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
EP118- Life Lately. W/ Trey
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What gives life meaning when we know it will end? How do we stay disciplined when everything falls apart around us? Trey and I dive deep into these questions in a unscripted conversation that touches the core of what it means to live purposefully.
No specific topic just a casual conversation about life and the lessons we've accumulated along the way.
The goal of course remained the same, to give you the listeners value.
To paint a new perspective that maybe you weren't able to see before.
To ensure that as you listen to our stories you gain new insights and approach your life with new ideas.
What emerged this episode is a philosophy centered on gratitude, perspective, and incremental improvement – earning that 1% daily. By recognizing the lottery we've won simply by existing in this time and place, problems shrink and opportunities expand. a powerful realization: life's greatest wealth comes not from avoiding suffering but from transforming personal challenges into value for others.
This will all come to an end one day for all of us... When it does will you be able to say that you LIVED? or will it simply be another life wasted...
Think and together lets WIN.
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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 118. First and foremost, before I get into today's topic, which I have no idea what it is just yet I always want to emphasize, first and foremost, gratitude. I am blessed to be here, I am blessed to be able to share conversations with you, to get feedback from the conversations, to know that the suffering which sometimes is more on purpose that I experience in my life is serving value to people who are still looking for a way throughout their own personal life. It's a gift that I don't take for granted and that's why I always begin every episode lately with a big thank you, thank you for being here. And then the second reminder it's that, yes, it's Monday For many, the worst day of the week, for many, the reminder that they are not satisfied with where they are, with who they are, with what they're doing. For many is the day where they're going to call out and say I'll try again tomorrow. And I like to emphasize that Monday is just another day of the week. I like to view it as or obviously, perspective is everything here, monday being the best day of the week, which is challenging for most people. But that's based off how you approach it, because you can say it's Monday, the beginning of a brand new week. I wonder what I'm going to get into and experience this week. Or it's Monday and I don't want to go to work, and I don't want to do this, and before you know it, the rest of your week is not going well because you chose to begin it with a sour attitude. So, yes, it's Monday, but you get to decide how you show up and hopefully you listen to this and start off with the right attitude.
Speaker 1:And, with that being said, today is not a solo episode. This is not the first solo episode in weeks. I can't remember the last time I had a guest on but this is long overdue. We kept planning and planning and obviously our schedules are a little hectic, but it's finally here. I have my coach, my friend, my brother. Obviously you guys know him, trey. What's up, brother?
Speaker 2:What's up, guys? So happy to be back on, happy to have you, dude, missed talking to you guys chopping it up.
Speaker 1:I don't even know what part is this Four?
Speaker 2:Yeah, part four. I think Right your fourth time. You look different every time. Dog, I'm growing.
Speaker 1:No, we're all going uh, so, so, as I said in the beginning of the episode, uh, we, we sat here today with the understanding that lately, as individuals, we both have been going through a lot of things. Yeah and uh, whenever we sit alone, we, we, we end up having some wonderful, insightful conversations. So the goal isn't necessarily today to speak about anything specific.
Speaker 2:It's just kind of to just talk.
Speaker 1:It's how I feel most comfortable when there's no script that needs to be hit, you know, when there's no specific topic in mind and instead we just talk. But the goal remains the same for you, the listeners. Uh, we don't want to just, you know, talk to you guys about the foods we're eating and things like that. You know what I mean. Like, uh, the goal is always to give you some sort of value or insight. So when you're done listening, you understand that you too can achieve great things, you can become extraordinary, and I don't consider myself any of those things, but I'm working on them and I've proven to myself that I've gotten closer to them, and the goal is to get you to that point as well yeah, but before we even start, sorry to cut you off, happy mother's day yeah, even though we're recording this on sunday.
Speaker 2:The things I'm not good at happy mother's day to all those phenomenal mothers out there. Happy Mother's Day to the mothers that were lost. We love all you guys. You guys are rock stars. We thank you for everything you guys do and, yeah, let's get rocking and rolling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. I second all of that. I'm not good with the holidays. I release episodes and I'm like, oh crap, it was Easter, I didn't mention anything about it. But regardless, yes, happy Mother easter. I didn't mention anything about it, um, but regardless, yes, happy mother's day. And uh, I don't have a specific topic, so I don't usually do this, but do you have anything you want to begin with, anything that's interesting or anything that's been on your mind?
Speaker 2:nothing specifically. We can kind of just catch up yeah I don't think we had. We haven't had a one-on-one conversation in a while, so we kind of can catch up on our lives yeah, well, you've been.
Speaker 1:You're digging dog, you're in prep. Yeah, five weeks. You know you're five weeks out from your show. Yeah, are you excited?
Speaker 2:super excited man. I'm truly blessed. I have I think this is the first time preparing for a bodybuilding show other than my last show back in 2023, but I I'm extremely confident um what I'm bringing physically, but how I'm preparing mentally.
