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
EP120- Compounding Daily Roulette #8 W/ Samer!
Lets us know your thoughts thru TEXT!
In this weeks episode Samer and I cover multiple topics which all led to a wonderful conversation about progress and overcoming self limiting thoughts.
Below are some of the subjects covered and I hope they're as valuable to you as they are to me! Everything that I share is with hopes that you learn from my mistakes so as to not repeat them in your journey.
• Creating yourself is intentional and within your control, unlike finding which relies on luck or chance
• Purpose gives meaning to days that otherwise feel mundane and directionless
• Scheduling intentional relaxation time removes the anxiety of "wasting" a day
• Most people we admire are just winging it too, so don't put others on pedestals
• Comparison is the thief of joy and limits what you believe is possible
• Happiness is a choice about perspective and contentment rather than constant joy
• Your self-image dictates your daily decisions and actions
• Every win against temptation brings you closer to becoming your best self
• Consistency and discipline are the boring but effective keys to transformation
• Your journey is unique, and there's no single "right way" to approach personal growth
Remember that you have a responsibility to make something great out of yourself, and if you don't achieve it, you can't blame anybody but yourself.
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Hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez, and welcome back to another episode, an exciting one for me personally. It's been too long got my boy here. What's up, samer?
Speaker 2:What's up.
Speaker 1:What's going on. Everything that's not an answer I was expecting. I mean either Elaborate, I'm just kidding, I was expecting.
Speaker 2:I mean either Elaborate, I'm just kidding no man.
Speaker 1:So, first and foremost, before we get into today's episode, I always like to get what I call the rituals out of the way, the reminder that it is Monday, the beginning of a brand new week. But I probably sound like a broken record now, right, because I've done this for so long. That is like some things I just repeat over and over and over, almost identically the same. But I feel like that works almost better because you understand that it is what you repeat, that essentially you become. So I know I sound like a broken record and I know that because, as I speak it in my mind, I'm just like yeah, you've said that already, bro.
Speaker 1:You know it's important, though, but the reminder that every week brings with it an opportunity, and that opportunity comes in the form of your freedom of choice, and with those choices, you get to decide the attitude you're going to bring, the thoughts you're going to entertain, the conversations you're going to have, the things you're going to do. That will make you better or make you worse. All of that is within your control. Even if you're not happy with who you are, where you are and what you're doing, you still get to decide in which direction momentum is gonna be built. And, with that being said, happy Monday and happy Memorial Day, since we are releasing this on Memorial Day. And, with that being said, today what we have is another roulette episode. I don't know, I've lost count. I think there's like eight now I should have looked. Episode I don't know, I've lost count. I think there's like eight, now I should have looked. Yeah, wow, I think this is like the eighth one, because I've only done like one with juliana and the rest have been with you.
Speaker 2:There's no way, we did seven.
Speaker 1:No no, well, memory is not serving, regardless of the fact that it is one of my favorite things to do right, because it releases the stress of me doing solo episodes, because those are a little harder on me personally, and even though, when I sit with somebody who I haven't been around in a while right, because we've both been busy I know we can talk about pretty much anything and be okay, but this gives us a sense of direction, with the goal being the same as always, and that is to give you, the listener, some form of value, with the understanding that we're not here telling you to be like us, but we are here telling you to learn from our mistakes, because everything that we speak about are things that we are experiencing, things that we've gone through. Right, I can't speak for Samer, but I'm sure I can vouch for him in the sense of, like, we're not just talking from things we are assuming we know. No, I am, take my vouch back, all right? Well, let's get right into it. You want to go first? Oh, I can go first.
Speaker 2:Well picking.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you pick one and I'll describe what the roulette is for the new listeners. So the roulette is over the last three years, I've been reading a lot, I've been thinking a lot and I've added Samer into this notes list. Since then, and over the last year or so, we've both been adding provocative thoughts, right, provocative thoughts in the sense that they lead you to a place of curiosity and questioning maybe your own beliefs or your ideas, et cetera, et cetera, and we made a long list of it. And what we like to do once in a while, typically once a month, is scrolling randomly, picking a subject and then covering it in like quick succession, so maybe like five to. Sometimes it gets out of hand and we go like on an eight minute rant if we have enough to say about it, but for the most part is to give you four or five different subjects. That will leave you in a place of like damn, I got a lot. I got a lot to think about typically, and that's that's the goal behind this. So what do you got? Okay?
