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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EP103- Commitment Before Reward. A Skill called PATIENCE. W/ Giuliana.
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What if the secret to unlocking personal growth and overcoming life's hurdles lies in the simple virtues of patience and persistence? Join me, Miguel Sanchez, and my fiancée, Giuliana as we unravel the transformative power these qualities have had in our lives. We share heartfelt stories about how maintaining a positive outlook and daily commitment have helped us navigate everything from health challenges and career shifts to bodybuilding competitions and new jobs. Listen as we reflect on the incredible progress we’ve made by focusing not on the time it takes to achieve our goals, but on the effort we put in every day.
In our candid conversation, we explore how resilience and determination can push us through life's unexpected trials, from personal emergencies to the grind of sticking to demanding programs. Giuliana and I dive into real-life scenarios that highlight the courage required to stay the course, even when results aren't immediate. We discuss how accountability and relentless effort, rather than waiting for external validation, shape our journey toward a more fulfilling life. Join us on this empowering path of self-discovery, where patience and persistence become the keys to unlocking your potential and achieving personal growth.
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Hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez, and welcome back to another episode, episode 103. I won't say it this week because I've been saying it a lot lately how grateful I am to hit such a threshold. The power of consistency and momentum being built is what has led us to be so far into this journey, and I always start every episode by expressing gratitude. So thank you for being here Today's. A short episode, a short episode, and here with me to increase the value that I intend to give with her own perspective, is my lovely fiance, juliana.
Speaker 2:Hello.
Speaker 1:Welcome back.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. I'm happy to have you.
Speaker 1:Before we get into the topic, I want to get the formalities out of the way, and typically I say you know it's Monday, the beginning of a new week, but as I record this, it is Monday and it's Martin Luther King Day, so it's a holiday. So I postponed the episode to be released on Tuesday, the following day. So, with that being said, if you had the day off whether it was because of the holiday or because of the snow I want to. I love to be that reminder, like I am to myself, the reminder that, despite the day, despite the weather, despite the attitude of others, we have a responsibility to be observant of how we show up in the conversations we entertain.
Speaker 1:And for a very long time, I used to blame everything that I just said the weather, my coworkers, the lack of income, the government, the taxes. I used to blame everything for my lack of fortune. And it wasn't until I started working on my attitude and my perspective and my approach, despite the day that everything started. I wouldn't say going. You know perfectly well for me, but I tend to have better days and I'm not excluded from the difficulties that we all go through. So I love to be that reminder to tell you hey, it's a new day, it's a new week, it's a new opportunity for you to do the things that you know will make you better. And, with that being said, happy Tuesday, the beginning of a new week. Do you want to add to that at all?
Speaker 2:no, no, I think it's the same message every week you know to start us off.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's on purpose.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because that message is just a solid every day, every week, every month, reminder you know, so I think it's valuable every time.
Speaker 1:Good. Okay, so today's topic, I know you'll appreciate, but you know I don't. You know as well as I do that nothing is really planned for this show. In regards to the topic, I like to speak about the things that I'm currently going through and the things that I may be dealing with, whether it be difficulty or something good. I just love to share from the things that I may be dealing with, whether it be difficulty or something good. I just love to share from the things that I'm going through and obviously want a better person to know what I'm going through than the person who is next to me. Even I'm most vulnerable and today's topic that I woke up with in my mind that I want to speak about has been like the topic of the week for me personally.
Speaker 1:As I'm getting ready for the bodybuilding show, as the new job has started for me, I am reminding myself of the importance of patience, right, and the understanding you said it to me this morning that nothing good comes quick.
Speaker 1:You know like it's an understanding that if it's worth having, it's gonna require, one, a lot of effort and two, the practice of patience, because it's probably going to take a long time and I feel like I'm no longer qualified to speak about patience. And this is just me belittling myself a little bit, Because I may put myself in the position where I'm just like you know, people don't understand your journey, because you're already in shape, you have a good career, you have a loving home, you have the trophy wife. In my own opinion, you know you have these things. So what do you know, Miguel? You know, and I sometimes see that perspective and discredit myself and be like, yeah, you know, I'm just, I'm blessed, I'm very grateful and I say those things, but at the same time, I'm able to create a montage of all the difficulties, all the kidney stones, all the hospital trips, all the breakups, all the times I put Leo in a U-Haul with me, you know, to leave to another couch, you know what.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 1:And I saw all those things. And now I'm able to reflect and say like, wow, look at where I am and am I where I wish to be? Am I where I see the final point, which doesn't exist? But in that image that I've created in my head, I'm nowhere near it, but I've progressed significantly and I'm able to say that is because I implemented the practice of patience into my life. And this is where I'll let you take over and I'm going to dumb down everything that I just said into a very simple sentence, and that sentence is like this the understanding that what I desire is far from where I am now, while I appreciate the gratitude because of how far I've made it and, at the same time, telling myself like, hey, you may not be where you are, but with patience, right over time, if you just show up day after day after day, inevitably it is my own personal belief inevitably what you desire will be yours.
