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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Kicking off the new year with a bang, episode 102 of Compounding Daily promises to shake up your Monday blues and inspire action beyond just big dreams. Have you ever found yourself making grand plans at night only to wake up in the morning with zero motivation to act? You're not alone, and it's a common trap we all fall into. Join us as we explore the power of taking action over mere intentions, fueled by the unpredictable fun of our "Compounding Daily Roulette" with Samer, and how a positive mindset can transform your mundane Mondays into opportunities for growth.
We tackle the formidable topic of fear, a universal roadblock in both personal and professional spheres. Sharing candid stories from our own lives, Samer and I discuss the thrill and terror of stepping into new responsibilities, whether it's in the gym or a work setting. We peel back the layers of fear to reveal how facing the unknown head-on builds confidence and prevents stagnation. By embracing discomfort and venturing out of the comfort zone, we open ourselves up to leadership roles and financial advancements, turning potential regrets into real achievements.
Consistency is the secret sauce to success, and we’re breaking down how small, sustainable habits can lead to extraordinary results. Instead of chasing instant gratification, we champion the idea of valuing steady progress and the magic of seemingly mundane daily actions. The episode also delves into the importance of self-awareness and gratitude, encouraging you to reflect on personal growth and the fleeting nature of life’s comforts and challenges. With gratitude for our listeners and friends, we remind everyone to cherish their connections and moments, as life is unpredictable and precious.
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Hello, hello, and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez, and welcome back to another episode, episode 102. Can't believe it three digits. We're making progress, we're getting better. We're into the new year and the momentum is being built, and I hope that I'm not speaking for myself here. I hope that I'm speaking for you as well. I hope that you didn't just talk about the things that might happen this new year, but instead talked about the things that you're going to do this year and, with that being said, I feel like there is no better time than in the very beginning of a new year to do a, a tradition here, uh, a fan favorite, one of my personal favorites, and that is compoundounding Daily Roulette.
Speaker 2:With Samer.
Speaker 1:With Samer. You know we started this together and it honestly has become something I look forward to every month because it takes away the stress of like, what am I going to talk about, what guests am I going to have on and the subject, et cetera, et cetera. So, before we get into it, if you're new to the page because on Instagram I know the following has grown a little bit and the interactions has grown a little bit so if this is the first time that you're listening to this, know that the goal is very simple. We're not here to sell you anything. We're not here to tell you how to live. We're not here to tell you that you're the way that we're going through life, with the hopes that, as you listen, you're gaining some value, some insights, maybe a different approach that you didn't see before. All of that, for us, means that we're serving a purpose, that we're serving you, because that's what this is for. As a community, we grow. Am I missing something? Oh, the reminder that Monday is just another day.
Speaker 2:Can't forget that you know?
Speaker 1:yeah, because some people will wake up and treat Monday like it's their enemy. Oh, it's Monday. Oh, is it almost Friday? Yeah, I don't want to go to work. It's cold outside, I don't, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1:Whatever the case may be and I'm a big believer and I love to be one of you're listening to this on a Monday morning and regardless of the day, it's always good to approach a day with the understanding that there's very few things you can control. But on the top of that list is the attitude in which you show up with and the conversation that you have with yourself. And if that conversation is drowned in self-pity and sorrow and why things aren't good and you wish things were better, then by the time you get to your real life, you know you're at your job and you're wearing this mask that you're not happy with, and people feel that, whether you want to speak it out loud or not. So be mindful as to how you approach the day. You may not be where you wish to be, but that doesn't mean that the day doesn't provide you with the opportunities to work on getting to where you wish to be, and that's most importantly. So, that being said, happy Monday. Let's win, man, let's do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's get right into it. So Compounding Daily Roulette, if you have no idea what it is. Over the last few years I've wrote a lot of ideas, quotes, inspirational things that I've read from books, speakers, seminars, thoughts that come across my head and whatever it may be, and since then it's been collected pretty pretty good. It's a long list, so we literally just scroll and as we're scrolling we stop, we pick a subject that we may find interesting and then we just cover the subject quick. It's almost like a, a fast round and a quick two, three minutes. Sometimes it's five minutes if the conversation is good and then from there we just continue and we're aiming to keep this one from 30 45 minutes. And uh yeah, we know there's going to be value in these, because there's always value in these, and right now in charge of the conversation is my co-host, sammer all right.
