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EP101- I Refuse. (30min Solo)
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Hello, hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez, and welcome to another episode, episode 101,. I am in disbelief. I am eternally grateful.
Speaker 1:Episode 100, if you didn't know, was a live event where a lot of the guests who have been on the show before showed up. Family and friends showed up to support and, if I can be honest, I'm my harshest critic. So everybody's like, wow, this was great. And in my head I'm like this could have been so much better. But, with that being said, I still wanted to send my appreciation to everybody who sent messages. Everybody who showed up, everybody who took part in the episode means something very special to me, and I'm just very grateful to know that I have the kind of support from people whom I know personally, encouraging me to continue doing what I'm doing, telling me that, because of the difficulties I'm purposely putting myself through, they're gaining value, they're getting better. Then they're doing the same thing in their own way, and that is the whole purpose of the show.
Speaker 1:So I'll start today by simply saying episode 100 was a big success, bigger than I expected. I have learned over time to set my expectations to pretty much non existent, and that way I could never be disappointed. I knew some people were gonna show up, but to have enough people that when a guest would get up and go and another guest would come on and everybody's clapping it sounded like a real audience, not just one or two people clapping I cried on my own time. If I'm being honest, I've worked on this for a very long time and that day for me was something that didn't feel real for a very long time, and the universe and God and everything good in life has been pushing me, nudging me to start taking those leaps of faith and belief, even though the fear and anxiety were through the roof. But thank you, thank you for being there. If you haven't listened to it, I highly encourage it. Excuse the difficulties that may be or may not be with the audio. It was a bigger space. There was people actually there. It wasn't just me and a guest and I had a producer with me. That episode it was just a dream come true, if I'm being honest.
Speaker 1:So thank you, thank you for being a part of this, thank you for being a part of my life, thank you for the feedback, thank you for the words of criticism, thank you for the challenges you've placed in front of me. I would not be where I am, who I am experiencing, the things that I am, if it wasn't for the people in my life and if you're listening to this. I consider you a part of my life. So, again, I know I say it a lot, but I'm an overly grateful individual. So thank you, thank you and thank you, and I couldn't have went into a new year with a better bang for lack of better wording, so thank you. There's so much cost for celebration because of that episode simply and, with that being said, solo episode. That's why I haven't introduced anybody First solo episode of the year.
Speaker 1:And what I want to emphasize on is the choices to entertain the conversations in our mind, and I'll explain, so just bear with me. But, with that being said, I'll make the Monday morning rant very short. It's Monday, as you're listening to this, it's Monday. It's the first Monday of 2025.
Speaker 1:And I've made an episode about this simple question a few weeks ago, but I'll ask it again because who cares? What are you going to do this year? What are you going to do the first Monday of a brand new year? Are you going to show up as the same version of yourself? Now that doesn't mean that you show up as a completely different person. But understand, if you are listening to something like this, either you really support me or there are things that you know need to be worked on, because that's why I do this.
Speaker 1:I've accepted in my life that there is never something that can't be worked on and since I've accepted that as my reality, I approach a new Monday for what it is just another day where I am given the opportunities, where I am tested to see if I really desire the things that I desire and the way that I show up, the conversations that I entertain, the attitude that I bring or don't bring, the conversation that I'm having with myself, the foods that I use to fuel my body, the things that I choose to listen and allow to go into my mind all play a part in how we show up as individuals. So, with that being said, please, I hope that by this time episode 100, you're still not showing up, treating Monday like an enemy, treating Monday like an outcast, treating Monday like it's against you, and instead embrace where you are, embrace what you have, embrace who you are, and say, hey, this may not be where I wish to be and that's okay. But a brand new week, a brand new year has come and given you an opportunity. Are you going to continue to let life pass you by? Are you going to continue to let time just slowly, slowly fade away as you continue to dig yourself deeper into that hole of regret? Happy Monday Show up with the right attitude. Uplift not just yourself but the people in your life. Do the things that you know that over a long period of time, if practiced consistently enough, can change your life. And I don't need to tell you what that is, because you know what that is Deep down that intuition, that gut feeling, the butterfly, what feels like a finger poking you in the chest, like telling you stop being a baby, stop complaining, stop entertaining negative conversations. Listen to it. It has good plan for you.
