Compounding Daily
Do you feel stuck? Uninspired? Stagnant? The Compounding Daily podcast hosted by Miguel Sanchez, aims to spark curiosity and drive. Each episode gives you deep insights on how to cultivate healthy habits, practice discipline, change your perspective of life, and restructure your mindset in a way that promotes small changes in your daily life that will compound to help you earn that 1% needed everyday to reach your goals, whether they be physical, mental, or both.
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Compounding Daily
EP54-Becoming Unrecognizable To Yourself
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This week's conversation takes a deep dive into the mind's power plays, where we learn to become the keen observer of our own inner dialogue. I open up about my personal odyssey from self-doubt to self-empowerment, revealing how challenging the stories we tell ourselves can unlock doors to new potentials. Imagine standing at a crossroads every morning, the path to growth in one direction, and the beaten track of limiting beliefs in the other. I'm here to tell you how choosing the former has reshaped not just my week, but my entire life's trajectory.
To wrap things up, I reflect on the affirmations and daily decisions that keep me on the path toward health, wealth, and wisdom. Drawing from the timeless wisdom of "Think and Grow Rich," I share the rituals that have reprogrammed my mindset and invite you to join me in this pursuit of excellence. While we're skipping the Q&A this week to stay laser-focused on our theme, next Monday promises a riveting session answering your most pressing questions with a very special guest. So, march into your week with the conviction that you're not just surviving the grind—you're actively crafting a masterpiece, one empowered choice at a time.
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Hello, hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez, and this is episode 54. First, I want to start today's episode with expressing some gratitude. Some gratitude because the feedback, the conversations, the comments left behind because of the latest episode was overwhelming. Please understand that this is a big step into discomfort for me to be in this studio alone, to just sit here and converse with myself, with the plan to lead you, the listener, to a place of value, a place of curiosity, a place of contemplation, a place where you may now reflect upon your own life because of the things that you've listened to here and now you get to go out into the world and maybe apply some things for yourself and or challenge some of the perspectives that you've been holding on to. The whole point is that if you listen to this and in any way, shape or form, you feel like you are getting better and or at least curious enough to make some change in your life that you know will lead you in a better direction than the podcast is serving its purpose and, from what I've gotten back this last week, it is doing just that. So, first and foremost, thank you. I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1:Secondly, there is a reason why I release the episodes every single Monday and I've been saying this for a while now, a long time now, and it won't change because I like to be that reminder, I like to be that voice in your ear that's going to tell you hey, yes, it's Monday, yes, you probably don't want to go to work, yes, you're tired, yes, you are tempted to call out. But change that narrative, change that conversation. Remind yourself that you are alive, remind yourself that every day brings with it the opportunity for you to practice the choices necessary that can make you a better individual, keep you the same or lead you down the wrong path, but at the end of the day, the choices are up to you and the things out of your control, or simply they are out of your control. So, even though it's Monday, the most hated day of the week, if you are your average individual which, if you're listening to this, you are not then be mindful that when you go to work, there's going to be the pessimists telling you why it's always at Friday. Yet, oh, 30 years till I retire? Oh, how much longer am I going to have to do this? All things aren't fair, life sucks, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Make sure that you don't adapt that way of thinking into your own life, because you will ruin your own week before it begins. So that's my Monday morning spiel. I hope you have a great day and go out there and win the day, and if there's anything that you're going to get from this episode, at least let it be that that you get to decide and choose how you approach this upcoming day.
Speaker 1:With that being said, today I have a very interesting topic, something that's been on my mind all week, something that I wanted to share with you, because it's something that I for myself because keep in mind, if you've been listening to me for a while, then you know that everything that I speak about is from my own experience and the things that I'm going through. I tell you what has worked for me, I tell you what hasn't worked for me, and that doesn't mean that those things might not work for you. We are each individuals here, but in the hopes that I share with you the way that I'm thinking and the things that I'm doing, I hope that in some way, shape or form, it leads you to some sort of insight where I'm like wow, I never thought about it from that perspective. So, with that being said, what's been on my mind? I will start in the form of a question and then let's lead it into what I would consider a conversation of value.