Speaker 2:So the first one this is nice and short. It says it only counts if you do it what do you? I like that one a lot, because a lot of people think big, and that's, I think it's a necessary precursor to all these grand ideas. But they're just that, they're your ideas until you actually do something with it. So you can't just think big, you also have to start taking action yes so that's.
Speaker 1:I think it's just simple yeah, no, simple to the point and very direct and hurtful truth people don't like to hear, right? Uh, just just today, my morning message, I focused on how did I word it? The aim list. Right, the aim list. And it's directed to the people who daydream, fantasize about a better life. And then you're like, dude, that sounds amazing and I want that for you. What are you doing to get it? And they're like I don't know, man, I'm just stuck here. This is where I was born and the color of my skin and the government and the taxes and whatever it may be. And you're just sitting there like, well, that's never going to get done.
Speaker 2:Then you know, yeah, I love that one. Yeah, that's a really good one.
Speaker 1:That's not even a minute.
Speaker 2:It's like those people who get really productive at night. You know when they're sleeping or when they're about to sleep, like tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and do this, this, this and this and this.
Speaker 1:None of it counted if you didn't do it. Yeah, you know, I've been that person oh yeah, me too. I'm going to the newer ones at the bottom yeah, I think one of the the lowest ones is the subject that I wanted to cover a little bit here, but I don't remember which one. Is it short? I think it might be a little bit longer. I'll take a look right now when I stop messing with this. Boom, boom, boom. There you go. Thought the microphone was a little off.
Speaker 2:This is a good one. It's highlighted too.
Speaker 1:Is it.
Speaker 2:I don't know how, but Let me see. Don't be delusional.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's exactly the one. I didn't mean to highlight it.
Speaker 2:Let me read this nice and slow. Don't be delusional. All things worth having are going to take work and will require continued work. Once you get there, stop lying to yourself, thinking that once you reach success, you can stop.
Speaker 1:Success requires a payment and that payment is due every single day, no matter where you are boom, I was gonna make a solo episode out of that too late you know, but that's why I wanted to cover it, because, uh, that's been on my mind lately, because, uh, I'm very gratefully at a place where, compared to who I was seven years ago, I'm winning in my individual ventures. I got healthy, I'm getting married this year, I got good friends, my career is picking up, everything is really going well, and I'm at a point where I'm just like, wow, look at all that I've achieved, look at everything that I got. And like a dark whisper in the back of my mind, is the voice that's like, yeah, you can't stop now, you're going to lose it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're going to lose it. That's how I feel.
Speaker 1:The second you settle, one thing will start disintegrating. The second you say well, I'm in shape means I can stop going to the gym. That feels wrong. You get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:It is wrong.
Speaker 1:And you know what's gonna happen over time. Yeah, you know like, oh, I'm already making the amount of money that I expected. That means I can relax a little bit and and in my mind, I feel like life, being as abundant as it is, it doesn't give giveaways, it doesn't just give hands out. So therefore it requires everything that I've got, very gratefully, I've worked for. I mean, in my plumbing career, I became the kind of plumber that is deserving of what I make and what I do and that came over time almost a decade. I deserve, in my own opinion and you know how to use that word loosely but the kind of woman that I have in Juliana, because I purposely looked for a woman like that and I understood the kind of man I had to become in order to have that kind of woman right. So I know that. The second I say well, I already have the woman, I already have the job, I already have the body. What, what, it doesn't matter anymore, I already have it. You know that's the second. You start losing it.
Speaker 1:You know when people are, are, are delusional in the sense of, and I'm talking about the 99%. I believe they're delusional in the sense of, and I'm talking about the 99, I believe they're delusional in the sense of they think that they can just reach success and, when it's reached, hit a pause button. That's where they stay and it's like, no, like so, uh, what's a very common one? I want more money, okay. What? Do you know what that means when you say you want more money and they're like yeah, I mean like, I want to make more money. No, no, that means that you have to become the kind of person that deserves more money, which means you need to learn something new.
