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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EP119-What happens when you create evidence of your own capability?
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Have you ever made a promise to yourself only to break it days later? That cycle of inconsistency is something I battled for years until I discovered what I now call "the switch" - The moment I know its time to build momentum in a progressive direction again.
Fresh off a 30-week bodybuilding preparation that demanded unwavering commitment, I deliberately gave myself permission to ease up for a month. Morning donuts, evening desserts, and spontaneous takeout replaced my tracked meals. This wasn't a failure of willpower but a conscious decision to temporarily turn my discipline switch "off." I knew internally that this was temporary. I knew eventually the switch was going to have to be turned back on. I didn't know when but I knew it wasn't going to be too long. Not after all I've proven to myself.
This ability didn't come naturally. It was forged through years of trial and error, through cycles of progress and regression that ultimately built evidence that I could follow through on difficult commitments. Most people struggle with consistency because they've repeatedly broken promises to themselves, leaving no foundation of self-trust to build upon. Every "starting Monday" becomes another empty phrase because there's no internal proof it will actually happen.
What sets this approach apart is understanding that discipline isn't an innate trait but a skill developed through consistent practice. The switch starts as a simple on/off mechanism but gradually becomes more nuanced, allowing you to control the intensity and duration of your disciplined periods. The beauty of this realization is knowing that if I - someone who once couldn't commit to anything for more than a week - can develop this ability, anyone can.
To build your own discipline switch... Start small, focus on keeping promises to yourself, and document each success as evidence of your capability. Remember that each time you follow through, you strengthen your switch, expanding what's possible for your future self.
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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, I always, especially lately, have been beginning my episodes by expressing gratitude. I am thankful for you being here with me, for you taking what I consider a valuable, if not the most valuable asset, which is our time, and choosing to spend it with me. The goal behind me, sitting here behind the microphone, is always the same to share with you my experiences, my failures, my lessons, in hopes that you don't have to repeat the mistakes that I've made. I only talk from things that I experience. I only talk from things that I go through. I don't like to speak about things I don't understand, unless I'm here with a guest, of course, and then that's a different conversation. But all of that to simply say thank you for being here.
Speaker 1:Episode 119. I can't believe the amount of progress we're making. The views are going up, the following is increasing, and that is not something I take for granted. I always say it. I'm not here to sell you anything. There is no program at the end of any episode. There is no fake dream that I'm selling you about. Oh, you know, do this and I guarantee you, in a week your life will be different. No, I like to be a little bit more realistic. I call them hurtful truths and in those hurtful truths I find value and I hope to instill some of those values in you.
Speaker 1:So, before we get into today's topic, it is a solo episode. I sit here by myself. I apologize in advance for the sniffling. I am slightly under the weather and that's okay. It's not horrible. I'm not in pain, so I'm still able to express joy and enthusiasm in the things that I'm doing. I'm just a little stuffy.
Speaker 1:And before we get into today's topic, I always like to remind you there's a reason why I release episodes early, 5am Monday morning, and that is because I like to catch people before they begin their day. I like to catch people before they begin their day. I like to catch people before they begin their week. I like to be the reminder that a good day, a good week, should not be decided upon the factors that are out of your control, but instead focused on the perspective that a good day can be created. Should you accept that whatever's happening to you is all part of a good day? So, yes, it's Monday, yes, it may be gloomy, yes, it may be rainy or sunny, it doesn't matter. The point is that the outcome of the day is directly correlated to the attitude in which you present to the day. And if you wake up and say you know, despite me not being where I want to be who I want to be experiencing the things that I want to be experiencing, I can still say I am grateful, I am happy, I am alive, I have food in my stomach, clothes in my back. Obviously, you're in a good enough position to be listening to this, so you can't be doing too horrible, and there's always something to find gratitude in, and if you begin your week with that perspective, it's almost difficult to have a bad day. So, with that being said, happy Monday. Let's earn our 1% and let's show up with our good attitude and let's get right into today's topic. Today's topic is going to be literally a conversation about something that I'm experiencing this week, today as we speak.
Speaker 1:If you've been following me for a while, then you know I just did a bodybuilding show a little over a month ago and I was in preparation for that bodybuilding show for over 30 weeks, excuse me and that required a lot out of me, physically and mentally. Obviously, it's not something easy, you know. And as soon as it was over, I gave myself permission because that is how I converse with myself that I have an even balance in my life. And there is no such thing as an even balance. But I can be realistic to myself when I tell myself, hey, the foot is gonna become just slightly off the gas pedal, and what that simply means. I'll give you a real example that for the last month and a half I've internally gone from 100% discipline all meals tracked, all boxes checked. I'm getting my steps, I'm getting my cardio, I'm getting the posing routine, I'm getting the meals in, I'm getting the sleep, I'm getting the water. Everything is being checked.
