EP138- A Leap of Faith.

The moments that shape us rarely arrive with a map. They often come disguised as hesitation, self-doubt, or a quiet pull toward something unfamiliar. In these moments, we stand in the uneasy space between who we are and who we want to become—where fear feels loud, clarity feels scarce, and the only honest move forward is into the unknown.

Fresh off personal milestones and facing challenges beyond the comfort zone, we often confront the tension between safety and growth. Safety whispers with its promise of stability, while growth asks us to risk regret, test our courage, and trust the mechanics of momentum.

Uncertainty doesn’t have to be romanticized, but it does need to be understood. There are practical ways to navigate it:

Audit the pros and cons. Clarify what’s truly at stake.

• Take micro-steps. Small actions transform anxiety into motion.
• Redefine trial and error. See each attempt not as failure, but as data.
• Anchor to your values. Let them serve as a compass when the path is foggy.

Planning matters, but it cannot replace courage. Reversible experiments lower the risk, but only action builds belief. Confidence doesn’t precede the leap—it grows because of it.

For anyone who has felt the tightness in the chest before a big decision, know that you’re not alone. Identity shifts, imposter feelings, and the compounding power of small daily choices are universal. Just as real, however, is the quieter danger: the pull back to comfort. That retreat often costs us years and leaves us with nothing but what-ifs.

The truth is simple: momentum reveals the next step only after you take the first.

So, when uncertainty stands in front of you, how will you respond? Will you retreat into comfort, or lean into the unknown? The answer becomes your story—choose it with intention.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Gratitude and Setting the Stage
• 0:41 A Honeymoon and Holding Back Details
• 1:01 Theme: Leaps of Faith
• 1:12 Living With Uncertainty
• 1:39 Pros, Cons, and Inner Debate
• 2:19 Acting Despite Fear
• 3:15 Trial, Error, and Reaction
• 3:50 Start With One Step
• 4:30 High Standards, No Clear Path
• 5:05 Self-Doubt and Imposter Feelings
• 6:12 Change Beyond Comfort
• 7:20 Fear, Judgment, and Diving In
• 8:08 The Pull Back vs. Regret
• 8:36 Short Wrap and Self-Reminder
• 9:14 Compounding Small Decisions
• 9:46 Closing: Have Faith and Leap

