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
EP121- Its ALL difficult. Which ones will you endure?
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A profound truth: difficulty is woven into the fabric of our existence. To expect only comfort and satisfaction is to set ourselves up for disappointment. The real power comes not from avoiding hardship, but from choosing which hardships align with the life we truly want.
Through personal experiences I share my own transformation from someone trapped in the difficulties of unhealthy habits – the mental drain of knowing I wasn't living up to my potential, the physical limitations of poor health, the financial stress of irresponsible choices – to someone who embraced different difficulties: the discipline of consistent exercise, mindful eating, deeper relationships, and purposeful living. Both paths were hard, but they led to radically different destinations.
Understand this...Staying overweight is hard; getting fit is hard. Being broke is hard; building wealth is hard. Toxic relationships are hard; nurturing quality connections is hard. Life doesn't get easier – we simply get to decide which version of hard we want to experience. The difficulties we choose through intentional action tend to improve our life's trajectory, while those that come from neglect or passivity often lead to regret.
We are now half way done with 2025, take this opportunity to reflect on which difficulties you're currently enduring and whether they're ones you would consciously choose. Remember that regardless of what you decide, difficulty will be present – you simply get to determine which form it takes and where it leads you. Choose your hard wisely, and watch how that choice transforms not just your days, but your entire life experience.
Listen now and join the 1%. A community of individuals committed to compounding small, difficult choices into remarkable lives. What difficulties will you choose today?
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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, another solo episode. I sit here by myself. Today, I have a topic that we all know. We all know it to be true, yet we find it difficult to allow such a topic to influence our decisions in a better direction. And before I get into the specific topic, I always like to give my welcomes and my gratitudes.
Speaker 1:We are in episode 121, and I sit in disbelief as I watch the community grow, as I watch the conversations happening, as I sit here and understand that the difficulties I've gone through in my life are no longer just meaningful to me, but meaningful to you, the listeners, in the sense of I like to give you my failures. I like to give you my real, raw thoughts of the experience that I'm currently going through the difficulties, the challenges, the obstacles and, if I overcome them, how I overcame them, with the understanding that what I did may not work for you, but at least now you have hope that you can overcome such difficulties. And that thought alone puts me in a place of gratitude and a place where I'm sitting here with myself and I get to reflect on the journey so far and the way that I view 121 is that's 121 weeks. That's over two years that we've been here now sitting, sharing these conversations, without failure, without a lack of consistency, and, with that being said, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for being here. I know you'll enjoy this episode, I know it will have value, but if, for some reason, you don't get to the end of it, even though it is a short one, if, for some reason, you don't get to the end of it, remind yourself that it's Monday or it's the beginning of a brand new week, depending when you are listening to this. And we now find ourselves at the halfway mark.
Speaker 1:Six months of 2025 are gone and you get to make a decision. You get to decide how you're going to spend the next six. If the first six were difficult, what makes you think that the following six won't be difficult? Unless the most dominant variable, which is you, changes and something must change. And you get to decide how you show up, the conversations you've had, the people that you surround yourself with, the goals you choose to aim at, and those will slowly and steadily build the life which you are currently experiencing. So it might be the beginning of a new week, you might feel a little bit down. You might feel like life is against you. You might feel like you got something heavy weighing on your shoulders, and I'm here to tell you that that's fine. That's part of the journey. To expect anything different is expecting something unrealistic. It is part of the story. Show up as the best version of yourself, with what you have, with who you are and where you are, and I guarantee it, over time you will be in a better place.
Speaker 1:So let's get into today's topic. Today's topic is something that's cliche. As I was scrolling through my ideas, I came across this and I was like oh, I don't want to talk about that because it's such a cliche. Everybody says it now and people you know take it in one ear out the other because it's so cliche. But the thing is I am a very cliche person. Everything that I say, I never say it and then expect a dramatic response to it, to it. I understand that the things that I speak about are not depth in thought and don't require a significant amount of time to reflect on. I like to keep it simple. I like to keep it so that I understand it, because I'm not the smartest guy in the room and, with that being said, today's topic is choosing your difficulty or the cliche that you hear. It is choose your heart.
