Adjust Your Sails
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination"
In this episode Eddie talks about the deceitfulness of perfection and its ability to hinder our progress.
There is no perfect launchpad, just like there is no perfect path. The differentiator in life, rather, is our ability to adapt to what life throws our way.
Where we once hoped for a flawless pursuit, we should instead instill the self-belief to conquer and rise above a life that is unpredictable and often beyond our control. That, at the end of the day, makes all the difference.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Your World Within Daily. |
| 0:03.7 | I'm Eddie Panero, and in this episode, we're going to talk about the power of adjustment |
| 0:07.0 | and how it's not about the perfect plan or flawless execution, |
| 0:11.3 | but the ability to pick up the pieces and keep going. |
| 0:31.4 | Yeah. So I recently came across a quote. |
| 0:39.3 | It says, I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. |
| 0:49.6 | And it made me think about sort of an undervalued aspect of growth or progress, |
| 0:56.7 | you know, personal development. It is the idea that we're not supposed to have the answers. |
| 1:04.4 | We're not supposed to know, right? Life is more about the ability, right, the mental fortitude to be able to take what comes at you, the highs, the lows, the ups, the downs, understand |
| 1:10.6 | them, adjust your strategy and move on, |
| 1:13.8 | right? Because there are things about the world that you can't change. There are things about |
| 1:18.2 | the world that we're not going to like. You know, I mean, it's no secret. There's a lot of |
| 1:24.8 | suffering in life. And it's the ability to take that and rise above it to |
| 1:30.6 | create something of substance that ultimately defines us, right? That makes or breaks us. |
| 1:38.3 | You know, I can personally look back and think about the times that perfection was my enemy. I didn't want to start a new |
| 1:48.6 | venture or release some content or, you know, you can fill in the blank. I didn't want to do it |
| 1:55.9 | because I told myself it wasn't perfect. Well, perfect is really a mask for insecurity. It's a top layer. |
| 2:04.6 | It's being scared. It's being fearful. You don't have to know the answers. And in fact, the most beautiful |
| 2:11.2 | things around us, the most important things around us, right? The creators of those things, |
| 2:16.3 | their founders, they didn't know exactly |
| 2:18.5 | how life would unfold. They didn't know that. They had a vision, and most importantly, |
| 2:26.6 | they had belief in themselves to adjust. They knew that things wouldn't be perfect. |
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