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EP113- Compounding Daily ROULETTE #7 

Excited for another  “Compounding Daily Roulette” format!!  

From my collection of over 200 meaningful quotes and personal insights I share a few of them randomly selected in order to provide you with as much value as possible from all different aspects of life. 

Below are the ones that were chosen for this episode‼️


• Self-education creates more value than formal education by helping us understand ourselves at a deeper level
• Meaningful change requires stepping into uncomfortable situations that we typically try to avoid
• We often mistake thinking we have unlimited time when we should be acting with urgency on our dreams
• All significant life changes begin with small, consistent 1% improvements rather than dramatic overhauls 
• Life isn’t about finding yourself but actively creating yourself through deliberate choices
• Having a clear vision of your goals makes it easier to endure difficulties along the journey
• Self-reliance means taking responsibility for yourself as if you were caring for someone you love
• The quality of your planning directly determines your likelihood of success or failure

 Everything I speak about comes from my own personal experiences, challenges, failures, & ideas and the goal is always to share with you so you may learn from me. 

I hope the purpose was served and as always...

THANK YOU for listening.



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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. First and foremost, as always, especially lately, I always begin with a gratitude. I thank you for spending time with me, I thank you for listening to this conversation, but, most importantly, I hope that I am serving my purpose, which is to provide you with some sort of value, to provide you with some sort of value, to provide you with a change of perspective, an important reminder, something that may get you out of a rut, something that will open a new idea for you, something that will essentially help you get better and move forward in your life. And you know, just you taking the time to sit aside and listen to this is more than enough for me to say thank you for being here Today.

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I have a short episode. I have a compounding daily roulette. It's been a while since I've done one. I believe this is number now seven or eight around there, and last month, I don't believe, I even had the time to make one. So I'm going to do more of a speed round this roulette.

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If you don't know what the roulette means, long story short over the past few years, anytime I come across a quote, an idea, a perspective or just a thought that crosses my mind, I jot it down in my note sections and sometimes I go back to it for inspiration, for an episode. Sometimes I go back to it just because I need to remind myself of the values that I live my life by, and the roulette is something that I do once a month where, at random, I'll pick between numbers one and I'm up to over 200. I started putting numbers on them so I know exactly how many I got, but I haven't gotten to the end yet and I got over 200 different topics. Sometimes they duplicate in different words, and that's just me being who I am. But with that being said, let's get right into it. I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, and the first thing that we're going to talk about is one of my favorite quotes from Jim Rohn. It says formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune. And at first, when I heard that quote, I always compared it and brought it to something in financing something financially speaking, like oh, it'll make you a fortune if you just invest in yourself. Essentially, that is what it's saying, but as I've gotten older and I've matured a little bit.

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I understand that formal education is just like the foundation the basics. Can you read, do you understand basic math? Can you comprehend literature, things of that nature right, but it's the people who take time on their own time and go down rabbit holes, as I like to call it right, and they start learning the things that interest the people who, I believe, over time, just develop the idea that they will remain a student. So they don't just want to learn the basics of anything. They understand that in order to progress in life, in order to be of value to the market, you have to become the kind of person that is always learning. And if you're always learning, the chances are that you are doing that by yourself. You are doing that with your own initiative, with your own effort into your own life. So understand that formal education can make you a living, but self-education will make you a fortune, because that is the investment in the self that is you understanding how you operate, understanding your strengths, understanding your weaknesses, understanding the things that work for you, the things that don't work for you, the things that must be worked on, the things that must be eliminated. You don't get to understand yourself until you invest time into yourself. And that is the first roulette, right there. I forgot to say it in the beginning of this one, but it is mundane and long story short, just make sure that, as you're listening to this and you are beginning your week, you don't allow the negativity of other people to weigh you down and, most importantly, you don't allow that negative voice inside of your head to weigh you down to convince you that it's going to be a bad day, to convince you that you don't want to do this, to convince you that you're going to take the day off and rest and try again tomorrow. It is Monday. Yes, it may be difficult, but show up as you are expected to, and even more so with a happy attitude and enthusiasm towards this gift called life. Happy Monday, everybody.

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And let's go right into the second one. You can't repeat the same things every day and expect different results. The change you seek is in the uncomfortable that you are trying to avoid. We don't got to go very deep into that one. That's self-explanatory, right? So understand something If, in your life, as you are going through the motions, you are constantly having the thoughts of I'm not happy, I'm not satisfied, I don't like where I am, I don't like who I am, I don't like where I'm going, I don't like what I'm doing, I don't like what I'm experiencing, I don't like this. And yet you still wake up and you have those same thoughts over and over again, but you're still going through the same damn motions. Then it's on you. That's your fault. You have to understand.

