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Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero

Eddie Pinero

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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The world isn’t just happening to you—it’s reflecting you. Your beliefs, your mindset, and your actions shape the reality you experience. If you don’t take control of that narrative, you risk becoming a bystander in your own life, mistaking external circumstances for fate instead of seeing them as opportunities to rewrite the script.True power comes from within. As Marcus Aurelius said, you have power over your mind, not outside events—realize this and you will find strength. When you shift your perspective, you shift your world. This episode is a reminder that you are not just a character in someone else’s story—you are the author of your own.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

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0:00.0	Reality is a mirror, reflecting back at you not the world as it is, but the world as you are.
0:10.9	The idea here is that if you don't pause and remind yourself how much control you have over your own reality, over what you're seeing,
0:24.1	you start thinking you're at the mercy of someone else's story, a character in a play that is not your own. You forget that in your own
0:33.6	movie, you're the scriptwriter. Or as Marcus Aurelius wrote, you have power over your mind,
0:41.6	not outside events, realize this, and you will find strength. I recently heard this referred to
0:51.8	as the mirror principle. But really, for obvious reasons, I'm more partial to calling it your world within.
1:01.0	An echo of Tolstoy's classic line,
1:04.0	Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
1:10.0	And that is where our power lies. but no one thinks of changing himself.
1:14.3	And that is where our power lies.
1:18.1	Or using the same example,
1:22.6	you can't change the reflection you see by shaking the mirror.
1:40.4	You change the reflection by changing your relationship with yourself, by changing how you treat and view yourself, which not only alters your actions, it alters how the world views you.
1:46.9	One of the first things we notice about someone is whether they are confident, whether they operate with conviction and self-belief, we notice how they view themselves immediately.
1:57.6	The greatest gifts I've been given from, you know, mentors and people I look up to in life,
2:03.9	they haven't been material.
2:07.0	No, they've always been subtle reminders that I set the guidelines and the world conforms.
2:15.2	It's always been, hey, Eddie, if you only view yourself as someone who charges a little
2:21.9	bit of money to clients, that's how potential clients will view you. Eddie, if you surround yourself
2:30.4	with people who think small, that's exactly what you'll become accustomed to doing.
2:36.6	Eddie, if you don't believe you can do amazing things, people won't walk up to you and believe it for you.
2:44.3	All of these have been reminders that the reflections that I'd created for myself at those points in time were limiting.
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