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
EP129- You are what you believe yourself to be.
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What you believe about yourself shapes everything you do. This isn't just positive thinking—it's the foundation of how we operate in the world. When we tell ourselves "I'm lazy" or "I can't do this," we're not just having random thoughts; we're programming our actions to fulfill these beliefs.
From someone who "woke up hating life" to someone who embraces each day with enthusiasm. The turning point wasn't a change in circumstances but a fundamental shift in self-belief. "What if I start believing a little bit different? What if I believe I'm the type of person that doesn't quit?" These questions began a process of questioning every limiting belief I accepted as truth about myself
I believe that most people aren't being sabotaged by life or external circumstances—they're being held back by their own thoughts. I like to ask myself "what beliefs have I been holding on to that have gotten me here and what can I change?" This self-accountability becomes the launching pad for transformation. By recognizing that our beliefs drive our actions, we gain the power to change both. The process isn't instant or easy, but as my own seven-year journey demonstrates, believing new things about yourself gradually reshapes who you become. Ready to examine your beliefs and start the journey toward becoming who you're capable of being? This episode offers the perfect starting point.
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Hello, hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. It's your host, miguel Sanchez, and welcome back to another episode, episode 129. As of late, I've always been starting with expressing gratitude. I appreciate you being here. I appreciate you listening.
Speaker 1:If you've been with me for a while, then you know what the goal is. If you are one of the new followers joining the community, then understand something I'm not here to sell you anything. I'm not here to tell you what's right and what's wrong. I'm here to remind you that life is a gift. I'm here to remind you that life is what you make it. I'm here to allow you an opportunity to learn, most importantly, from my mistakes.
Speaker 1:Understand I never sit here and place myself on a throne and speak highly of who I am. I don't need confirmation from anybody to be proud of the person that I've become. But the person that I've chosen to be is not somebody that I accidentally stumbled upon. Chosen to be is not somebody that I accidentally stumbled upon. It is somebody that I've taken a few years now, a lot of time, to cultivate and create, and in that journey I've learned a lot about myself, and not just myself, but the things that work for me, that don't work for me, and when I realized that what I'm passionate about is helping others become better, I had to figure out how can I do that, and I decided to use my voice as my tool to get that message across. So if you're new here, I'm just here to share some value in the form of here's what I've done, here's what I learned, here's what worked, here's what didn't. Hopefully that provides you some sort of value and you get to do something with it. And if you don't, then regardless. I appreciate you listening and, as I always say, the way that this community grows is if you share the show. So even if this topic or this theme of the day doesn't sit with you, you never know who can benefit from it. So if you feel like somebody can relate a lot to the things that I'm speaking about, feel free, send it forward, pass it forward, send them to the page, have them talk to me. I am an open book and, as I said, I'll never sit here and say oh, you want my time. Well, here's how much that's worth. I get the best form of payment in the form of a conversation that says Miguel, because of the difficulties you went through, I learned this and because of that I am now becoming better. That payment is more than enough for me. So, with that being said, let's get into it. Let's get into the tradition of it all.
Speaker 1:Right, there's a reason why I release an episode a week, monday, super early, and the goal is always to catch you before you begin your day, before you start a new week, because I love to be that weekly reminder that a good attitude isn't accidental. I'm human, just like you are. I wake up and I express discontent towards the day. I wake up and I feel sore, I'm tired, I'm exhausted. I wish I had another day in the weekend. I wish things were different.
Speaker 1:Sure, but it is my responsibility as an individual to not make that my dominant way of thinking, especially on a Monday, because you don't have to look very far to see an individual that wakes up and only entertains the negative side of life. They show up to work and you're like, hey, good morning, is it a good morning? It's Monday, talk to me again on Friday. And you're sitting there like Jesus Christ dude. I wonder what the rest of your life is like if that's how you treat Monday, if that's how you treat the beginning of a new week, and I not in a morbid way, but I like to remind myself. Somebody lost their life this weekend, somebody didn't wake up this weekend. Somebody is going through a difficulty that they have no idea how they're going to overcome this weekend. Who am I to be in a position to complain about anything, anything. That's just a perspective that I like to entertain. So, yes, it's Monday, yes, it's the beginning of a new week, but you get to decide how you're going to show up and, most importantly, you get to decide how well you're going to defend yourself, because once you go out into the real world, you can't really control other people at all. So when somebody shows up around you and they try to burst your bubble of good energy, you must defend it. You must make sure that somebody's poison doesn't become yours. You got to make sure that somebody's bad attitude doesn't taint your good one. And now you're sitting there because, as the saying goes, misery loves company, and in today's world, to find misery you don't have to go very far. All right. So, with that being said, happy Monday, and let's get right into it.