Speaker 2:I lost it. Oh yeah, here it is okay, so it's pretty, it's short. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself okay that's a good one.
Speaker 1:You want, you want to hit that one first sure, I mean, maybe finding yourself is creating yourself.
Speaker 2:How?
Speaker 1:did. I know you were gonna say some, some crazy thing.
Speaker 2:I was gonna well, because you gave me time to look right. So I was able to find one and think about. I mean because finding yourself is creating yourself. You're literally finding out about what you're capable of.
Speaker 1:So the reason I wrote that down is because finding is more on luck and hoping Like I hope I find the person I'm supposed to be. I hope I run into the love of my life. I hope you know what I mean. Yeah, that's true. When you create, it's intentional.
Speaker 2:It's also in your control.
Speaker 1:You're making choices that are intentionally working towards that, right? So for majority of my life I was always hoping and always wishing things kind of worked out for me, right. I had an idea of what I wanted to be and, like I always dreamed of the life I want to experience, but that's as far as it goes. You get what I mean. I was never creating anything.
Speaker 2:You weren't working towards what you were dreaming of.
Speaker 1:So what's the point? Yep, so that's the point, yep, so that's how I approach that. Yeah, which makes what you said irrelevant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's also kind of like about purpose too.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like, life isn't about finding purpose. Life is about creating purpose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's it. Yeah, it's a good one.
Speaker 1:So, like between now and who I was a few years ago, nothing's changed besides the fact that I gave myself things to aim at that there was another quote in here that would have had perfectly into this or no, but you understand what I mean by that and and it's like I I started creating things because I started telling myself like I want this, so in order to maybe get there, I have to do a, b and c, like, for example, I I wanted most people have a vision in their mind of the body they want to have. Right and within realistic standards. Right because I I can't wish I was taller. That's dumb. I'm done growing, you know. I mean, this is where I'm limited, but I can have a vision get femur.
Speaker 2:This is where I'm limited, but I can have a vision. You always get femur surgery. Yeah, that's true. You know that's insecure moves, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:That's like getting the six-pack implant.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:It's like, dude, just work out. You know what I mean. But that's essentially how I see it. Like the creating part. You got the vision of the body and then you can hope and wish that one day you wake up and it's there, which is not going to happen, or you can actively work on creating the body.
Speaker 2:And then also when you have to actively work towards something, inevitably you become the person that's able to handle that thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, if you just like woke up in the morning with like a six pack, over the next couple of months probably the next couple of weeks you're going to return to the way you were, because you haven't changed as a person. You still eat the same way. You have to work towards it, so you know. Okay, this is how I have to eat.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then you're now a person capable of whatever yeah because you experienced it. Yeah, you have to go through it. That's a very good point To get the knowledge of it. Yeah, that's a very good point. Okay, let's see here. That was a good one. That was a good one, but there was one that was connected to it, but I should have memorized the number and that's why I put the numbers there now.
Speaker 1:Now you understand oh yeah, 152.
Speaker 2:The reason why days often feel meaningless and mundane is because we are directionless yeah it's purpose, it goes attached directly to purpose. The purpose doesn't have to be large you know it's purpose Attached directly to purpose. Purposes have to be large, it's just like a purpose. Yeah, listen most weekends.
Speaker 1:if you ask me what I'm doing, I'll tell you the mandatories. Like I know I'm going to go to the gym one of the two days and I know that I got to do groceries. Those are things that are like a prerequisite of things that are required of me. They're just going to be there, right, and then after that I get to decide am I going to go out to eat with somebody? Am I going to catch up with a friend? Am I going to go visit my mom? Am I going to work on a podcast? Am I going to like? Do you get what? I mean? I always, because there's nothing that causes me more anxiety than waking up on Saturday with an empty schedule.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like I'm going to waste my Saturday.
Speaker 1:That gives me like when I see nothing on the day, I'm just like all right, well, it's now 8, am I slept in? What am I going to do today? And that day feels purposeless, it feels like I'm wasting time. Those are the days where I'm typically filled with a little bit of anxiety, because now I'm thinking to myself like, oh, dude, I just wasted a day.
Speaker 2:And maybe that comes with us being our harshest critic. Sometimes I do schedule. That's not to say that you can never do nothing and not feel bad about it. Yeah, I like to plan those days Like Saturday this.
