls around yourself, to say it's what you are now, when in reality, there is still value to be squeezed out. Just because what existed before now was antithetical to everything you wanted it to be, well, that doesn't mean there's no win buried in there.
It doesn't mean between 4.45 and 5.45 here today, I can't share something that's important to me that might help other people identify and dive into something that's important to them, right? All is not lost if time remains. To message that, sure, it might be psychologically easier to walk away from the day because the first half wasn't good, but that's not the move.
There contains somewhere in there the seed that will grow or at least begin the process of growing what you need. Jim Quick, he recently said, some days all you have is 40%. And on those days, giving 40% is 100%. Maybe seeing that subconsciously saved my day today.
I don't know, but it's very easy to check out when the past was not what you wanted it to be instead of thinking, yeah, but one right move right now changes everything, changes the momentum, alters the personal identity. You're always one move, one decision away from reigniting momentum. A quote-unquote bad day can be completely mitigated with one incredible decision or action.
So let's pull this up a level. Where does it bring us? It brings us to those moments we're sitting in bed wishing things were a little different, went a little differently, or looking in the mirror disappointed in the day. And instead of letting it define the story in totality, remembering that there's something there, maybe just one thing, one action,
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Chapter 4: How can we learn from our past mistakes?
There's simply going to be days when the world pushes back. Life is a game of complexity. It's unpredictable. You want to talk about the good days, fine. It's easy to show up when we're feeling good. And thankfully, those days outnumber the others, right? Creating the bulk of our consistency, 10,000 hours. But not all of them. Life is about momentum.
Myself, after coming off a pretty terrible weekend for a variety of reasons, I found myself on that ledge again. When the alternative route made itself known, where it felt mighty tempting to call it off, take a break where my worldview had come into question, I had to ask myself, who are you, really? It's easy to rationalize walking away in these moments.
In his book, The War of Art, Steven Pressfield says, our job in life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it. Well, who would have known how much goes into that process of becoming How committed we have to be to the road before us, and not only when it's sunny, but when the skies are dark and gray.
And how if we allow ourselves in those difficult moments to say, sometimes it's okay to wave the white flag. It's okay to walk away. Then you leave the door cracked to make that same decision at any other point in time. Quitting, conceding can very easily become a habit. And a habit we want to avoid at all cost.
I have this little rule that no matter what, I can never leave dishes in the sink overnight. Never. I treat this arbitrary little promise to myself like it's life or death. Which, again, random, but hear me out. It's half practical, half symbolic. I know that if I say, okay, just this once, I've effectively removed the barrier separating order from chaos.
If it's okay just this once, then it's okay 1,000 times. And a messy sink becomes a messy kitchen, becomes a messy house, becomes a cluttered mind. Extreme maybes. but critical, right? Here is where the symbolism comes in. I understand how fragile that divide, how when I'm tired or have a headache or I'm busy, it's still priority.
Because I want to hammer my subconscious with the understanding that I show up when it's inconvenient. That very moment when, you know, I could easily trick myself into thinking it's small or dumb or arbitrary. It's a sink, who cares, right? That's the moment that I need to bleed into the rest of my life. And I think that's exactly it, right? The floodwaters are always looking to come in.
And how many cracks until the room gives way? You know, when you've had a few rough days, when you've lost something important to you, when you're sad or disappointed about an outcome, what then? When life calls you to exceed expectations, what then? Because the world around you will always give you evidence to support dialing it back, right?
Selling yourself short if that's the case you're looking to make. But here's the deal. Should you choose the inverse, you are strong enough to be better than you've ever been in those challenging moments. You can show up when it hurts. You can reestablish your why and carry forward even after the turbulence of yesterday. Life will never be easy. It will never all make sense.
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Chapter 5: What is the importance of reacting to adversity?
Look what you've done. understand how far you've come, how you ran when you could, you walked when it was possible, you crawled when you had to. And continued on to arrive at a someday that is right now. You, my friend, are a maker of things unseen. An architect of tomorrows and some days. So don't you dare, don't you ever entertain the delusion that this gift suddenly stops now.
Suddenly the burden is too much. The mountain is too tall. No, what you do is overcome. That is who you are. You've done it for you. You've done it for the ones you love, and in some cases, the ones who didn't even understand, but you kept going. Marching through the fires of hell to turn some days into right nows. And I get that the road before you is uncertain.
There's no way to know exactly how life will unfold. But that's besides the point. A bird can't predict every gust of wind it's going to encounter. It spreads its wings, takes off and adapts because it can, because it always has, because that's what it does. I'm not advocating that you should have all the answers. No, I'm suggesting that you trust yourself to find them.
To move forward into the haze that surrounds you, to make sense of the seemingly illogical, bring about reality from the make-believe. Someday, you will have what you're aiming for. But here's to never letting a today go by without realizing that you are always living out a someday from your past. You are always arriving and leaving simultaneously.
The accomplished and the student crossing a finish line and on the starting block with another race around the corner, another chance to stretch your legs and reach for the heavens. If you ever forget that, I ask that you find it within yourself to look over your shoulder, to remember what you once asked for, and to appreciate the journey that you have undertaken. You did that. Now onward you go.
You have more some days. to bring to life.
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