Speaker 1:What if I told you that everything you've been led to believe is wrong? What if I told you that the person that is staring back at you in the mirror with this satisfaction doesn't need to be the same person that's there for the rest of your life? What if I told you that you can wake up every single day and choose something different for yourself, something better for yourself, and this is what I like to talk about today the most. What if I told you that you can create so much change in your life that, at one point, you'll look at the person in the mirror and even you won't recognize the person staring back at you and I know that sounds a little insane. Like what do you mean? I know what I look like, I know who I am, I know the person staring back at me. Bear with me, because this is what I've experienced. This is what I've been through and, if I'm being quite honest with you, it's something that makes me emotional. It is something that I reflect on quite often, because if I can paint a picture for you and I know the story is probably getting old, but it's my story, so I'm not going to paint another story of another person. Yes, I can use examples, etc. But there's no better story than the one that I'm currently going through.
Speaker 1:Many times do I wake up and the things that I do, the walks in the mornings, the morning messages, the podcast that's going on right now, the physical challenges that I'm putting myself through, the mental conversations that I'm having with myself often lead me to a point where I ask myself wow, who is this guy? If you were to ask some of my friends, if you were to ask my family, if you were to ask Juliana, if you were to ask them, when does Miguel cry? They would probably say too much. But there's sometimes where something as little as a conversation and the words coming out of my mouth become unrecognizable to me. Sometimes I would look in the mirror and the person staring back at me is somebody that I admire, somebody that I am proud of, and for some reason I don't attach myself to that reflection. I'm just like, wow, who the hell is that guy? Sometimes I say something so in depth, so insightful, that I forget that it's coming from me and I'm just like, wow, where did that come from? That's inspiring even to me. That wasn't me. Who, where did that come from? And the whole way that I got there. And this is what I mean.
Speaker 1:You can work on yourself so much to the point where even you have trouble recognizing the person that you are. If you are overweight, if you are not happy with your life, if you are not satisfied with the things that you've accomplished so far, if you are not satisfied with the trajectory in which your life is headed, if you constantly reflect upon your future, think about the past and you aren't happy with either of those perspectives that you hold in your mind, what if I told you that that doesn't need to be the rest of your life? And for me, that came in the form of exactly what this podcast is about Creating personal achievement, chasing personal development, understanding that self-development is the key ingredient to creating a significant change in your life. And for me, when I was 289 pounds overweight, low income low income because I was spending money unwisely, not because I didn't have a job.
Speaker 1:Surrounded by negative people, surrounded by a negative environment I often caught myself, always in the middle of it all, especially when I was by myself, having those hurtful conversations that most people have, and the conversation went a little like this what are you doing, miguel? This is your life and this is what you're doing with it? At the moment, I was an atheist, so you know, I would say, like you know, I know you don't believe in anything after death, but wouldn't that be reason enough to make something out of this thing called life that you are always complaining about, that you are always showing negative attitude towards? Why are you letting this go to waste? And I'd be like, ah, I don't want to hear that, I don't want to hear it, and I would drown it. Drown that voice out with distractions, whatever the form of distraction it was. It would be loud enough where, for a little while, that voice wouldn't be there. But guess what? I'd wake up and the reflection would remain the same. I couldn't even look at myself for too long without being disgusted with myself. I couldn't sit down with my thoughts alone. Excuse me, oh, I told you it's an emotional subject. I couldn't sit down with myself alone and have a good conversation with myself, because the conversation always stemmed from you could be so much better. What are you doing? You are wasting time and Something happened within me A story for another time but something happened in my life within one year where I lost my family.
Speaker 1:I lost my friends by my own choosing, right. They didn't do this to me, I did it to myself. I found myself couch hopping for a little while. You know, I went through a little homeless phase. Let's not add exaggeration to that. It was drastic. I wasn't out on the streets, I always had clothes in my back and food in my stomach, so it wasn't horrible, but mentally for me, that was the hardest point of my life and I kept looking for the finger to point at anything and anyone to justify why I was going through the things I was going through. Well, you know, my family said this, my friends who were at where my friends are actually not here to help me, and you know I was asking for unrealistic expectations from other people.
Speaker 1:So I put myself in a position where what I would call is my rock bottom, where I felt helpless, I felt depressed, I felt a lack of enjoyment towards life. I would wake up, and I've said this quite often, but one of my most insane quotes that I would tell myself would be if this is it, if this isn't life, if this is all life has to offer me, I'm over it. Take me. Well, whatever is up there God, universe, buddha, whatever is up there listening just take me now. I'd rather not be here. I'd rather figure out what comes next, because if this is what you've given me, if these are the hands, the I forgot the analogy If this is the hands of cards that you've given me to be dealt I know I probably butchered that, but you know what I'm trying to say I don't want to do it, I don't want to go through it. Take me now. I'd rather just not be alive.