Speaker 1:But we don't get to decide how long we have to wait. We just know that we can, how much effort we're putting into, you know, into the day by day. And now it's your turn and we can say let's just talk about what just happened. Yo, we were like what? We were like 10 minutes in and I looked down at the laptop and the recording had stopped so I had to pick up from where I was. So if you hear that little mix up in the beginning there, and Juliana was going off, she was going off for like a good five minutes.
Speaker 2:I didn't think of what I was talking about.
Speaker 1:I don't think.
Speaker 2:Well, that's the beauty of it not being planned, yeah, so please enlighten me once again. So really quickly you were saying that you have to be patient, right. You have to be patient in the pursuit of your goals and the pursuit of the life that you want to create. Okay, yes.
Speaker 2:So I think yes, I agree, if you're truly like, let's say, working hard towards a specific goal, it could take you years, but it can take you longer if you are not truly putting the work in and doing what's required to move forward in achieving those goals Right. So I feel like a lot of people will use patience as a little bit of an excuse myself included, I'm guilty of it where it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm still looking forward to hitting that goal and reaching that goal, but I just have to be patient. I've been working hard towards it and I just haven't gotten there yet and that's like an easy way to just like brush it off you know, instead of having to, like, look in the mirror, reflect on it and think about it.
Speaker 2:You know, because it's so easy to half-ass the daily work and the daily steps that are required to take, to moving forward in the pursuit of your goals, and lie to yourself and say, oh well, I'm doing it, I'm working hard, it's just taking too long. And then, if you continue with that, it ends up being something where it's like, oh well, I tried and I worked so hard and it was just taking too long and I couldn't do it anymore, so it's not working for me. I gave up on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not trying to make it negative, right? I'm not trying to say like oh yeah, things take too long, so you should just give up. I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is, yes, be patient, realize that these things are going to take a long time, but you do have to take action and really map things out. Hey, okay, this is my goal here, and really map things out. Hey, okay, this is my goal. Here are the steps that I have to take. I've done the research, I've learned what's necessary to move a step forward, to take steps in the right direction of achieving this, and I am actively doing it with the effort that's required to really move forward. So, yes, it's gonna take time. I have to be patient. I don't know exactly how long it's gonna take there's no exact timeline but I know wholeheartedly that I really am taking those steps.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And if that's the case, yeah, excellent, be patient. But if it's like, like I said, you're using patience as an excuse, like oh well, you know how long it takes for these things, and you're half-assing things, it's kind of like saying Well, I think I know.
Speaker 1:I hope I don't mean to interrupt.
Speaker 2:I'm going to lose my thought. Go ahead.
Speaker 1:It's okay, I know exactly what you're saying, and what you're saying is the difference between hopeful patients and aggressive patients. Exactly, yes, exactly, because the people who are hopefully patient are waking up and they're like man. I hope today's the day. Exactly, I hope today's the day exactly. I hope today's a good and those aren't bad people, right, but those are the people who leave things up to chance right when a lot of the deciding factors as to whether you're moving in a positive direction or not is in your control yeah, it's, it's like.
Speaker 2:So. The next point I was going to make is it kind of goes hand in hand with and I hate to make this about like religion or whatever but and you know, I have faith and I believe in you know certain things but it's like when you say, oh, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, I'm still pursuing that goal. I've been praying every day about it to move forward with it great. So your faith and your prayer is important it's an important part of it but are you still taking the steps towards it?
Speaker 2:yeah, let's say it's a weight loss goal. We talk about that a lot. I've been praying to god that I can lose weight and be healthy. Okay, but are you walking? Are you getting your steps?
Speaker 1:in, are you?
Speaker 2:drinking the water? Are you eating the right meals? Are you hitting your protein goal? Are you doing the things that are required on a daily basis? Okay, when I was studying to get my real estate license or a professional license of some sort, it's like I've been praying that I pass the exam. But am I studying? Am I taking 90 minutes a day to study? Am I going through the chapters and seeing if I know the material and, if not, going back reviewing it again and taking that step to get better at that specific chapter? Yes, the faith, the prayer, the belief, the positivity has to be there, but so does the action, the structured action, and you can lie to everybody around you, you can try to even talk yourself into it, but deep down, you know whether you're doing it and saying that you're just being patient and that you know you'll get there, or are you really doing the work and understanding that it just takes some time and patience to get there? There's two completely different scenarios, just like you were saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's where I want to bring the value out in this short episode, Because, as I find myself now, right and again, I speak from my own experience, so sometimes I feel like, oh, he's talking about himself again. Well, yeah, I'm the best example because I know exactly what I'm going through and at the moment, I'm a little under 12 weeks away from my bodybuilding show and the weigh-ins in the mornings for the last like two weeks have remained pretty consistent around the same weight, to a point where I was starting to get a little bit anxious, Like I'm just like dude, why is this not moving? Like I'm just like dude, why is this not moving Like why? Why this? I feel like I should have been lower now. I feel like this should be happening. And again, that's me trying to rush things that take time, because what can I control? I can't control the time, but what I can control is am I sticking to the program?