Speaker 1:Saturday and now I'm not doing much, but the word you said was scheduled.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was planned, Because then that removes the anxiety for me, Because now I know okay everything that was taken care of up to this point. I can chill and not feel like I'm oh man, I got to go mow the lawn Wasting time.
Speaker 1:Oh, I should probably go do this.
Speaker 2:Oh, I should probably schedule this post, this, whatever. Yeah, Just get everything done so that you know, this Saturday I really have time to just do what I want.
Speaker 1:Yeah, schedule time off. It's nothing, yeah. Yeah, that just comes with being responsible. I think it's pretty important.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have like you know one or two of those a month where I really just don't want to do anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I'm just going to, I'm going to do nothing. It's going to feel good. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:That side of it. But like I do that, I do that every day. But at the end of the days, right, so no, of course.
Speaker 1:So, like I'm saying, a whole day.
Speaker 2:A whole day, yeah, or you know the majority of a saturday, I guess today could be like that.
Speaker 1:You get what I mean. Like for me today. I'm recording. I'm probably gonna do groceries after this.
Speaker 2:It's a chill day you know what I mean, and then I'm gonna work out later yeah, it's just a good day.
Speaker 1:I'm relaxing before I go back to work tomorrow yeah, that's good, yeah, but you got to give yourself a purpose, to wake up and not know what you're doing. One day, sure a week, it happens. Your whole life, that's when it's like you got to get your things together, man that's when you're starting to dream and not doing anything about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my god, I have to like do this, this and this yeah, the deeper you fall into that rut, also the harder just to get out of it. Like the more, the more often you do nothing, the harder it'll become to do something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just like it's, because momentum has been lost, you know, and so like uh, uh me right now being a month and a half after the bodybuilding show, knowing that full momentum is no longer there, I've regressed a little bit, you know. That puts me in a place like that, where I feel like it's like damn, like I could be doing more. But, like you said, it's because I've been there before yeah, and you can go back.
Speaker 2:You know. You just know the work required. You just gotta do it, that's it. You can't depend on motivation to start doing it again. No, that's why building the discipline is important. Yeah, this is not a motivational podcast. No, this is a disciplined podcast. Okay, shit, now I'm starting to overthink them why, I don't know. I like to pick ones that also would spark a conversation. Let me see there's no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. It's a choice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's always a controversy.
Speaker 2:That's hard, that one's hard because in some ways I agree, some ways I don't, let's talk about it? How do you?
Speaker 1:I know happiness is a choice, yeah.
Speaker 2:But that's really really hard to remember all the time.
Speaker 1:Well, I feel like a good starting point for this conversation is your definition of happiness Right? Because when you say happiness to people, I'm sure automatically the mind creates a smile joyful. I'm happy, everything's great, and to me that's not happiness.
Speaker 2:No, that's joyfulness. Yeah, to me that's almost like enthusiasm. I think happiness is contentment.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know like you're satisfied. You're content with where you are, Even if it's not where you want to be, you're still happy with where you are now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so let me paint to you why, for me, it's a choice. So I wake up and I have the thoughts of I have bills to pay. This upcoming check is going to be a little smaller because I missed a day last week. I've gained 20 pounds since the bodybuilding show. My wedding's in four months. The stag is happening.
Speaker 1:The bachelor there's so many things running through my mind. My car's making a funny noise now. Bag is happening. The bachelor there's so many things running through my mind. Right, my car's making a funny noise. Now it makes a funny noise when I turn on my AC, on the fan motor that you saw, you know all these thoughts and they come like very fast. And then it's like did you prep your lunch? Are you going to go out and get Dunkin' this morning? Do you want a coffee? All these thoughts immediately, immediately, right. So what happens when I'm having all those thoughts is I'm observing a conversation that's starting to happen, and typically it begins in a negative perspective, like I got so much to do or so many things, like I could have done better with this. Maybe I shouldn't have had the ice cream last night. Maybe I should have gotten a better car with more reliability.
Speaker 2:You get what I'm saying All these thoughts.