Speaker 2:You can't just get paid more for doing the same job. You have to convince your boss that you're worth more Exactly. So what does that?
Speaker 1:typically come attached with More responsibility leadership roles, positions where now people aren't babysitting you anymore. You're in charge of a crew typically, so you want more money. Yeah sure, are you willing to do it?
Speaker 2:and you get what I'm saying. You gotta keep paying the rent exactly, and that's due every single day that really ties into something that I read earlier which I'm trying to find. Yeah, so that quote. I don't know if you want to start the next quote now it's a little too early.
Speaker 1:This is a good conversation, we're talking, so whatever.
Speaker 2:So you said you have to convince your boss that you have to take more responsibility. You kind of have to take action, yes, so action cures fear.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This is the next quote. You're afraid of it because you've yet to experience it. Do it despite the fear. Do it despite the outcome. Over time, your fear will turn to confidence because of the action you chose to take. That ties in hand in hand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that you got to keep taking action.
Speaker 2:Yes, Once you stop doing stuff, you're kind of like you're regressing. You are regressing, you know it's like. It's like I told you this morning I kind of had like a lazy morning. I felt really guilty about it. I didn't do anything and I was like man, I gotta do something and you have to. You have to do something. You know it doesn't have to be at every moment of every day, but it should be every day. You should be doing something, getting you closer to the person you want to be. Yeah, um, whether it's financially, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually orientated yeah, the most comfort I feel. Whether it's financially, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, it's goal-orientated, yeah.
Speaker 1:The most comfort I feel from my day-to-day is in my own home, and that's perfect.
Speaker 2:I think that's normal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like that's how it should be, but I don't want the rest of my life to be comfortable in the sense of like look how spoiled we are. In the sense of like I got heated seats, a heated car. Now I'm working in an inside environment. You know, I can take off my jacket and work in a T-shirt even in the middle of winter. How grateful am I for that. Right, and then imagine, after that, I get back in my comfortable car, I drive back to my comfortable home and that's my day. Yeah, what are you becoming? You know what I mean, and for me it's become a form of like you got to challenge yourself, you got to push yourself. My fear is getting old and still talking about the things I wish I did.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:I don't want to regress. I want to always have something I'm working towards, with the understanding that over time I'm losing energy.
Speaker 2:I'm losing time. I got higher responsibilities. To see how far you've come. Yeah, I'm losing energy. I'm losing time. I got higher responsibilities. Just see how far you've come. Yeah, you shouldn't be looking back lamenting on oh man, I should have done that in my 20s, in my 30s, instead of now. I wish I did this. If I did that 20 years ago, where would I be? Yeah, that's the worst.
Speaker 1:And that's where the overcoming the fear part right. Because my first year in the gym was terrifying. I was looking at jack dudes. I was looking at attractive women, telling myself I'll never be with a woman like that. I would never look like that guy. Oh man, I don't know what I'm doing. I probably look stupid. It's hard man. And now I can walk into any gym anywhere and be confident that I'm going to get a good workout because I know exactly what I'm doing, exactly what I can get a machine and say okay, this hits.
Speaker 1:This hits the lower lat. Okay, this machine next to it hits the upper pack. Like that didn't come from overnight, like, oh you know, I just know.
Speaker 2:It took years.
Speaker 1:I started overcoming the fear and over time I was able to gain confidence and now I don't fear it anymore. Same thing with the speaking. Same thing with plumbing. I can tell you how grateful I am for the plumbers who I was under as an apprentice. When they're like, have you ever done a tub? And I'm like no. And they're like, all right, what are you gonna learn today? And I was like, oh fuck, you know. And then they'll show me one tub. And then they'll point at a stack of 30 and they're like you got it. And I'm just like, yeah, and I was scared. I'm, I'm not going to break a tub. Am I going to do something wrong? Is it going to leak when we run water through it? And now you want me to throw in a tub. I'll close my eyes, I'll look at it. It's good I can do it.