Speaker 1:Am I doing the things that I'm supposed to be doing, know, and now, lord behold, the last two days I I went past that threshold and now I'm the lowest I've been since then. But again it took. It took like right now people are like dude man, you look great and I'm so grateful for that. But only a few people know I just started the countdown on social media. So now people are like, oh, 12 weeks left right. But what people don't know is that I've already been over 90 days prepping, so in total everything would have been 180 days. I don't know if that's almost half a year.
Speaker 2:It is half a year.
Speaker 1:So almost half a year of just mentally getting ready, physically getting ready and, at some points, not getting the results that I was expecting, and now I get to say, well, I'm trying everything and nothing's happening. Or I can say like, dude, are you checking the boxes? Are you doing what you're supposed to be doing? And if you are, then maybe the plan needs to be reassessed, maybe something needs to change. You know what I mean and instead of just giving up on myself, that patience must be there, because I feel and I'm a firm believer of this that the second you get closer to a goal, the second you become certain about what you desire. Life says great. Are you sure that's what you want and you're?
Speaker 1:like and you're like yeah, yeah, I'm certain. The life's like great. Well, this is the test you have to overcome. And then you get hit with some bullshit where you're just sitting there like why, why now? Why is this happening to me? As soon as I was about to start the business, as soon as I was about to do this big thing, as soon as I was going to challenge myself, finally, life said well before that you must first do this.
Speaker 2:Right, you first do this, right you have to go through this and you have to get a little bit stronger by doing this right and it's like yeah, of course, in the moment I'm not saying because, trust me, I'm not always positive about those things right, oh, I know yeah, so, um, you know, in the moment you're like mother effing life and you're you're like cursing it and you're like jesus, like why me, what was me?
Speaker 2:and then you're like, all right, get through it, through it. And then, like you get through it, obviously you get it done.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I feel like oh okay, that wasn't so bad.
Speaker 2:Now I'm better, because of this.
Speaker 1:Well, you practice it enough and eventually you start. This sounds a little crazy and I know you've that. What's the first thing I always say?
Speaker 2:you're grateful for the adversity no, I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't always speak like that, babe. No, I typically just say like wow, life, life has a good sense of humor oh yeah, no, I didn't know what you mean I'm like life is testing me right now, there you go, that's you know, and and it's always in my moments where you know.
Speaker 1:Uh, let's use real examples again. The day before we started phase three of the Live Hard program, mom was in the hospital and I was like I didn't have time to prep, and at the same time you were in the emergency clinic with Yoda. And this is the day before we started day one of Live Hard, phase three. You know what I mean, where, if you fail, you go back to day one of Live Hard, phase three. You know what I mean the last phase.
Speaker 2:Where, if you fail, you go back to day one of 75 Hard You're fucked.
Speaker 1:You failed the whole program, yeah. So I couldn't help but sit there at the hospital laughing a little bit like, oh you have a funny way of testing me, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know because, again, not because I'm better than anybody, but I know for a fact that even the old version of myself and most people, the people I say, the mediocre, the average, the 99% would have won, not even gotten to phase three. But let's just say they did make it to phase three. What better excuse than my mother's in the hospital, ill and I just had to put down my son, my cat? You know what I mean. What better excuse than you know I was ready for phase three?
Speaker 2:And then we got the kitten and he ran away into the woods for four days. And we spent four days in the woods in the dead of winter in New England and we still were like, okay, we're going to eat the healthy meals.
Speaker 1:We're going to drink the water.
Speaker 2:We're going to use this opportunity to keep moving in the woods outside as a workout, because it's an intentional workout. You know what I mean. Like we made it work, like we didn't just quit, like I was ready to quit, let me tell you I was like that's it, screw this, it's day 20.
Speaker 2:I don't give a shit anymore. I know I'm strong mentally, physically, etc. Like I'm more disciplined than 99 or not 99, probably like 90 of the people, whatever. But that's like that bitch voice. You know what I mean. And it's like after we were done. First of all we got the cat and then it was like wow and we were able to continue that you know, through all those annoying nuances.