Speaker 1:There are reasons you can be unhappy, exactly, and then that's automatic, out of my control, and for some reason it's like the mind is concerned for me because of all that I have going on and it's just trying to remind me, but I'm not receiving it well at the moment. So it becomes anxiety and it becomes oh, I got so much to do and I'm stressed out because this is happening and this is happening. You know what I mean, and it's when I make the choice to stop that conversation and reroute the way I'm observing it. So, instead of seeing it from I have so much to do is like yo, I'm getting married this year. Like I just did a bodybuilding show a month ago, holy shit. Like you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like there's that conversation has changed, different yeah and now, all of a sudden, I'm not quote, unquote happy, but I'm not in that negative yeah, like I feel like the weight of the world is coming down on you yeah everybody has these problems.
Speaker 2:So, like you can, what I've been doing is just writing it down, like when I have a thought that's just like stressing me out, or I have that thought multiple times a day. I know it's something that I'm stressed out about, so I'll just put it in my notes on my phone. I think that's literally what journaling is yeah, but I don, I don't journal, I was just about to say oh, you're journaling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you are journaling.
Speaker 2:I literally make bullet points. Yeah, oh, I don't know. Car is making a noise you know probably need to fix it soon. Might cost us. Yeah, all right, so now I can stop thinking about right, I'm not gonna forget, I just know it's there and before you know it you'll have a list of stuff that's making you anxious and it's offloaded and when you feel like you can deal with it, open the note and just look at it then you just start to deal with it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but like you don't have to, you don't have to deal with everything now. So then there's no point in it stressing you out now yeah you know so so it's a method to dealing with it.
Speaker 1:Yes, i's going to be different.
Speaker 2:Some people won't need to write it down, it's fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Well, that's the biggest thing that I push. Is you got to figure out what works for you, you know? So, like Sam puts it on his phone, I journal personally in a notebook, but I also have my notes. I talk to myself a lot when I'm alone Genuinely have a conversation with whatever's going on with Miguel inside. It sounds weird if you've never done it before, but you're already doing it. For the most part, most people just aren't conscious of it. That's why they lead themselves, without being aware of it, to he's so excited he's going crazy. They lead themselves to being aware of it to he's so excited, he's going crazy. Yeah, they lead themselves to their own misery, you know, because they're not observant of the. Why do they feel like this kind of way?
Speaker 2:and then when you ask them, oh, how's what's going on, or how are you? Oh man, I got a lot going on yeah, everybody's got a lot going on.
Speaker 1:Everybody's got a lot going on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how you talk about it makes you know it's like, and there's people with way worse problems than you.
Speaker 1:Real problems right.
Speaker 2:A lot of our problems aren't even real.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to start on that, yeah. I want to talk about that. That's interesting.
Speaker 2:I mean, if you have food, shelter, water and a roof over your head and a roof over your head, nothing to do with it, Doing it to most people, no, that's it, that's all that actually matters Then that's when you can really test if your happiness is a choice.
Speaker 1:You know yeah.
Speaker 2:Because you should be fine. Everything else is just like extra. You can abandon everything else and be fine. Yeah, you know, it's all social. A lot of our problems are social Contracts.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Payments Expectations, expectations.
Speaker 1:Personal relationships. I agree with you. I agree with you. Yeah, that's why I'm generally happy.
Speaker 2:Yeah. That's a good point, just don't even. It's not real. I mean, life's not real. Yeah, life is an illusion. Wake up.
Speaker 1:Oh no. Everybody wake up. Okay, that's funny what the hell?
Speaker 2:number 199, number 199. Most people are just winging it in life, just like, just like me.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh, that's just. Uh, that was a reminder to myself to stop putting people on a throne.
Speaker 2:On a pedestal. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Don't put others on a pedestal, because I used to look at the people I admire and I'd be like they're so far man. They got everything figured out. Their life is so great man. Wow, their life is so great man, like wow. And then as I read their books and I study them and I watch how they speak, then they all say the same thing. It's like my story was in glory Just like you, yeah, and they're like yo.
Speaker 1:Half the time I didn't know what to do, but I did this and I took action and I didn't quit. And now the same values I speak about all the time. You know what I mean. So that was a uh. I probably at the moment was having a thought of comparison and and comparing myself to somebody else and maybe thinking less of myself, and then I caught it and I wrote that as like uh, bro, come on.
Speaker 2:They're just winging it, just like you are. Yeah, you can't put other people on a pedestal it just doesn't work. It's yeah, you can't put other people on a pedestal. It just doesn't work. It's weird. It puts you in a position immediately of being below them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's going to make you feel like shit about yourself no matter what Correct, you can admire what they do yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, that's what that one's for.