Speaker 1:You had to go through that period first. I had to go through that fear. Yeah, you know, and I making the correct moves. Am I moving in the right way? The fear of failure stops most people.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:But once you have that conversation, that perspective of hey, it's only fear, because you don't know the outcome, it's only fear.
Speaker 2:You know. If you have an expectation of your reaction to the outcome, yeah, if whatever outcome comes, you're like all right, whatever, whatever I say, did it. Then there's no more fear. The fear only comes from you. You're afraid of disappointing yourself, yeah, or embarrassing yourself, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you gotta just you know who cares like your life is that ties into one of my favorite quotes that it says we exaggerate in our minds scenarios more and more than likely, we suffer more in our minds than in reality, you know and my favorite example of that is how many people are terrified terrified of asking for a raise, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, because in their mind they already see the no right. Sometimes the mind, in my case, plays a funny game where I'm like you know, I feel like I deserve a raise, and then my mind immediately starts showing me pictures of me showing up late, hiding out in the units on my phone when I should be working, and I'm just like oh yeah, but your mind doesn't show you what you're doing.
Speaker 1:That maybe it does reserve deserve the raise you know so then I see my boss telling me no, because you know you don't, you don't deserve a reason.
Speaker 2:Why do you? Feel like you deserve all right, you know what I mean. That's you talking to yourself, yeah and then boom I.
Speaker 1:I don't ask out of fear right and then real life scenario.
Speaker 1:Hey, uh, it's been over a year. I would like a yearly review. Okay, thank you what? This really happened not too long ago at my old job. Hey, I've been here for over a year. These are the things that I've been working on. Uh, this is my foreman's number. Call him and ask him about me if you want, etc, etc. And from there it just you know. A few weeks later, hey, uh, you've been given your raise. It start, it takes effect in the next payroll. And I didn't even have to talk to the owner, I was hr did that for me. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, but the younger me would have never had the courage right, because he might even get to see my, my, my boss, like who, miguel, who me? The guy always calling out, arguing with the carpenters all the time? No, no, race.
Speaker 2:Fuck that guy. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like I'm like oh, this guy's gonna shit on me and bro, that never even then, even if he does, it's like well, that says more about him and I'm just going to go work somewhere else.
Speaker 2:Who is he? So I win out of nowhere regardless of the situation Definitely always ask for a raise. That's a good one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's very specific, always ask for a raise.
Speaker 2:You're spending all your time. You're trading your time for money, so you might as well not show yourself.
Speaker 1:A thousand percent.
Speaker 2:What do you got An important question to ask. Will this help take me where I want to go?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a daily question.
Speaker 2:Think big.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a daily question for me. That's not that specific question, but I always, you know, for me I take things step by step, and by step by step it means like, okay, what do I got to do today? And like, for example, right now the theme of my life has been Call of Duty, right, so I've been playing a lot of Call of Duty. So to me that's not normal typically to play so much video games. So I have to tell myself, all right, is you sitting down in front of this tv and playing video games gonna get you any closer to the goals you've set for yourself? The answer immediately is no, right. So did you so? Now that leads to a secondary question did you at least do the things that will before you sat here and turned on the video games 100 of the time? The answer to that is yes yeah so I'm okay yeah, it's fine.
Speaker 2:It's not the point of the quote I don't think is to say every single thing you, you do should be exactly progress, but you're gonna burn out. Yeah, you know you have to take time for yourself and do what you want to do a thousand percent, even if it's sitting.
Speaker 1:That's why I use that example or today as an example, like oh, sammer had a lazy day, according to sammer, but if you know sammer, like I do, then you know he went to brazilian jiu-jitsu multiple times this week. You worked out with me this week, which is not an easy workout like I'm in prep right now. So you're keeping, you're working out with a bodybuilder not to pat myself on the back, but you understand what I'm saying, you're going through difficult workouts and my trainer is treating you trey, is treating you like if you're getting ready yeah, I was like.
Speaker 2:I was like bro, I'm not the bodybuilder here, what are you doing? He said, come on.
