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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EP115-The Burdens You Choose. All paths are difficult but only some lead to greatness.
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Have you ever considered that all paths in life come with their own unique set of challenges? The real question isn't whether you'll face difficulties—it's which difficulties you're willing to embrace.
The path to an extraordinary life is difficult sure BUT settling for mediocrity and carrying unfulfilled dreams to the grave comes with its own painful burden. The difference lies in which challenges you consciously choose to face.
Using physical health as a prime example, we examine how the discipline required for fitness and good nutrition may be challenging, but the alternative—poor health, limited mobility, and disease—presents its own set of hardships. This principle extends to every aspect of life, from finances to relationships to personal growth.
What separates those who achieve their dreams from those who don't isn't the absence of difficulties, but rather a willingness to embrace productive challenges instead of passive suffering. Life doesn't discriminate in distributing hardship—everyone experiences pain, fear, and insecurity. The difference makers are those who recognize they can choose which battles to fight and which mountains to climb.
As time continues passing week after week, the question remains: what difficulties will you choose to experience? Will they be the uncomfortable ones that lead to growth and eventual reward, or those that keep you comfortable but stagnant? Your choice defines not just your days, but your legacy.
Choose Wisely.
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Hello, hello and welcome back everybody to another episode of Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez, and thank you once again for being here. Episode 115. I am grateful, I am blessed, but most of all, I feel an immense sense of joy to know that, in me challenging myself and learning from my own experience, I get to share with you with a simple goal. The goal is not for you to become like me, but for you to aim at the best version of yourself and to take my losses, my lessons, and hopefully you don't repeat those in your own life. And welcome to another solo episode.
Speaker 1:Lately I've just been finding a lot of tranquility and sitting alone with my thoughts and going over the things that I'm experiencing and just reflecting a lot on my journey and my life. And I was told earlier this week by somebody on social media. They reached out to me and said you know, a lot of your messages are filled with I and me and that feels like it's a little bit egotistic and I'm just like well, if you've been listening long enough, then you know that the foundation of all the messages that I share, I always say that Miguel is far from special and, of course, everything that I speak about is about I and me, because I and me is all that I know. I am only speaking from my experience. Every time I tell you guys a story, it's not a story that I heard from somebody. It's a story from my journey, from my story, from something that I went through, a lesson that I grew from, because I don't like to speak about things that I don't one understand or, two, haven't experienced myself, because then I just feel like I'm not speaking with value. If anything, I'm just speaking with suggestions. So, with that being said, I just want to emphasize on that a little bit, just in case there's more people out there that have that same thought. It was a little curveball that I wasn't expecting. The ego in me felt a little offended because I'm like well, what's happening here? But I digress.
Speaker 1:It is Monday, the beginning of a brand new week. I'll keep this one short. You get to decide the attitude you bring into the day. Yes, it's Monday. Yes, sure, you may not be where you wish to be, but that doesn't mean that you have to do what you're doing with a bad attitude. You get to decide how you show up. You get to decide, most importantly, if you are on a positive note already, then what you get to decide is how much influence you allow others to have on you, because you may have a good conversation going on oh, it's Monday, but I feel good, I'm alive, I got food in my stomach, I got a roof over my head, I got clothes on my back, I got a lot to be grateful for. And then you show up to work and there's that code worker.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's Monday, oh, I don't want to be here. Oh, the taxes, oh the president, oh, if things were different. Oh, if only things were better. And if you're not careful, that poisonous conversation can slip into your mind and, before you know it, your once good attitude has now been contaminated by poison, and now you don't feel too good about yourself. And with that being said, let's get into today's message.
Speaker 1:Today's message is going to be very short. I don't have a lot in my mind at the moment, and this is something that I can speak about very well for a short period of time, because there's not much to say here. We all know this, inherently, I believe. I believe we all know deep down that in order to get better in life, we have to do the things we don't want to do, and the quote that I want to speak about today is something that I've been experiencing lately and I remind myself as to why I'm doing those things. But let me just begin with what I wrote and we'll go from there.
Speaker 1:I wrote this and I quote everything is hard. You choose which hard you want to suffer from. It's hard to live an extraordinary life. It's hard to settle in mediocrity and carry your dreams with you to the grave. Which do you want? And it's not something that needs to be spoken about in depth, but it's something that I like to reflect on quite often, because I like to remind myself in my moments of difficulties, in my moments where I feel like I'm dealing with difficult things. I know that most of them are because of my own choosing right. A lot of my physical difficulties come from the way that I challenge myself in the gym and with my diets and with the challenges that I do, like 75 hard, and I remind myself, like man, I don't want to do this.
