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EP139- An invitation to SELF-betterment

• Miguel Sanchez

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This episode  I get personal about the past few months: celebrating my wedding, easing off the gas on purpose, and noticing how “a little ice cream, a skipped walk, less water, more Nintendo” adds up when you’re not paying attention. Mentally steady, physically slipping, and honest about it—that’s the tension that sparked a new commitment.

I’m doing 75 Hard again—not as a diet, but as a mental discipline program that rebuilds self-trust through simple rules executed daily. Two workouts (one outside), a gallon of water, ten pages of reading, a clean diet with no alcohol or cheats, and a daily progress photo. None of that is confusing; all of it is demanding. We talk about why now is the best time—right before the holidays—because temptation is the perfect training ground for self-control. Instead of waiting for January, imagine walking into the new year with momentum and proof. If you think you “can’t” go 75 days without drinks or cookies, maybe that’s the red flag to pay attention to.

I’m also opening an accountability group chat so we can suffer smarter together—morning walk check-ins, meal tracking, reading notes, and simple nudges that make the hard parts easier. The bigger goal is identity: turning promises into proof until your inner voice trusts you again. I’m calling my shot—down 30–35 pounds in 75 days—and documenting day one through day seventy-five. You don’t have to do 75 Hard to start. Pick one hard rule that aligns with who you want to become and keep it. Let’s arrive in the new year proud, not hopeful. If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs a push, and leave a review telling me the one habit you’re locking in today.

