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
EP116- The Hurtful Truth: It's Not the World, It's You.
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Ever caught yourself creating elaborate justifications for why you haven't achieved your goals?
In this powerful, bite-sized episode, I dive into what holds most people (myself included) from becoming your best self—and it might hurt to hear. Drawing from my own journey that began at 24, I share one of my biggest moment of clarity and you'll see it wasn't a fancy strategy or life hack, but simply facing the mirror and accepting a difficult truth: I was the only one standing in my way.
The insidious nature of limiting beliefs—those quiet, persistent thoughts telling you to "be realistic" about your dreams or reminding you of "the hand you've been dealt." These mental patterns kept me locked in mediocrity for years, convincing me that my family history, background, and circumstances had predetermined my fate. Sound familiar?
The real game-changer comes when you make what I call "a contract with yourself"—a commitment to radical accountability that refuses to blame external factors for your current reality. This isn't about denying that obstacles exist, but about choosing where to focus your energy. The most inspiring people I know aren't those who've never faced hardship—they're those who've mastered the art of taking responsibility for their lives.
This episode will challenge you to examine what stories you're telling yourself and how much longer you'll allow those narratives to dictate your future. Your transformation begins with awareness and continues with the courage to rewrite your internal dialogue.
Listen now, and ask yourself: How much more time will you allow to pass while blaming others for what you haven't yet become?
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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. This is going to be a quick and deliberate one, and I mean probably under less than 10 minutes, a solo episode today, as I'm slowly getting out of a rut. I first had the high of the bodybuilding show, then the lows of a little sickness that took over, and then I got my wisdom tooth surgery and now I'm just recovering from that, still a little sore. But we are making progress.
Speaker 1:And before I get into today's small topic, I always like to emphasize on something small just in case you lose interest in further into the episode. I always like to be a reminder. A reminder that yes, it's Monday, yes, it's the beginning of a new week. Yes, you might not be where you wish to be. You might have hoped that by this part of 2025, you might have progressed a little further, and you see that you're not there just yet, and you might catch yourself having a conversation about how you wish things were, conversation about how you wish things were different, how you wish things were better, how you wish you had more time, and I'm here to tell you that those conversations are part of the human experience, but the choice that you have as a human being is the choice to not allow that conversation to become permanent in a state of attitude Meaning. Have the negative thoughts, sure, but don't allow those negative thoughts to repeat themselves so much that now your existence is covered in misery and fear and anxiety, because your thoughts are all focused on how things could be better, should be better, and they're not better. It's Monday, but you get to pick the attitude that you show up on Monday with. So, with that being said, happy Monday and let's get right into it.
Speaker 1:Today's episode is focused on one thing. The goal is simple, and this is a hurtful truth that took me a very long time to accept, so I love sharing this message. The only thing standing in your way from becoming the best version of yourself, from achieving at a higher level, from feeling as if your life has purpose behind it, the only thing, from my experience, that is standing in your way of all of that is yourself and the limiting beliefs that you believe to be true in your own mind. The thing holding you back is yourself and the limiting beliefs that you hold to be true in your own mind. The reason I love this subject. So much is because, for a very long time, I'm 30, I'm not old and my personal development quote unquote journey started when I was 24. So my change has not been, you know, decades in the making. Change has not been. You know decades in the making, and I like to share the things that changed my momentum the most.
Speaker 1:And when I tell you that it wasn't until I stopped blaming, it wasn't until I stopped pointing fingers, it wasn't until I placed a mirror in front of my life and said no, everything is your fault. The reason you're not moving forward is your fault. The reason you're overweight is your fault. The reason you're not getting that promotion is your fault.
Speaker 1:And that's a conversation that most people don't like to have, a conversation of accountability, a conversation that, as I said, puts that mirror in front of them and allows them to really see what's holding them back in life. Because for most people, they have a list of excuses, they have a justification for everything. This is why I'm not succeeding, this is why I'm not better, this is why I'm not making progress. And a lot of the common folks the 99%, the average, the mediocre when they have those conversations, not once do they say maybe I'm at fault here, maybe the world isn't against me and maybe it's just how I've been showing up that has been causing opportunities to avoid me. That's not a perspective most people entertain, the things holding you back and now we're going to the belief side of things, as I said earlier, is the limiting beliefs that you hold to be true in your mind, which means and again, I always speak from my experience when I was overweight, I used to tell myself well, look at my family.