Speaker 1:You know. So, oh, samer woke up late, had coffee and came here to record and didn't do anything. Yeah, what a good day for him. He probably earns that. Do you get what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:But it's difficult to it, feels guilty, you know yeah because over time you have, that question eventually becomes just part of your subconscious thought. And now, when I want to eat the McChicken, when I want to call out of work, when I want to stay up late to watch a movie, when I want to go spend money on things that I know I shouldn't spend money on because I got a wedding this year, things like that, All of those things are directly correlated to goals I'm working on. So now the question becomes okay, if me going against this is going to get me closer to it. The answer is no, I'm probably not going to do it.
Speaker 1:And then you find an even balance. Majority of the time, you have to think like that, that one chicken isn't going to fuck me up, right, oh, but you're getting ready for a show so you can't have that. You know what I mean. So it's not going to get you close, no, it'll actually probably ruin the progress you've made if you're not mindful about how you're eating.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you get what I'm saying. Yeah, little things like that you prioritize yeah.
Speaker 1:I stand by this. Questions change my life Because everything that I read and all the seminars that I've been to and all the mentors that I look up to, whom I've never met but I've read their stories and things like that, and all the mentors that I look up to, whom I've never met but I've read their stories, and things like that, the good ones are never telling you here's step one, two, three, four, five. Follow these and your life will change. The good ones are the ones who say ask yourself the questions that lead your curiosity to a point where you're questioning your own judgment. You know what I mean. And when you're there, when you ask yourself like, okay, am I happy with who I am? Am I happy with what I'm doing? Am I satisfied with the way my life is going, those are all great questions to ask yourself, but you gotta sit there and wait for the answer yeah, you can't distract yourself and then when you get the answer, for most people is unsatisfactory, and that answer is no, you're not happy.
Speaker 1:No, you're not doing what you want. Okay, that's sad, that sucks, but now you know. Keep asking questions, okay, well, what can I do from here?
Speaker 2:Boom, I don't think it's sad at all, I think it's very, you know. Well, it depends on how you internalize it. For most people that's very it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad, it's sad.
Speaker 1:It's Sorry for the typos and everything.
Speaker 2:It's a Duke camera. This is a good one. Stick with it. There are no shortcuts, there's no easier way, it's only consistent effort. Yeah, and that kind of ties into another quote. I'll just do two for one.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Hard things become easier through repetition. Yeah, that's literally, that's a big one, because I feel like a lot of people focus on um, getting better, like say, they want to get better at something, whatever it is, it doesn't matter, and they start doing that thing, but in their mind they're not focusing on what they're doing, they're focusing on how bad they are doing it yeah, and that stops them from keep like, it stops them from going back and doing it again and again and again, and it stops them from just, you know, completing that and becoming a master at what they're doing.
Speaker 1:So consistent effort, I think, is harder than it sounds yeah, uh, well, it's, everything can be done through consistency, everything, it's really hard.
Speaker 2:Like good things take time. You know everyone's heard that before. I don't think a lot of people internalize like internal Like good things take time. You know everyone's heard that before. I don't think a lot of people internalize that Good things take time. Yeah, Nothing good comes immediately unless there's a big price to pay for it. You know, it's like a drug.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the big price typically can't be paid in one lump sum.
Speaker 2:No, no, you got to keep paying. Continue paying the rent. To go back to the article I'm telling you like yo, what like.
Speaker 1:And if you, if you've been following me for a while, then now all my stupid hashtags that I use all the time it makes sense no, no, they actually are. Yeah, one percent better every day consistency and, key, one percent better every day, and I just repeat it over and over and over, every day because, uh, I think it was andy forsella who I, for I heard him first say the first time where he was like uh, success is mundane, success is repeated effort every single day, every single day it's boring, it's not exciting, it's not.
Speaker 1:You wake up and the sun's through the window, and the sun's hitting you just right and you're getting your vitamin d and and the kids are already up and brush their teeth themselves and they're ready for school.
Speaker 2:Yeah like, yeah like no man, it's just.