Speaker 1:And when that bodybuilding show came to an end, when the goal was met, I was able to put myself in a position where I told myself that I can be honest with myself and I'm going to turn the switch off. And that is exactly what I want to talk about, because I use that as an analogy and for me in my life it's been honestly powerful. The switch is what I call it the switch that I've controlled, the switch that I've instilled, the switch that I installed, the switch that wasn't given, but instead was created by creating evidence that I am a capable human being. The switch, and the reason I emphasize on the switch so much, is because I am now, very humbly, at a place in my life where a lot of people consider the amount of discipline that I practice in my life almost like insane. Hey, you can stop going to the gym so much. Hey, you don't have to track all your meals. Hey, how about you enjoy life a little? And I'm just like, yes, I understand that and obviously there's a reason why I do the things that I do. But the importance is that over time, I've built the ability to know when it's time to turn it off and when it's time to turn it on.
Speaker 1:And that didn't come easy. That came literally from the last six, seven years of trial and error, of regressing and progressing, and I mean that literally. I've gained the weight, I've lost the weight, I regained the weight, I lost the weight again. I did that diet, I did this diet, this worked, this didn't, and you get the point. But what I want to emphasize on is that over time to use a real life example is that in the last month a little over a month now I've been telling myself that I can do the things that I typically wouldn't do.
Speaker 1:I'm sleeping in, I'm going to Dunkin' in the morning and not only grabbing a coffee. Now I'm grabbing an English muffin, a wake-up wrap, of course. I'm grabbing a donut with that. Favorite is blueberry glazed. If you're wondering, I love that and those are things that are not typical of my day-to-day routine. If my coworker offers me a lollipop, if he has a bag of gummy bears and he's like, hey, do you want some? Typically I would say no. For the last month and a little over a month, I've been saying yes to all of that. I've been keeping my lunches consistent. I've been keeping my breakfast consistent for the most part, and that's when I go and I do the little dunk and run.
Speaker 1:And the point is that over the last month I get to enjoy the things that I typically don't enjoy, because I know what will happen to me should I enjoy them consistently for too long. And of course, I always ended my day with a warm cookie or pastry with a scoop of ice cream right on the top. Oh, I've been enjoying time lately, but I'm a good observer of myself and over the last month I've gained weight, which was inevitable. I was going to gain weight. This lifestyle that I was sustaining before the show was not a realistic lifestyle that is maintainable. So I knew the weight was going to come on. That's no big deal, but the way that it came on was by a lack of discipline, enjoying the things, as I said.
Speaker 1:And now I sit here feeling good, of course, best I've ever felt in my life, but I mentally not physically feel lethargic. I feel like I'm lacking purpose at the moment. I feel like when I wake up and I go to the gym, I'm going for the sake of routine, but at the moment there is no goal attached. At the end of every day, even though I have clean groceries in the household, I tell myself like you know what? Maybe I want some Chinese, maybe I want some pizza, maybe I want a burger and fries with some ma sticks. You get what I mean and I would just instinctively go to it. Why? Because I turned my switch off. I told myself you've earned it. You just did a 30 week prep. Over 30 weeks you've lost over 30 pounds. You just did a bodybuilding show. Miguel earned it. Take the month. And I took the month.
Speaker 1:And now I want to emphasize on something the switch is coming back on and it's not that I just wake up tomorrow and say switch is on, so everything's different, even though that's literally what's going to happen. But what I want to emphasize on is that that switch wasn't given to me. That switch was created because over time, through my own personal trials of trying to better myself, only to hit that end, I've proven to myself that I can stay consistent and of course it wasn't long. If you told me to do a 30-week prep for fucking anything six years ago, I would have been like maybe I can give you a week. You get what I'm saying Because my lack of consistency wasn't there. But this is a switch that once you begin to play with it, you'll begin to turn it on for longer periods of time and I hope this analogy is sticking with you. If it's not, please reach out to me.
Speaker 1:I would love to converse about this, but I try to paint a picture as best as I could with what I see in my mind and from what I'm experiencing. And mentally I literally see a light switch and it's on and it's off, and it's not just all the way up and all the way off. It's more of a. You can control the height and the intensity of it if that makes sense. And when you first instill that switch, you don't have much playroom. It's either on or it's off. Because you don't have the practice with it. You don't have the consistent self-discipline that is required for you to turn on that switch and actually stick to your word that that switch is on, or turn it off and actually keep it off without feeling a guilty association to the fact that you're doing things that you know aren't good for you.
Speaker 1:This switch is something that I believe we can all install in ourselves, and I believe it is only acquired through effort over a long period of time, and the beauty that happens is that I'm going to tell you this Mark my words and I value my words. I put truth behind my own words because I don't consider myself a liar. So mark my words when I tell you that starting tomorrow and this is a little trick that I do to myself, because since I say I'm not a liar and I believe my words to be true then what I did last week is I told a bunch of my coworkers that, starting Monday, the switch is on. I told my coach and I had a great conversation with Trey and I said, trey, I need you to clear the spreadsheet, I need you to set the date to Monday and I'm going to start doing my check-ins every day. Again, I need you to update my program. You said you were going to do that, so he's doing. He's done that. You know, I need the macros adjusted to whatever you think we're going to need it to be, you know.