Speaker 1:And those weren't suicidal thoughts. That was me on my knees, giving up, quitting on myself, quitting on life, telling myself that things will not get better, because this is just who I am, because of what I was born into, because of the beliefs that I was raised to believe, because of the things that I've allowed myself to be surrounded by. This has now become my reality and therefore I cannot progress from here. Those are the thoughts that I want to entertain myself Now. If you've been following me for a while, if you have been listening to the show for a while.
Speaker 1:If you follow me on my personal and on the Compounding Daily Podcast, instagram, then it's very hard to see that because I'm not a big. Oh, look who I used to be and look how much better I am now. You know I don't need people to pat me on the back and tell me how great of a job I did, but you would never assume that that is what I came from. You would just be like, wow, this guy has his shit together. You know, this guy is constantly thinking positive. Wow, this guy is called smiley at work because I'm always smiling all the time. I always bring a positive attitude and you would think like, wow, his parents must have raised him in a phenomenal way. Well, my mom did a phenomenal job. Let's not take away from that right. But you would assume that everything was just handed to me in such a way that now I am an adult and I have figured everything out, and I'm here to tell you that I am far, far, far away from having things figured out.
Speaker 1:But if there is one thing that I figured out is that if you continuously put effort into the person that you wish to be into the goals that you wish to achieve, then you can truly, truly make a difference, should you stay with it long enough to experience the benefits of the choices that you are making. So, as you sit with yourself, by yourself, you may not be happy with who you are at the moment. You may not be happy with the things happening in your moment. You might be where I was disgusted with yourself because, deep down, you know you can be more. Deep down, you know you could achieve more, but something inside you is allowing your excuses to be louder than your reasons why you need to become better, and something flipped in me. It's something happened within me that came in the forms of books, which is why I always tell people Because, again, I can't tell you things that I haven't experienced. So I'm not going to go tell you to go listen to this video that changed my life. Unless it changed my life, I can't tell you to read all these books just for the sake of reading these books. I will tell you the books that I've read that have allowed me to create the change necessary for me to create what I envisioned for myself, my individual self, a dream to make a reality, for lack of better wording.
Speaker 1:The reason I wanted to, the reason I worded the beginning of this episode, exactly what I did becoming unrecognizable to yourself is because, day by day, we are gifted gifted with this gift called life. Day by day, we are gifted with the gift of freedom of choice, which means that every day, we get to wake up and decide what things we want, to entertain and understand something. I'm very realistic there are some things that are out of our control. That doesn't mean you're going to wake up tomorrow, quit your job, start over from a fresh start. But this is what I meant. What if the way that you are led to perceive the world was wrong? What if people telling you that's not realistic, that's not going to work for you, that's not going to happen? Look at the color of our skin. That is not meant for us and I know that that's an absurd thing to say, but it is something that I hear quite too often.
Speaker 1:And because you listen to these things and you accept them as your reality, therefore you allow that to become your reality, when, instead, why not question these beliefs that were handed to you? Why not question the way that you are doing things? Why would you not question the consequences that you are receiving back from the person that you are projecting out into the world, because it's when you sit down with these things. If you are not happy with your own life, if you're not happy with the trajectory in which it's going, then clearly something must change. And instead of trying to change everything around you, why would you not begin with changing yourself? And that doesn't necessarily mean go to the gym and change the physical body. That's not the only thing I'm referring to here, but health is wealth. I say that quite often.
Speaker 1:What I'm referring to is changing the conversation that's happening in your mind. What I'm referring to is observing the conversation within your mind as if you were a third person in the room, which means that you are not agreeing or disagreeing with everything in your mind, but instead listening to it from a point of curiosity. We can do this. It is the most astonishing thing that I've discovered, probably in all of my years of self-developing, and I mean that because when I say that I went from thinking all the time this sucks, life sucks, this isn't fair. I don't want to go through this. Why am I going through this? Why does this keep happening to me? I can't take this anymore. And instead I was just like you know. Let me just listen. Let me listen to how my voice is conversating with me, and what I caught was that the dominant voice was the negative voice, the voice telling me that I wasn't enough.
Speaker 1:The voice telling me every time I fantasized about having a strong, fit body, my mind would laugh like come on, let's be realistic, bro. Look in the mirror, look at what you look like. That's not going to be you. And I'd be like who am I kidding? Why am I even thinking about such things? Every time I'd see the luxury sports car in the highway, every time I would be googling Lamborghinis. Every time I'd go on the Lamborghini website and look at the Lamborghinis and look at the price.