Speaker 1:You know what.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know I'll even when I told you before you had your prep like prep is going to test you so much physically, obviously, with all the different things you're doing from an expenditure, uh standpoint, but mentally it's so challenging to to not be able to do things that you're able to do on a normal basis, like grabbing dinner with your girlfriend or your fiance or, um, just having a good time. You're, you're on a very strict routine. Even though we're already on a strict routine, it's, it's very monotonous. To this standpoint Now, it's like everything from meal time timing, sleep schedule, like everything routine wise is, is on point.
Speaker 2:But I'm been doing it for so long. I'm like I'm so locked in and I have a phenomenal circle around me my friends, my family, my church. You know everything you know and you get hit with so many different challenges, but it's like I'm prepared for them. You know I'm not getting extremely stressed out about it. I'm controlling what I can and just, you know, as, in a very biblical way, I let God handle the rest or just let whatever happens. You know I control what I can. Everything else is good, you know. Yeah, there's just a lot of maturity. I think just now been doing this for now six years, geez, um, I'm I'm so prepared for whatever is thrown at me and I control what I can and just keep on pushing.
Speaker 1:You know, yeah, I use that aspect everywhere in life now that confidence comes from all the reps you've done right, and I don't mean in the gym, yeah, but of course, like the mental reps, yeah yeah, because I, when I, when I did my show, mentally was a hundred percent harder than physically, without a doubt, you know, and uh, ironically it wasn't like mentally against temptation to like eat the wrong foods yeah, for sure you know, it was more like like you don't have to do this yeah, exactly, it's something you're, you're putting yourself through. Yeah, like the mind was like you can stop now at any time and like and the way life loves to test.
Speaker 2:There were so many times when I had a reason a thousand percent quit and people would have been like, bro, we get it, we get it, you know you know you're going through some things yeah, you know I'm like, but that overcoming that conversation and then taking action away from that conversation is is the things that I like to talk to people about.
Speaker 1:you know, um, because I haven't done like a marketing fucking sentence in forever, but that's the name of compounding daily. You know, I know it's catchy and I'll make it sound good when I say it, but the, the, the meaning behind the name is the understanding that you get better at what you repeat and I'm sure in your first prep and obviously I was mentally already really strong as an individual before my prep, so I wouldn't compare it to that.
Speaker 1:but like I was mentally already really strong as an individual before my prep so I wouldn't compare it to that. But like I'm sure the temptation and to quit and the emotional side of things on your first prep was, you know, emotional like crazy you know, and it's always interesting to watch. You know, because I'm always fascinated by humans. So, I observe people, especially when they're going through difficulties.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Because that's when you get to observe who they really are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you see the most growth when you're going through challenging situations. You grow so much like I've I've seen so much growth out of you, obviously from a physical standpoint, but mentally, like there's there's always miguel super locked in all the time and you know, you know sometimes we turn, we dial it back a little bit, but you were so locked in and it was no matter what came across us, with any problem, any situation, like you didn't let it deter you off the path and that was so dope to see. Cause, like I'm extremely locked in. This is obviously what I do for a living. But seeing someone go from just living the gym life you know, doing 75 hard, enjoying the process to being on a very strict bodybuilding schedule routine, it was really dope to see.
Speaker 2:Most people aren't able to like just lock into it and not let anything come between them and that goal and that path. Well, it was cool. It was obviously cool to coach you but being being really good friends with you, being by your side through that process, it was. It was motivating. You know it made me even more excited for my prep. Yeah, so I appreciate you for giving me your 100.
Speaker 1:You know, all of that stems from I thought it was the ego, yeah, and it's not. But all of that stems from me being my harshest critic, absolutely. I value my own words, yep. I don't like to think myself a liar and I hate my time wasted, yep, and if I hate, my time wasted, yep, and if I hate my time wasted, I hate wasting other people's time.
Speaker 1:One thousand percent, you know, and as I told you before, I'm like dude. You, I could tell you were giving me your art during prep and it would be unfair if I didn't give you mine, you know, but that's because I'm a maniac dude. Yeah, you know, I, I mean it when I say and I write it in the captions and you know it's better than most. But when I tell people the switch is on, yeah, the switch is on, and they're like well, what does that mean? It means that you can wave a butter croissant over my nose and I won't even lick it yeah no, absolutely you know because
Speaker 1:the switch is on. Yeah, man, you know, but I'm also human and there are times where I know I've I've turned the switch off, like as soon as prep was over, yeah, and I'm like hey're just going to do a week of cheating and then we're back on it. And then I got the bug and I got the wisdom teeth, and then I was trying to get back to work and then Juliana leaves for a week, you know, for her bachelorettes. So like it was at a point where I'm like all right, I've been looking at this switch now for two weeks in my mind.
Speaker 2:Like I'm going to flip you soon my friend, you get what I mean and I know that the second I mentally tell myself switch is on.