Speaker 1:That happened, yeah, and it's like damn, we killed it it felt even better and since I viewed that personally as a test from life, and we passed the test by the skin of our fucking teeth.
Speaker 1:But we passed the test and everything's been good since then yeah, don't jinx it, please, I'm not jinxing it because I don't believe in luck or bullshit like that but what I'm saying is that is that, in regards to what we're talking about right now, the good and the bad both come in a package and you don't get to decide which one comes first and which one comes next. You know, and you got to appreciate the good while it's here, which is where we are now, very gratefully, after the crazy ending of our 2024, you know, and we could only hold onto this as long as you know, we are blessed with it because eventually, things are going to happen and look at it as things that made us stronger events that made us better, smarter.
Speaker 2:A thousand percent you know now if we lose an animal in the woods, we know exactly what the hell to do.
Speaker 1:Yeah you know what I mean?
Speaker 2:like it's just all right, you know what I mean. It's just like those little things like you wouldn't think that you'd be going through it. And then when you do go through it, it's like damn, this sucks but, then it's like all right, look at, we did it, that's it well, you want to be the kind of person that takes pride in knowing that you can right yeah and and that that's a big thing for me and maybe that's, yeah, a little bit egocentric, but what?
Speaker 1:what I focus on is there. There is no better blessing I in my own opinion, or one of the best blessings to know that your existence is not a hindrance to anybody. You know, I don't want to be a handicap for my mother. Mom, I need more money. Mom, I'm in the hospital again.
Speaker 2:By your choice anyway, Mom.
Speaker 1:I can get my shit together. Can I move in again? Mom, you know what I'm saying, calling my friends hey man, I need help paying my electric bill. And they're like didn't you just get the new ps5 and the fish tank? Oh yeah, but you know, uh, money is a little tight. You get what I'm saying I might. One of my biggest goals was like I don't ever want people to.
Speaker 1:I don't ever want to be dependent on people I agree you know, and that comes from personal work on the individual self, figuring out who you are, the core values that you live by, with the standards that you set your life to.
Speaker 1:And you don't figure those things out over time. You figure those things out with consistent practice over time, which requires patience, because to go from fuck today, fuck Monday, I don't want to be here, life, life sucks. When is it going to be my turn? To the exact opposite of that. And now you're telling yourself wow, today's going to be a good day, regardless of the fact I'm so grateful that I'm alive, I'm so grateful to have an opportunity to become better. Oh, I'm being challenged. What a great way to figure out what I'm capable of. That change of perspective does not happen overnight and every day is a battle against your lesser self and every day that you win, you're. You're practicing that patience, because the lesser self is going to test you and life is going to test you and everything is going to test you, and it's in patience that you get to have a proper conversation that allows clarity of action period.
Speaker 2:That was good. I don't have anything to say to that.
Speaker 1:I don't have anything to say, I was just trying to think, to get in there, but no. Okay, let's wrap up with that.
Speaker 2:I liked this one.
Speaker 1:Short, sweet to the point.
Speaker 2:It was good. It kind of lit a little fire under my ass.
Speaker 1:That's what always happens you know in regards. Sometimes I get nervous, especially with this new setup. Uh, you, if you guys are watching this in the video, it's a completely new setup, for obvious reasons I won't say why, unless you're watching this. I'm like but it felt uncomfortable, it felt unnatural, uh, it felt like something was out of place yeah, but um yeah, I'm very grateful for this. I'm really grateful for that yeah, that's awesome, that's amazing, um.
Speaker 1:But with that being said, I typically say I hope you've gotten value from this. But there is no more of that hoping like I get value from these conversations. So I know for a fact if you really sit here and you genuinely listen and reflect not on what I said about my life, but reflect and think about your life and how you're approaching it and the conversations you're entertaining and the actions that you're taking, and you grow from that personal conversation, then our job here is being fulfilled true you know, I say it all the time, I refuse to charge people for this everything that I'm speaking.
Speaker 1:All the time I refuse to charge people for this Everything that I'm speaking about. The change that I've experienced didn't come to me as I said in my morning message today in a golden box with a golden key that required a special code that said just for you, miguel. You know, it's not a fantasy like that. I'm human, just like you are, and life has been hard on me just like it's been hard on you. And this is not a comparison thing, but the man I am today is a direct result of me being sick and tired of my own excuses, and I was patiently waiting for life to give me my handout, give me my care package, like here you go, miguel, it's your turn to win. And that day just never came. So my patience had to change and I had to put work into my every day with the patience and understanding that, with enough time and consistency, I will become a little bit better. And that's the man speaking to you now. You know so.
Speaker 2:I love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let's wrap up with that. Thank you for being here.
Speaker 2:Thanks for having me. Yeah, say it. Well, you're talking to the guest, but yeah, you.
