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
EP128- To improve in life collect EVIDENCE of your efforts.
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Doubt. Fear. Insecurity.
They can stop you in your tracks. But here’s a mindset shift that changed everything for me: start collecting evidence of your efforts.
I went from being 289 pounds, deeply unhappy, and stuck—
to someone actively pursuing goals and finding fulfillment. That shift didn’t start with motivation. It started with proof. Small, daily actions that said, I’m not giving up on myself.
Whatever your goal—better health, a stronger relationship, a career move—the process is the same. Life doesn’t respond to what you say you want. It responds to what you consistently do.
Every time you show up, you’re building your case. Every hard thing you overcome becomes evidence you can do hard things. That’s how confidence is built: not through hype, but through history—your own.
So ask yourself today:
What evidence am I collecting?
Am I just saying I want change, or am I proving it?
Life can’t keep denying real effort.
Start building your case.
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Hello, hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez. Welcome back to another episode. This is going to be a quick one, episode 128.
Speaker 1:First and foremost, especially lately, I begin every episode expressing gratitude. I love to share my positive energy with anyone and everyone who's willing to receive it. I do it intentionally in the form of I like to fill myself overwhelmingly abundant with positive energy and that way I can give away and share some, and that is part of what this podcast is about. Understand something I'm never sitting here giving you directions. I'm simply sitting here giving you my life. I'm telling you my mistakes, I'm telling you what I've learned. I'm telling you the things that worked for me and the things that didn't work for me. And all I ask, as you sit here and listen to this, is not that you try to become like me, but that you don't repeat the same failures that I've did. Right, because that, by the definition of the things that I've studied, is called a dummy tax. If I tell you, hey, avoid this, this is what didn't work for me, try it out, see if it works for you. But I'm telling you, chances are it won't because of this, this and this. So you can try it, but maybe approach it from a different angle and you'll get a different result. But then you do exactly what I did and fail. Then you're a dummy because I just told you not to do that and you did it anyways. You know what I mean and I love the. I love the freedom that I get to be able to just express myself as I want to express myself. I love the feedback that I've been receiving, the conversations that I've been engaging in. The community has grown to over 500 followers and you know in today's world that's not a lot. On the social media aspect of it, but I always paint the perspective of if my goal is to step on the stage and influence others in inspiration and motivation and life changing ideas and things of that nature, if you put 40 people in that room, that room is going to feel full. I can't imagine 500. I mean, I can imagine 500. But you know it's it's happening before my very eyes.
Speaker 1:The podcast is approaching year three and as we approach year three, the goal is always to just get a little bit better and I appreciate you for being here with me in these last two years because it has been a journey. And, with that being said, let's go right into today's episode. Today's episode it's a how do I put this? Today's episode is something that I keep in mind in my moments of doubts and my moments of insecurities and my moments of fear of taking a leap of faith into the unknown. And this is how I want to word it, and we'll get right into it.
Speaker 1:To improve in life, collect evidence of your efforts and I'll say it again and I'll explain afterwards To improve in life, collect evidence of your efforts. Understand something at least. This has been my experience and what I've been going through For many, many years. Most of my life, I felt incompetent. I felt incompetent, I felt incapable, I felt as if I was simply average, simply mediocre, just another guy, just another human being just going through life. And and I thought that that was it for me At one point, the conversation internally that I had with myself was life is boring, this sucks, I don't want to be here anymore.
Speaker 1:And it wasn't in a suicidal way, it was more of a. This is what life is, and I have so much of it left. I'd rather not go through it. This sucks, you know. And with that approach, you could see my actions. You could only imagine the person I was turning into. And by the time I reached 24, I was unhappy in every aspect of the world. I was unhappy mentally, physically, socially, financially, career wise. I was unhappy with literally you name it, chances are I was unhappy with it.
Speaker 1:And to go through most of my life like that, understand that you must have a conversation with yourself. And if that conversation that you are having with yourself is just reaffirming the negativity and the doubt that you are already assuming that you're going through, then without a doubt that is what's going to remain dominant in the forefront of your mind. So if the conversation is man, life has always sucked, life has never been good then in your mind you're going to start seeing images, you're going to start replaying stories. That is the evidence that I'm talking about and that evidence is going to be there to confirm that your negative thoughts are real and have validation and therefore you rooted them a little bit more into the soil. And you did that. Nobody did that for you. You did that. What happens to the individual that lives like that and never changes that train of thought? This episode is just to remind you that to change that train of thought is very difficult but not impossible. And, like my mentor says, that word impossible implies that it is possible. Right, it's not impossible is what I'm referring to, excuse me. And it's easy to allow ourselves, to convince ourselves that things are not possible for us. But what happens when you start choosing against that evidence? What happens when the evidence that you start accumulating is evidence that goes against the dominant thoughts of your mind and I can't speak for you, but I'll speak for me thoughts of your mind, and I can't speak for you, but I'll speak for me.