Speaker 2:Yeah, comparison, thief of Joy. Yes, comparison, yeah, that's basically what that is. Mm-hmm oh man, it starts to get a little longer Mm-hmm. Sometimes I go on a yeah, see, so you're limited by what you believe yourself to be? Yeah, that kind of goes hand-in in hand with that last thing. You shouldn't put others on a pedestal because you could be there too. Yeah, genuinely you could. I mean, people make excuses. Oh, this guy, oh, he grew up with money. That's why. But then there's also another guy that's probably more impressive than him, who grew up without money, than him, who grew up without money.
Speaker 1:You know I say anything, anything, it doesn't matter what that you justify. That you use to justify your lack of effort is an excuse. Yes, you know what I mean. Like anything, like anything that comes out of your mouth that says yeah, but or I have kids, yeah, anything. It doesn't matter, yeah, but you know brown rice. I'd be like, oh, you're blaming brown rice for whatever reason.
Speaker 2:You get what I'm saying. Yeah, it's just like this ice cream flavor.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if it already exists. I'd be chilling. So I don't like hearing myself talk like that, you know. So I mean, unless it's I catch it before I speak it Like most of the time I'm like and I know this is an excuse, but then I'll say it Because it is an excuse, because it is an excuse, it's always an excuse.
Speaker 2:This is quite literally the definition of an excuse is a reason of justifying why I can't do something. Yes, better make sure that reason's good. That's all, thank you. How strong is your self-image?
Speaker 1:That's all I wrote. How strong is your self-image? Question mark, question mark, so self-image. I can't begin to describe it in depth, but self-image is essentially how you view yourself. It works for me in the sense of when I was Fat Miguel, I had to work on the self-image of creating the Miguel. That's here now. You know what I mean. And every day I had to refine that image and I mean literally like what did I want to look? Like? How did I want to talk? How did I want to walk? Like, how did I want to talk? How did I want to walk? You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So you were looking at yourself in a future lens.
Speaker 1:Yes, through my own mind. What was your self-image?
Speaker 2:like at that time, did you hate yourself? I was creating it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I wasn't happy with who I was. You know what I mean. So it was basically like two separate ones trying to work with each other. Right, because I had my reality overweight, unhappy, etc. Etc. And then I had, you know, financially stable, surrounded by great people with a great body, right, simple goals. And then it's like, dude, I'm nowhere near there. And then I'm listening to other people communicate and the way that they communicate sounds nothing like how I used to talk. So then, in that self-image I'm working on, I changed my vocabulary, I changed how I spoke, how I thought you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Educate yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that self-image dictates directly how you act out in the real world, right? So the goal is to create a self-image and keep it so firm in the front of your mind that, as you physically make choices, you ask yourself to disalign with the self-image I have in my mind, and if it doesn't, you're making a wrong choice, right? So, like I wanted to be fit, I'm on the drive-thru at Wendy's.
Speaker 2:Every time you put something in your mouth, it just aligns with your self-image.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that self-image is there Like looking at me like dude, this doesn't line up. I thought you wanted to look like this, but what it's viewing through my own eyes is, you know, the frosty going into my mouth and the fries, and it's just like this doesn't make sense. So now I'm just confusing myself all the time, but over time, when I started making better and better decisions why are you getting up early? It matches my self-image. Why are you going on a hike? It matches my self-image. Why are you reading a book? It matches my self-image. It matches who I'm trying to become. And now I'm at a point where I've crossed a threshold where I can do things that I know aren't that good for me, like play video games and shit. But I've understood that I am now the kind of person that I'm dominantly yeah, but that also can match your self-image.
Speaker 2:You want Excuse me, you want a person who's fit, who's financially stable, who's surrounded by those who love him and who can play video games when he wants. Yeah, that can match your self-image Correct, but you just have to do all the others. You can't pick the the easy ones. Yeah, right, like you have to.
Speaker 1:like you said, you have to keep it at the forefront of your mind, because that's when people say, oh, I want to lose 30 pounds yeah, typically those people or most times people, think those thoughts at night yeah, that's why there's those memes that is like yeah, exactly, 3 am doing push-ups.
Speaker 2:No, or just like yeah, starting tomorrow I'm going to start my journey on losing 30 pounds. And you feel so strongly about it because you're in bed and you know that you're not going to have to get up and do it now. So you feel really good about it Because there's no work required. Now I feel really good having this idea before sleeping. It makes you feel like you're productive because even though you didn't do anything, you just had a good thought again, because you know knowledge is nothing if you don't implement it.
