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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EP132- Nothing great is ever achieved on an easy path
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EP132 — Nothing Great Is Ever Achieved on an Easy Path
The path to greatness is never paved with shortcuts. This fundamental truth resonates through every success story worth telling, yet we still find ourselves drawn to the comfortable, the familiar, and the easy. Why do we resist what we know, deep down, to be true?
The reality is that nothing truly valuable comes without significant effort. Embracing difficulty, rather than avoiding it, has transformed every aspect of my life. This isn’t about making things needlessly hard, but about recognizing that growth happens precisely when we push beyond our comfort zones.
We’ll dive into practical examples across health, finances, relationships, and career development—areas where choosing the difficult path yields exponentially greater results than taking shortcuts. Those moments when you want to skip the gym, avoid tracking your expenses, or take a longer lunch break? They’re the very moments that separate those who achieve greatness from those who settle for mediocrity.
What makes this perspective so powerful is its universality. The principle applies whether you’re building muscle, wealth, knowledge, or relationships. Everything feels difficult until you put in enough effort to become proficient. The challenge itself isn’t the obstacle to your success—it’s the pathway to it. When you embrace this mindset, difficulties transform from burdens into opportunities.
So, think—and together, let’s walk the difficult path.
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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, episode 132. I don't know if you've been listening from episode 1 till now, but I have gotten better. So if you're listening to the newer episodes, I appreciate you because you've waited for me to get a little bit better at explaining my ideas, my perspectives, the things that I value, the lessons that I'm learning. And if you are new to the show, I can't help but bring this up today because, as I was looking through all of the episodes, episode one is titled why Listen to this Podcast, and it's been over two years.
Speaker 1:So if you are new, I want to hit on that note just real quick. Why should you listen to this podcast? Because I'm not here to sell you anything. I'm not here to give you a fake optimism perspective that you know. I'm not basically here without sugarcoating, to tell you that life is rainbows and butterflies and if you just buy my one-time program that I can promise to change your life. There's none of that here. It is me, by myself, pushing myself every single day in my own personal life, and I'm very intentional with it. I'm very analytical with the decisions that I make, I like to think of my consequences before I take action. And as I do those things, I always ask myself I wonder if the things that I'm doing will provide value for people. And I may not speak for you, but I can speak from all the evidence that I've gathered over the past few years that I am indeed helping people by simply existing and meeting them. And, as I like to emphasize, because in today's world everybody's a motivational speaker but I promise you, behind my methods, there is no secret goal to get some form of monetary value from you. There is no hidden agenda to get something from you. The best payment that I've ever received from this podcast is the payment in the form of a simple message that says hey, because of you, because of your morning message, because of our conversation, because of the last episode, because you crossed my path, I am now choosing to be a little bit better. That, to me, is more than I can be grateful for in words. So why listen to this podcast? That's why I'm as real as I can be, as authentic as I can be.
Speaker 1:I like to say I'm vulnerable with the things that I'm experiencing and my goal is to get proficient enough in my vocabulary to be able to paint a picture of beauty and misery and joy and sadness, because that is all part of this gift called life, and the better I get at that, the better I'm able to give you value behind the ideas that I share. I will never sit here and tell you this is what you need to do. I will always tell you this is what I did do. I will always tell you this is what I did. This is what worked for me, this is what didn't work for me, and I hope, with that information, you go and take action.
Speaker 1:I like to consider myself one of the what's the word that I'm looking for. I like to sit alone with my thoughts and I love to entertain ideas, and that's where they come from. I read a lot, I listen a lot, I study a lot, and I always do it in the middle of doing things. I always have an earbud in. I'm always looking for conversations, and the conversations that I'm looking for are never from a perspective of small talk. I hate small talk. I feel my energy being drained when I'm having a simple conversation that didn't need to be had. The energy could have been reserved for a better, more meaningful conversation. But I digress all right, all of that to simply say thank you for being here. I hope that now that you understand what my goal is, I serve that purpose for you. You are clearly giving me what I consider a valuable investment, which is your time. So I would like to spend this few minutes here together by providing something for you. And, with that being said, I always begin every single episode, typically not on a little rant like that, but I always emphasize on the idea that this episode will always come out on a Monday morning. That doesn't mean you're listening to it, but regardless, the value or the lesson I mean still remains the same.