Speaker 1:It's not like the, the people who I strive to and and I forget about their luxuries and I, I take away the suits. I want to know how you got there and behind all the the luxuries that most people take away the suits, I want to know how you got there and behind all the luxuries that most people look up to. The story is typically a very difficult one that most people wouldn't want to experience yeah, they say, that sounds like it sucks yeah, but they want the end result he did what every day for like six years, seven years like, yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1:I don't know if you're experiencing this, but and you you must is right, because you got friends from high school and friends who have seen you grow over the past few years, right, and they know that you're a healthy individual and they've watched you this whole time. And now they're like, damn, samer, you look great man and in your head you're just like, yeah, it's been nine years. It's been a long time since high school For example, you get what I'm saying consciously for seven years.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's.
Speaker 1:If I wasn't healthy, I'm doing something wrong.
Speaker 2:If you were doing it the other way, you'd look like shit. You know, and it's like you know, just pick one, yeah. So it's like what you're doing is not anything insane, you know what's one of my favorite quotes.
Speaker 1:I don't think I've heard this from anybody, so I'm claiming it Right, but this is something I've been telling myself a lot lately. Right, everybody's consistent, everybody is consistent in something but most people are consistently doing the wrong things yes, yeah, that's all it takes.
Speaker 2:Look at all the stuff that you've been doing. That's bad. Yeah, that you got really good at like oh man, I could drink you under the table yeah, should you be proud of that?
Speaker 1:yo, that's a, that's a perfect, you know should you be proud of that.
Speaker 2:You know. So imagine if you put that effort into being so good at drinking into something that's actually like you know, beneficial to you, beneficial.
Speaker 1:You know, that's a great example.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a great example. I've heard it before.
Speaker 1:That used to be a competition for me when I was younger.
Speaker 2:You know, it's just not, it's just no of you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, consistency, it's key. You become what you repeat, yes, and if you're not satisfied with anything in your life, you ask the right question and you see what have you done consistently to lead you there? You have the power to change it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even if it might seem so minuscule in the beginning, like, wow, I was doing this little thing right now on a sunday evening. It's not going to change my life, it won't. But if you, if you do it tomorrow, it will, and the next day and the next day and the next day and by the end of 2025, you've been doing it all year A whole different person.
Speaker 1:It's like investing. It's investing in the stock market, if you put you know a couple bucks every paycheck in.
Speaker 1:By the time you retire you'll those deposits, yeah you know you have to make the deposits and and they're required every day. Nothing's free, yeah, and chances are, because if you're listening to this, chances are. You were born and as soon as you were born, you were given a bank account that was in the negative and then you just got to work your way up from there. Yeah, you know, and most people never make it into the positive. That's how I visualize. Visualize it. It's an analogy for me. It's good. It's like the negative side of life is the overweight, always stressing, anxiety. You're not happy, you're complaining about life, blah, blah, blah. And most people, dominantly, just remain there. They may get money, sure, over time, but that shitty attitude and that perspective still remains. It's very rare. But if you're listening to this, you're not an idiot and chances are you can do something about anything that is hindering you at the moment. Just put your mind to it. That's probably the last one. We'll cut it at 30 minutes, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to make it good, they're all good, I wrote them. Yeah, I'm trying to make it good, they're all good. I wrote them Wrong. Oh I like this one.
Speaker 2:Life is cyclic. There's moments of joy and moments of pain, moments of glory and moments of defeat. The importance is in reminding ourselves that what we have, be it good or bad, is not here to stay. That's great. That's a good one.
Speaker 1:I love it. I literally wrote that. So life is cyclic.
Speaker 2:Cyclic.
Speaker 1:Is that how you say it? I've been saying cyclic Like, because it's like a cycle.
Speaker 2:No, I know, I know the word cycle, but cyclic.
Speaker 1:Are you sure, are you certain?
Speaker 2:Yeah, cycle, but cyclic are you sure? Are you certain? Yeah, no, you don't even know.
Speaker 1:I know I just have to do this for him, okay? Uh, this happens a lot more often oh, come on all right here let me hear it.
Speaker 2:Let me hear it, okay, say it, lady. Google Translate Cyclic cyclic for the record. I knew, yeah, just you know you know what?
Speaker 1:I've gotten good at editing, so no, I'm just kidding. Okay, cyclic. I learned something new. I thought I could have sworn it was cyclic, yeah well it's it's same same thing, you know yeah, the way you wrote it, you know the cycles.