Speaker 1:Well, you know I'm gonna.
Speaker 2:You gotta wake up in the morning and remember that, yes, this is my most important goal, even though you're like, okay, I gotta go to work, so now this is more important than my goal that I had last night.
Speaker 1:So I'm just gonna grab this from wendy's yeah, you know, you know, because now all of a sudden like that goal is not so important anymore.
Speaker 2:But that's literally what it takes. Is these choices like immediately, when you don't want to do it? But people don't think that way that's it, dude.
Speaker 1:I'm so, uh, when, when I tell you that I've I've dreamt the things I'm experiencing now, and the reason I've dreamt them is because I always held them there, always held them there right. And for you, listening, it's so important to remind yourself of what you're aiming for, right, because then, as the days go by, you let the distractions of life get in the way and then, all of a sudden, that goal that was supposed to be very important, it's in the back burner, getting forgotten.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like when I have time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll get to it eventually, and then it never gets done. It's not a priority, uh-uh. Yesterday I heard Modern Wisdom, the podcast by Chris Williamson. He said something yesterday and it's so simple. But it's a slap to the face, right, and I love it because I'm, very gratefully, just like you, are at a point where you know when you got to do something, you're just going to do it, because you're just that kind of person now You've developed yourself to be. But he's like. He's like talking about the thing isn't doing the thing. Scheduling to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Talking to your friends about the thing isn't doing the thing. Writing the thing on a sketch, on a planner isn't doing the thing, you know. And essentially he goes on with so many and then he's like the only thing that gets the thing done is doing the thing.
Speaker 1:You just have to actually do it. And that's where most people fail, because they approach life with these unrealistic expectations. I love when people say, man, I'm getting in shape for the summer and I'm just like what happens after the summer, and they're usually never going to change what happens? After the summer. I always laugh when I ask that, but it's a genuine question, because you have to be better than that. Well, what's going to happen is they're going to eat like shit throughout the whole summer. Yeah, and then Quote unquote.
Speaker 2:Enjoying themselves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and by the end of the summer they're going to be back to where they were Without a doubt approach is always like why not get healthy for life and then you can enjoy every summer and winter? You just feel so much better if you're just, you know. But again, people aren't thinking like that. Why? Because the self-image sees a bikini body, this summer only, yeah. And then what happens? That self-image in the winter doesn't see themselves at the gym working out. They see hot chocolate, snowed in, c cuddly, ordering food, and that's the self-image you're settling in. You get what I'm saying. It all correlates, man, and it's easy to implement.
Speaker 2:Difficult to stay consistent with, yeah yeah, that's the problem with most people. You have to make it something you enjoy. Make it something that just becomes you yeah.
Speaker 1:Like you, just, yeah, I don't drink that, I don't eat that you know it's like that video I saw recently of, like it says, when you used to go to the gym to release anger and now life is good.
Speaker 2:Now your life is too good and you just got to rely on discipline. Okay, bro.
Speaker 1:You're just sitting there. But that's reality, right? Because you go to the gym, for example, and the goal is to get better, because you're going through some shit, but then the shit passes. And now, for most people, since the shit passed, guess what? So does the gym. You know, it's actually always been the opposite.
Speaker 2:I actually do best in the gym when everything in life is going like smooth. Well, yeah, just because I feel like all right, like everything I'm working for is it's, it's working yeah like everything's good. You know I have a lot to be grateful for. Let me go hit a good work. Yeah, well, that's where I am now that's just how I am.
Speaker 1:You get what I mean. But now it's a lifestyle like uh, uh. Like you ever seen the people on on social media, they'll say, like dude, stop trying to demonize the gym. Like you're in there battling demons, like you like working out and it's just like yeah, you got me. I do like working out. But it wasn't always the case you know, in year one and two of working out it was all emotional Like I was here because fuck the world and fuck the people who said, oh, you're not going to the gym.
Speaker 1:I was angry, you know. And now I'm healthy. I go to the gym five days a week. I eat dominantly healthy majority of the time and I go to the gym and I'm just like like, oh, fuck you got to maintain this.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, yeah, that's really what it is. You got to maintain it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's really what it is. You got to maintain it. Yeah, I'll let you decide when you want to call it. We're at 30 minutes.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think we did what five, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I lost count because they all started in a 20. That was a lot, yeah, what is he meowing about?