Speaker 1:And when I started resisting myself, when I started resisting, when I stopped excuse me when I stopped resisting such negative thoughts and just accepted who I am and the things that I desire, everything didn't get better for me, but it put me in a position where I've accepted that there are things that need to be worked on. And now I just focus on that. And as long as I know that I'm working on them. I know that, regardless of the pain, regardless of the misery, regardless of the challenges, regardless of the adversity that I may be experiencing, it's all part of the journey. Happy Monday everybody. Let's win.
Speaker 1:And I mean this because people think that I'm kidding. Message me, call me. I'm an open book. I don't sell programs. I don't have secrets to share that will change your life. But I like to say and this is not egotistically speaking I've liked to say that for the last seven years I don't just talk about the things that I'm talking to you about I've implemented, I've learned, I've kept most of it with me and now I live. It. Was it easy? Absolutely not. To this day, it still isn't, but I look forward to sharing my story. I look forward to sharing my experience to get people to understand that they too can achieve greatness in life should they truly dedicate themselves to it. So this is the topic that I wanted to talk about today. Bear with me as I try my absolute best to put this together with me, as I try my absolute best to put this together.
Speaker 1:A few years ago, I read a book called how to Master your Own Mind by Napoleon Hill. It's one of my top three favorite books of all time. I've read it easily eight to 10 times easily, eight to 10 times and it's the first book that put me in a position where I realized, oh, I'm not stupid, I'm not dumb as I thought I was, I'm not lacking intelligence. It's the first book that put into me the confidence to know that I can have control in my life. If you're interested in reading it, I highly recommend it. How to Own your Own Mind by Napoleon Hill, and what I got the most out of that book, what I got, what became one of my biggest core values, is this understanding. Please bear with me.
Speaker 1:What you repeat yourself consciously long enough eventually transfers to the subconscious mind, and what you used to have to put a lot of effort into thinking about is no longer the case, because now the subconscious mind has absorbed it and now, without you having to think about certain things specifically, the subconscious mind is just constantly running, even when you're sleeping, and is running for you, right? Have you ever thought about something so much that you go to sleep and you dream about it and you wake up and you're like Jesus Christ? That's the subconscious mind, right? And this is why this is very important and this is the theme of today's episode when, when you repeat to yourself certain beliefs over and over again, understand that the first hundred times might feel like you're lying to yourself. The first 200 times might feel like you're just trying to justify something by by 300 times of repeating something to yourself. You might feel like an idiot, like what am I doing? But what you repeat to yourself thousands of times eventually doesn't need to be something that you repeat to yourself, because your mind will repeat it for you. And I'll give you my example, and this is what I'm referring to here the idea of telling yourself something so long that it now becomes part of your character. And I'll give you my example, my real life example here the idea of adapting the belief that I am the kind of person that refuses. And I'm gathering my thoughts, don't worry, that wasn't a suspenseful pause. So I've become the kind of person that refuses.
Speaker 1:And a big part of me, beginning my journey initially, was the weight loss journey, and then the dream to become a speaker, and then the dream to start a podcast and all of these things I needed to prove to myself that I can do them. And if you look at my track record. When I started, I was 24, turning 25. When you look at my track record, you'll see that from 25 and younger right, I don't blame my early teenage self, so let's just put that timeframe between 13 and 24. I proved to myself that I'm the kind of person that gives up easily. I'm the kind of person that doesn't like being corrected. I was the type of person that didn't like being told what to do without first being explained as to why I'm doing these things, so everything felt pointless. I've proven to myself that when the going gets tough, miguel gets going too.
