LIFE IS SHORT - Best Motivational Speech
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Hey friends, in today’s episode, I’m diving into something a friend asked me: What will your story say? We all have that “dash” between the day we’re born and the day we die—that little mark that holds our life in between. It's easy to brush that off as something we’ll get to later, but when you really stop and think, it’s powerful. That dash is everything. It’s the moments we show up when we don’t want to, the days we push through when we feel lost, and the times we make choices that we know will shape us, even if we don’t see it right away.
So today, I challenge you to consider: What will your highlight reel look like? Imagine it as the story you’re writing right now, every choice and every action adding to it. Our lives are just one flicker in a galaxy of stars, as Frankl might put it, but that flicker is uniquely ours. No one else controls it. You decide what your story will mean, what you want your dash to stand for. Let’s talk about making that dash count.
- Eddie
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When it's all said and done, what will your story say? |
| 0:04.0 | A friend of mine, Justin Prince, once asked me what my dash represented. |
| 0:11.0 | And I thought, dash. |
| 0:14.0 | I said, yeah, dash, if you think about someday down the road, inevitably, when we all die, there will be on our gravestone or tombstone the date we were born, a dash, and the date we died. |
| 0:32.5 | Making that dash symbolic of everything, the little line that represents it all. |
| 0:41.7 | And so when the sun is setting on your lifetime and you've breathed your last breath |
| 0:48.6 | and you've enjoyed your last sip of coffee and you've smiled for the last time and all that |
| 0:53.8 | remains are the people that you've touched in what you've smiled for the last time and all that remains are the people that |
| 0:56.6 | you've touched in what you've built along the way, what will that dash represent? |
| 1:05.8 | And I hope you'll join me in asking yourself that question, like truly thinking about it. |
| 1:14.0 | No, not just when it's easy to. |
| 1:17.1 | Not when things are firing on all cylinders. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm wondering, will you think about it on the days you've hit that snooze button three times, |
| 1:28.6 | and you're wondering to yourself, does any of this even matter? |
| 1:36.3 | I'm wondering, will you think about it when you feel lost? |
| 1:43.6 | Or feel that the hope in your life seems camouflaged. |
| 1:50.0 | I'm wondering, will you think about it when you've let yourself down? |
| 1:56.0 | Or feel like you've let those around you down? |
| 1:59.0 | Or maybe when others have let you down. |
| 2:05.8 | There's a lot we can control. |
| 2:09.2 | But that dash, I need you to hold that. |
| 2:26.9 | I need you to know that, as Victor Frankel alluded to in a slightly different context, that is the one thing that cannot be taken away. |
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