Speaker 1:We're all overweight. Diabetes runs in my family. High blood pressure runs in my family. The only thing not running in the family is us physically. So what do you expect out of me? Of course I'm going to be overweight.
Speaker 1:Oh, why are you asking me why? I'm, you know, depending on the government for everything. Well, it's how I was raised. I grew up in Section 8 housing. I grew up needing that assistance. What do you want from me? This is just the hand that I've been given and I'm settling in it and accepting it as my reality, and I don't see anything bigger than that for myself.
Speaker 1:And that was at the time being. I didn't see anything more. I didn't see a physically strong body. I didn't see a thriving relationship with my family and my friends. I didn't see a career with opportunities keep getting better and better as time progresses. I didn't see any of that, and because I didn't see it, because I didn't believe that I could ever be in such a position, all the choices that I made never got me closer to that position, because in my mind, I held myself back. I convinced myself that I couldn't move forward. I told myself why are you dreaming so big? Look at who you are. Look at the hand that you've been given to play. Be realistic, miguel. You're not going to get much further than this. Maybe a few pounds, but bodybuilding, a thriving career. Come on, man, be realistic and that's a conversation that I would have with myself more frequent than I like to admit and put yourself in those shoes.
Speaker 1:Maybe you are having that conversation with yourself. Maybe it's not specific to weight loss or career opportunities or friendships, but there is something in your mind that you want to experience. Maybe there is a better version of you that you want to create. And every time you start entertaining the idea of how can I get there, for some reason the mind intervenes and says whoa, stay in your safety zone, don't thread into the unknown, remain where you are. Comfort and safety is where you feel better. Don't do that and before you know it, you accept that conversation as a reality for yourself. And guess what? You listen to it and therefore you accept it.
Speaker 1:The minute I said shut up voice. I have something I'm aiming for. I have things that I want to accomplish. Is it going to happen tomorrow? Most likely not. Is it going to happen in the next 10 years? Maybe, maybe not, but I'll tell you what's not going to happen in the next 10 years. Maybe, maybe not, but I'll tell you what's not going to happen. I'm no longer going to blame anything or anybody for my lack of effort. I'm not going to blame any circumstances, any specific event for as to why I didn't achieve, why I didn't succeed, why I didn't become.
Speaker 1:And the minute you accept that as your reality, the minute you say the only person to blame for my downfall is me and my lack of preparation, my lack of initiative, my lack of effort and willpower, my lack of understanding, my lack of not placing myself in a good place at a good time, even though that's kind of out of your control. But you understand what I'm saying. Accept that mindset. Accept that as your reality, put the finger away, place yourself in front of the mirror and make a contract with yourself that says no longer do I seek to blame others for my lack, no longer do I seek to find a reason as to why something negative is happening in my life. Instead, I sit here now looking in the mirror and I have one thing to tell myself For the good and the bad in my life, you are to blame. If there is greater good that's meant to come out of my life, you are to blame. If there is greater bad that I'm going to experience in my life, you are to blame. And, of course, you can expand it and understand that there are so many things out of your control that will dictate whether things are good or bad. But, at the end of the day, those who I study, those who I inspire to become like and I don't mean physically or materialistically, but the people who live with their soul filled with a fire that you can feel it those people are the kind of people that have held themselves accountable, the kind of people that don't seek to blame others for their lack. As I've been saying, those are the kind of people that wake up and say despite what happens today, I'll take responsibility for it all, and that is a mindset that will lead you to success.
Speaker 1:The only thing holding most people back is the way that they perceive themselves, the limiting beliefs that they hold in their own minds and they believe them to be true. It's easy to convince yourself that everything's not your fault. It's difficult to put yourself in a position of accountability. What will you do this week? How much more time will you allow to pass you by while you still blame others and circumstances for your lack of anything in life? As you have that book of excuses, that book of justifications, that list of people to blame your fingers at for whatever reason, you won't make progress, you won't live with intention and you won't become the person you're meant to be. Think about that and let's talk Until next time.