Speaker 1:And over time, as I started reading these books that talk about accountability and they talk about accepting yourself as you are and anything that you desire can be yours, at first I didn't believe, but then I started recognizing patterns. From one book to the next, from one author to the next, from one story to the next, the stories change, the conversation changes, but the points and the values were the same. And what I got the most out of that book how to Own your Own Mind was that if I believe something so, so heartedly that I can repeat it to myself over and over and over again, eventually it'll become my reality, and this is what I'm referring to, the kind of person that refuses. I, in moments of testing, right in moments where I woke up and my body says you can just play video games today, smoke some weed and relax. You don't got to do anything. Or you can wake up, have a good breakfast, go to the gym, read a little bit prep for the next day, make sure everything's in order, order so there is no chaos in your life, and then you can play your video games and smoke weed if you want, right. Those are the kind of tests that I'm referring to. The test that comes in the form of oh, you have your lunch packed, but there's a McDonald's right there. You can save this lunch for tomorrow. Just go into the McDonald's, help yourself, right. That's a McDonald's right there. You can save this lunch for tomorrow. Just go into the McDonald's, help yourself, right. That's a test for me. It was a test for me.
Speaker 1:So the kind of conversation that now started happening in my mind, very gratefully, because of that book, was the understanding that if I just tell myself you're not the kind of person that falters when you say you're going to do something Right, and I instinctively put all that into a simple sentence. I refuse and let's go into depth here I refuse to be a quitter. I refuse to be pessimistic. I refuse to allow the negative opinions of others to alter my actions so much that I no longer realize why I'm doing the things that I'm doing. I refuse to let generational curses linger onto me like anchors and drag me down. I refuse to let the negative belief of others infiltrate my most fertile garden and put poison into my head. I refuse to become the kind of person that justifies my lack of effort with excuses. I simply refuse to become and act anything less than the best version of myself that I've created. And now you may be listening to that and say oh yeah, all of that sounds great. Yeah, if you said it to yourself, would you believe? It Is the question Because when I said those things to myself at first, I knew I was lying to myself.
Speaker 1:Why?
Speaker 1:Because the track record proved it. I was a quitter. I did allow negative opinions to influence me. I didn't have a vision of who I wish to become in the first place. So I couldn't even refuse anything, because I just knew who I was and I knew what I've accepted as my reality. But something had to change. And when I heard in that book or, excuse me, when I read in that book that what you repeat to yourself eventually goes into your subconscious mind, and now your subconscious mind is running at all times without your needing permission without it needing your permission is what I mean it lit something in me because I told myself okay, so at first, as I said earlier, I may repeat something hundreds of times and I believe it.
Speaker 1:But what if the subconscious mind starts telling you, without you needing to put effort into the thought, what you've been repeating to yourself over and over again? I'll give you an example. Right, miguel, you're not really going to the gym. Are you really losing weight? Come on, man, you're not doing that, right? And now the initial conversation is me like maybe they're right. I have tried to lose weight before and here I am biggest I've ever been. What am I going to do? What is going to happen? And then the mind, the subconscious mind, is like I refuse. And I'm like whoa, where did that come from? I refuse, oh, that's right. I refuse to become the kind of person that allows a negative opinion to influence me. Right? I hope you're keeping up with me here and please message me if this is a little confusing, because I can go deep into this right, I'll give you another example. I'll give you the lunch with me and McDonald's right around the corner. Example, because these are real things that I've experienced. Right In my mind, I created a vision of a guy who's healthy.