Speaker 1:Just because it's Monday doesn't mean that you need to wake up with a heavy attitude. It's easy to wake up and entertain the conversation of oh man, I don't want to go to work, I don't want to go through the motions, I don't want to go to work, I don't want to go through the motions, I don't want to show up today. It's easy to feed into that and most people aren't observant of that. And then they show up to the work environment carrying that energy and if you are not mindful, you are the one spreading that negative energy with your sour attitude that is now sour simply because you didn't observe your thoughts well enough to realize that you were talking to yourself in a poisonous way. You know that is a choice.
Speaker 1:I'm human. I wake up and I think, oh fuck, I'm tired, I'm sore, I don't wanna go to work today, especially during the winter season. I work construction, so in the winter season I wake up at night, I go to work and by the time I'm driving home the sun's already setting. I kind of get in a more pensive, depressive mood, if I'm being honest. But as an individual, I have a responsibility, and the responsibility is to make sure that I don't allow the thoughts to get so negative that I now am literally in a depression.
Speaker 1:Observe that conversation and make sure that you remind yourself of the things that you can be grateful for. Sure, you're not satisfied with where you are, but that's great, because that gives you something to work towards. Sure, you may not be happy with the current job that you have, but at least you have a job that's paying you something. You might not be happy with what you're being paid, but at the end of the day, the purpose of life, in my opinion, is progress, all right. So pick a good attitude and show up with it, and I promise you life rewards you, and I use that word specifically promise you, because I promise you I'm going through it, so take that as you will. Happy Monday, let's get better.
Speaker 1:And today's episode I've mentioned today's topic, I've mentioned multiple times in the last six minutes, and it's gonna be short, it's gonna be to the point, and I hate to sound like a broken record. It's something I've spoken about before but, as I've said, I've gotten better at the communication part, so I'm going to emphasize on it again. And the broken record comes from the fact that we all know this, all of us know this. It's just difficult to accept as a fact and use it as fuel instead of allowing it to become an anchor. And today's topic is this Nothing great comes from an easy path. Is this nothing great comes from an easy path? Right? That's just another simple way of saying do hard things. You know to put it into simple terms. But what does that mean, right? This is where the deep thinking part of me comes in, right, because it's such a simple sentence, something that I firmly believe we all understand fundamentally. And yet, if you observe the majority of the population. They always choose the easy path, and I'm guilty of it.
Speaker 1:I aim for things to be easier sometimes, but overall, where does the growth lie? Where does the growth lie? If you ask yourself that question and you tell yourself that the growth waits for you in shortcuts and easy routes, I'm calling bullshit and I'm just saying you're lying to yourself. We all know that that is not how you get better. Understand something you are who you are today because of the difficulties that you have overcame and either because of the perspectives you choose to have, those difficulties have served you in a good way or they serve you in a bad way because you've allowed it to be. And that doesn't mean that I'm not degrading the fact that you've been through difficult things, but we've all been through difficult things and it's those that are able to understand that through those difficulties you can choose to become better. And now I'm just talking about the emotional side of things. Right Now I'm talking about the past, but overall, in general, when it comes to a skill, when it comes to your health, when it comes to your intellectual side, which means how smart you are, when it comes to your intellectual side, which means how smart you are when it comes to your social status. Doing the difficult things will make you better in all of it, and I can give you an example for every single one of those.
Speaker 1:When it comes to health, we all know, right, it's not easy to track your macros. I mean, it is once you understand it. But I'll get to that part. Sorry, I got ahead of myself, but when it comes to health, it's difficult to track your macros every single day. It's difficult to show up to the gym when you don't want to. When it comes to your career side of things, maybe you're not satisfied with it, and every time they give you an opportunity to show up, you don't. You'd rather take the easy route. You take longer lunch breaks when you shouldn't, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All easy paths, right?
Speaker 1:When it comes to your social group, oh, I don't have any friends. Well, how hard is it to really just go out and be a part of a community and meet other people? To most people that's hard. Oh, but I'm not a people person. Well, there's only one way to become a people person surround yourself by people and engage. Is it difficult? Yes, if you're an introvert or if you're uncomfortable with something you've never done before. But take it from me I wasn't always a speaker, nor a social butterfly. At one point I carried the mask of anger and my thought was like I hope when people look at me they don't even want to talk to me. And guess what? It worked I wasn't approachable, and it's not because I was a badass, it's just because I looked like shit and you know, people didn't want to approach me.