Speaker 1:It's like I like the idea of separating my character, right, and that's why I created Fat Miguel. It always sounds like a joke and everything, but he does exist.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And he does come out. Yes, and sometimes he comes out emotionally, out of my control, and that's like me spazzing out on somebody or me flicking somebody in the highway. I'm like, oh, fat Miguel just took over for that you get what.
Speaker 1:I mean so, since I view it like that, it's easy for me to separate the disciplines between the enjoyment, and sometimes it's me with the switch on enjoying certain things like video games or something like that. But I take pride in knowing that when I say, this is what I'm doing, that's what I do, and then I do it, and then, no matter how shitty that conversation may turn out to be. In regards to like quit, you don't need to do this blah blah. I already know, as you know, because over time we've proven it to ourselves, that at the end of the journey we're having a different conversation of like dog.
Speaker 2:you did it, yes, and that's the conversations I'm most excited for is like, through all the challenges times, like at the end of this chapter, at the end of this, this, this I don't want to say story, but I guess any of this chapter, like, yeah, man, we did, man, we did it, it was hard, we accomplished. You know, I remember when you, when you lost your cat, I remember that and we were, we were talking about, oh, I forgot about that man just so many different situations happen.
Speaker 2:Now I remember the emotional conversation we had on the way back from Bridgeport. Your show I was like man. You had every reason to like. You know what, trey, let's try to see you next time and I would have been like as your brother. I would have been like man, I understand, as your coach. You would have heard a little bit but I would 100 understand, but nothing. You know your, your mom, your cat. You know there was so many different things. You know we were having problems with your digestion for a while. There was so many reasons. I've never experienced so many different trials with the client and I'm like dude. Yeah, there was so many times like. I was like man.
Speaker 1:I don't know how the heck we're gonna get through this, yeah, but yo, I'm telling you, not once did I allow the words to come out of my mouth for hours I trade.
Speaker 1:Do you think maybe we should uh, you know try another show maybe, maybe this isn't a good time, you know, because bro it there's uh, I believe it was azy who says like I love when people say things like right now it's not a good time. Right now it's not a good time and it's like okay. Are you somehow foreseeing a future in your life where you have no problems? Man, that's good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's real good. It doesn't exist, it doesn't. Something's going to happen, always, always, no matter what.
Speaker 1:Like this it doesn't something's gonna happen always, always, no matter what. Yeah, like, don't get me wrong. Like right now where I sit, I'm good, right, I don't have a phone call of a death in the family or somebody's sick. You know, I woke up with my wife this morning. I'm recording an episode my fish are doing well, I'm healthy, I'm not in pain. You get what I'm saying. Bless, everything is good. Yep, you know, but it it's, it's. It's easy to tell yourself, oh, this minor inconvenience now it's not a good time. Yeah, you know, and then it's like all right. Well, when is it?
Speaker 1:you know, because, like for people like me and you, for example, imagine we're saying that now, right, I'll give you one of my favorite examples. We're saying that now, oh, we don't have the time, we don't have the time. And then it's like, okay, well, fast forward five years, you're now a father. Yep, you know, when you didn't have the time, then good luck having the time now, you know, but it's just but it's the same people who never prioritize their time management before the difficulties yeah that now, during difficulties, don't have a good time management, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 1:But when you challenge yourself and you make sure that you're prioritizing the things that you said you're going to do, then I like to see, like okay, so, like you said, for the sake of this analogy, you said it's a chapter, right? So if the chapter that I'm currently on, for the sake of what we were just talking about, is bodybuilding, then imagine a web We've spoken about this and in the center of that web is this big bubble and it says bodybuilding and that's the dominant thing in my life at the moment. And then there's branches off of that and some of those branches are sickness, unhealth, and they're part of the chapter. They're there, but the major thing is the bodybuilding, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty fascinating man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the mind is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 2:Absolutely dude.
Speaker 1:When you get it to cooperate with you. You know, but the mind is better than your lesser self and therefore, when you try to conquer it, it shits on you and it's like what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:You get what I mean 1,000%.
Speaker 1:It's weird to look at it from that perspective, but that's how I see it 100%.
Speaker 1:You know, I've become a friend to my mind and I know when it's the poison talking or when it's the better me talking. You know, and sometimes I listen to the poison and sometimes I get a little emotional. But because I've befriended the better version of myself so much, he always intervenes Like yo, yo, what are you doing? What are you doing? You're being too negative. You know what I mean. You're going too far down that road. There's no need to that. You know what I mean and it allows me to stay composed, Composed and present. That bodybuilding probably was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 2:It is. It probably was the hardest thing I ever done in my life. It is. It's like a. You know, I can't. I can't count how many times I cried for no reason. No reason, I was just very emotional. Yeah, a lot of post-workout emotional conversations we've had.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was wild man. Yeah, I, I recommend you, the listeners, experience something that challenging. Yeah, doesn't have to be bodybuilding I'm sure running a fucking marathon is hard like that. Maybe not as hard because I know people wake up and just do it you know what I? Mean, you know, because you can't do that in a bodybuilding show, but do something that's going to require you that for a chapter of your life you have to give it your all into that.