Speaker 1:And now, by telling so many people all of these things, the switch is on. Why? Because I'm not a liar, because I like to prove to myself that I can do difficult things. And I've gotten to a point where, after a month, I feel it the momentum in the negative direction is not piling up, but it's starting to weigh me down a little bit. And with that little trick of telling everybody that, hey, starting Monday, I'd be damned if, on Monday, hey, miguel, there's donuts here, do you want some? Oh, yes, actually, no, the switch is on. That's the voice in my head. No, the switch is on, miguel. Remember what you said you gave yourself the luxury of whatever you wanted whenever you wanted for a month. It's time to turn the switch back on. Prove to yourself that you can do difficult things. The ability to keep the switch on for longer periods of time is only going to come with you experimenting with yourself over a long period of time to see exactly how long that switch can be on for. And exactly what I'm trying to refer to here with the switch is discipline. How long can you stay disciplined for how long can you keep the words that you speak?
Speaker 1:To be true to yourself, when you say starting Monday, for most people it's bullshit. Starting Monday is the same thing with the New Year's oh, new Year, new me, new Year. This is the year where I'm going to do this and then none of it happens. Why? Because you don't have that switch that turns on when you say you're going to do something. And the reason you don't have it is because, for most of your life, when you said you were going to do something that was going to challenge you, to push you forward, you didn't do it. So therefore, you don't have the evidence required for that switch to come on and stay on. Replay that that's really good and that's something that I hope that it never comes off.
Speaker 1:As I'm speaking to you directly, understand that when I say you, you, you imagine there's a mirror in front of me and I'm pointing the finger at myself, because this is the exact conversation that I have with myself, when I feel myself regressing, when that lesser voice is winning, when it's saying things like come on, I know, the switch is on, but a bag of gummy bears won't hurt, a scoop of ice cream won't hurt. And then I do it. And then I don't feel good about myself. Why? Because I said I was going to do something and I didn't do it. And most of my life, that's exactly who I was, the kind of guy who would say I'm going to do this and, starting Monday, I'm doing this and these are the things that I want to do. And then fast forward month after month, year after year. I never amounted to anything, because anything that came out of my mouth just didn't carry power with it. It didn't carry truth with it. So when I told people the switch is coming on, they'd be like sure, what switch? What are you talking about? And I'm like just watch. And then they'd watch and I would not disappoint, because they were right and it never happened for me.
Speaker 1:Don't allow time to continue passing you by without you realizing what you are capable of. That's one of my biggest things, man. I always think about that. I've accomplished so much, not in comparison to anybody, but in comparison to who I was and what I thought I was limited of, limited by, and over time I've progressed and I've proven to myself that I can do difficult things, that I can accomplish, that I can overcome. And now I'm just curious to see how much more of that I can do. How much more can I achieve?
Speaker 1:And since I believe firmly that I'm not special, that I'm not different, that I wasn't given a lucky break, that anybody's capable of this, when I speak of these things and analogies like switches and observing the mind and understanding that what you hold in the center of it is what, essentially, life starts bringing towards you, things of that nature, these are all things that I'm practicing daily, that I'm always thinking about, and if they are working for me, they have to work for you, because I'm no different thinking about. And if they are working for me, they have to work for you because I'm no different. And this switch that I talk about is not a hey, look at me, starting tomorrow. I'm doing this. Watch me, oh, this is great. No, no, no. This is personal to me and besides you and me now sitting here listening to this, nobody needs to know that this switch is on. But you'll feel it. You'll see it Within a month. I would have dropped weight Within two months. I don't start walking different again Within three months. I'm looking for another challenge. Within four months, I've made tremendous progress.
Speaker 1:Fast forward a year later, the switch was never turned off. What can be accomplished? These are the things that we are all capable of. Excuse me, excuse me and, with that being said, I'm going to wrap up this episode. Man, that's what I had in my mind, that's what I'm experiencing, because, like it's weird, because I tell my wife all the time like, hey, the switch is coming on soon, and even she got to a point where she's like all right, I've heard you say that, like over the last two weeks now, and what I've explained to her, and what most people don't know, is that what that means is that for the last two weeks, I've been battling with my greater self and my lesser self internally, the ego trying to take control, the reminder that I gave myself permission to enjoy, while the better version of myself it's like don't enjoy too long.
Speaker 1:Remember, like you can't remain here. This is just temporary. You stay here too long. Sure, it's comfortable and it feels cozy, but you don't like who you become. Don't stay here too long, fast forward two weeks later. Here I am now and I'm over it and I've had the conversation and I'm telling hey, fat Miguel, you've enjoyed it. I need you to go back inside. The switch is coming on and just like that, the switch is on. Thank you for listening and until next time.