Speaker 1:Understand something, as I said in the beginning of this episode to expect out of life only comfort, joy and satisfaction is an unrealistic expectation that will lead you to disappointment. Expectation that will lead you to disappointment Also a realistic understanding that we all know that. We all know that at one point or another, something's going to get difficult. It's either going to get cold, you're going to lose the job, you're going to lose the girlfriend, you're going to get a flat, your subscription to entertainment is going to expire and you don't have the card anymore. You understand what I'm saying. Some sort of inconvenience is going to happen and you get to decide how you react to that inconvenience and, through the test of time, your reactions will get better, depending on what you chose to become between difficulty number one and difficulty number two.
Speaker 1:Let me explain. If something's difficult for you, right and you endure, you overcome, and now it is in your past, do you take the following chapter right past that difficulty and only enjoy the lack of illness against you now, or do you only sit there and relax and say, wow, man, this is great. Or do you at some point say you know, I've experienced a difficulty? Clearly, I'm probably going to experience another one sometime in the future. So why not use this time, this time of joy and happiness and lack of illness in my life, to become just a little bit better, so that when, inevitably, the next difficulty shows up, I'm a little bit better? Maybe not fully prepared, because that's why it's difficult, because you didn't expect it in the first place, but now you've gotten just a little bit better.
Speaker 1:That choice is choosing hard. Why? Because, from point A to point B, you don't get better from sitting at home hoping. You don't get better from literally changing nothing, meaning you complain out loud, you verbally express to the world how you are dissatisfied with your life, yet you show up as the same you. Nothing's changed. You know what I mean. So you get to decide these things, and these things are difficult, everything that I've just said. I know that it's not just like, oh, I'm going to wake up tomorrow and implement that, even though that is exactly what must do, what you must do. But it is not easy. But at the end of the day, we get to reflect. We get to decide upon our own lives, what difficulties we want to experience, and the sooner that you accept, the sooner that you understand that the more difficulties you experience and overcome and learn the lessons from, the better you become, the more you'll be able to endure. That's what the saying don't wish things were easier, wish that you were better. And that comes from choosing hard. In today's world, in today's motivational everybody's a motivational speaker world and social media, you hear it like choose your hard. You have to choose your hard because all of life is hard. I like to hear that and sit and think and with those thoughts I reflect and I see that I've been blessed with being on both sides of the coin going into my 20s, early 20s.
Speaker 1:My choice of hard was from a lack of purpose in my life, from a lack of goal-orientated decisions in my life, and what I mean is I would wake up right. I would wake up mentally drained, physically depleted right From being overweight, drained, physically depleted right from being overweight, and I would immediately turn to a vice. In my case it was weed. And so I'm already smoking. I'm already going to work, I'm smoking a black and mild. I'm going to McDonald's for lunch, right, I'm spending all this money that I don't have. Then I'm coming home and I'm getting high again and I'm just sitting in front of the TV and I'm playing Xbox and I'm hanging out with my friends. And then the weekend comes and everything that I just told you magnifies even more. But take the work part out of it. And I was just smoking more, playing more, hanging out more, and all of this sounds easy to do.
Speaker 1:But the life that I was experiencing was hard. Hard because I was witnessing myself withering away was hard. Hard because I was witnessing myself withering away. Hard because the voice in my head kept nagging at me, reminding me that I am capable of so much more and I am wasting my life. Hard because I knew deep down that I agreed with that voice. Hard because I knew deep down that it was a simple change from eat a little bit cleaner, spend a little bit less money, hang out with a little bit better quality people. Stop surrounding yourself by the people that are weighing you down and aren't willing to change. I knew these things, but it was hard to implement and it took me a long time to start that initiative.
Speaker 1:But on the outside, you would think I'm chilling. You would think that everything's well why? Because that's what I was portraying to the world. I was showing up, always joking around. I always have a good sense of humor, always cracking jokes and hanging out right. But deep down I knew I wasn't happy with who I was and living with a person that you stare at in the mirror, meaning yourself and knowing that you aren't happy. And I'm not talking physically here, even though that was part of it. I'm talking about this gift called life and you understanding that you are wasting it. That is one of the hardest things I've had to do in my whole life. That is one of the hardest things I've had to do in my whole life Because, once accepted, I had to come to the understanding that nobody could help me get out of that.