Speaker 1:It wasn't the voice telling me one day, keep going, my girl, one day you will have one. It wasn't that voice. It was telling me like, what are you even doing on this job site? How much is that, bro? You can't even afford to pay your bills right now. Why are you looking at this? Just give up, drown it with entertainment, stop thinking about these things. And me, without question, would be like yeah, yeah, who am I kidding? And I would stop. Do you see the harm being done there? Do you see what happens when I don't sit down and question those conversations?
Speaker 1:I've gotten into arguments with myself and I know that probably sounds a little ludicrous, but I've sat down with myself and I'm like whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you mean? I can't do this. First of all, who are you? You are me. I am in control.
Speaker 1:I decide what I'm going to believe and not believe, and I'm, starting, from this day forward, refusing to believe that I can't accomplish big things. I'm refusing to believe that I can't have a strong, healthy body. Yes, at the moment, my reality is that I can't afford those things. I don't have a healthy and strong body. But what will happen when I keep that dream alive in my mind and I consistently tell myself one day, one day, one day, and every day that I wake up, I go back to that freedom of choice and I say all right, miguel, you're alive, you're still fat, you're still broke. But how are you going to choose today? Are you going to get closer to healthy and strong and a little bit wealthier, or are you going to accept that negative belief as your reality?
Speaker 1:Fast forward? Six years later, too many times do I catch that negative voice creeping in telling me what are you doing? Come on, give up. But Almost instantly, the positive voice intervenes and says whoa, remember, you are not in charge anymore, you are not in control. You can still say your things. Sure, say what you must. But you know that in my mind I have built a fence around, I have fortified myself and, yes, the negative thoughts will come in, but I don't allow them to be planted into my beautiful garden of hopes and dreams and ambitions I sometimes entertain.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I catch anger splurging out of me. Sometimes I catch myself reacting to other people's negative energy. Sometimes I catch myself wanting to flick off the guy in the highway because he cut me off, and then I remind myself whoa, whoa, whoa. That's not who you are anymore, remember. So the finger doesn't go up, the outburst towards somebody's negative attitude doesn't come out, and I'm far from perfect. Sometimes it's warranted, sometimes I can't help it. The finger will come out. Sometimes I can't help it and I will be like what are you even saying right now? That's crazy.
Speaker 1:But mindfulness and observing the conversation within myself has now led me to a point, because of the choices that I've been practicing now for consistently six years and it's been a roller coaster up and down, loops and around. But I've gotten to a point, very gratefully, where when I look in the mirror, I can now look myself in the eyes with confidence. I can now look at myself and smile and say, wow, look at what you've become, look at what you've done. When you, the listeners, come up to me in the gym or send me a direct message and tell me Miguel, because of the last episode, I'm creating change. Because of the last episode, I am now entertaining a different perspective that is allowing me to see things with a little bit more clarity. That is not things I take for granted. That is a whole different persona that I don't recognize. And the reason I say that is because inside of me still lives the fat Miguel, still lives the origin of me, still lives the person that I used to be.
Speaker 1:And when I was that person, when I received comments like that, compliments like that about how the show is changing lives and helping you guys grow, it doesn't feel real, just like I said in the beginning, so full circle here. It doesn't feel real because the fat boy in me, right the negative in me, the pessimist in me is still like man. Who are they talking to? And I'm just like whoa, whoa. You stay in the background. You know who they're talking to. The newer me, the better version of me. The one who questioned all my beliefs and reality. The one who challenged the mediocre life that most people are settling for. The one who decided I'm not happy and I'm tired of waiting for life to make me happy, so I will create my own happiness.
Speaker 1:Everything that I've just said, everything that I just covered, you can do everything that I just spoke about. You can do everything. Everything. The conversations with yourself, the staring yourself in the mirror, the honest conversations, the hurtful truths that must come from within you are things that you can't avoid for the rest of your life should you want to become an extraordinary individual. Sorry, I got the little sniffles, but I feel like I covered everything that I wanted to cover here. I hope that I was able to carry you with me in that story. I hope I was able to lead you to a point of curiosity and understanding. Don't get me wrong. I understand that some of the things I say don't sound realistic.
Speaker 1:If I was to tell you some of the things that I practice. You would think I'm a lunatic. I'll give you one. For example, at about year three I was reading. I was reading I believe it was Think and Grow Rich and one of the practices in that book and it's probably the wrong book, but it was attached to the Napoleon Hill Foundation and one of these things. It says get a long string and tie 20 knots on those strings and every single night before bed you grab that knot I wish I got it upstairs. It's something I'll never throw away because I cherish it and you grab that string filled with 20 knots on it and you hold on to the first knot and then you tell yourself, day by day, by the grace of God and a positive mental attitude, I become better and better. Second, not day by day, by the grace of God and a positive mental attitude, I become better and better. Third knot day by day, by the grace of God and a positive mental attitude, I become better and better. And I did that and I did that until I got to the 20, if not. Man, memories lead to an emotional place and I did that for a long time until I got to the 20th now, and I did it every single night before bed. And I did that for weeks, weeks, week after week, day after day. And I did that and guess what? The mind started reflecting me that I was indeed becoming better and better.
