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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EP122-It's Never Too Late. Unless you believe it to be so.
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Have you ever caught yourself thinking "It's too late for me to change" or "I've already invested so much time in this path"? That limiting belief might be the only thing standing between you and the life you truly desire.
In this deeply personal episode, I open up about my own journey balancing life as a full-time plumber while pursuing my passion for speaking and helping others. Despite knowing from age 24 that I wanted to inspire people through speaking, I spent years convincing myself it was too late to change direction. "Who do you think you are?" my inner critic would ask. "You're a plumber. You've already dedicated years to this career."
This mental prison of permanence - the belief that where we are now is where we must remain - is perhaps the most dangerous obstacle to personal growth. Yet I've discovered that transformation doesn't have an expiration date. Most people I admire didn't find true success until their 30s or 40s. Their early years were spent exploring, making mistakes, learning, and gradually discovering their direction.
Today, I enjoy the blessing of inspiring others through speaking while still working as a plumber to pay the bills. The journey isn't about making dramatic overnight changes; it's about taking steady steps toward your dreams. Yes, it might take years or even a decade to fully transition, but that decade will pass anyway. When it does, you can either be a decade older having moved toward your dreams, or a decade older in exactly the same place, filled with even more regret.
What limiting belief is holding you back? What would your life look like if you refused to believe it was too late? When you reach the end of your life, will you think about all the joy you experienced, or will you be haunted by "I wish" and "I should have"? The answer is being determined by the choices you make today.
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Hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez, and welcome back to another episode. Thank you for being here. First and foremost, of course, I'm always grateful to be able to share my experiences and my ideas and my thoughts with you, the listeners, my friends, the community that I'm creating here, because the feedback reciprocates right. It's a ripple for me and me giving feedback about the things that I'm going through. I may receive feedback from other people experiencing the same thing, and many times I've gotten a different perspective that I couldn't see before, and I don't take those things and just take them for granted. I appreciate them, which means I appreciate you and I thank you for being here.
Speaker 1:This is episode 122. I can't believe it. Time is moving almost too fast. I'm extremely grateful just to be here, to be able to stay so consistent with this, because, believe me, I'm a human being and there's been many, many, many, many times where I could have made an excuse. I could have just said I don't feel like it today, and really nobody would care that much, but I would and it would bother me. So the accountability that you guys hold me to, it's something that I cherish, something that I appreciate, something that I look forward to every single week, so thank you for being here.
Speaker 1:Today is a solo episode. I don't have a preset time as to how long it's going to be it could be five minutes, it could be 30 minutes. It just depends on how much I want to talk about the things that I want to talk about. And if you are new to the page, if you are new to the podcast, if you are new to the Compounding Daily community, understand something like sure, I fall into the category of motivation, but motivation is not the goal that I have set in mind when I sit here and record. My goal isn't to as when you finish listening, that you feel overenthusiastic about now becoming better, because motivation is faint. It is there for a brief moment and that brief moment can last 24 hours or a week, it doesn't matter. The point is that eventually you're going to wake up and motivation will not be present. And that's where I want to come in. I want to come in as the reminder that this gift called life is exactly that A gift that for many, goes for too long, for most all of their life, underappreciated.
Speaker 1:I like to emphasize on the reality of life. To emphasize on the reality of life. I admit my pains, my suffering, my self-created prisons that I've barreled myself into in my own mind. I speak about these things because those are the reality of life. I hate the rainbows and butterflies approach, and that's coming from probably one of the most grateful people you will ever meet. I appreciate everything. I look for beauty in the leaves on the trees. You know as an exaggeration, but you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:It's easy to go on through your life and not see the value, not see it from a perspective of appreciation, and I don't want to sit here and motivate you. I want to sit here and open your eyes to a different viewpoint of life that we can all choose to have. And it doesn't mean that you copy my viewpoint. It just means that I am an individual that most, that most of my life, carried myself with the image of anger, sadness, misery, anxiety, fear, and my response to the world was it's against me, there's nothing here for me. If this is all that there is to offer, then just take me out now. This sucks. I don't want to be here.
Speaker 1:I wasn't happy with who I was becoming. I wasn't happy in the direction that my life was heading. I wasn't happy to be here. I wasn't happy with who I was becoming. I wasn't happy in the direction that my life was heading. I wasn't happy in the relationship that I was in. I wasn't happy, most importantly, with myself and the life that I've allowed myself to live and to go from that to now, the person speaking to you. I'm still the same guy. I still battle my anxieties, my fears, my moments of depressions.