Speaker 1:He has an opinion. You know, he's acting up because you're here. He always sleeps next to me when I record alone.
Speaker 2:He's showing off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hey, what are you doing? What do you got to say?
Speaker 2:You hear him breathing.
Speaker 1:Pick one more and we'll wrap it up after that.
Speaker 2:If you're not getting better, you're getting worse. Yeah, I feel like we've done that before.
Speaker 1:I'm sure we've done a few of these already and that one's so easy.
Speaker 2:The last one intertwines every win against temptation is a step closer to the best. You close it with that, yeah what number is that?
Speaker 1:does it have a number? No, this one intertwines. Every win against temptation is a step closer to the best you Close it with that? Yeah, because that's Every.
Speaker 2:What number is that? Does it have a number? No, what'd you say? Every win against temptation is a step closer to the best you.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So we were that. That's kind of what those choices we were talking about, yeah.
Speaker 1:As exactly so. Like, yeah, man, this is why personal bro, this is why, like, I stopped trying to make these elaborate videos and in-depth explanations of personal development, because it's all the same shit. Like you could, bro, I stopped buying. I haven't bought a book in forever. It doesn't mean I don't read anymore. I'm more on Audible than anything, but you could only read so many personal development books before you realize. Different story, same concept.
Speaker 2:Same values. The consistency, the discipline, the consistency, the discipline. Yeah, be mindful. Exactly, it's like everything that's worth having takes time. Yeah, patience is a virtue. It's all together.
Speaker 1:It's all the same thing. It's all the same. It's the key, and this one specifically. Read it for me one more time, please.
Speaker 2:Every win against temptation is a step closer to the best you.
Speaker 1:So, and this one specifically, is basically the reminder that, once you set the goal, the way that life is supposed to test you is by putting in your face difficulties that will take you away from the path you've chosen to walk, and it's your individual responsibility to catch that and, even if it derails you a little bit, get back on track, which means you overcame the difficulty, or, if it was in the form of temptation, you didn't give into it and you surpassed it. You continue moving forward. If you do that for a long period of time, you're guaranteed some sort of improvement and I never say guaranteed, but that's guaranteed. It's like making a deposit into a bank account Every day To guarantee the money's going to be there.
Speaker 2:There's a quote about that somewhere in there To know your time like money, and then it all starts to make sense, compounding daily yeah, yeah, yo, it's all your full circle.
Speaker 1:Boom, that's the name of this episode. No man dude, let's. Let's wrap it up, so we continue our day yeah as always, I'm grateful for you crazy thanks, fa yeah that's awesome. Thank you for being here, dude. These conversations are always reaffirming for me, right, because the people who we've become are the people that years ago I would look up to Right.
Speaker 2:You get what I mean.
Speaker 1:And now we're just continuing making progress and progress, and to know that I got people in my life, especially my best friend right, who I can have these conversations with and not feel like I'm a total weirdo, because you understand what I'm saying. It's a way of life.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And we're both approaching it very differently is the best part, you know, because it shows like yo it works. The approach kind of doesn't matter because it's unique to all of us, but there's a couple of core things that are the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they work. The consistency, the things you don't want to hear is essentially. It's boring.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we almost called this podcast the Hurtful Truth Podcast. Yeah, remember, but it was taken.
Speaker 2:You don't want to hear it, but you know you need to hear it.
Speaker 1:Exactly Because what we're handing out here is all, all the truths that you know. You know everything we spoke about. I feel like not once did you go like, oh my god, I didn't know that, because we didn't say anything like that. And I and I take pride in that because, again, it shows that it's not these extraordinary things that are, like you know, glorified by social media, like the, it's not the wake not wake up for the sake of the things trending now. It's not wake up and dip your face in a fucking water bowl and rub a banana peel in your face. If that's what works for you, do it, because if it's working, it works for you.
Speaker 1:But the beauty of life is understanding that you get most joy from creating yourself, from experiencing yourself, and understanding that the shoes you put on are yours to walk. So, with that being said, enjoy all the value given today, understand that you have a responsibility to make something great out of yourself, and if you don't achieve it, you can't blame anybody but yourself. And with that being said, you got anything to say? Nope.
Speaker 1:That's a wrap Until next time.
