The Power of the Present Moment
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In todays episode, I take a look at the power of the present moment and its impact on our life trajectories. Being that both the past and the future are mere fabrications, "right now" is our most powerful weapon.
In fact, greatness is not achieved when most think it is. As Brian Moran states in his book The 12 Week Year, "It is not when Phelps wins the medal that he achieves greatness, it is all the moments leading up to that point. Winning the medal was simply recognition."
If the present moment is truly the essence of life, perhaps there's benefit to looking at it from a different angle. Join me on today's episode in doing just that!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero, and in this episode, we're going to talk about the power of the present moment. |
| 0:08.7 | How greatness is defined, not when you stand on the podium or grab the trophy, but right now. |
| 0:34.6 | Thank you. All we have is right now, the present moment that you're living in. |
| 0:40.1 | In fact, the other day, my good friend, Stephen Sully, |
| 0:43.4 | pushed open the door to the living room, |
| 0:44.8 | sprinted in and said, |
| 0:47.2 | Eddie, you're not going to believe this, |
| 0:51.7 | but our past and our future are only thoughts. |
| 0:57.6 | Like, everything's make-believe except the the immediate i'm like wow i guess i guess i knew that but when you put it that way it's it's it's pretty crazy to think about |
| 1:02.7 | you know everything is is made up everything's manufactured in our head except right now and the reason that important, and the reason I want to talk about it, is last week I |
| 1:16.1 | finished reading Brian Moran's book, the 12-week year, where, you know, he talks about |
| 1:23.7 | planning the importance of setting achievable goals and touches on something that I, you know, |
| 1:31.3 | it's an area that I can improve upon, is really structuring, segmenting, and holding yourself |
| 1:37.0 | accountable for your project plan. But there's also some stuff at the beginning around mindset |
| 1:43.1 | that I really enjoyed. And it was the idea, he talks |
| 1:47.8 | about Michael Phelps, right? And he says, you know, people at the Olympics saw him break |
| 1:55.0 | world records. They saw him get out of the pool and hold up a medal and they said, wow, |
| 2:02.9 | he just became great. |
| 2:05.5 | He just became the best Olympian of all time. |
| 2:09.5 | And Brian's point is that's not true. |
| 2:14.2 | He was just recognized as the greatest Olympian of all time. |
| 2:22.1 | He became the greatest Olympian of all time. He became the greatest Olympian of all time, a long time before that, |
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