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In order for things to change, first you must change, and you can't expect different results if you are making the same decisions. Something has to change, and those changes are uncomfortable. Why are they uncomfortable? Because the changes that haven't been working for you you've been doing for so long that they've become a habit. They've become a part of who you are. So now for you to choose differently. Towards your better self, you are choosing against your lesser self, and that lesser self doesn't like that. It doesn't like the new and unknown and the uncharted path that you are now walking. It wants to remain comfortable. It wants to remain in what it already knows, even though what it already knows is not serving the best version of yourself. If you don't like where you are or where you're going, or who you are, understand that nothing will change until you change. So put that effort into yourself. If you don't like where you are, where you're going or who you are, understand that nothing will change until you change. So put that effort into yourself. I'm just going to read the one right next to it, just because it's one of those things that I love talking about.

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The biggest mistake we make in this life is thinking that we have time. I'm now 30 years old, and something that I've been thinking a lot about lately is that when I was in high school, I used to say I can't wait to graduate, I can't wait to be an adult, I can't wait to just get out of this chapter in my life. And now I reflect on it. And that was over 10 years ago 15 years ago, if memory serves. Over 10 years ago, 15 years ago, if memory serves. And when I think about that, to me it's just like holy crap, where did the time go? And I know where the time went. But it paints perspectives for me, right? It allows me to understand that time isn't waiting for anybody. It allows me to look at time merely for what it is a tool to tell me how to better schedule things.

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But at the end of the day, I don't tell myself no longer. Oh, I'll do this tomorrow, I have time. Oh yeah, that dream that I have, that I want to accomplish those goals that I want to accomplish. I'm just gonna keep pushing them back because I'm only 30, I have time. I don't like telling myself that, because here's the thing that most people don't want to admit or talk to themselves about, and that is sure, you may feel young and you have time, but we are not in control as to when our time comes to an end. And when you have that thought in mind, you have to accept the reality of it. And the reality of it is, since that is out of your control, the thought of saying I have it now, I have more time. It's almost ludicrous, because at any moment that time could be taken away. So, instead of living life being disgruntled towards it, you can instead appreciate the time that you know you have, which is the present moment, as you work towards the things that you desire. Because you know, if you are blessed with a long life, then over time, sure you will accomplish the things that you desire, but at the moment, you don't know if you have that long life being gifted to you just yet. So live in the moment. Enjoy what you have while you work towards the things that you desire, and don't tell yourself I'll do this tomorrow, I have time. You don't know when your time is going to come to an end. Alright, that was number three. Let's get into a simple one.

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All change begins with a choice. I always tell people Don't over-dramatize what's required for the betterment of the self. You don't have to do drastic decisions, just one little choice, one step at a time. That 1% that I always talk about. That 1% is achievable every single day. That 1% is earned every single day and is different for everybody. So, at the end of the day, what does that 1% look like for you? Right, that's the biggest thing with that one, and that 1% will begin with a choice. Tomorrow, I'm going to wake up 10 minutes early. Tomorrow, I'm going to drink 8 ounces of water before I leave the house. Tomorrow, I'm going to skip the muffin with butter from Dunkin' and instead I'm going to get a wake-up wrap. Right, it's still not healthy overall, but it's still improvement in a direction in regards to health, and you could apply that to any aspect of your life, anything that you want to improve on.

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You don't need drastic change. What you need is one small decision that you know is good, repeated over a long period of time to you, subconsciously adapted so much so that it's just part of who you are now. And then you move forward to another good decision and over time you're just a human being, walking around, just filled with good decision after good decision. Now your body is thriving, your friendships are thriving, your career is thriving. Why? Because one choice at a time, you put effort into your life and the choices that you make. That's good advice, and I typically don't say that of the things that come out of my own mouth, but it feels like I'm in the audience and I'm listening to myself speak.

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Another simple one here Before you start, know where you want to go. Most people say I'm going to try, and then they give a half-ass effort into that try and they don't get very far. You have to. The better the vision, the clearer the picture, the better the action and execution that will come from you. So before you start something, you may not need a 100% perfect plan, because it doesn't exist, but at least have genuine effort put into the planning of where it is you want to go, because the clearer that is for you, the easier it's going to be for you in the moments when, inevitably, you're experiencing difficulties, when things are challenging for you. You're going to be in a position where, like, wait, but I know where I'm going, I see the vision. So this suffering that I'm experiencing is part of what I must go through in order to get to where I want to go. It's simple. As I say it. It's more difficult to understand, but know that it's applicable to anybody. It's achievable.