Speaker 1:Right, I don't need to be a bodybuilder healthy but healthy, right? No sagging titties, no neck turning black, you know, no knee pains from just the weight that I was carrying none of those things. In my mind, I had a vision of a guy who's in great shape and a good attitude, and in my opinion, it's just winning at life, right. So, as I'm battling with the lesser version of myself, contemplating, telling myself okay, I have here the lunch that I prepped for myself and I have there a delicious, delicious McChicken with some fries. That sounds amazing and I pull over, I walk into the McDonald's. And as soon as I walk into the McDonald's because I've repeated countless times to myself the I refuse statement, because I've worked on the picture on my mind of who I wish to be, without me needing to put effort into the thought, the subconscious mind just sent to me an image of who I'm trying to be. Do you see what I'm saying? Because now that I have that image, here I am standing in the McDonald's line and I have that image in my head and I'm like, whoa, what I'm doing here isn't going to get me to that guy I've created.
Speaker 1:Then you say you have a plan. Then you say you have these goals. Then you say you have a plan. Didn't you say you have these goals? Didn't you say you're going to achieve all of these things? What are you doing in here? This isn't good for you.
Speaker 1:And here I am sitting, pissed at nobody but myself, because I really wanted to make chicken, but I knew deep down that it wasn't what I needed at the moment. And I wanted to continue to prove myself wrong because in my head the conscious mind is like yeah, that's right, this is what you want. You want this food, even though you know it's not good for you. You know what you want. You wanna put the book down and turn on the TV and binge watch something. You know what you want. You don't wanna make progress, you wanna just be comfortable and eventually, over time and I'm talking about a span of going on eight, nine years now bear with me here Start repeating yourself to yourself the things that you want to experience, and over time, you don't have to think about it too much, right?
Speaker 1:Because now I've accepted, I've proven to fat Miguel, year after year after year, that when I say I refuse to become this, I refuse to allow that, I refuse to experience this ever again. Then guess what? Believe me, my subconscious mind is like well, he's doing it again. He's repeating over and over and over and over and over and over, and I mean over and over, thousands of times. I refuse to become this kind of person. It's just not who I am.
Speaker 1:I've told myself easily I'm not keeping count, but thousands of times you're not a quitter, you're not a quitter, you're not a quitter, you're not a quitter, you're not a quitter. At one point I was running experiments where I would go to sleep and I'd close my eyes, and before I fall asleep I just have my eyes closed and it's like I have a telegram crossing across my eyelids that says you're not a quitter, you're not a quitter, you're not a quitter, you're not a quitter. You're not a quitter, you're not a quitter. Do you understand what I'm saying? At first it's a little annoying, but before you know it.
Speaker 1:You've said that to yourself so much that now life is testing you. Life is saying you've set a goal, you set your eyes on this specific goal and I'm not just going to hand it to you, I'm going to test you. I'm going to see if you truly desire such a goal. And then what happens? The test is in front of you and the conscious mind says this is difficult. Test is in front of you and the conscious mind says this is difficult, you're tired, you're exhausted. Why are you doing this? Try again tomorrow. And as soon as you feel like quitting, the subconscious mind steps in and says you're not a quitter, you're not a quitter. What are you doing? What do you mean? You're giving up. What do you mean? You're going to start again. What do you mean? You're going to try again on Monday.
Speaker 1:You've said to yourself thousands of times you're not a quitter. So therefore, you're not a quitter. Why? Because you believe it. Why? Because you've ingrained it so much into your soul that it is part of who you are. It becomes part of your identity. I've repeated thousands of times to myself you are not the kind of person who gives up easily. You are not a quitter. And over time.
Speaker 1:At first, the disbelief was there because, yeah, you've said that before and you've quit most of your life when things got difficult, but not anymore. Why? Evidence over time against the things that I don't desire have led me to build confidence in myself, and my subconscious mind has been watching the whole time, becoming my friend, saying okay, I need to remind him in his times of difficulties the things that he's repeated to himself over and over and over again. And if we switch this around, if we tell ourselves, if we tell ourselves the exact opposite, instead of repeating to yourself I'm not a quitter, I'm not a quitter, just tell yourself I'm just lazy, I'm just lazy, I'm just tired all the time. I always have headaches. I just don't feel good, I'm just exhausted, I'm just not happy. And that is your primary way of communicating to the world.