Speaker 1:I am a human being, but something changed along the line, and that is where I like to speak from. I like to tell people like it wasn't special. I didn't have a breakthrough moment where, you know, the stars aligned and the sun was beaming through the clouds just perfectly, as I was driving in the highway right into my windshield, and I had a moment of bliss like I wish I could say something like that, but it wasn't like that. There's nothing great about my story in my own opinion. My story in my own opinion, and the reason I emphasize so much on that is because I like to take the idea that the people that you see succeeding are special or significantly different from you in any way, shape or form. The only thing that's different is that on their path on their journey. They may be a little bit further than you, but at the end of the day, it doesn't make them any more special than you. I like to emphasize that if I can do something, you can do something Because, believe me, I was nobody special growing up.
Speaker 1:I still don't consider myself anybody special growing up, and the things that I did are all able to be implemented by anybody capable of understanding the words that I'm saying now, because I haven't said anything crazy. I haven't said anything out of range of understanding for most people, and as you listen to this, I want you to keep that in mind. The goal is to be inspired. The goal is for you to question the things that you typically believe in, that you know don't serve you in the direction of the person that you wish to become. If you can understand that, you can listen to this and you can do the things that I did, because what I did was read a few books, watch a lot of videos, change the daily choices and over time, I learned what worked for me and I learned what didn't work for me. And here I stand before you now, sharing this with you so that you can understand that you too, can achieve whatever kind of progress you wish to in your own life, and that wasn't the topic.
Speaker 1:Actually, I went off on a little rant, but I know there was value in it. I always like to emphasize on that. I don't want people to sit here and say, oh, it's a motivational podcast. I'm going to sit here and be motivated, because the things that I speak about and the way that I speak about them don't typically tend to motivate. They typically tend to leave most people, especially the ones that aren't prepared to listen to it in a moment of a little bit of stress.
Speaker 1:Because I like to speak hurtful truths. I, to put it into the best way that I can put it for you, the listener am always placing myself in the audience's seat. Every morning message you've heard from me, every episode I've released, understand that I have re-listened to it myself and I don't listen to it in the oh, I'm going to judge myself as the speaker. I listen to it as if I'm sitting on the crowd and I like to understand that the things being said are part of my life, that they're part of the hurtful truths that I had to accept in my life. One of them is the things that we're going to speak about today, and today I want to speak about something very simple. I want to speak about the understanding that the reality that the only thing holding you back from making progress is that limiting belief in your mind where you've convinced yourself that you cannot move forward, that whatever it is that you want to have, just isn't for you. That right now is not a good time, that right now it's been past your time, it is too late for you, and that is the nail I want to hit a good time, that right now it's been past your time, it is too late for you, and that is the nail I want to hit. That's the one that I want to hit the most.
Speaker 1:Today's episode is strictly focusing on accepting the reality that it is never too late for you to begin change. I don't care how old you are listening to this, I don't care if you're in your 20s or in your 60s, I don't care what chapter in your life, I don't care how many breakups you've been through, how many jobs you've had, I don't care how many obstacles you've had to jump over Just to be where you are. If you are not satisfied with where you are and you know that as you listen to this, you sit with yourself and you're that. As you listen to this, you sit with yourself and you're like damn, I am not satisfied here. I'm grateful, right, because remember what I said in the beginning of the episode I still express gratitude even if I may not be where I wish to be, right. So I'm grateful, but I know deep down that I want more. I don't know when my time is going to come to an end. It could be tomorrow, it could be in 30 minutes, you don't know. And with that in mind, I want to live. I don't want to stay here. But in your mind, you've told yourself I'll tell you. You know what. I won't even give you examples. I'll give you real life scenarios from me, miguel, my own life.
Speaker 1:When I had the thought in my head of I want to be a speaker, I want to inspire people, I want to speak on a stage and, at least through my experiences and overcoming my own difficulties, change people's lives. It's what I want to do. When I first had that thought, I'll tell you the exact thoughts that ran through my head who do you think you are? That was the first one. The second one was you're a plumber. You're a licensed plumber. You've dedicated years to the education and the field work of becoming a plumber. Why would you throw it out, fast forward a few years? I'm still battling with myself. I still haven't initiated the thought. I still haven't initiated that idea.
Speaker 1:The podcast wasn't created. I wasn't doing morning messages. I just knew deep down that plumbing, as grateful as I am for it as a career, just isn't what I want to do for the rest of my life. But I convinced myself that I already went too deep into that hole. I've convinced myself that, oh, but I've already dedicated so much time to this career, how can I just step out of it now? And now, fast forward what? Seven years, six years, I'm still a plumber, monday through Friday. I do 40 hours, sometimes over times on Saturday, right. I make phenomenal income. I'm extremely grateful for the career. It is a career that doesn't lack in opportunities. There's so much work as if you're in the trade out there, right. But I still have the podcast. I've done multiple speaking events, some keynote speeches at state universities, and yet here I am, now 30.
