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
EP124- Choosing Your Lens: Transform Your Reality.
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Perspective shapes everything—from how we greet each morning to the results we achieve and the relationships we build.
The world doesn’t just happen to us—we actively interpret it through the perspectives we choose.
When we look at life through lenses of scarcity, negativity, and blame, we find endless evidence to confirm our worst fears.
But when we approach life with faith and possibility, entirely new pathways begin to emerge.
This isn’t about toxic positivity or ignoring life’s very real challenges.
Pain, struggle, and difficulty are inevitable parts of any meaningful journey.
The difference lies in how we frame those experiences:
Are they proof the world is against us?
Or are they natural elements of growth?
One of my favorite analogies is this: Some people focus entirely on what’s wrong—on the bad—when right in front of them are opportunities and good things waiting to be noticed.
Your perspective is a choice you make daily.
No matter what’s happening around you, you can choose to:
✨ Have better conversations with yourself
✨ Nourish your body
✨ Show care to those you love
✨ Leave strangers better for having crossed your path
By choosing this outlook, you don’t just change how you feel—you transform your reality and the results that follow.
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Hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez. Welcome back to another episode of episode 124. Thank you for being here. Thank you for sticking with me on this long journey, which does not seem to be coming to an end anytime soon. So lately, I always begin every episode by simply expressing thank you. The community is growing. I'm meeting a lot more people in person. Old friends from different chapters in my life are reaching out saying that they're listening, saying that they're tuning in, and if there's anything that keeps me filled with enthusiasm to continue showing up week after week, it's that you showing up week after week, it's that knowing that in me setting some time aside to sit and talk about my perspective, talk about my life, my ideas, the things that are working for me and not working for me, the struggles that I have overcame and still overcoming that, that provides some sort. So it brings me such joy to know that my suffering has purpose. Thank you for being here Today.
Speaker 1:I have a short episode. It's me by myself. Again. It's been the theme lately. I've been finding pleasure in sitting with myself, by myself and just letting my mind have a conversation about the current things that I'm experiencing, and I've been finding that to be a good creative method that allows my imagination and my reflection within my own life to paint clear pictures that allow for better decisions, that allow for clarity of conversation with you, the listeners. So, with that being said, I have a topic in mind, but before we get into the topic, I always get this out of the way because, in case you can't listen to the full episode, I like to catch you before you have to pause it.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's Monday. Yes, it's the beginning of a brand new week. If you are listening to this locally, yes, it's gonna be 100 degrees this week. It's gonna be hot Everybody. Yes, it's going to be 100 degrees this week. It's going to be hot. Everybody's going to feel it. And it is up to you, as an individual, first and foremost, to hydrate yourself but, most importantly, to make sure that you're not adding to the suffering by already bringing a negative attitude to add to it. It's going to be hot, it's going to suck. The week may feel long. Sure, you might run into negative individuals, but that doesn't mean that you going to be hot. It's going to suck. The week may feel long. Sure, you might run into negative individuals, but that doesn't mean that you have to be a part of such negativity. You, as an individual, can choose to wake up and, despite the circumstance, decide to show up with a good attitude and make good decisions. With that being said, it's Monday, the beginning of a new week, and you get to decide how you're going to show up and approach into how you're going to get things done and, ironically, that's exactly what I want to talk about today, so I could have just transitioned right into it, but I've done.
Speaker 1:I want to say probably like three or four episodes now based on perspective, and they'll never be the same. You might hear me say the same things, but I don't write anything down and I just speak on a whim, meaning like I don't really sit down with a web of ideas that I want to cover. It's more like a theme in my mind that is currently happening and I just let it express itself in the form of words, and today's topic, which I've spoken about previously many times, is the topic of perspective, the superpower called perspective. Perspective, the thing that a lot of people I feel and observe lack. Perspective, the very thing that can change the choices you make. Perspective, the thing that is so neglected that most people blame outside circumstances Instead of how they choose to see the world. I am huge on perspective. If there's a constant theme in the world of compounding daily that I've created with the community, it'll be consistency 1% better every day, which ties into consistency and perspective Perspective. Let's go down the rabbit hole real quick. I'll tell you what perspective means to me and how I observe it, and why it is so meaningful to me personally and why I believe, if chosen correctly and created correctly to the specific self, could create significant change in your life.
Speaker 1:What lenses we want to see the world through? Meaning? We can have one of multiple choices, but obviously let's just go with the easiest ones, right Negative and positive. Look at the difference in outcome. Look at the difference in conversations. Look at the difference, most importantly, in results.
Speaker 1:When you are looking at two individuals and one chooses to see the world through the lenses of scarcity, meaning the lenses of lack, negativity, anxiety, fear. The world's against me because of where I was born, because my family, because the government, because of the color of my skin, because of my manager, because of my boss, because of my wife, because of my children, and everything that is part of their existence becomes a justification as to why things aren't good, and that is a perspective they choose to see. Well, why aren't you doing better? Well, because things used to be great. But now we live in a world where things are just going bad and it feels like everything is against me and every time I try to do something good, it just backfires on me. And why try? And that's a chosen perspective, whether they want to admit it to themselves or not. I'm not saying that that's not their reality, but I'm saying that because they went through some difficulties, which we all do. They've chosen to now put through their own decisions the lenses that has now painted the world in front of them to be one of negativity, and because that is what they've chosen to keep as the permanent vision. What do you think the world is going to feed back to them? Permanent vision. What do you think the world is going to feed back to them? Evidence to affirm their already strong belief. Think about that. Perspective is powerful. I'm not saying it's easy to wake up and rewire your mind to change the perspective, but I am saying that it is possible to change the perspective. But I am saying that it is possible.