Speaker 2:1000, you know, and whatever that may be yeah, you build so much character when you're challenging yourself for a long duration of time, even if it's something like 75 parts, something that you promote for all the time, I think even something like that, where you're just challenging yourself for a chapter of your life, like you said, locking in, cutting out all distractions and just making that your number one priority, and the goal shouldn't be I'm going to win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, making that your number one priority, and the goal shouldn't be I'm going to win. Yeah, the goal should be. I know that I'm not the best version of myself at the moment and maybe at the end of this challenge I'll be a little bit closer to that person. That's how I approach everything, like I don't do 75 hard because at the end, andy standing in the finish line with a trophy, like yo you did it.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:There's no reward that comes from it, except one of the best rewards you can get, which is the rewards that are earned through actions and can't be given by others. You know so, when you challenge yourself, whether it be in bodybuilding or 75 hard or you want to climb Mount Everest, the point is that you don't just wake up and do it. You wake up and you understand that, all right, today is day one, and then day two is going to be great, and then day three, motivation is fading. By day four you're like, oh, maybe this isn't for me. By day five you're rejuvenated again. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And the point is that you said, for the next 75 days or for the next 30 weeks, you know, for the bodybuilding, we're going to just dedicate our time and effort into this and no matter what, you know, unless literally it had to be like death, like death in the family. You know I was sick multiple times, a few scares with my blood sugar where I was almost passing out. You know what I mean. Like we went through a lot of points where, mentally and like he said, as a coach he would have been disappointed, but as a friend he would have been like yo, miguel, I get it.
Speaker 1:You know I get it, you know, but I didn't want to get there, I didn't want to have the conversations with people. I didn't want to justify anything, you know. I wanted to do what we did, to do what we did.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, we did it, don't, yeah, especially when you have, like such a huge support system around you. So many people came out to support you, yeah, and just that feeling in itself like man, it's not like you're letting other people down, but it's like you want to make them proud at the same time.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, I'm blessed. I'm blessed because this is going to sound e, I promise. But like, after I stepped off the stage the first time excuse me One of the first things one of the kids in the back told me was like dude, you have, you have a huge gathering. And I'm like what do you mean? And he's like a lot of people are like in that corner, a lot of people are here for you.
Speaker 2:We had the whole, we had half the venue.
Speaker 1:It was crazy and what came out of my mouth was thank you. I'm blessed, and in my mind, what I said is thank you, I created them, and what I mean by that is I'm very, very analytical with who I allow into my life you know what I'm saying my boy, dylan, who I met through Instagram, who lives in Rhode Island, who I've only sat down with two or three times at a diner at the halfway point between Connecticut and Rhode Island, just to talk for an hour and a half two hours about life like we're doing now.
Speaker 2:He drove.
Speaker 1:You get what I'm saying. He drove, saw me, hugged me, congratulated me and then got back in his car to drive two hours back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it just shows how many people you've impacted, and it doesn't even have to be in a face-to-face or a daily conversation. Like you impact so many different people, which is so amazing, you know, and they just showed up and supported you. It's very reciprocal, right? Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1:People think that I'm doing everything to motivate others, without understanding that in motivating others, I motivate myself, and it's vice versa.
Speaker 1:Like people tell me all the time, dude, you inspire me and I'm like what you just said inspired me, like it should be right, because I'm not on a pedestal, I'm not better than anybody, I'm not doing anything crazy, even when, financially, I'm doing great. That doesn't matter to me. You know, you get what I'm saying. I like to remind myself of, like just a regular guy, and the materialistic things can be taken away, but what can't be taken away friendships, yeah, you got to create those, you got to invest time and effort into those. You know what I mean and and it's nice to to know because, like, I felt horrible, uh, for, for the guys who stepped on stage, they said their name and maybe you hear like one clap, yeah, and you're like damn dog, that's rough.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, but again, it's not a judgmental thing. We don't know their situation or you know, maybe their loved ones are away, whatever the case may be, you know, but I took it all in and I told myself, man, dude, you've, you've created it and you don't want to know. The best thing that I've I've heard at the end of prep, uh, was from friends who I haven't spoken to in forever, that were looking at the pictures and they're all saying the same thing. Dude, you said you were gonna do this like years ago. You know, my old business partner messaged me. I told you about that. He messaged me and, and and said it's about time you did it.
Speaker 1:You get what I'm saying, because these are things that I've been talking about forever now and and it it took time, it it took time and it took a lot of failures. It took what? Three, four, seventy five hearts and one live hard Before I told myself, all right let's do it.