Speaker 1:As I'm sure you guys are already well aware, another solo episode. I've just been in my groove lately, I've just been enjoying sitting here, thinking about my life, thinking about my situation, thinking about the things that are currently difficult for me, the things that I'm thriving towards, and I like to sit here and just let my mind do its thing. I don't never sit here with a script. I never sit here with a pre-planned topic, unless I have a guest, but for the most part, I've gotten confident. That's not a word I use often, but I've done enough reps to have the confidence in myself to know that when I sit down for the purpose to provide value, I don't have to go very far anymore, because my mind is always looking for things that can provide value.
Speaker 1:And today I have one of the many quotes that I wrote down throughout the years. I have one that stuck out to me this week, and that's what I want to share with you. This is going to be a short episode, but I know it's going to put something into perspective for you. And here it is. Let's get right into it, and I quote you are what you believe yourself to be. Therefore, you will always follow through on who you believe you are. This is why this is important to me. Oh, where do I even begin with this one. Okay, bear with me as I navigate through this journey called my mind. You are what you believe yourself to be. Understand something Inherently.
Speaker 1:We have a conversation that is happening inside of us at all times, is consistently reminding you of who you are and who you agreed yourself to be is somebody who is negatively impacting you in reality, meaning your physical aspect of it. You can just change how you view yourself, and I know to some people they're like well, how do you do that? Well, I can't tell you exactly how, but I'll tell you what I did. Right, because when you are having a conversation with yourself and I'm speaking from my own experience here and that conversation sounds like well, I'm fat, it's who I am. You know, the image in my head is that of a fat guy. I believe myself to be fat. And then I look in the mirror and the mirror is confirming that I am indeed fat. Right, I believe that that is who I was and therefore that is who I've become.
Speaker 1:I had to go through the difficult battle of changing that image of myself, because if I believe myself to be lazy, if I believe myself to be lazy, if I believe myself to be somebody who lacks vocabulary, if I believe myself to be somebody who opportunity just goes over, and then I act those beliefs out, what do you think my life is going to be? You are what you believe yourself to be. Therefore, you will always follow through on who you believe you are. That conversation needs to change. I don't know what it's going to sound like for you, but I'll tell you that for me, it was recreating the image of that of an overweight guy who lacked proper communication, who didn't see the good in life, who chose to surround himself not necessarily by negative people, but by people who they themselves weren't reaching for much more. And I had to change that conversation.
Speaker 1:Okay, miguel, I get that you believe that you are lazy and that inherently you are overweight and that you can't do anything about it. But as long as you make that your dominant belief, what do you expect out of yourself? What happens when you start telling yourself maybe this is who I am, but it's not who I must remain as. What if I start believing a little bit different? What if I believe that I'm the type of person that doesn't quit? What if I make it a mission to go out into the world and start gathering evidence, as I mentioned last episode. Right, you will always follow through on who you believe yourself to be.
Speaker 1:So if the conversation that you are having with yourself is one that says I am lazy, I am incapable, I am a quitter, even though nobody will ever say that to themselves out loud, if those are the kinds of conversations that you are having with yourself about yourself when you are by yourself, what do you think you're going to act out when you're out in the real world? Oh, these are the kinds of things that I speak on and I don't have to go very deep on, because it doesn't take a genius man, and I always say this If I understand it, if I made something out of it, anybody can, because I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, as the saying goes. I know what it takes for me to understand something. I know that I need to ask questions. I know that about myself, and in understanding that, I had to start believing that. Okay, miguel, you're not stupid, you just might take a little bit longer to understand something. So if that was something that I learned about myself, what else about myself that I believed to be true was actually a lie.