Speaker 1:Eventually, you say that so often that the subconscious mind absorbs it and the minute you even feel a little enthusiasm, you know, I think I might sign up to the gym. The subconscious is like but you're tired and you're exhausted and you don't want to do this, right. Why? It's not because it's against you. It's because you've programmed it to be against you. By the way that you think and the way that you choose to repeat these negative thoughts that are hindering you as an individual. This is probably one of my absolute favorite topics, because I wasn't sure how I was going to get it across. But man, experience is a wonderful thing, and when I'm telling you that I'm not making this up, I'm not just trying to sell you a fake dream. Believe me.
Speaker 1:Repeat things to yourself, things that even at the moment you may not believe. Over time, you will start proving to yourself. Over time, your subconscious will become your friend. Over time, you don't have to think so hard about the person that you're trying to become, because your mind will constantly remind you the kind of person that you're trying to become and therefore your actions will be different and therefore your results will be different and therefore your experience will be different and therefore you will be different over time. Tell yourself the things that I repeat to myself is eventually what I become. It is directly correlates to the. You become a direct reflection of the choices you make, but you can turn that around. You become a direct reflection of the thoughts you hold dominant in your mind. You become a direct reflection of the things you believe to be true. In your life, you become a direct reflection of the things to which you repeat over and over and over and over again.
Speaker 1:And if you are not satisfied with anything in your life, then what first needs to change is an internal conversation that you're having with yourself, because you might have already, like myself, self-sabotaged yourself by telling yourself year after year that you are a loser, that you are a failure, that you are dumb, that you can't so, therefore you won't, that it's just part of the environment, that the world is against you and maybe, maybe, nah, not, maybe. That's not true, man. That's not true, because I used to have the same exact thoughts. And guess what? The world isn't better now. There is still crime. There is better now. There is still crime, there is still poverty, there is still sadness, there is still pain, there is still misery, there is still cheating, there is still just bad people out there. The world is the world and life is life. But what has changed my beliefs and the things that I repeat to myself?
Speaker 1:And I'll end it with this, I'll give you a real example, because sometimes you have to be a little crazy to do some of these things, and when I read this book once and at the moment it slips my mind, but one of the tasks in the book was it was a book also focused on the subconscious mind, and once I read how to Own your Own Mind, I went down a rabbit hole. Mind, I went down a rabbit hole and in this book and it says, it says go grab a shoelace, tie 20 knots on it and at the end of every day, close your eyes and this is the last thing you do. So you don't do this and then get on your phone. You don't do this and then go watch TV. This is the very last thing that you do, because keep in mind, while you're sleeping, while the conscious is sleeping, the subconscious is wide awake and it doesn't stop, it just keeps going. So imagine this and this worked for me. Ah, I can't believe. I'm sharing this.
Speaker 1:I grabbed this shoelace and I tied 20 knots on it and I started with the first knot. Imagine I lay down, right, I lay down, I get on my bed, I get comfortable, I grab the shoelace and I grab the first knot and then I close my eyes and I say, day by day, by the grace of God and a positive mental attitude, I become better and better. Next knot Day by day, by the grace of God and a positive mental attitude, I become better and better. Knot three Day by day, by the grace of God and a positive mental attitude, I become better and better. I did that for a year, every night for a year, every single night for a year.
Speaker 1:Right, and if you would have seen me, you would have been like this guy's crazy. What is he doing? What's that shoelace next to his bed with all the knots, all the time? What is? I don't understand and I didn't care. I was desperate. I needed change.
Speaker 1:And guess what happens? Right, fast forward a year later. Guess what? Just like everybody else, life is testing me. I'm going through difficulties. I don't want to go to the gym, I don't want to eat the food, I don't want to read the books, I don't want to have the conversations, I'm avoiding the things that I know are going to make me better. And guess what? The subconscious mind was just constantly spitting at me, day by day.