Speaker 2:Let's do a 25 to 30 week prep.
Speaker 1:now you know what I'm saying, but it was trial and error, man, 100% the challenges of life. You know, lately one of my favorite mottos not mottos, but one of my favorite thoughts that I've been going to is, because a lot of people have been mentioning it to me that 1% is turning into something. I didn't think anything of it. I know there's thousands of companies out there with shirts that say 1% better. So I'm not trying to claim it or anything like that. But when I wake up and I tell people, hey, earn that 1%, you know there's so many ways that you can earn it.
Speaker 1:There's so many ways that you can progress, and I just like to remind myself that every day is an opportunity. Like every day, I wake up and I get to decide am I moving forward, am I staying the same, or am I going to make some bad decisions? And regardless of what you pick, it's not until you repeat it constantly that you start building momentum in either direction. And for me personally, for the last seven, seven years, if I had to split the ratio, I'd say I've been about like 75 discipline, yeah, and 25 kind of fuck it. You know I'm like, but if you put that in seven years, that's a lot of time that I've been doing what I'm supposed to be doing. Absolutely.
Speaker 1:You go to my bookshelf right now and you blow on them. You're gonna get so much dust off those books I haven't read in weeks, months. I haven't read since prep. You get what I mean and the part of me is like dude, this is part of your identity, this is who you are.
Speaker 1:You haven't earned your 1% and they're like yeah, but are you not doing your messages anymore? Are you not having these conversations anymore? Are you not listening your messages anymore? Are you not having these conversations anymore? Are you not listening to podcasts anymore? Are you not listening to seminars? You get what I'm saying. All of those things play play a part into me earning that one percent, and I encourage everybody to figure out what that one percent looks like for them, you know, because sometimes it's just getting up before the and that's a victory. That's a victory that most people neglect. How do you feel about this quote? This is one of my favorite quotes. It says most people underestimate what could be accomplished in 10 years and overestimate what could be accomplished in a year, and that's why most people don't succeed. Yeah, uh, they don't succeed because they can't think long term yeah, man, that's good you know when?
Speaker 1:when's my next bodybuilding show?
Speaker 2:next, next year or the year after that. Yeah, on fall we said yeah, exactly that fall of 2026. Give or take around that time, either fall of 2026, yeah, beginning of 2027 yeah, and we're not even in fall of 2025, right? Now yeah, we are, you get what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying but we're thinking that far ahead, and as it gets closer, the conversation gets a little bit more clearer, the details will get a little bit more finer. We'll start looking for the shows and in the meantime I can't just say, all right, well, I'll wait till he's ready and we'll be ready.
Speaker 2:No we still got to continue building the body doing the things that we're supposed to be doing drinking the water, and that's what most people neglect.
Speaker 1:They're just like, oh, next year I'm going to do this and it's like all right, well, what about in the meantime? How are you?
Speaker 2:going to prepare yourself to get to that point? What boxes are you going to check to make sure you accomplish that big goal you have down the line? You can't just wake up like all right now. It's time to lock in, for I got a couple weeks. Yeah man, you should have been doing the things to prepare yourself to get to that goal that you had planned.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that goes with. One of my favorite sayings is you don't have to get ready if you stay ready. Amen to that. I stay ready, I'm ready for anything. Listen, uh, every single speaking engagement that I've done has been like hey, do you want to speak next week? And I'm just like, oh yeah, yeah, you get what I'm saying. And and imagine if I just never practice speaking every day the way that I do, releasing the episodes you know every week, like I do. You know the morning messages, the writing for the men.
Speaker 1:Those are all reps. Practice practice practice just for the goal of getting better. Time is passing by, man. I'm 30 now. I got kids calling me sir at work. You know what I mean and that shit. It's a reminder, man. A reminder that you gotta appreciate life.
Speaker 1:You gotta appreciate life while you're here. There's no such thing as you don't have time. Your loved ones are getting older. Inevitably they're gonna pass Replay that in your head because it's gonna happen, so you don't break down and suffering when it does happen A conversation most people don't like to have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, such a fascinating conversation, yeah hey, because it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1:Man, there's only one person in my life right now who's deaf, I wouldn't be able to handle, and that's my wife yeah and I've. I've been trying to replay it and it's not working, dude, it's like I see it going bad, like god forbid. Oh, I love that woman, you know. And then people are oh, but what about? Your mother replayed it hundreds of times, you know.
Speaker 2:And then people are like oh, but what about? Your mother?
Speaker 1:Replayed it hundreds of times, you know. And it's not that, oh, she's gone, so that's it All right. Thanks, mom. No, no, I'm going to suffer, I'm going to cry, I'm going to mourn, but my world won't collapse. I've accepted it, it's part of my life.