Speaker 1:I identified as a naysayer Identified. I used to call myself a naysayer. I used to wake up and tell myself today's going to suck. I'm already expecting the worst, especially in my time in the military. I'll never forget I used to wake up and the second my alarm went off as soon as I hit that button to turn it off. The first words out of my mouth were always the same Fuck. It never felt. It was always that Because I was already in my mind Seeing the workout. I didn't want to do the training I didn't want to do the just day of getting smoked and just a day of me wishing I was somewhere else doing something else, being somebody else and that's a perspective I choose to see my world through. So guess how I carried myself.
Speaker 1:Did you think I showed up with a good attitude? Do you think I was carrying my head held high? Do you think during PT physical training I was giving it my all? Do you think that the conversations I was having was one about prosperity, a hopeful future and success? No, I was a naysayer.
Speaker 1:Hey, how you doing today.
Speaker 1:Is it Friday yet? How you doing today. I can't wait for the weekend, man. How you doing today. Is it Friday. Yet how are you doing today? I can't wait for the weekend, man. How are you doing today? I wish I wasn't here right now. How are things going for you?
Speaker 1:They could be better, you know, and that is a perspective that I chose for myself and I lived with it for a very long time and it took me a very long time to change that perspective. But that is again why I emphasize on the perspective side of things, because in my opinion I don't use that term slightly when I say superpower, I mean it's a superpower because it changes your vision of the world that you are living in. You literally wake up and because you are now rewiring the conversation happening, because you are now putting lenses of beauty, joy and happiness, because you are now putting on your face the lenses of encouragement, of faith and belief that things will work out, that you're in the same world, carrying the same body, but what you are seeing and, most importantly, receiving back from the world will be completely different. And it's simply because you've changed the perspective, you've changed the conversation. You've chosen to say I know the bad is there, I know if I look for it I'll find it Right.
Speaker 1:Understand something, especially when I do episodes of Perspectives of Gratitude. When I say joy and enthusiasm and happiness, I know those words paint a strong picture of beauty and bliss and probably rainbows and butterflies, and you know a perfect summer day with the perfect cold drink and all of that. But I'm a very realistic individual. Like part of life is the sadness and sorrow and death and sickness and misery and anxiety and fear, and I've welcomed both into my life. I don't neglect one while admiring the other. I've found the balance because I've lived in one for too long, which was the depressing one. And I know that you can't realistically be too enthusiastic about life, because if you are a human being, you will inevitably, without a doubt, at one point in your life experience a moment of pain, discomfort or displeasure. It's just written in the facts. You're gonna go through it. But that doesn't mean you gotta have a shitty perspective through the whole journey of it and if you change that perspective, the results will change for you. So how will you show up in your own life?
Speaker 1:I'll give you my favorite analogy. This is the analogy I've given, I think, in like two of the four episodes, but isn't one of my favorite analogies to paint the, the perspective right. If you have a beautiful big window in your home right and as you're staring through the window, there's a beautiful sunrise coming through the horizon and you can see the sun and you can see the birds flying right, you can see that. Wouldn't that put you in a place of happiness? Wouldn't you say, wow, that's beautiful? Well, there are some people in this world who would not see that image. Looking through that same window, they would not see that image. What they would see and focus on would be the smudges of fingerprints all over the window and it's ruining the picture for them. And they say how could you see such beauty behind this window when it is so dirty and tainted and you're just like? What are you talking about? Look at the sun. It's beautiful and they're like, but look at how dirty this window is. You get what I'm saying. It's a favorite analogy because it's so simple to understand. That's what perspective is.
Speaker 1:That is a individual choice and in today's world, when people are, you know, talking about the get rich quick schemes and make your dream a reality overnight and buy this and your dreams will come true in these three easy steps, all of these fake lies selling you false expectations. If it's worth having. It's going to be difficult. And if it's already difficult to achieve physically, imagine how much more difficult it's going to be. If, by choice, the perspective you choose to approach it by is one of negativity and discouragement, you're just making it harder on yourself.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying to be falsely optimistic, but I'm saying to, despite the difficulties in your life, you wake up and you say despite what I go through today, despite what's happening out in the world, I choose to have a good attitude, to have a good conversation with myself, to feed my body good food, to make sure the ones I love and care for are doing well in their own journeys and travels, to make sure that, if a stranger comes across my path, they are a little bit better because of my presence, to make sure that I am a better person because of the choices I am choosing. To repeat, to make sure that, when I wake up, the lenses I choose to see my world through is one of faith and belief that I am here for a reason and the pain is part of the journey. So I welcome it all and through that perspective I succeed. You too can do the same. Thank you for being with me, and until next time.