Speaker 1:When I was overweight, when I was unhealthy, unsatisfied, when I was the fat guy at the pool who didn't want to take off his shirt, when I was that guy, I had all the evidence in the world to prove to myself that I was out of shape, that I was unhappy, that I was not satisfied, that I wasn't taking action. I had all the evidence. I didn't have to look very far for that. I would just look in the mirror and see myself and say, boom, there's the evidence. So what did I do to go from there to where I am now? I'm not far from being an athlete, but I'm in decent shape now. And what I like to remind myself of is that the starting point was very difficult for the reason that I didn't have evidence prior to that. I've done difficult things before that kept me in shape. So imagine, here I am, sitting at 289 pounds when just a few years ago I was 150, 160.
Speaker 1:When I was in the military, you know, it was our job to be in shape. It was our job to go on runs and take care of our bodies, because our bodies were now property of the government and they needed us to be, you know, in tip-top shape. So imagine I've been through that. I was an infantryman in the military and now now I was a 289 pound plumber. Do you see the difference? Could you imagine the difference in conversation? Could you imagine how I felt internally when my mind pulled the evidence out and said hey, you remember when you used to be in shape?
Speaker 1:Right now, you keep talking to yourself as if you can't make progress. You keep talking to yourself as if you can't overcome difficulties. You keep talking to yourself as if you've never done difficult things. And here's a reminder that at one point in your life you did do difficult things. You didn't quit, you didn't give up. Those are the moments that I call gathering evidence.
Speaker 1:And here I was at 289, beginning my fitness journey, and I didn't have much evidence that said that I can do it. And I didn't have much evidence that said that I can do it. So what I started focusing on is collecting daily evidence to prove that I am giving effort to the things that I said I want. There is power in that I'll say it again started to collect daily emphasis on the daily part, daily evidence that the efforts I am putting into my day are directly correlated to the goals I've set for myself. That's attainable by anyone, because I didn't change overnight. But I said things like man, if I'm like this and I want to be like this, then the choices that led me from point A to point B are not the same choices that will get me from point A to point Z. Those are all different destinations, different days.
Speaker 1:So I break it all down into a daily habit, the daily habit of making sure that by the end of my day I have evidence that says Miguel really wants to be in shape, miguel really wants to be a speaker, miguel really wants to succeed in life in this aspect, in this aspect, and you don't have to look far to assume that. Why? Because my decisions are the evidence that life requires in order for it to give you the things that you want. And you know I'm only speaking about myself here, but like I can go in any different direction. Right, you want the new job, you want the new relationship, you want the chance to prove yourself that you can do something difficult, and maybe at the moment you're lacking a little bit of confidence. Well, I'm here to remind you that. I promise you, if you are listening to this, chances are at some point in your life you've got a little bit of evidence that when things got tough, you became tougher.
Speaker 1:Evidence, collect it. It matters. It matters most, especially later in the journey, because most people don't see the evidence you've gathered. That's something that you only see for yourself, and I like to keep it that way personally. You don't need people to understand the things that you've overcome. You just need to remind yourself of the things that you've overcome, especially when things get difficult, when things get uncomfortable, when there's a challenge inevitably blocking your path for moving forward. You have evidence that you've been in those positions before and you became better because of them. Don't doubt yourself, and there is something beautiful that happens right. There is something beautiful Without evidence.