Speaker 2:Conversations like that with you had prepared me for when those situations come. You know what I mean. Prior to like to give you example, I haven't even talked to you about this. So my grandmother had a heart attack last week. Oh, and it was man. If that would have happened last year or the year before, dude, it would have tore my world apart. Because I'm like man. What the heck is she doing? Maybe I should help make her a diet plan or make her a workout plan. I, because I'm like man. What the heck is she doing? Maybe I should help make her a diet plan or make her a workout plan. I'm panicking, trying to figure out up in New London every weekend just to make sure she's good. I'm still doing those things, but mentally I'm not. My world's not ending, my world's not falling apart.
Speaker 1:I'm prepared because I can you know and you're in the middle of prep.
Speaker 2:In the middle of prep. You know, grandma's getting old. You know these are things that happen in life. I just had to be prepared. God forbid if something like that does happen you know, what I mean and just be there for her through this entire time. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, cause that's the best thing you can do as a supporting pillar of the family, absolutely Right. So, like uh, I've told my sister this conversation. Her response is always like I don't want to think about that. Why are you even telling me that? And I'm just like and it's like well, why don't you want to think about something that you're inevitably going to have to experience?
Speaker 1:you're going to have to go through it unless, god forbid, you put the suffering on your loved ones because you leave before they leave. You get what I'm saying, so, and I don't even know how the hell we got to this topic it's just a powerful conversation, man. I love conversations like this. It's food for thought. People are always like dude. What keeps you so motivated? Those are the thoughts running through my mind all the time.
Speaker 1:The constant reminder. You'll see it on social media, but that's what the tattoo's for. I just got a new tattoo with memento mori an hourglass. On the top of the hourglass is sand and the bottom is a skull, and it's just a reminder. A reminder that no matter how bad my life is at the moment or how good it is at the moment, it's all gonna come to an end one day Absolutely. And I could sit here in either misery or happiness and complain about whatever right, because rich people complain too. You get what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying it's not like you hit a certain amount of success and guess what? Complaining is over.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:The problems are magnified. Now you know what I mean. Now more money, more problems is a saying that most people say has a joke, but it's a fact. You want to know what I think about often the people who say I deserve because I observe and you don't deserve anything. I don't deserve anything. But what I like to remind myself of is that hopefully it doesn't slip my mind, because what did we just say before I began this little rant?
Speaker 2:More money, more profit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, thank you, that's exactly it right Again, long-term perspective In today's world, you don't make more money unless you've increased your individual value, right? It's just a fact. So the people that say I want more money and it's like, well what? People that say I want more money and it's like, well, what have you become to earn more money? First question right and then understand something that more money means you've been promoted, you've been moved up, you've been handed more responsibility, more leadership role. Because now you've been promoted, you went from an apprentice, you're now a journeyman. From a journeyman you can go to a foreman, as those positions keep moving up and up and up. Yeah, the money is increasing, but so are the problems and the difficulties, but you're now the kind of person that is getting paid to handle them. Yeah, most people don't think about that they just want the money.
Speaker 2:Every aspect of life, profession, every career is the exact same way. Because you were saying that, I'm thinking, man. I remember when life as a trainer just a trainer at a regular gym.
Speaker 1:I was living the life.
Speaker 2:And I was just training clients doing my thing. Then I became a head trainer. Now I'm owner of a gym. Man, I got toilet clog problems.
Speaker 1:You know exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's big I'm paying for new toilets right now, electricity bills Like I remember when I was just training clients having a good time. But you know that extra responsibility, you know, comes with a little bit more money too.
Speaker 1:But it's real, it's real man.
Speaker 2:So that's so spot on.
Speaker 1:So figure out what is it you really want. Yeah, and don't be so childish to just save more money. It has to be bigger than that. The question is how much more money and what are you willing to give to earn that kind of money? Right, cause I used to say when I was younger I want to be a millionaire. Right, and if you told me that being a millionaire right now meant I have millions in my account, but I don't see my wife a lot. I can't make it to the gym. My children see me through facetime because I'm traveling right now. I don't know if that's worth millions you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:now you give me 800 000 and I'm still at the gym and I see my wife every night, you know, I mean, and I'm traveling here and there, you know, but I'm still a part of my children's family. You know, I have a hundredgallon tank in the future and I'm still able to take care of it. You get what I'm saying. I'll take the 800,000 over millions all day. So it's figuring out the things that you prioritize and understanding that you're a human being and as life progresses, you're going to change with it. I used to think I was a hypocrite because I would say I'm going to do this and then I'd be like, yeah, I changed my mind, you know but, I've changed my mind after trial and error and learning and consuming more out of life, and then saying like, all right, some things have changed, you know.