Speaker 2:It goes through cycles it goes through phases and it's ups and downs, and ups and downs, and nothing's here to stay.
Speaker 1:So you know, if you Well, I've never met somebody who's experienced eternal suffering Just bad after bad, after bad, after bad, after bad and usually if they are at that point, it's their fault. They are at that point, it's their fault, yeah, but I've never seen somebody just get like I said, life isn't aiming at people individually. Like life isn't like 2025 fuck sammer like we're gonna, we're gonna destroy his life this year. You ever mean like it's not, like that. Like life is abundant if you approach it with the right attitude and you can have anything that you want if you really work for it. But understand that that doesn't mean that you're excluded from the pain and sufferings that everybody experiences.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You're still going to go through them.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, and that's why I say, like, embrace death. People are going to die. The ones you love are going to get older and weaker and they're going to need your help. It's life, it's part of it. Embrace that you're gonna lose the job, the relationship might not work. You you know, it's just dark shit that people are trying not to think about because in their head they think is a fairy world and everything is great and it's like no, like, really just embrace that yeah, there is a dark side to life and things are gonna get difficult at one point, but while you're in it, remember that is a dark side to life and things are going to get difficult at one point, but while you're in it, remember that is a chapter.
Speaker 1:Remember that this might be a year short, a year of pain in comparison to another 40 of life afterwards. Take the year, my guy.
Speaker 2:There's a lot, you just have to look in the horizon and remind yourself that things do get better, but it could be hard now and now might mean this year, now might mean the next three years and remind yourself that things do get better, but things could be hard now.
Speaker 1:you know Yep exactly and now might mean this year.
Speaker 2:Now might mean the next three years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's difficult, it sucks, you just don't know, and it'll be a different problem. Like you get rid of a problem that you've been dealing with and you're like man I finally overcame. And now, all of a sudden, what you worked so hard for is not even the first thought in your mind.
Speaker 2:You know, and then it's just I love that quote personally, you know, because it's just a reminder.
Speaker 1:Like I, I don't. I don't as positive as I am, as happy as I am. The reason I'm so happy is because I remind myself of the pain and darkness and inevitable death looming over my shoulder, that I don't know when it's going to happen and people are like well, I don't understand how that makes you so happy, because it allows me to appreciate what I have.
Speaker 2:Well, I won't be this happy all the time there might be some time where I'm just going through something so the times where you're able to be happy. Be happy like there's. It's a choice. It really is a choice, even though it's very hard to people hate that shit yeah, it is a choice, my circumstances oh yeah, that's your first.
Speaker 1:That's easier for you to say you got it all figured out. Oh so fuck everything I did then. Right, fuck my suffering and pain. You don't have to have everything figured out to be happy. You get what what I'm saying. It took me a long time to understand that. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like you know, when I figure this out, this out and this out, and then when. I get all this stuff done, then I might start working on my fun stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then I'll be in a good spot and you realize something's always going to be, you're going to need in the way.
Speaker 1:It doesn't get easier than that. Nope, that's a good attitude. You approach life with that attitude, man. Life is good. Yeah, it really won't be that bad man.
Speaker 2:It can't be that bad yeah.
Speaker 1:You know People are like oh man, I just got a flat and my tire's flat.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I'm like oh, you got a car, that's nice. You know, there's people right now that need food, but it's so cold outside they don't. They might not even have money for a bus pass, and you got a flat.
Speaker 2:You know I read, I read this thing about um, uh, I'm assuming you know pretty much the whole audience is american. They're in the us yeah, there's some.
Speaker 1:I got military friends, but they're american obviously.
Speaker 2:Yeah so they said. I saw a stat and it said you know, 70, 70% of Americans haven't been outside of the country.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:If that's true and I didn't fact check that, so hold me accountable but it sounds, you know, correct. That's crazy, and that's a lot of people who lack perspective. You know, people who haven't seen. You could say, oh, there's some people who don't have food and they can't even begin to fathom that idea. They don't know what that's like.
