Compounding Daily
Do you feel stuck? Uninspired? Stagnant? The Compounding Daily podcast hosted by Miguel Sanchez, aims to spark curiosity and drive. Each episode gives you deep insights on how to cultivate healthy habits, practice discipline, change your perspective of life, and restructure your mindset in a way that promotes small changes in your daily life that will compound to help you earn that 1% needed everyday to reach your goals, whether they be physical, mental, or both.
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Compounding Daily
EP105- Make a decision and stick to it until its DONE. (13 min Solo)
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What if maintaining a single-minded focus could be your secret weapon in achieving your greatest goals? Join me, Miguel Sanchez, as I return from a brief hiatus—thanks to a pesky illness—with fresh insights and newfound inspiration. I pull back the curtain on my personal journey toward preparing for my first bodybuilding show, illustrating how honing in on one significant goal at a time has fueled my progress. We'll explore the art of prioritizing effectively, ensuring that by embedding your main objective into your daily life, you can pave the way for tackling even more goals down the line. Consistency and effort aren't just buzzwords; they're your stepping stones to success.
In this energizing episode, we delve into the transformative power of consistent action and making sound decisions each day. I share candid reflections on overcoming the twin hurdles of temptation and exhaustion—challenges every dream-chaser knows all too well. By steadfastly adhering to your plan and brushing aside excuses, personal growth and transformation become inevitable. Not only will you find yourself evolving into the best version of yourself, but you'll also draw in positive influences and supporters who cheer you on. Whether you're facing a frigid Monday morning or still striving to live your dream, remember—the steps you take today are shaping your tomorrow. Let's walk this path of personal development together, where the rewards are as satisfying as the journey itself.
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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 105. An episode which, personally, I am enthusiastic about because last week if you keep up, if you're caught up with the episodes I missed a week. I was under the weather, I wasn't feeling well. Week I was under the weather, I wasn't feeling well and it just wasn't in my capabilities to sit down and give out value with the way that I was feeling. So, you know, with an extra week to think, an extra week to experience, an extra week to gather my thoughts, I'm excited to sit here today and originally I had a compounding daily roulette episode planned, but I'm gonna stray away from that because I find more value and, honestly, more entertainment when I'm, when I do those with another person and we get to bounce our different perspectives. I believe that that approach gives more value. So, with that being said, this is a episode. I am sitting here by myself. I feel a thousand percent better. If I may be bold, I feel even better than I did before. I was six. So I sit here with gratitude, I sit here enthusiastic and, most importantly, I sit here excited to share my thoughts with you the things that I'm going through. I have a topic in mind which I will cover shortly, but I want to be that, that reminder.
Speaker 1:I typically release episodes every Monday at 5am, and there's a reason for that because I hope to catch you before you begin your day. I hope to be the whisper in your ear that reminds you that, yes, it's Monday, yes, it's cold if you live in the East Coast, yes, you may not be living your dream just yet, but that doesn't mean that the day can't provide value. That doesn't mean that you can't put yourself in a position where your actions are directly correlated to an effort in which you are trying to accomplish. You're going to wake up and say, despite the gloomy weather, despite other people's negatives approach, I'm going to work on my attitude, I'm going to work on my perspectives, I'm going to work on the conversation happening within, and today is going to be a good day and, with that being said, happy Monday, and let's get right into it. So, as always, I like to speak from my own experience. I like to speak through the things that I'm going through, and if you've been following my journey on social media, you'll see that, at the moment of this recording.
Speaker 1:I'm about nine weeks out from my first bodybuilding show and as I go digging deeper into the rut of what it's taking to get to the goal that we're trying to get on stage, I find myself narrowing my vision and focusing want to speak about today, of the importance of having a laser-focused vision. I'll read to you from the notes that I wrote and you'll see as to where I was thinking. And this is exactly what I wrote, and I quote Are you giving yourself too many choices? Stop negotiating with yourself, make the plan, stick to it. Right, and I'm sure I'll repeat that over and over again as the episode goes on. But let's dissect it, let's look at the different parts of these little notes, and it's not going to take long, but I'll show you my experience, my perspectives and how I find value in this. So, are you giving yourself too many options?
Speaker 1:I experienced at one point in my life where my goals were I'm trying to be a millionaire, I'm trying to be healthy, I'm trying to have a thriving relationship. I'm trying to do all of these things and over time, what I started experiencing was a lack of energy in one or the other, because I was spreading myself thin. I was giving myself too many avenues of approach and never really giving any individual one my undivided attention. And when I was able to, over time and through experience and enough effort and consistency, was able to, over time and through experience and enough effort and consistency, discover that you have to figure out what's important to you and you have to understand that, if it's going to be worth something something that you create, something that is created from your effort, that is going to take time, and by time I mean you could increase the likelihood of it coming to you sooner based on the amount of energy that you put towards it. So maybe at the moment, you've entered 2025, even though we're already in February but you've entered 2025 with the goal of buying a house and finding your loved one and moving to a new state and finding a new career and all of these things, for example.