Speaker 1:So maybe my approach will change and the outcome of it will change as well.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, you know as well absolutely, you know that's good, yeah, man. So what's next for miguel? The wedding dude wedding, the wedding switch is coming on the wedding.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the wedding switch. I gotta, I gotta, get myself weighed, uh, sized. Now's a good time to do it. Yes, you know, at this weight. Yeah, um, I got the stag happening in August. There's a lot happening at the moment and none of it for lack of a better word none of it urgent. It all needs to get done and it will In due time. You know what I mean. If Juliana heard what it's not urgent you crazy.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. If juliana heard. What is that urgent you?
Speaker 1:know what I mean. Uh, so it is definitely urgent, but it's not life or death for me, yes, exactly it's not stress like, oh my god, I'm freaking out, you know what I mean like I'm just I, right now I'm at a very good, I'm at a very good point. I, you know I'm I'm enjoying my days. I'm enjoying my life like, uh, you know, playing video games. I'm I'm enjoying my days.
Speaker 1:I'm enjoying my life Like, uh, you know, playing video games, sleeping in, eating the foods that I, that the body's craving, you know having some form of oh, this word balance. Yeah, you know yeah. I don't like that word, but yeah, cause that's what I people right now are like seeing how I eat, like at work, they're like oh, dude, you got? Uh, if I go to duncan, right, and I get my turkey sausage, egg and cheese on an english muffin with a coffee yeah I get a donut?
Speaker 1:yeah right, nobody sees the english muffin. All they see is the fucking donut. You know what I mean. And they're like dude. What are you doing? You were just eating rice cakes and chicken a couple weeks ago and I'm just like yo, like you gotta find that balance with the understanding that one way, one way or another, too far is not good yes, exactly, you know because I remember when we first met you, uh, you would say things like oh no, I can't eat that dude, I'll lose control and I'm just like what you know I'm just like what are you talking about, bro?
Speaker 1:like just have a bite, yeah, and you're like no, dude, I can't. You know. Which I actually respect is a good awareness of you. You know what I mean, but I'm sure now you're at a point where obviously not during prep because now the switch is full on. But after prep you're like yo, I want there's a lot of maturity there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You get what I mean, and that's a conversation that most people can't have because they're not disciplined enough to get there in the first place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, you know.
Speaker 1:That's funny. The hurtful truths.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man With Miguel.
Speaker 1:Sanchez yeah man. Yeah, man, that's it. That's it, that's life. I've never been happier. I've never been happier Right now. This year is full on being the contender for, once again, best year of my life. And it's been like the last three or four years now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, every year you've said that too.
Speaker 1:Best year of my life. Dog and I reflect and I for some reason just forget about the bad and I just think about the good. That's so good. But I do like to dig deep sometimes and be like oh man, I did lose my appendix. Oh man, I did get fired. Oh man, juliana did get laid off. Like holy shit. It's been a year, but at the end I'm always there, happy, alive, family's alive yeah you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:That's so good.
Speaker 1:Friends are thriving. Dude, it's all meaningful because I give it meaning. That's the most important thing, because to some people life is meaningless. They wake up, they go through the motions, they're just like why am I here Working from 9 to 5,? Hate their job, you know what I mean, and it's like yo, we all have the same outcome, right? I hate to keep bringing that up, but that's just it. Like we're all heading towards old, lacking energy and before you know it and you're dead, and you're gone.
Speaker 1:You know, and I don't care what you believe in. You don't know what's coming next, you know. That's a conversation for another day, maybe our next podcast Check mark that I would love to That'd be a phenomenal conversation, but you understand what I'm saying right. So, with that being said, that's scientifically proven. Sorry.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding. See here you go.
Speaker 1:You're getting started. I'm just kidding, no, but I like to think of that thought like the thought of like what if, after this, there is nothing and it's just emptiness? And it just turns out that you just won the lottery of life that comes by maybe every billion years and you were just placed here. You were placed here and the purpose was not to change the world, but just to live. You've been gifted this thing called life, yep, and you get to make the most out of it, should you want it. And I don't discredit the people on the other side of the world, in war-torn countries and things of that nature. You know what I'm saying, but if you're listening to this, chances are you're in America, the best country in the world. You know what I mean and you have opportunities left and right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you're throwing it out.
Speaker 1:Trey, you don't understand how many times I have that thought. I'm like all I had to do was be born a few hundred years ago and I'd be a slave. Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. You know what I mean Like it's little things like that.
Speaker 1:I'm like yo. I was born right when the internet was becoming a thing, right when when uh, it just be. It was becoming a friendlier world, where now it's almost too friendly, where people are just disrespecting people on social media and things like that you know what I'm saying. But at the same time, I'm very aware of how different life would be should I have been born in in africa, for example.