Speaker 1:Because if you understand that you are a repetition of the thoughts that you entertain, of the choices that you practice, of the habits that you allow yourself to have or not to have, then you understand that you are a direct reflection of the things that you repeat. So imagine the individual that every single night, tells themselves doesn't matter what I'm going through, it doesn't matter how hard things get the things out of my control. I will learn to maneuver with, I will adapt to the situation. Why, and day by day, by the grace of God, with a positive mental attitude, I become better and better.
Speaker 1:And at first I felt like an idiot. At first I literally felt like I was like what am I even doing? This is crazy. I can't let anybody see me. I had a roommate at the time and I explained it to him and he saw what I was going through. So he wasn't discouraging it or nothing Maybe one of the biggest influences of my own life. But what once felt like crazy turned into here I am driving, the guy cuts me off the middle finger was locked and loaded ready to be thrown and then there it is. Hey, hey, hey. A positive mental attitude day by day is what you said. A positive mental attitude doesn't go around flicking people off Anytime.
Speaker 1:I caught myself releasing anger or sadness or frustration towards the things in my life. Hey, hey, hey, a positive mental attitude day by day. By the grace of God, are you going to become better and better, or are you going to react to the negative situation in front of you? And I did that practice for a while. I no longer do it, but clearly the quote has remained in my mind and many times, many times over till this day, I repeat that to myself in moments of frustration.
Speaker 1:And the whole point of that whole story and everything I've said so far is that you can get yourself to the point where one day, after a long, consistent effort into a better version of yourself, you're going to look in the mirror, you're going to hear yourself speaking, you're going to see the income coming your way. You're going to see your new group of friends, you're going to see the person that you are achieving and the impact that you are creating within your friends, your community and your life. You're going to see that your goals are now being brought to you because of the energy that you are radiating and you're not going to recognize yourself. You're going to be like, holy shit, who is this person? And that is a blessing, that is a gift that you can have, and that's all I have with me today. That's all I have to say. Think about these things. You only have one life. You only have one body. You have been given a gift, a gift of freedom, and with that freedom, you get to decide the kind of things you experience and the kind of life you're going to create. Don't let it go to waste, my friends, please.
Speaker 1:It all begins with you. It begins with the conversations you have in your mind. It begins with the thoughts in which you are allowed to dominate your mind. It begins with first, you might have a rotten garden filled with weeds and filled with poisonous plants, and poisonous plants that you might have not planted there yourself. Maybe one came from your mother, one came from your uncle, one came from your boss telling you oh, you're going to start your own business. Good luck with that, buddy. You suck here as an employee. You think you're going to have a business and you planted that seed and you started watering it with even negative, even more negative thoughts. Or you can cleanse that garden, start fresh.
Speaker 1:I don't care if you're 18, 31, 41, it doesn't matter If this isn't a practice you've done before. Now's the time to do it. Sit down with yourself by yourself, cleanse your mind and tell yourself moving forward. These are the things that I'm going to practice. These are the things that will create change in my life. I don't care if you accept them as my reality. I don't care if you approve or disapprove of them. If they are working for me and they are not harming others, then please continue doing what you are doing and I promise you, over a long period of time, you will become unrecognizable to yourself. That is all I have to say. Thank you, everybody for being here with me. I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1:This week we will have a guest here, a new guest. I'm super enthusiastic about it. It's the youngest guest I've had on the show so far, but it's a very ambitious kid. That the guy has a mind that I wish. I wish that I had at his age, but clearly I don't have regrets, so therefore, I'm very grateful to just be able to know him. I'm inspired by him and I know that his story, his way of thinking, will enlighten you, especially if you are in the younger side of life.
Speaker 1:So something to look forward to next week. And then I have a few questions that were given to me via Instagram, a few questions that some listeners sent in. I was going to answer them today, but I got caught up in what I was saying and I don't want to devalue what I was saying by bringing different topics, so I'll save these questions for next week with the guest and, with that being said, keep winning out life, my friends, day by day. By the grace of God, you can choose to become better with a positive attitude, should you want to. Until next time, everybody.
