EP136- Living on Your Terms.

What would happen if you stopped letting fear write your story? That’s the question. And the answer determines whether you truly live—or merely exist.

Too many of us are stuck on the hamster wheel. Busy. Moving. But going nowhere. We breathe, we work, we grind—yet something’s missing. That something is purpose. Not the kind shaped by fear and insecurity, but by your real dreams and ambitions.

Here’s the truth: when we choose safety over possibility, life slowly slips away. In our 20s and 30s, we waste energy and potential. In our 50s, responsibilities grow while our capacity fades. And in our 70s, brutal clarity arrives: time’s almost gone for the life we truly wanted.

But listen—this isn’t about regret. It’s about awakening. You can’t control everything, but you can always control your response. You decide whether fear builds your cage or whether courage breaks it. You choose whether challenges shrink you or grow you.

And today—right now—you hold a clean slate. Whether you’re twenty or sixty, you can declare: “This is my turning point.”

Refuse mediocrity. Face your fears but never bow to them. Paint your life into something beautiful, despite the doubts that whisper otherwise.

So I’ll ask again: Are you ready to reclaim your story? Let’s step forward together—and get better

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Speaker 1: 0:00

Hello, hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez. Thank you for being here with me. Episode 136.

Speaker 1: 0:10

As I record this, it's later on Sunday evening, so I'm just going to get right into today's topic. Today's topic is very simple. Remember the things that I speak about are typically things that I seek for through my own intuition, and what that means is sometimes, once in a while, I may go out of my way and look for something to talk about, but most of the time, I like to speak mainly about what I'm going through and the things that I'm experiencing, and today's theme of the subject of conversation is going to be living life on your own terms. Understand something Sure, uncontrollables where you are born, the faith you are raised to believe in, the environment, the culture, all of those things really out of your control. You weren't even asked to be born. You were just born, and here you are Now you're a human being. So, instead of focusing so much on the uncontrollables, I really want to focus on the things that are within your control.

Speaker 1: 1:15

Within your control I believe it's one of my firm beliefs is the ability to create a life of abundance. Ability to create a life of abundance Is the ability to overcome obstacles significantly enough to create so much progress that you no longer recognize who you become. I believe we are only limited by what we allow ourselves to be limited by. I believe that we grow through difficulties. Therefore, embracing them instead of avoiding them is how we become better. And these are all things.

Speaker 1: 1:49

Everything that I just spoke about is literally probably an episode that I've covered at one point or another, but what I want to emphasize on today is carrying that with you at all times and allowing yourself to have a picture in your mind of the life you want to create, of the person you want to become, of the things that you want to accomplish, because the only people who accomplish those things are the people who have a clear vision as to what they want from life. And that's, of course, easier said than done. But be honest with yourself. When's the last time you sat honest with yourself Once? The last time you sat down with yourself, said what do I want from life and what am I willing to do for it, and actually wrote down a plan of action? I'm willing to bet you've never done that. Took me years to to get over the uncomfortability of sitting down and start goal setting.

Speaker 1: 2:40

My own life and goal setting for me doesn't just serve as me making goals and here I am trying to get. I understand that goal settings are directly correlated to the story of my life. The goals that I aim for make who I am, the goals that I aim for create the story being told, the goals that I aim for, creates memories of my own life. So I want to paint a picture for you, and I wrote this down because I'm a storyteller, I love to paint pictures and sometimes those pictures aren't beautiful, but it's something to think about as you embrace this gift called life. And it goes like this You're in your 20s, let's say I'm 31.

Speaker 1: 3:27

So you're in your 30s. You have dreams, you have ambitions. You also have fears, doubts and insecurities. Because of those fears, doubts and insecurities, you never execute on your dreams and ambition, right. So you've put yourself in a hamster wheel. Of course, you've got the things that I know I need to have a job, sure, I'm in a relationship, but you've built those things not based off dreams and ambitions, but based on your doubts and insecurities and your fears. So you've limited yourself, right? If you are not careful, you place yourself in what I like to call a hamster wheel, which simply implies that you are moving. Sure, you are waking up, you are breathing, you got oxygen flowing through your body, you're putting one foot in front of the next, but you're not going anywhere. You're not giving yourself things to aim at right If you're not careful.