Speaker 1:Life has all the right to deny you what you want. You don't have evidence that you want it bad enough. This is where most people live A lot of talking, not a lot of doing, just a lot of I want, I wish, I hope and sure. Life is abundant. But life is fair. And if all you're doing is talking and hoping and wishing and thinking of all the things that you could do, you should do, but you don't do, you are not collecting evidence for life to see that what you want from it is truly what you want, because the evidence proves otherwise. The evidence proves that you are choosing against it. The evidence proves that you are not building momentum. The evidence says that what you are saying is a lie and life says oh, you don't want it as bad as you say you do. I'm not giving that to you. And this is where the beauty comes in. Life can only deny you for so long, until you've gathered enough evidence to prove it wrong. And when you do that, guess what? It starts giving you the things that you want. Why? Because you've gathered the evidence required, because you showed up consistently, because, challenge after challenge after challenge, life said Jesus Christ, this guy is just not stopping. And eventually you gather enough evidence and life now says fine, here's what you desired, here's what I've been watching you put effort towards every single day. Life says I don't need to ask you if you truly want this. The evidence proves that you want this and therefore I shall give to you.
Speaker 1:Don't allow your days to go by empty. Stop wasting time. You're going to be dead one day. That's the dominant thought in my daily activities. You're going to be dead one day and none of this will matter. In 150 years, nobody will remember you or what you did you know, unless you're like a Jeff Bezos or something like that. But who cares? Right, the point is stop allowing the days to go by while in your mind you still have an idea of what you want to become. But when it comes to the physical attributes of life, you are not taking action. You are not collecting evidence for the sake of this episode.
Speaker 1:Collect enough evidence to prove to life that the words you speak hold value and power. Collect enough evidence to prove to life that you're not just speaking empty words. Collect enough evidence for life to look at you and say, damn, I'm going to have to give this guy everything he wants. Why? Because daily you show up and, despite how difficult it may be, despite how hard your upbringing might have been, you are the kind of person that says no, no, no, what I'm going through may be difficult and may be holding me back, it might even set me back, but this isn't my first rodeo, as some people say, and I've been through difficult times before and because of those difficult times I became stronger, I became better, I gathered evidence that I can and therefore I will. And now, because of those experience, I now face a new, bigger challenge, but I am better prepared for it. And I asked life for it because I said life, I want more, and life says I have more. But prove to me that you want it as bad as you say you do. Because if life just gave abundantly, endlessly to anybody who just says I feel like I deserve, then everybody would be spoiled brats running around never appreciating anything, because they never had to work a single second for it.
Speaker 1:It's different when you've collected evidence. It's different when people say, well, how did you get there? And you're able to pull out your personal resume of life and you're like well, let's look at my journey, and this is where I began and this is how well, let's look at my journey and this is where I began and this is how hard it was to get from here to here. And at this point I gave up. At this point, I started again. At this point, life happened. At this point, covid shut the world down. At this point, I gained weight again.
Speaker 1:At this point, and all of these things that I just mentioned are just evident, evidence after evidence after evidence proving to myself that I just mentioned are just evidence after evidence after evidence Proving to myself that I can do difficult things. Is my life better now than it was seven years ago? Undoubtedly Un-fucking-doubty. Am I where I wish to be and want to be? Not even close? The margin has only increased as I continue to get better, and I gather that evidence that says wow, look at what you've done, not egotistically speaking, but just observationally speaking, from knowing who I was to who I am now, from going to speaking like like uh, what was the word that I'm looking for For? Speaking like somebody who just lacks proper vocabulary right, I didn't sound intelligent to now sitting here doing the things that I'm doing going to keynote events and giving speeches All of that all of that happened because I started collecting evidence on my daily choices. That proved to life that I want the things that I said I wanted and you can do the same thing. I went there with this. I didn't do it in the beginning of the episode, so I'll do it now.
Speaker 1:It's Monday, the beginning of a brand new week. How do you plan on showing up? What evidence are you going to collect for yourself? What evidence are you going to collect for yourself? Most people are going to show up today and tell themselves man, I don't know where the time is going. I remember when I used to have dreams and ambitions. They don't say that, but they subconsciously say that. And now you have a responsibility.
Speaker 1:Especially if you listen to this all the way to its entirety, the message is simple Starting today, because you can today prove to yourself that when things get difficult, you start collecting evidence in your mind, you start reminding yourself of the difficulties you've already overcome and you look at this new difficulty as an opportunity to collect more evidence that you do hard things. And the people who confront hard things and look at it as an opportunity for growth are the people who open up that vault of evidence and say great, I get to add another one to my collection as I continue to progress through life, to improve in life, collect evidence of your efforts and life will inevitably, without a doubt, eventually Understand that you are not one of the people who simply speak. You will have enough evidence that life will say I, without a doubt, know that this person will not give up and therefore I will give him or her anything that they desire. Thank you for being with me and until next time.