Speaker 1:I did that. Therefore, I must get out of it. Why? Because it's me, I created me, I allowed me to happen and I needed to change that. That was hard being in that position where I'm literally staring at myself and saying, ill, dissatisfied, something needs to change Hard. But I accepted that hard and I settled in it for way too long. And when I started implementing the changes that were aiming to make me a better person the eating a little bit cleaner, the going to the gym, the reading the books, the watching the seminars, the going to bed early, the being mindful of my vocabulary so I'm not speaking profanity every sentence. Those things were hard. Hard because they were part of a different version of me. Hard because they were not part of my habits. Hard because they didn't align with the current version of myself. But I had to understand something Upon reflection. I got the blessing to see Miguel.
Speaker 1:Your life is already hard. It's just hard because you can't tie your shoes without bending over because your belly gets in the way. It's hard because you get anxiety every time you open your bank account because you don't know if it's going to be overdrawn or barely enough to get you to the end of the week. Hard because when you're driving home and you're, you don't remember if you paid the light bill or not. So now you're stressing out because you might come home once again to your electricity shut off. Hard because you chose to stay in a toxic relationship and now you're going home to an argument to poison being spilled over your mind. Hard, but I chose it and I accepted that and I told myself it can't get much harder than that.
Speaker 1:If the things that are aiming for that are hard, are the things that are dedicated to make me better. Do you understand that? It's all hard when I started tracking my food hard. When I started going to the gym consistently hard. Fast forward now, seven years, when I did a bodybuilding show hard. When I met the love of my life and I had to maneuver myself as a kind of person that wanted to attract her and keep her hard. It's all hard, but I had to decide. What kind of hards do I want to experience? What do I want to tolerate? What am I willing to overcome? How many difficult situations am I willing to surpass in order to achieve, in order to experience, in order to become the person that I wish to be?
Speaker 1:None of it is easy, and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Do yourself the favor and just go study the wealthy and I don't mean the wealthy financially. I always emphasize on that. It's not all about the money. I'm talking about the people who are succeeding in life, and to me, my definition of success that I got from Earl Nightingale from a video that I watched a few years ago, and his definition of success that I've adapted is anybody who's aiming at something that's requiring a greater version of themselves and in the journey, they are not hindering or causing problems for anybody along the way, meaning you're not stepping over people to reach where you want to go. You're not burning bridges intentionally through your journey because you're just like. It's all about me. That's my definition of success.
Speaker 1:Are you aiming something that's making you better and in the progress of you becoming that version of yourself? Are you hindering other people from achieving something great as well? If you are not doing those things, then you are succeeding. You're not hindering anybody and you are aiming at something better than yourself.
Speaker 1:And the reason that I bring that up is because when you study the wealthy, you'll understand that none of it was easy. You'll understand that they went through extreme measures of difficulties that they had to overcome and as time progressed, their difficulties didn't become easier, they became better, they adapted, they learned from difficulty to difficulty, but none of it was easy. If it was easy, everybody would do it. You know the cliche If it was easy, everybody would do it. But guess what? It's all hard. Staying broke is hard. Aiming for financial freedom is hard. Being overweight is hard. Maintaining a good physical, healthy body is hard. Surrounding yourself by toxic individuals who weigh you down over time is hard. Being mindful of quality friendships, of people who are helping you become better, is hard. It's all hard.
Speaker 1:You get to decide with your freedom of choice what difficulties you want to endure. Now, life is 100% going to throw some at your way, unwanted like hey, I don't care what difficulties you want to endure here, take this one, good luck. And those are the ones that you have to navigate through. Those are the ones that you have to overcome. Those are the ones that you learn valuable lessons from. You put them into your inventory and you continue moving forward.
Speaker 1:Get rid of the expectation that one day everything will be easier for you. It can't get any easier than where we are now. We are spoiled in today's world. We have the technology and the medical advancements to be able to say such a thing. So you get to decide what hard looks like for you, and hard doesn't need to look like anything in comparison to anybody else. But accept that hard is part of your life, that hard is going to be there, and you get to decide which one, which approach, which perspectives you get to entertain and at the end of the day, that'll create the life that you want to experience or don't want to experience. Choose your heart and deal with the consequences that come from choosing that. Think about that, my friends, until next time.