Speaker 1:When it comes to your finances, it's difficult to sit down, write down all of your expenses and tell yourself, wow, I'm spending money in a lot of places that I probably shouldn't and I want to save money. So let me start writing a little Excel spreadsheet or just writing it in a notebook and start tracking this so I can be better financially. That sounds hard, right, but it's easy to just spend, spend, spend, spend, spend and have fun with it and hope that you have enough for the next week, etc. Etc. Etc. Do you see what I'm saying? Like everything that I just said always has an easy way to approach it or a difficult way to approach it. And because of the topic that we're speaking on, which is just a fact, the difficult way to approach it is the one where you'll get the most out of it. And this is what I meant earlier when I said that I got ahead of myself.
Speaker 1:Understand something Everything is difficult until you put enough effort into it to get good at it. That's fact. You can replay that right. Anything is difficult, anything. Anything that you say I'm going to do this for the first time. Unless you're a genius, you're not going to execute it to standard the first time, and that's okay. But what happens to the person that just keeps showing up? Oh, keeps showing up, right? How many people have I heard I went to the gym for a year, but at one point it was things were just difficult and I'm just like and that's when you gave up. When things got difficult, that means that you went for a year, dedicated time and effort for a year, and when life said, hey, I think you're ready for the next level here, here's a challenge. You said, nah, I don't want to go over that Right. Perspective is everything. How you approach it is everything.
Speaker 1:Nothing great comes from an easy path, which means if you want a great life, you will go through difficulties. And if you don't believe me, just start reading the books of the people who have succeeded in life. I used to think you have to be lucky. I used to think, man, you really have to be born into a silver spoon family in order to win at life. I used to think the color of your skin mattered and to a certain extent it does, depending on the scenario you're in but that's a whole different conversation. But at the end of the day, you get to decide what difficulties you're going to benefit from, and you get to decide if you're going to take an easy path which doesn't take you to a good place, or you can choose the difficult route and from that difficult route, allow something to blossom, because you have to understand that the repetitions count and, of course, it's going to be difficult at first.
Speaker 1:Every example that I just gave beforehand is an easy example of how, over time, with enough effort and practice, you will inevitably get better. And that's today's topic. And it was, like I said, short to the point, something that we all know, and if you didn't know it before, you definitely do now. I don't mean to devalue how difficult it is to become better as an individual. It is a difficult path and that's why the 1% are the 1%. That's why, as I was talking about earlier, when you go and read the books of the people that are succeeding in life in all forms of way, you'll come to find out that none of it was easy. None of it was easy to the fact that most people wouldn't even want to go the route that they went. But all they see is the end route, all they see is the end result, and all they see is the luxury, the wealth or the success and they say, oh, must be nice and it's just like no, look into it. They probably went through a lot of difficult things before they experienced the greatness that now you consider must be nice. You know, be better than that.
Speaker 1:Life is built off of your perspective, and when you accept something as a factor or a belief to your core, I believe that's when everything starts becoming a reality. So just imagine if you just woke up tomorrow and you said I firmly believe that this is a reality. So just imagine if you just woke up tomorrow and you said I firmly believe that this is a fact, that nothing great will come from taking an easy path, which means that I'm going to approach everything today not with intentional difficulty, but I'm going to challenge myself. I'm going to understand something that is going to be in my way, or I'm going to put myself in a situation that I typically wouldn't put myself in, and I'm going to grow from it. It's going to be uncomfortable, it's going to be a little bit difficult, but I'm going to get better from it.
Speaker 1:For me, what that looked like was going to the gym for the first time. You know, the insecurities were high. I didn't want to be looked at, I was nervous. My fears, my anxieties, my depression, all of it, all of it was involved, you know. So it was hard for me.
Speaker 1:But now fast forward, seven years later, and now I'm competing in bodybuilding. Do you understand the difference? But that seven years of challenge after challenge after challenge and I've lost loved ones and I've had the broken hearts and I've lost the friends and I've had to switch the careers and all of those things could have easily and, if I'm being honest, sometimes did become the reason why I gave up. But over time I realized every time I gave up, things stopped being great. Every time I stopped challenging myself, I didn't like who I was becoming again. So now I just accept that every time you get lazy and too comfortable. You're no longer on the path to greatness. Don't settle there. Challenge yourself, Become better, think for yourself, accept this as a fact for yourself, and I guarantee you, if you take the difficult routes, you will become somebody who you never thought you could be. And, with that being said, thank you for being here. Be one of those people that think about this and become better Until next time.