Speaker 1:I'm being dramatic here. But what if you just focus on one at a time? What if you just, instead of making a bucket list of all these things that you want to accomplish, you just give your undivided attention to the closest apple from the tree or whatever however that analogy goes right, and then you make the plan and you just give it an effort, and give it an effort long enough to experience the fruits of your labor. And once you're at a place where you're like, okay, I've gotten the basics of this down, has become a part of my life. Maybe now I can put a little bit more energy to that secondary goal. Maybe now I can start expanding a little bit. And from my experience, that's been helping me tremendously. As I get closer to the goal of stepping on stage, I've been able to, without guilt, narrow out my separate goals for the moment and just start really laser, focusing myself on the goal at hand, the goal that's nearest, and after that I have all the goals planned. But at the moment I'm not thinking about those. I'm just focusing on what's in front of me and what has to get done so that the goal that I'm working on. As the time draws near, I am at the best possible version of myself, not just physically but mentally.
Speaker 1:So, first and foremost, are you giving yourself too many choices? And if you are, simply, I'm not saying to forget about them, but I'm saying maybe set them aside for a time and focus that one at a time and you might experience different results. So the next one is stop negotiating with yourself. This ties into what I said earlier Do something long enough to experience the fruit of your labor, which means most people give up prematurely. Most people say, well, I tried and I'll be like. Well, how long have you tried? Oh, six months. Well, six months, in relative to time, is not very long, like at all. You know, most people rarely make it to the year mark, let alone stay consistent long enough to build momentum to where your older self starts progressing and getting rid of bad habits and instilling the new ones as a new lifestyle. So most people simply don't do that.
Speaker 1:So when I say stop negotiating with yourself, I say stop making goals or setting goals spontaneously. Don't just say, for example, all right, starting tomorrow, I'm gonna lose weight, and well, how are you going to do that? Well, I'm going to do this diet, okay. Well, you didn't go down the rabbit hole and study the diet. You didn't sign up to the gym, you didn't go look at different gyms to see what they have to offer. You didn't possibly look at you know, trainers, trainer.
Speaker 1:So what I'm saying here is make sure that when you set a goal, you're not just half-assing yourself into it, but instead putting yourself in a position where, possibly, now you've done your homework, you understand what is going to require of you and you tell yourself this is the goal that I've set for myself. This is the goal that I've set for myself, and until it's done, or until I can say that I've done enough work, I'm not stepping away from it, and that's non-negotiable. You say I'm going to start on this day and by this day I want to see results. But be realistic with yourself. Don't say you know, because people set unrealistic goals, for example, I'm going to lose 30 pounds in 15 days. Can you do it? Possibly Healthy? Absolutely not. You know. So give yourself the time and understand.
Speaker 1:Most people are setting goals to change their lives. Is that not the reason why you're setting a goal to change your life? So listen to the importance of that sentence to change your life. Why would that be easy? It's literally in it, in the sentence. You're trying to change your life and if it's going to be worth it, it's going to cost you something, and that something comes in the form of consistency, even in times of tribulations and difficulties, and that also shows up in the form of doing the things that you know are going to push you forward, despite how you feel on the inside. All right, don't negotiate with yourself. Say this is the goal and I'm sticking to it until it's done, or until I can say fully that I've done my best and I'm no longer interested and I'm going to something else.
Speaker 1:Most people can't get to that second part. I guarantee it because I was part of that right. Get to that second part. I guarantee it because I was part of that right. But let alone most people can't stay consistent long enough to experience the momentum that is created from a good decision repeated over a long period of time, compounding daily. All right, and let's get to the last two parts. I'll stick them together.
Speaker 1:Make a plan and stick to it. That just ties in right into the non-negotiables. Make a plan and stick to it. Just don't tell yourself that you're going to do something and then, as time passes by, you start adding more and more excuses as to why you can't, why you tried everything, why you've digressed, why you're pushing it even further.
Speaker 1:Most people want things handed to them and I highly suggest that you don't just sit there and expect things to be handed to you. I don't know exactly what you believe in personally, but from my experience, mother Nature does not discriminate, but it does require you to show up as a certain version of yourself, and the things that you are given from life are not deserved but instead earned by the actions that you take. And people without a plan have no sense of direction. They wake up and they hope for a good day, while the people with the plan wake up, know what has to get done, start doing the actions necessary and over a long period of time, they start being rewarded by life because they were able to stay consistent. And, of course, lastly, you have to stick to it.
Speaker 1:I always sound like a broken record, but that's because there is simplicity and bettering your life, and that's the simplicity that people don't like to hear. You just have to show up every day and make good decisions, repeat it over a long period of time, and I've said that over and over and over, because it's not rocket science, as the teachers say. Right, it's nothing truly difficult, but it is difficult to win against your lesser self in moments of temptation and in moments of exhaustion, because you just don't feel like going through the motions. But I promise you persevere, keep showing up, stick to the plan. Don't make excuses, don't renegotiate the plan with yourself.
Speaker 1:What you said is going to get done must get done and you don't step away until it's done, period. And when you reach that point in life, you will change your life, you will grow, you will become better, you will see a new you being born and, by law, you will start attracting better people into your life who will push you even further into the best version of yourself. And it is a beautiful, beautiful experience that I believe, personally, we are all capable of. And, with that being said, thank you for being here with me and until next time.
