EP137- CD Roulette #8

It’s been a while, but this episode dives into all sorts of topics. Tune in, enjoy, and give yourself the space to really thinkabout the subjects shared. Here are a few highlights:

• Meaningful change doesn’t happen overnight. It happens in the quiet, ordinary moments—the small choices that compound day after day.

• Motivation isn’t what drives growth. What looks like motivation is really discipline—the decision to keep going even when the feeling isn’t there. Most days, I don’t want to do the hard things… but that’s exactly when growth happens.

• Every choice you make shapes your future self—tomorrow, next year, five years from now. And your choices ripple outward, too. The energy you bring into a room matters. Do you lift others up, or drain them?

    - Stop waiting for the “perfect” time to begin. Life will never be free of challenges. Growth isn’t about avoiding them—it’s about moving forward with them. The truth is simple: practice always leads to progress.

So let me leave you with this:

👉 What small, purposeful choice can you make today that your future self will thank you for?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Gratitude and Episode Introduction
• 2:31 Best Things Take Time
• 3:43 Motivation vs. Consistent Action
• 5:22 Today's Choices Shape Tomorrow's Reality
• 6:25 Your Ripple Effect on Others
• 8:18 Don't Wait for Perfect Timing
• 9:55 Practice Becomes Second Nature
• 11:25 Closing Thoughts and Key Takeaways

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hello, hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, miguel Sanchez, and welcome back to another episode, episode 137. First and foremost, lately, I always begin every episode with expressing gratitude. If there is something that I value in my own life, it's the time that I have, and how I choose to spend that time is something that I don't take for granted. So, in you choosing to be here to listen to this conversation, to maybe get something out of it, it's not something that I take for granted, and I just always begin every episode with saying thank you, thank you for being here. Understand that.

Speaker 1: 0:38

My goal here is very simple. I'm experiencing life just like you are. I'm making a fool out of myself in many situations. I'm putting myself in situations where I am not coming out on top and, as I'm going through life, the approach that I'm always taking is that, even in difficulties, there is something to learn, and what I am learning is that the better I become at sharing my mistakes and letting people know the things that I've been through, the better I'm able to self-analyze myself and keep myself more accountable, because, believe it or not, every episode that I release, I listen to, every caption that I read, I write, so it's things that I go through that keep me accountable, and the goal is always the same for you to learn from my mistakes in the hopes that you don't have to make them yourself. And, with that being said, happy Monday, or, yeah, technically happy Tuesday.

Speaker 1: 1:33

I'm releasing this episode on a Tuesday after a big weekend, and I want to do a compounding daily roulette episode. I haven't done typically I do one a month, but life has gotten ahead of me lately and I just been enjoying doing solo episodes with not with specific topic in mind, but today I want to go through a few different topics. If you don't know what compounding daily roulette is, I have a notes section in my phone filled with over 200 different topics, ideas, perspectives, things that I consider valuable, things that at one point I felt was valuable enough for me to write down, to go back to and reflect. And once in a while, instead of just saying this is exactly what I want to talk about, what I do is I go and I open that list and I go through at least four or five of them, and it's usually in quick succession. I don't stick in one topic for too long and as I record this, that is what I'm feeling inclined to do, so that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Speaker 1: 2:38

So, with that being said, let's roll, and let's begin with the first one, the first one being is we live in a world where you must understand that the best things in life take time. Action is immediate, results are gradual. Be persistent and consistent. That's not something I have to go deep into right, it's common sense. You have to understand that if something's worth having, if there is something that you want to get good at, it doesn't happen overnight. Those things typically happen when you start putting consistency into things, when you start showing up over a long period of time, which is why it says immediate. Action is immediate. Results are gradual because action is something that you can choose to do today and the results will come over time. So just food for thought is basically what a lot of these are going to be to put you in a state of introspection where you are now thinking for yourself and maybe questioning the way you've been approaching life lately.

Speaker 1: 3:43

Here's the second one you have to do the things you don't want to do, even when you don't want to do it. That's just an understanding that it's not always going to feel good. I emphasize on that one a lot, because most people ask me like. I've had this question asked to me so many times and it simply goes how are you always so motivated? And I always respond with it's not motivation that you're looking at. Right, because what they see as motivation is just a good attitude and I consistently show up. Okay. To them, it seems as motivation because it looks like I'm doing everything as if I want to do it, but the reality is that most of the time I don't want to do those things. I don't want to go to the gym, I don't want to be restrictive with my meals, I don't want to read the books. I'm a human being, right. I go through chapters in my life where I kind of just want to turn the switch off and enjoy being in the present moment, and I know that if I stay there too long, I will become somebody that I'm not happy with. So that's when I turn the switch back on and I have that conversation with myself that emphasizes on the fact that, even though I don't feel like doing it, I have to do it because that's where the growth is. So that's the second one. Is going to the third one Now, to know that one's really long. I won't read that one. I'll read this one.