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Before you start, what's the goal? Right, you can say and I'm a gym rat, so I'm always going to go to the metaphors of the gym. So you can just say I'm going to go to the gym and you're like, okay, for what? Well, I want to lose weight. Okay, yeah, so does everybody who else goes to the gym. Why are you going to the gym? Okay, well, I don't like how I feel about myself. Why, well, I'm insecure in my own body? Why, well, because I don't like how I look in my clothes? Why, well, because over time, I just have been eating so unhealthy and I don't like my relationship with food? Why, well, because I've let myself spiral out of control. Why, well, because I'm full of excuses. Do you see what I'm saying.

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Eventually you're going to get to a point where the picture is so clear that you're going to see where you went wrong, how things went wrong, how long they've been gone wrong, what things that need to change. If you just keep asking the right questions, you will eventually have a vision so clear that before you even begin you're going to be like oh, I know where I'm headed and I know what has to be done and I'm going to get it done and that's that Right. I'm going to do two more, a quick, quick episode. I have a lot in my mind, a lot of things that I want to talk about, but I'm saving it for after the bodybuilding show. And it's been a while since I do one of these and I was very enthusiastic to see I have over 200, because that's insane to me. So I haven't even gone past the 200 mark and I'm just very grateful. I find myself in a place where I'm very present and I feel almost blissed, in a blissful state of mind. I'm very at peace and as I read these things, the clarity of mind that I'm experiencing is allowing me to express my words that I know anybody can understand. So I just feel extremely grateful at the moment. So, thank you, here's a good one.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. Most people think that I've heard the saying and I've been guilty of it where I'm just trying to find my purpose. I'm just trying to find my reasoning as to my existence. I'm just trying to find, find, find, and over the years I've learned to get rid of that word find and instead what I've been focusing on is creating. I like to, in my mind, tell myself that I am an artist that has been gifted with the gift of creation, and my imagination is a part of me that allows me to see things that aren't in my reality just yet, but because of the action that I take, I can make it a reality one day. It's not about finding myself. It's about creating the life that I want to live, and part of that experience is creating the materialistic I want to live, and part of that experience is creating the materialistic things that I desire, the financial outcomes that I desire. That's all part of the creation right, and I've been blessed with being a part of the creator, so therefore, I am able to create things out of my effort and energy that I put into my own life. I no longer hope to find. Instead, I put effort into creating. That's a good one, that's a really good one. Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself. All right, here's a simple one. More of a slap to the face.

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Right and understand as I read these. I'm not reading it at you, I'm reading it for myself, I'm reading it for me, right? When I record this podcast, understand that when I replay it, when I listen to it tomorrow, when it releases, I listen to it not from a oh Miguel, you know good podcast. I listen to it as if I was in the audience. I listen to it as, like from a point of curiosity. I look for the mistakes and I look for the value and I put myself in your shoes and it puts me in a place. That's why you hear me saying like, oh, that's a good one, because, since I know that I'm listening to it tomorrow, I'm like, ah, that's going to be a good one, all right. So let me see.

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You can't give others what you don't have. You can't give others what you don't have. You can't give people advice on life, on things you haven't experienced, right? I feel like that's where I've grown to now, I was almost like an evolved version of that. You can't give people what you don't have is very simplistic. But what I meant by that is I don't like to speak without knowing, and for me to know I must first experience. For me to experience, I must put myself into positions of uncomfortability, I must put myself in unknown paths that I haven't walked before, because that is how I gain the experience right. So that's how I see that I can't give love to people if I don't first love myself. I can't give people health advice if I'm not healthy. I can't give people financial advice if financially I'm not thriving. I can't show support to the people in my life if I can't support myself. I can't tell people about emotional intelligence and mental stability if I'm mentally unstable and emotionally out of control. You get what I'm saying you must first become and then you give, and it can't be the other way around, because then you're just a hypocrite. In my own opinion. You know, failing to prepare is preparing to fail. That's a simple one. That's my message every single Sunday preparation Sunday. For those who don't have a plan, they are planning to fail. Understand you don't get anywhere without a plan For a very, very, very, very long time I avoided goal setting, I avoided having a schedule, I avoided having anything that was very specific to something I had to do at a very specific time.