Speaker 1: 4:25

Here's the next part of what I wrote. You fast forward and now you're in your 50s. You never took care of your body. You never added value to your mind. That leads to better choices. So now you are lacking more energy. The dreams and ambitions are still within you, but the energy is fading. You now don't have the energy to execute on those dreams and ambitions any longer. You might, but it's so much more difficult because from 30 to 50, that's 20 years. From 20 to 50, that's 30 years. 30 years of carrying ambitions and dreams but never acting on them. Imagine how that feels. That's weight holding you down. So now you don't have the energy to execute on them.

Speaker 1: 5:10

Without doubt, as you progressed and got older, life has only gotten more busy for you. You might have children now a husband or a wife. You might be in a manager's position, in a foreman position, you might be running your own business. Life has never been more busy. And now that dream and ambitions is nagging at you and nagging at you and you choose to ignore it, because how you choose to live your life is still based off your fears, your doubts and your insecurities, fast forward, god willing, you make it into your 70s. By then, friends are dying, loved ones are dead. You are realizing that you are reaching the end of this gift. And as you are realizing that you are reaching the end of the gift, you start thinking about your dreams and ambitions again. And as your heart starts to slow down, as your body is giving away, you are lacking energy and you don't even have it to start acting on those ambitions and dreams anymore. Is that the life you want to live? Right Picture painted. Think about that. That's what.

Speaker 1: 6:24

I don't know why, but that's what's been on my mind a lot lately. I have a lot of things going on in my own personal life that are requiring me to think like this, because I understand that the choices I make now no longer just impact me, but impact those who I cherish and love. So I don't want to be just an existing individual. I want to be an individual that lives with purpose. I don't want to avoid the most that I can out of life because of my insecurities, fears and doubts, but instead I want to experience the most from life because I'm embracing the fact that I have dreams and goals that I want to create and experience on my own.

Speaker 1: 7:07

I would personally right, and I typically don't give advice. I just give my own opinion. You do what you want with it. Sometimes opinions don't have value. My opinions, I'm sure, have those same effects sometimes. But listen to that picture again. Listen to that picture again and go out into the world and watch for that picture.

Speaker 1: 7:26

In real life. I see it the person carrying regret, the person who allowed fear and doubts to take aim of their decisions and therefore they never became what they possibly could have amounted to. We must be better than that, we must be wiser than that, and I understand. Sometimes the fears and the doubts are loud, loud and it's difficult to silence them. But that's where the consistency must come in, that's where a clear vision must come in.

Speaker 1: 7:59

That is when the first things I said when I started this episode the beliefs in yourself, the values you carry, the things that you are limited by or not limited by. That is up to you to decide, and I'm going to leave it with that. I'm going to leave it with that. It was literally something on my mind. I almost pulled out my long list of you know topics that I have written down over the years and picked one of them, but intuitively, my soul was telling me speak about just living life on your terms. We accept the things we can't control, but just because you can't control most things, realize that the things you can't control are the very things that you need to control in order to experience those dreams and ambitions. Don't just settle with your fears and your doubts and say I guess this is it. You have a choice to make.

Speaker 1: 8:56

On Monday morning you are given an opportunity, a fresh start, a new week, a clean slate. What will you do with your life If you're in your 20s? Are you using that energy wisely? If you're in your 50s, are you accepting mediocrity and averageness and just saying it's too late for me, or are you using your time wisely? I don't care if you're in your late 50s, early 60s. I believe it's never too late to say it's time for a change. And if you aren't content which I highly recommend you never become. You have that conversation with yourself and you tell yourself I have a life to live and things that I want to experience, and no matter how big the fears, no matter how huge the doubts, I will show up and I will paint a picture of beauty with my own life. Think about that and together let's get better.