Transcript

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Hello and welcome back everybody to compounding daily. I'm your host, Miguel Sanchez, and welcome back to another episode, episode 138. First and foremost, thank you for being here. If there's always something that I express gratitude towards, is uh I I value the time that you choose to spend because if there's something that I value, it is my time. So for you to choose to sit here just a few minutes with me to share a conversation, an idea, a different perspective, with the hopes that we both gain something from it. Um it's something that I never take for granted. So thank you for being here. Uh, this is a weird episode in the sense of I'm recording on a Wednesday. Um, I just came back from a little bit, a little honeymoon that was gifted to us with me and my wife. And uh uh there's a lot of my mind, but I won't speak about everything going on because I I firmly believe let me get evidence of action first before I speak about things that I may or may not do. But with that being said, I want to speak today's topic because of that thought in my head, is simply based on leaps of faith. Leaps of faith and belief in the self. Uh I'm in a position in my life where I find myself being put in positions where I can't see what's next. I can't see what's coming. I can't I can't see my next steps very clearly. I see a lot of steps that I can take, sure. But uh there's a lot of uh a lot of lack of clear clarity for lack of better wording. Uh a lot of decisions that I have uncertainty about. And with that in mind, I always play the devil's advocate within myself, so there's always a conversation. And before I allow myself to get too emotional, I always like to uh make a list mentally of the pros and cons. The pros uh of taking this leap of faith, of taking a step may me without knowing the outcome. Um or the con, for example, uh retreating back into safety, retreating back into what I know, retreating because of the fears that I have and the anxiety that I'm creating within myself. Understand something. Uh from my observation and from what I am experiencing, and I'm going to be experiencing even more so, it's it's people who take steps not with uncertainty, right? Because I'm a firm believer of having a plan, but the people who even though feel fear and anxiety still take steps towards that uncertainty. They say, I don't know where I'm going, but I know that I can't stay. They say, I don't know where I'm going, but I know that where I've been I don't like. So something has to change. And even though I'm a firm believer of having a plan and a clarity of vision and having your goals always within your mind, just because you have those things, that doesn't mean that you're gonna have step one, step two, step three, step four, and just go and follow the steps and everything's gonna go well. A lot of it, a lot of it is gonna be trial and error. I've never been here before, I've never done this before. Uh I'm most likely going to fail. But if I said it as I said in a recent episode or morning message, um, it's not what happens to you that really matters, it's your reaction to it. So as you go through life and you find yourself in positions where you know you want change, where you know you want more, where you want to create a different version of yourself, and the conversation of, but I have doubts and I have fears and I have uncertainties and I just can't see a sense of direction. Sometimes you don't need any of that, and sometimes what you need to do is just take that first step and allow that step to be the first one that starts building momentum. Is it gonna be quick? No, is it gonna be easy? Absolutely not. But what if at the end of that leap of faith that you took is everything that you've ever wanted? There's only one way to find out, and that's by going through it. That's by diving headfirst into the unknown, by to allowing yourself to experience new things, by understanding that failure is part of the process. Chances are you want a great life, especially if you're listening to this. If you're listening to this, chances are you are an above-average individual, you're not settling for mediocrity, you want the most that you can out of life, and if you want the most that you can out of life, you can make all the planning that you want, but there's gonna be plenty of times where you're not gonna know what you're doing or where you're going or how it's going to be done, and you still have to do it. So now you have choices to make. Uh, I I won't be a hypocrite. Uh, I'll tell you that when I'm placed in spots like that, before I take action, I do so much self-reflecting. I do I the that pros and cons list that I mentioned during one, it's so extensive and long. And uh I I see my excuses coming out, uh telling me to stay, telling me to refrain from making change. And and as I'm having this internal debate within myself, I have so much fear and so much anxiety and doubts, and and I feel like uh uh almost an imposter sometimes because here I am speaking the things that I'm speaking about, yet in moments of my uh uncertainty, in moments where I'm not sure what my next step is, I feel those same emotions rising up. The the emotions that are telling me to not take risk, to not take leaps of faith, to not believe in myself, to stay in the comfort zone, to allow myself to not go through the things that uh physically and mentally I may not want to go through, but spiritually I know I have to go through in order to get better. I'm a human being just like you. And I'm not going in depth yet because again, as I said, I like to gather evidence before I speak about the things happening in my life. I don't just like to tell you about things that may or may not happen. So uh know that uh internally and in my own personal life, I'm going through some changes, and uh these changes that I'm going through are far from my comfort zone, and as I'm going through them, I share with you this, not so you can wish me luck or pat me in the back, because I don't want those things. I tell you this so you understand that uh even quote unquote demotivated, as people call me, right? Uh go through these things. We're all human beings, and I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that my life is rainbows and butterflies. Of course, I just came from the highest point of my life. I married the love of my life, and I was just at a honeymoon having the phenomenal time, right? But at the end of it all, I still have goals to meet. I have things that I need to accomplish, I have things that I want to see done, and because of my current circumstances in my life, a lot of the things that I want to see done are just not happening with the current version of myself and the current life that I am living. So something has to change, and that change is super uncomfortable for me, and that change is uh uh hopefully attached to my end goal that I have in mind. Well, without a doubt, it's definitely attached to my end goal in mind, but I know that I have a lot of uncertainty and a lot of doubt and a lot of insecurities, and I have the fear of failure, the fear of judgment, the fear of being ridiculed, the fear of just failing. And it's there. And even though it's there, I'm still diving head first. Call me crazy. But the people that I look up to, the people who are doing and living the way that I want to live, have all said the same thing. It's in those moments where anxiety's high, where your chest feels like it's caving in, where you have to make a decision, where intuitively you know what you have to do, you know what will make you better, you know the direction which you should go, yet you feel as if there's something pulling you back. And that pulling you back is the dangerous part because if you're not mindful, it does pull you back, and you never go for the change, and you never go for the growth, and then you live a life of regret. Don't allow that to happen. A short episode today, clearly, uh, this is what's on my mind is adamant at the moment at the forefront, just there, persistently reminding me of what I'm going through. So, uh know that these messages serve me probably more than they serve you, because I re-listen to them and I and I think to myself, like, man, this is exactly what I needed to hear, because it's a conversation with myself, for myself, with the goal of you understanding and seeing from your perspective, uh, the version of me just explaining to you my failures, my difficulties, the things that I'm going through. And today's topic is take a leap of faith. Sometimes you don't see the direction in which you're going, but sometimes that's not what's required. What's required is a little bit of courage, is a little bit of self-respect, is a little bit of self-reflection and accountability. It's understanding that over time, with good decisions compounding daily, building momentum, earning that 1%, consistently showing up, without a doubt, you will reach a better point than the one where you are now. So have faith in yourself and take that leap. And until next time, my friend.