Welcome to Your World Within Daily. I'm Eddie Panero, and in this episode, I'm going to tell you a story about a Japanese warrior who completely changes the outcome of a battle simply by changing the way his men see the conflict, by inspiring them to look at the world differently. And then I'll end with the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

about one of the most important decisions that we can make. So in this story, there's a Japanese warrior.

He's going to battle, right?

And he knows that the enemy outnumbers him and his men 10 to 1.

But he feels with the right tactics, with the right strategy, he can go in and

come out victorious. He just needs to convince his men because his men know the numbers. They know

the odds and they're very down on themselves. They feel like it's just not likely or not

possible based on those numbers that they'll come up victorious.

So he sees that as a problem, something he's got to fix and he does some thinking, goes to his troops.

He says, all right, guys, look, I'm going to stop at this shrine and I'm going to pray.

And after I'm done praying, I'm going to come out and I'm going to flip a coin.

And if it's heads, then it's destiny, right?

Then we were going to win and everything will be fine.

They go, okay, they agree to that.

He goes in, he prays, he comes out, flips a coin heads.

And everyone celebrates, you know's destiny has spoken we got heads

you know they they they were confident they go into battle they win they come out victorious and

as they're leaving the battlefield you know one of his top aides says uh you know you can't you know

beat the hand of destiny, more or less.

And this warrior shows him that the coin is heads on both sides. And he says, no, you're right.

You most certainly cannot. And I, man, I mean, how amazing is that?

Putting it right there, right out there that destiny was determined not by some outside force, but by those men deciding that they would win the battle.

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