Speaker 2:Like life is completely different.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. But no, I was born Puerto Rican. During this time in the United States of America Holy shit, I won the lottery. How can I complain about anything? You know what I mean. I'm hungry. All I got to do is go on this device and type in food near me and thousands of places near me, and all I gotta do is get in my heated or cooled vehicle. I don't have to walk or run and just go and grab the food and indulge myself. I'm spoiled. I can't complain about shit. A lack of perspective most people don't have.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean and, regardless of what your religion is, make the most of the opportunity while you're on this earth. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:There's a, you know you're like this one this is from the from um, one of my favorite mentors, and he says uh, uh, god's gift to us was this gift called life, and our gift to god is to experience the most out of this life. Like. That is how we say thank you to the creator, like by, by letting him know, like hey, I see what you did for me. You put me here and you didn't let me die as an infant. I'm now an adult with a mature mind and I can make rational decisions, and I see that you've gotten me here Cause I could have died at four when I didn't know anything. I could have died at 10. I, because I could have died at four when I didn't know anything.
Speaker 2:I could have died at 10. Could have died.
Speaker 1:I could have died so many times and yet here I am. So thank you. Thank you for that, you know. Thank you for ice cream, thank you for all of that. You know what I'm saying Absolutely. And that dude, that perspective gets me to the gym. It gets me because it doesn't mean anything At. The is a two by six foot box and I'm in the dirt. Doesn't matter how fit I was, how much money I had in my account, but all of that is part of my enjoyment here. You know, it's not like I'm trying to avoid that. I never. I need to get rich so I can start investing into immortality, because I don't want it. No man, I've accepted it, I'm okay with it. Immortality sounds horrible if you think about it. You sounds horrible if you think about it. You know I mean never ending life. Think about that. It's horrible. I like to sleep, you know. I like to disconnect for a little bit.
Speaker 2:Uh, yeah, that's the imagination going everywhere just for a couple seconds yeah that's good yeah, well, your your time times is of essence for you. We got church baby? Yeah, Not. We Praise my God.
Speaker 1:Until next time. All right, no, no, next conversation.
Speaker 2:Bro, I would love to Listen Next conversation.
Speaker 1:Let me give you guys a little teaser. I believe in a creator. I believe in a higher power that created this beauty, which is why I'm able to be so grateful.
Speaker 2:And pause it right there and I'll leave it there. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1:But my favorite saying to Trey and this is going to be enticing, I hope people listen to this my favorite thing to Trey is that I believe in God.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:I just don't believe in his son. Boom, yeah, now you got to go to church with that. All son. Boom yeah, now. Now you know you gotta go to church with that. All right, and pray I'll be and I'll be in there praying for you.
Speaker 2:I know that's what I'm praying praying for you hard yo yeah y'all laugh at.
Speaker 1:I'm telling y'all right now, man, I'll be at heaven gates with all the homies like yo, we all here, miguel too. Yeah, you didn't even know I was his right hand man. I'm not. I'm not even next to you guys. I'm gonna take a picture on my post.
Speaker 2:I'm a tag compounding daily where miguel's standing next to me in church. Crazy guy. Yeah, I think I'm joking but, no, that would be a fun conversation, because I feel like I would love to um, that's a conversation.
Speaker 1:We could get a little bit more people involved. Yeah, we need a catholic and a jew all right folks until next time, until next time no, I. I appreciate you having me on, though, fam. Yeah, it's been a pleasure, man, I'm glad we're.
Speaker 2:This is definitely not going to be the last. Obviously, obviously not. I love having these conversations. We're able to just kind of just be fully transparent, talk about what's going on and, like you always say, provide some form of value that can just help people out and help them develop that 1% as well. And help them develop that 1% as well. And I love the hell out of you, brother, like always, man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1:Love you too, man.
Speaker 2:I remember you were showing me the picture of our first podcast with Trey with the low hair no, beard Dog. You know I had no confidence on how I spoke. And now I'm just. I've matured so much as a man and you are a huge part of that, so I appreciate you so much as a man and you are a huge part of that, so I appreciate you so much. I always tell you all the time I hear miguel's voice in the back of my head, all the time when it comes to every aspect in my life, when it comes to sometimes not lacking the accountability, but just those, those, those, those conversations in my mind, the negotiating in my mind, I, I think about that like miguel's voice in the back of my head. You know what I mean. So I appreciate you always for having those conversations with me, because I always need it sometimes too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, yeah, I'm telling you, every conversation we've had has helped me, absolutely right, uh, because, uh, we'll leave it at this I I wouldn't be able to help you the way that I help you if I didn't go through what I went a thousand percent, and I wouldn't be able to help you the way that I went through if I didn't go through what I went through and then processed it myself mentally to seek the values and lessons in it.
Speaker 1:So for me to hear that from you, it makes my life meaningful, because my life hasn't been easy. Nobody's is really. You know what I mean. But to know that it wasn't just self-suffering and I'm still there suffering but instead it was self-suffering now turned into some form of value to the people I care about. That's money, dude, that's wealth in its own form. So let's leave it with that. Thank you, guys for being here. 45 minute episode on the money. Yeah, let's wrap this up. Thank you everybody and until next time.