Speaker 1:I had that vision at 24. And I'm still a plumber. I'm still doing it, but for a long time being a plumber was directly conflicting with me wanting to become a speaker Because in my mind I was a plumber. I've identified myself as a plumber, so I've told myself it's too late for you to become anything else. You're almost 30. And this is the career. You have no experience in speaking, you've never been to speaking school, you're not a social person to begin with, all of these things, and nobody was telling me this. I was telling myself this. I was convincing myself that it's just too late for me to make the changes that I desire. But I want to paint a picture for you. Imagine had I not taken any action. Imagine this as what you're listening to just never existed. The podcast never happened, but I was still a plumber, now 30.
Speaker 1:Who do you think I would be? And I don't dwell too long on these thoughts, because it's pointless to think about things that aren't going to happen, but I like to sit there and reflect on all the different avenues of approach when I could have made the wrong decision, where I could have given up, where I could have listened to those voices and told myself You're right, it is too late for me. I can't. I'm almost 30. What am I doing. It would be a whole new direction. Who do you think you are? Haha, I would probably be a disgruntled plumber, a plumber that shows his dissatisfaction via the way he carries himself and the words he chooses to speak. That's what I believe I would have become, because deep down, I would have known that I wanted more out of life, but instead I convinced myself that it's just too late, that I just already dedicated so much time down one path, that a new path for me just is not an option, that a new path for me just is not an option. And that is a key recipe to getting to end of life filled with regrets.
Speaker 1:Don't convince yourself that it's too late. Don't allow that conversation of yourself to paint a picture of permanence. You, as an individual, have been blessed with the gift of freedom of choice. And sure, sure, right, because clearly, look at where I am. I'm still doing the plumbing. Sure, it's going to take some time. It's not going to happen overnight. Sure, it may take a decade. And now you're going to be a decade older and you're going to wonder like, well, what the fuck? I'm still not there. And I'm here to tell you keep going.
Speaker 1:Every time I've been uninspired, every time I've lacked a positive self-conversation, anytime I felt a sense of loss. I look up to the people I admired, I look up to the people whom I consider mentors. They don't even know me and I just study their life, study their habits, study the things that they do, and it always brings me extreme pleasure to know that this is a blatant statistic. Don't write this down as a fact is done as a fact, but from my observation, 95% of them didn't succeed until their early 40s, mid 30s reverse that, mid 30s, early 40s, doesn't matter. And the reason they didn't succeed until later in life is because the early years were spent on figuring things out, on giving themselves a sense of direction, on understanding that they weren't satisfied with what they were doing and they just didn't know where they wanted to go. But they knew for certain that where they were is not where they wanted to remain.
Speaker 1:And typically the story begins with an inspired individual who then goes through difficulties and difficulties and typically they reach the success and they have it. And then typically it's all ripped away by a catastrophe or a death in the family or something of that nature. And guess what? They come back and then the story repeats itself. And I am inspired by that, because for a long time I told myself dude, you're almost 30. You don't have a house, you don't have a girlfriend at the time, or now have a wife. I'm very grateful for that, but you understand what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like I was beating myself up, convincing myself that where I was is where I was going to remain, deep down, knowing that I wanted to be more, that I wanted to create and experience more, and I had a choice to make. I could continue life knowing making the same decisions, knowing that the decisions I was making weren't serving the person that I wish to become or the life that I want to experience, and then reach the end of my life filled with regret. Or I can take every day as an opportunity and tell myself today may not be the day I experience the greatest change, but I do feel a shift in the wind. I do feel like my sense of direction is slightly shifting towards the things that I want to align myself with. And now I get the best of both worlds right. I get the blessing of speaking to people, encouraging people, blessing people with this gift called life, and it reciprocates.
Speaker 1:I am now blessed with so many good quality people in my life who share their experiences with me and at the same time, I'm a plumber, still doing the plumbing thing, you know, still showing up and doing the plumbing. It pays my bills, it pays for the things that I enjoy, it paid for everything that I'm using right now to record this episode here. You know, my speaking career is not at a point where I am making any sort of financial gain from it and, if I'm being honest, intentionally, my speaking career is not at a point where I am making any sort of financial gain from it and, if I'm being honest, intentionally I'm kind of not pushing towards that. I know deep down, eventually, inevitably one day, I will be fully indulged into my speaking career and I just know that I won't be doing plumbing anymore and I've accepted that I could be 45 by the time that happens. And if that's what it takes, then that's what it takes.
Speaker 1:But know that I've chosen to not allow life to pass me by while I'm convincing myself that it's too late for me, because I refuse to believe that. And the same way that I refuse to believe that, you can refuse to believe that and you can tell yourself that you may not be where you wish to be right now. You may not be satisfied with the person that you are right now, but that doesn't mean that you are there permanently. You get to decide. How will you decide? What will you do? Who will you become when your life comes to an end? Will you think about all the joy that I got to experience, or are you going to think about, oh, I wish and I hope, and I should have done more. You have a lot to think about. Thank you for being here with me and until next time.