Speaker 1:Physically. This is hard, but I've been blessed with being, in my first half of my life, on the opposite side of that coin where my physical challenges came from a lack of effort into physical activity. My physical challenges came from being overweight, from having heartburn, from my clothes not fitting me, from being insecure in my own body, from just being emotionally unstable because I wasn't mindful of the conversation that was happening within my mind. All of these things were hard and they were of my choosing, because of my lack of effort that I put into my own physical being in this scenario and you can apply that to absolutely everything in life, and I feel like it's something most people don't like to entertain Like. You know, man, you know I want more money, but more money, more problems, yeah, but no money, then you still have problems. You understand what I mean. Like there is no, grass is greener on the other side.
Speaker 1:Life has difficulties for everybody. Understand something Life, mother Nature, god, the Creator, does not discriminate. Everybody is going to experience pain, suffering, misery, insecurities, fears. That is just part of the package. It is part of being a human being and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you can decide what package you want to deal with. Right, because you're not getting out of it unscathed. It's not possible. It is not possible for you to go through life in a rainbows and butterflies kind of experience.
Speaker 1:But what's possible, and what it is within your control, is for you to decide the difficulties that you want to embrace in life. And you can be an average individual. You can settle in mediocrity. You can say I don't want to be rich, I don't even care for money, I just want to settle in middle class and have an average job. And you know, I'll let my dreams be dreams and I'll let time pass me by and I'll just let the regrets fill up and I won't take care of my body and you know, I'll depend on the government and all of that's everything that I just said is hard. Right, you're going to have an unhealthy body, a life filled with regret, probably emotional, a lack of emotional intelligence, probably dealing with depression and the misery you've created in your own life. But you won't see it as such. You'll be blaming somebody else, for sure. You get what I'm saying. So now you get to decide.
Speaker 1:As I gave you that image, as I gave you that depressing image, you see that life and I see a life that was chosen and to some people that may not be something that they agree with. They might say well, what if you're born into it? Yeah, that's out of your control. But that doesn't mean you need to remain, and the most important thing for me is to have that in mind at all times, because getting better is difficult. Remaining the same and allowing time to pass getting better is difficult. Remaining the same and allowing time to pass you by is difficult. Challenging yourself every day to learn something new is difficult. Allowing time to pass you by while you refuse to learn new things is difficult. Do you get my point? It's all difficult. You must make a decision as an individual and decide what difficulties you want to deal with.
Speaker 1:And me personally, I'll tell you about the difficulties I've chosen for myself. I've chosen the difficulties that come from a life that's constantly being challenged challenged. I refuse to settle, I refuse to say this is it for me. I refuse to let my dreams come with me to the grave. If my time comes prematurely, then it is what. It is out of my control. But as long as I'm breathing, my goals will remain the same. I'm aiming to become the best version of myself. The best version of myself cannot be created easily. The best version of myself is going to take time, discipline and consistency in my part, in my present time, now, in order for him to become an actual physical creation. That's going to be extremely difficult, but I'd rather be pursuing that every single day for the rest of my life than the difficulties that come from seeing that vision and then convincing myself that that vision is not possible for me, telling myself that must be nice, maybe one day. And then I don't. And then I allow time to pass me by and now I am filled with regret. I'd rather not be in that position.
Speaker 1:All of life is hard. You get to decide the hard that you want to deal with. On this beautiful Monday morning, what will you choose for yourself? Time is passing you by. If you are an every week listener, then understand that every time I release a new episode, that's the beginning of a new week. What will you do with this week? What difficulties will you choose to experience? Hopefully you choose the ones that are encouraging you to become better, the ones that may be at the moment uncomfortable, but if persisted long enough, you will start to reap a reward from it.
Speaker 1:You get to decide the difficulties you want to experience. Most people feel like that's out of their control. Most people see the difficulties that they're going through and look for somewhere or someone to blame and say well, why am I going through this? I just don't understand. This is all hard. I wish I had more money, I wish I had more time, I wish I was in a different environment, I wish my skin color was different. And it doesn't matter if all of those things were given to you. All of it will still bring difficulties with it. So pick your battles, and pick the ones that will put you in a better place for yourself. Until next time.