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And the reason being is simple because I was afraid. I was afraid of holding myself accountable and I was afraid of looking like an idiot to myself because I was going to look at a schedule and say, well, I was supposed to be doing that now, but instead here I am, eating food, playing video games, being lazy, not doing what I said I was going to do. So for a very, very, very long time I avoided anything that had to do with planning and now fast forward seven years. My life isn't fucking perfect, far from it. But compared to who I was and where I am, everything is a thousand times much better than where I used to be and who I was. And I'm not just talking about physically, but mentally, spiritually. I feel like I've never been better before.

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And all of that and as I tell people was because I put a plan in action. I said this is who I want to be, this is who I want to become. I don't know how long it's going to take me, but we're going to put effort into it and the effort has been put into it and fast forward. I am now in a better place, all because of a plan. It was nothing drastic, no crazy changes, no overnight success. There's no such thing. It's just simply I'm at position A and I need to get to position Z, and I don't even see C, d, e, f or G yet. I just see a possible B and that might be rerouted and take me back to A. Do you understand what I'm saying? You just got to have a plan. Stop telling yourself that things are just going to work out for you because you got to be better than that. That is not a good plan, and I'll leave it with this one. I'll leave it with one of the last ones and then I'll wrap it up. As we're here in 20 minutes, okay, oh, I'll do one of the longer ones, so bear with me as I read this.

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There is no better feeling than knowing that you are responsible, that, no matter the difficulties life hands you, that you don't need anyone to get you through it. Self-reliance is what you seek. Self-responsibility is what you must achieve. Look at yourself and ask yourself why haven't you shown up for yourself. What are you waiting for, jordan Peterson said take care of yourself as if you were taking care of someone you care about.

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Do you care about yourself? That's a good long one, and I'll sum it up to this when I was at my lowest point, what I hated the most about being at my lowest point was how much I needed other people. I needed people to put food on my stomach, I needed people to put a roof over my head. I needed people to give me a place to sleep at night and listen. I'm very, very, extremely grateful for those people, immensely grateful for those people. But in the moment, I was disgusted with myself, because my existence wasn't bettering anybody's life, but instead my existence, because of my lack of responsibility, was instead a hindrance, a weight on somebody else's life, all because of my bad decisions, compounded over a long period of time. I am now becoming an annoyance in somebody's life. Something had to change, and it wasn't until I took self-responsibility and put myself in a position of accountability that things started bettering. I did exactly what Jordan Peterson said. He said that in his book 12 Rules of Life Take care of yourself as if you were someone that you cared about, and the example that he gives in the book I'll give it to you real quick is imagine if your mother was sick.

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Imagine if your mother was sick. Imagine if your mother was bedridden, right, and she's not doing well. She needs you to be there to support her. The doctor gives you the instructions. The doctor gives you the medication. The doctor says I need you to give this medication exactly every three hours on the hour. If you miss anything for the first 72 hours, your mother is going to pass. Would you miss that three hours? Chances are you're not. You're going to be there, you're going to take care of her, right, but what happens when it's you? Hey man, I need you to do this. With these pills, you forget, you sleep in, you forget to set the alarm, but not if it's somebody you care about.

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So what if you adapted that mentality towards yourself? What if you wanted to become the kind of person hey, listen, sometimes life is going to knock you to the point where people are going to need to be there for you. We get that, sure, right. But what matters most, and what I like to focus on on, is how long can I go before I need somebody's assistance in my life? And I don't mean like asking for help I ask for help all the time, right but what I mean is, because of my bad decisions, I am now in a position where I need to bother somebody else. I avoid that as much as I can and, very gratefully, it's been a few years since I've been in that position, but it's just something that I think about.

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What kind of person do you wish to be? I like to think of myself as the kind of person that can take care of himself, and not in a selfish way, but in a. I can take care of the basic necessities of life, I can put a roof over my own head, I can provide myself with food, I can show love, care and support for myself and those that I care about, and that's a good foundation to start if what you're aiming for is a life of achievement and self-fulfillment. And with that being said, compounding daily roulette has come to an end Longer than I expected, honestly. But as I read through these, I can just keep going and going, and going.

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But I'll keep it short. I'm very grateful for you being here, you know. Please give me some feedback, tell me what you think, tell me your thoughts. Understand everything that I speak about is things that I've gone through me. Your thoughts Understand. Everything that I speak about is things that I've gone through, things that I'm experiencing as we speak, and I gain value from sharing this with you. So I hope that you gain value by listening and, with that being said, thank you for being here and until next time.

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