Speaker 1:By the grace of God and a positive mental attitude, you can become better and better, but you have to have a positive mental attitude, miguel. You have to do the work. Miguel, you know, the grace of God is great, but you can't do it alone with just that. It takes action, it takes confidence in yourself, it takes trial and error and making a plan and executing that plan and trying again. And now it is something that I can repeat to myself over and over a plan and executing that plan and trying again. And now it is something that I can repeat to myself over and over and, over and over again. And I don't need the shoelace anymore, I don't need the knots anymore. It's just something that the subconscious mind absorbed years ago.
Speaker 1:And till this day, in my moments of entertaining negative conversations because I'm human, I'm not a robot, I'm not 100% positive all the time I remind myself Miguel, it's okay if you're having a difficult day, it's okay if you made a bad decision, it's okay if you let fat Miguel win slightly today and you gave yourself into a gummy bear bag or something you shouldn't have done today. That's okay. That is okay. You're a human being. You are far from perfect, but remember, day by day, by the grace of God and a positive mental attitude, you get better and better. Are you getting better and better today? And we go ah, you know, I don't know All right. Well, guess what? Tomorrow's another day. How's that day gonna start? Day by day, by the grace of God? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you get it.
Speaker 1:What you repeat to yourself eventually becomes your dominant way of thinking. And if you've been dominantly thinking to yourself that you are incapable, that you can't, that you just don't understand, that you are the kind of person that quit, then eventually your subconscious mind starts agreeing with you and it starts feeding you the evidence needed to base the things that you are telling it to be true. Change that conversation and you'll be a different person. Repeat to yourself over and over again the things that you refuse to be a part of your life. I refuse to let negative people influence me. I refuse to allow people who aren't doing the things that I'm aiming for to give me a strong opinion about the things that I'm doing, because they simply don't understand.
Speaker 1:I refuse to allow my body to feel like shit because I keep feeding it the things that I know aren't good for it. I refuse to allow my mind to become bored, because how can I be bored in a world where I have a laptop in my pocket and knowledge is abundance in today's day and age. I refuse to be a loser, I refuse to be mediocre, I refuse to settle in comfort, I refuse to accept things that I know I can change if they are in my control. I refuse, I refuse, I refuse. And eventually the subconscious mind says well, when it comes to anything negative that doesn't line up to this man's vision, he refuses to accept that as the end all be all. And that's what the subconscious mind received as a message. And ever since then it's become my best friend.
Speaker 1:And in my moments of difficulties, in my moments of entertaining conversations about how I feel like quitting, about how things are difficult, about why are things happening to me, my mind reminds me you are the kind of person that doesn't falter when a challenge is put in front of them. You are the kind of person, simply, that doesn't give up. So get up, miguel, and keep moving forward. And the same thing can be to you, because I'm not special and nothing drastic happened to me. It was just my consequences of my own bad decisions finally caught up to me, and I was just at a bad place. That's my story, the same story everybody has. But something changed, and everything that I've used to change my life I share now with you, because if it can change mine, it can change yours and I can guarantee that. With that being said, a 30-minute solo episode. I thought it was going to be short, but obviously this is such a good topic. With that being said, 30 minutes.
Speaker 1:Be mindful of the conversations that you are having. Be mindful of the things that you are having. Be mindful of the things that you repeat to yourself, and make sure that the things that you are repeating to yourself are not discouraging but instead encouraging. Make sure that the conversation you have with yourself doesn't need to lead you to fake enthusiasm, which I hate. It doesn't need to lead you to a fake motivated state where you're like, oh yeah, I feel great, but at least let it not put you in a rut where now you're allowing time to pass you by as you sit in self-pity and misery, because the only thing that you'll get out of that at the end of your life is regret. Thank you for listening. First episode of the year, officially, and until next time, my friends.