Speaker 1:Well, you, know what's crazy. It's a word that I don't use a lot anymore. If I use it, it's almost like a joke. But I used to say all the time man, I'm starving. And now that I'm in a deficit and I'm eating 1800 calories a day and I'm working with people stuffing pizza down their throats for lunch, eating gummy bears during the day, walk past me who is hungry and say man, I'm starving. In my head, I'm just like.
Speaker 2:You have no idea what starving is yeah, and then some kids looking at you and some kids saying you're eating 1800 calories a day. I'm eating eight calories a day, 800 calories a day.
Speaker 1:I'll give you the worst case scenario I don't know when my next meal is gonna come yeah, that's crazy yeah and here I am like in three hours I get another meal. Yeah, I'm hungry, but three hours after that I get another meal.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there's no stores you can go across the street and buy something for w's or something. There's people out there who literally are dying malnourished. They're miserable with their own thoughts. Dude, People are miserable with their own thoughts, If you're listening to this.
Speaker 1:chances are, you're good and you just need to get over the emotions of what you think is causing you harm and just work on it, fix it and say is this permanent and can I do something about it? It and say is this permanent and can I do something about it? If the answer is this is permanent and you can't do anything about it, why are you stressing about it?
Speaker 1:and if the answer is this is temporary and over time it'll get better. Then just sit there in your misery and wallow in the fact that over time, chances are you're entering to a nice chapter and things will be good. And while you're there, enjoy it, because eventually you'll be in pain again, you'll be in darkness again, shit will go bad again and that's life and if you don't want to go through that, don't be alive, I don't know how to tell you like, because it's a prerequisite of the package called welcome to being a human being and that's just it.
Speaker 1:The sooner you say oh, this is just part of it, you're good done. 33 was good, nice. Yeah, so, dude, as always, it's an absolute pleasure. This is literally one of my absolute favorite things to do it's good because it requires little thinking of a specific subject and instead a lot of thinking with different subjects, and I always try to put myself where I was when I wrote those, you know like you try to always make that connection, like maybe something happened that day sometimes it's not a book.
Speaker 1:Sometimes I'm just driving and I see something yeah and you know, I mean, and uh, like that delusional one. That was just a video that I came across and it was a video of a girl bragging about how she's like she didn't care that she was living off of the government, like she's like she's like you guys need to mind your business. Yeah, I drive a mercedes s class and, yes, I get four thousand dollars in food stamps. That doesn't matter. And I'm just like what, how? I'm like what? That's delusional as fuck.
Speaker 1:Right and in my head I'm just like so you think that for the rest of the life you're going to? You know what I mean. You're just leading yourself to, you're being delusional in the sense, like that life is just going to continue handing you everything that you desire. Yeah, and if you keep down that path, you're going to be highly, highly disappointed.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:You know. So boom, I was driving, I hit the little microphone button, boom.
Speaker 1:Hey, Siri, yeah I spit some shit and I said wait till I talk about this one. That's crazy, oh man. Well, that being said, now to you, the listeners Thank you for being here. Short, to the point and a lot to think about. The key point for me is something that I tell myself often and how I say it to you.
Speaker 1:My favorite thing about this whole episode is just the ask questions part. There's so much there, but just ask yourself the right questions and don't avoid the truth that intuition, or whatever you believe in, is trying to tell you right, because, deep down, you know what's right. You know you shouldn't be eating the foods. You know you shouldn't be doing people wrong. You know you shouldn't be lying, you shouldn't be stealing. You know these things because I feel like most of us have a sensor that goes off when we're doing those sort of things that says you're better than this man. You know and if you're listening to this, chances are you're already past that point and you're admitting to yourself that there are things that need to be worked on. Just like we agreed, there's plenty of things that we need to work on as we progress through this journey called life, with the understanding that, at the end of it all, we're all going to the same thing in a box in the ground.
Speaker 1:and that's life, you know, so appreciate it while you have it. I appreciate good friends like the one I have sitting here here next to me, because you just don't know when things are going to come to an end. You ain't going nowhere for years, you know. I hope Well. With that being said, thank you for listening. We appreciate you being here and, as always, until next time.