Speaker 1: 5:09

Who you will be tomorrow is determined by the choices you make today. Who you will be in five years is determined by the choices you make over a long period of time. Make good choices for yourself. Like I said, some of these are self-notes to myself, so as I read that it sounded like I was lecturing to myself. It's a reminder to not let the days go to waste, right. What you do today significantly impacts how you feel tomorrow and your reaction to tomorrow will significantly impact the day after that and it becomes this big momentum that most people neglect. So this one really emphasizes on bringing your awareness to the understanding that you can show up five years from now and wonder what the fuck happened. Or you can say I made this happen and you took control over the last five years and you made conscious decisions. And you made good, purposeful decisions where you didn't just leave things up to hope, but instead you said I'm going to make one good choice after one good choice. After one good choice, and over a long period of time, you'll be in a much better place. I can vouch for that because that is how I've gotten better in my own personal life, right. With that being said, it's bigger than you.

Speaker 1: 6:25

How big is your ripple? It's one of my favorite topics. It changes the perspective from I to them, and what I mean by that is I. A lot of my perspectives are always beginning with the foundation of myself, like what am I doing? What am I thinking, how am I reacting? But sometimes it's good to change that perspective and start thinking about how is your existence affecting others? I feel like that is something that is often neglected. When you walk into the room, how do people react to your presence? Are they happy to see you? When you speak, are you speaking words of poison or are you speaking words of encouragement? Are you a naysayer or are you a person who's enthusiastic about the day? Like? All of these things have a ripple effect, and how you show up consistently will significantly have an effect on how big of a ripple you have.

Speaker 1: 7:22

So in my scenario, I have been blessed with the gift of gab. I can talk. Over the years, I've gotten better at expressing my ideas and, most importantly, I've gotten really curious about other people. So I've gotten to a point where now I can really talk to anybody about anything, gotten to a point where now I can really talk to anybody about anything and I make sure that, despite if their beliefs are against me, despite if we don't agree with everything, I make sure that I leave a good taste in their mouth. I make sure that I leave a good first impression. I don't ever want to leave a room where people are like that guy sucked right. So that has to be something that's done with intention. So instead of thinking so much about you know, oh man, I hope that people are, excuse me, I hope that I am reacting well to people. Instead, wonder how people are reacting to you and you might learn something about yourself. Okay, perfect, let's go to another one.

Speaker 1: 8:18

Don't wait until the moment is just right. Will there ever be a time where you are stress free or free from worry? This is something about procrastination. This is something about understanding that. I've said this a lot myself good time Now? I don't have that. This is just not a good time Now. I just have too much going on Right now. I have too many responsibilities Right now. I got to choose different priorities. Sometimes saying that over, over and over just becomes sort of an excuse, an excuse in the form that you are not understanding that you're probably never going to reach a point in your life where you are stress free. Right, there's always going to be something. So sometimes people say, well, right now is not a good time, right now I'm just too busy. Right now I'm just too stressed. Okay, do you see yourself in the future ever having a time where there is no stress at all? The answer for most people is definitely no, right. So now I find it more joyful, in my own opinion, right To approach life with. How can I manage this stress well enough to still grow from it? You see, same form of stress in a different approach. All right, and with that I'm gonna do one more, let's see. I'm gonna go to one of the newer ones and see.

Speaker 1: 9:45

Some of these are just so simple. Practice becomes second nature. Simple, yet full of value. Understand something when I write something that's so simple practice becomes second nature. I often reflect a lot on it and from this one, the value that I gain from it is the understanding that the more you do something, the more it becomes a part of you. Understand something when you do something for the first time, for the first hundred times, even sometimes for the first thousand times you might suck at it, but what you practice consistently enough, without doubt it's guaranteed Because it's written in the laws what you do consistently long enough, you will get better at. So take that you know Like a grain of sand and do what you want with that information.

Speaker 1: 10:36

Everything that I've spoken about Is things that have helped me Gotten better as an individual. I think a lot about these ideas and they serve as reminders To tackle the day with the right attitude, understanding that results Don't come to you, Don't come overnight, understanding that I'm also human. So there will be times in my own life when I am feeling down, when I may be feeling depressed, but in those moments I get to think about great. I am glad to know that I am not so far ahead that I still don't experience the things that everybody else experiences. It keeps me grounded, it keeps me centered and it really allows me to appreciate the day by day, because now I understand that, since every day is a gift, with that gift I get to decide how I'm going to react to the world and, most importantly, how the world is going to react to me. So, with that being said, a short episode, a little roulette, a lot of different ideas, a lot of different things to think about. And I actually enjoy this, because now, right before bed, I get to think about my own life and think about the things that are exciting me and the things that are causing me stress and the things that I need to work on.

Speaker 1: 11:48

And there's only one way to get better, and that is by facing the things that you know are hindering you with the attitude that there is lessons to be learned there, and taking those lessons and integrating the changes that you know are going to lead you to a different spot, and from that spot you can continue to make progress. And then you just show up over and over and over again and, before you know it, you've been consistent long enough that you can say I've gotten so much better at a, b and c. And it's not rocket science, it's not easy, but it's not impossible. And I always say, just like that last quote, what you practice is what you get good at. So if there's anything you're going to gain from this episode, take that, take that last one.

Speaker 1: 12:32

Understand that you get better at the things you repeat. So if you're doing something at the moment and you don't feel so enthusiastic about it. You might feel like you're lacking in enthusiasm, or you might feel like you're just not meant for it. Maybe just keep showing up with a better attitude and that'll give you the changes that you seek, with the understanding that it may take a long period of time, especially if it's worth having. So, with that being said, thank you for being here. Let's think and together let's get better.