Speaker 1:And then life became interesting, so interesting so that I started questioning my own beliefs, asking myself okay, you believe yourself to be this way and therefore you've acted that out. Where are you? Are you happy with who you are? No, I'm not. I'm not happy with where I'm going either. Okay, well, why don't you change how you view yourself then? Because if you tell yourself, oh, this is who I am, therefore this is how I must act, then all I'm receiving from that is confirmation that I cannot change. Do yourself the favor and change that conversation. You might tell yourself like dominantly in your head this is who I am, but it's not who you must remain.
Speaker 1:As, as I said earlier, it all begins with a simple change of belief. If you believe that you are a certain way, just start changing that belief and believe that you can achieve more, believe that there is change that you can accomplish, believe that there are things that are out there for you that at the moment are out of reach, but that doesn't mean they're impossible to reach. Just at the moment, temporarily out of reach. And when you now start having that conversation with yourself, the conversation, conversation that says I believe that I can, I believe that I will, I believe that I can change, I believe that I can have, I believe that I can create, and you believe that to be true, then, very simply, you will follow through on those beliefs. But here's the catch you have to believe it, you have to believe it, you have to believe it.
Speaker 1:And this is where sometimes it gets a little how do I say it? A little bit on the spiritual side of things, where some people are like oh, that's just that optimistic thinking and it's just like the rainbows and butterflies kind of mentality. And that's not what I'm referring to. What I'm saying is that most people don't realize that life isn't sabotaging them. What's sabotaging most people is the thoughts they have about themselves. And if the thoughts you have about yourself are painted in a negative way, it means that you view yourself as a person who's not doing things well. And therefore, when you act those things out and you gather evidence that says, hey, you're not doing well, here's more evidence to provide you with a fact.
Speaker 1:You sit there and you say, well, life is against me. No, you're against yourself, and self-accountability is a big part of personal development. And the second you say, wow, I am here because of my beliefs and the shitty perspectives I've held on to. That's number one, accountability. But then when you go from there and you say I am here because of my own negative beliefs, but the beauty in that is that I can change those beliefs. And in changing those beliefs I can change my action. And in changing my actions, guess what? I changed the results that I'm getting Now.
Speaker 1:Does that happen overnight? No, is it easy? No, is it worth it? Absolutely it's worth it. So if you find yourself, especially on this Monday morning, worth it. So if you find yourself, especially on this Monday morning, lacking enthusiasm towards the future, don't blame the world, don't blame life, don't blame your parents. Take yourself to the mirror and keep yourself accountable and say what beliefs have I been holding on to that have gotten me here and what can I change from here? That will lead me in a different direction, because what you believe to be true about yourself is essentially what you will always follow through on with your actions.
Speaker 1:If you're not happy with who you are. Begin at the root of it all, with yourself and the choices that you can change. That is today's episode short, excuse me simple and to the point. It doesn't need to be difficult, it doesn't need to be hard. Is it going to take time? Yes, is it worth failing over and over and over again until you understand this way of thinking? Absolutely Again, I can't speak for you, but I can speak for myself.
Speaker 1:And when I tell you that I was the individual who woke up hating life, who would curse God and literally say if this is all you got for me, just take me out now. This sucks, I don't want to be here. I don't like who I am. I don't like who you've made me to. Those were the negative thoughts that dominantly held my life together.
Speaker 1:And who do you think I was as that individual? Does that sound like somebody that was happy to wake up and go on about their day? Does that sound like somebody who's here saying, hey, good morning, happy Monday? Absolutely not. I used to wake up and probably one of the first words within the first three seconds was fuck, because I just didn't want to deal with life.
Speaker 1:Fast forward, seven years later, I'm the same guy. Sure, I've lost a few pounds, but at the end of the day, that's just the physical side of things. Why do I speak different now? Why do I think different now? Why do I act different now, because I changed the beliefs I had about myself and I believed them to be so true that I started acting them out and life said wow, you're making different decisions. Here's some evidence that says you can. Here's some evidence that says you are. Here is some evidence that says keep going and keep going. I did, and if I did so, can you? Thank you for listening. Let's get better together. Earning, as I always say, are 1%, and I'll end it with exactly what started this episode you are what you believe yourself to be. Therefore, you will always follow through on those beliefs. Let's get better, 1%, better, and until next time.