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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 139. We are making progress, we are getting better, we are giving ourselves intentional difficulties so we can get the best outcome from this gift called life. And with that being said, today's gonna be an interesting episode. I don't have a topic in mind. Typically, I have some idea, some perspective, some form of uh specific value that I want to give. But today I have something interesting. I have an invitation, an invitation to challenge yourself, an invitation to suffer a little bit with me, so you don't have to go through it alone. And I'll explain. But before we go deep into the details, I want to say this. Yes, it's Monday morning, yes, it's the beginning of a brand new week, but we as individuals have a responsibility to make sure that we are not the one contaminating our workforces, right? That we are not tainting uh the others, others who come across our path. And what I mean by that is the attitude you choose to show up with will have an impact in the opportunities that present or hide themselves from you. A person that shows up even on a Monday morning, especially on a Monday morning, only wishing for the weekend to be here already, ex expressing discontent and complaining about current circumstances. You are what I call an energy drainer, and believe it or not, if people are uh partaking in that conversation with you, you along with them are not adding any form of value to the day, and you're just gonna make the day drag on, right? And that is just from my experience, not just from the outside perspective, but from being that person at one point in my life. So now I make it a habit to make sure that when I wake up, even though the conversation might say, I don't feel like doing this, I don't want to go through this, why am I going through this, etc. etc. etc. It is your uh responsibility to observe that conversation and change it just a little bit, change it to begin foundationally with gratitude. Uh despite what you may be going through, there is always something that you can be grateful for. Sometimes you have to look a little bit harder than others, and if that's where you are, then there is no better time to begin expressing gratitude than today on a beginning of a brand new week on a Monday morning. And if by chance you're listening to this later in the week, regardless of the fact, show up with a good attitude. Make sure people remember you when they come across your path, not for a negative experience, but for an uplifting experience because of who you chose to be. So, with that being said, uh let's get right into it. Uh, if you know me for a while now, then uh you know that I'm very regimented. Uh, I call it OCD. Some people say I have ADHD. My problem is that I can't stay comfortable for too long. And I'll explain. Uh, coming from, you know, obese for my height, 5'6, 289 pounds, you know, overweight, pre-diabetic, high blood pressure, dissatisfied with myself, both physically, mentally, lacking spiritual values, to go from that to the person who is now speaking to you, uh, it was an uphill battle, still is, and what I've learned along the journey of these past now going on eight years has been that what you can keep your gas, your foot on the gas a hundred percent of the time, and there is nothing wrong with that. But what I found for myself, and this is a personal thing, right? Because we're all different. What I found for myself is that what I enjoy most is a very long period of strict discipline. Uh uh a period that without doubt, by the end of it, I will be better than I was when I went into it. Uh I I seek those periods, but I also seek periods where it could be a Wednesday evening and I say, I want some ice cream, and I go get that ice cream. I want to order Chinese food. I'm gonna order Chinese food, right? And I'm not putting it on a scale, I'm not tracking anything, I'm eating. Oh, the weekends here. Uh maybe I don't feel like going on a walk. And I know that's crazy hearing from me, but I always express I'm a human being just like you, and I have downtimes in my life as well. And uh this past few months have been that downtime for me. I have a lot of great things going on in my life. Uh, at the peak of it all, I was marrying my best friend. I got married this last weekend. If you're not caught up with that, um, so obviously, before the wedding, uh and in progress to the wedding, uh, my goal was to be as relaxed and stress-free as possible, still doing the things I enjoy. I was still going to the gym, I was still getting my workouts in, I was still eating dominantly healthy. But if I wanted a drink, I had a drink. If I wanted some uh unhealthy food that I knew wasn't good for my body, I had that. And now the wedding has passed, and now the the high of my life is returning me back to reality, and reality says to me, Hey, you've had a great time, the wedding was the best day of your life. You are now a few months away from going into a brand new year. Are you gonna continue to relax? Or maybe now is a good time to get serious once again, to go into the new year, not wishing you did more, but proud of who you became at the very end of it all, right? Because I've gotten significantly better as an individual this year, but there's been down times where physically I take off my shirt and I whisper to myself, disgusting, what did you do, man? You know, and that's just me being hard on myself, you know. According to what coach says and my wife says, I still look good and I'm going based off their opinions, not the opinions of others, right? But I am not satisfied with where I am, and I know that if I change nothing about the way that I am approaching life right now, mentally I'll be okay because that's priority number one. But my physical health has been starting to take a toll. Uh, I've been putting a few hours into Resident Evil 4 on my Nintendo Switch. Uh I've been neglecting physically opening a book. I may not get my gal in a day, I might get three-quarters, sometimes half. Oh man, I am flawed. But that observation is what it takes, right? So here's where the invitation comes in. I'm recording this on Sunday, October 5th. Tomorrow is Monday, October 6th. Tomorrow is day one of 75 Hard for me, once again. If you don't know what that is, just go on YouTube and watch whichever there's thousands of videos, right? If you know me and you are part of my inner circle, then you know that I've done 75 Hard three times, the Live Hard program once, and I am a huge, huge uh supporter of the program, not because it's a diet, but because anytime I feel I am lacking in discipline, anytime I feel I've gotten comfortable in my seat, anytime I know for a fact momentum is not being built, I love to challenge myself. Understand, every time I've done 75 hard, I've it I've been a different version of myself. I've been at different parts of my life experiencing different difficulties, and now I know that as I am at the high of my life, married to the love of my best friend, uh career is going well, I am taking leaps of faith, which I'm saving for another episode, doing things that are super uncomfortable to me without knowing the outcome, and I am filled with anxiety. What better time than to add a mental self-discipline program into my life? Right? What better time than now? Why? Because I can say, you know, the year is almost over. Oh my god, let's be real. Halloween's coming, Thanksgiving's coming, Christmas is coming, New Year's is coming. So you're gonna miss all those foods. You're not gonna drink, you're not gonna celebrate with other people. Come on, man. You're gonna miss those things that that are important to the culture and blah. I never said I'm gonna miss them. I'm gonna be there, but I'm gonna be practicing self-control. I'm gonna look at the cookies. I might sniff a cookie, if I'm being honest with you, but I won't eat it. I'm not an alcoholic, I don't enjoy drinking alcohol uh uh consistently, so therefore uh that's not a big problem for me, you know. Um, the purpose of this is to put yourself in the face of temptation and practice self-control. I don't care what time of year it is, I don't care if it was my birthday coming up. Mentally, sometimes the voice says to me, It's time to get back on track. You've rested long enough. Fat Miguel has been out and about enjoying his life saying, Wow, I'm married, everything's good, oh man, I feel good, I look good, but mentally the conversations are thriving. Wow, what has what what has Fit Miguel done to this body? This feels great. But Fat Miguel has been out long enough where Fit Miguel is now having anxiety internally and saying, Hey bro, it's time to switch roles again, it's time to get serious again. How do you want to go into 2026 as the best version of yourself or as a man? I could have done more. We're gonna see it, we're gonna hear it. The new year's resolution is oh, new year, new me. This is my year, I'm tired of and this is it finally. Why wait months to do what you can start now? Right? And um I'm I'm not a forcer of anything, so understand that you don't need to do 75 hard with me. You don't need to do 75 hard at all, but do something, do something, challenge yourself. I have people who have told me I would do 75 hard, but I can't go 75 days without a drink. To my response is isn't that a problem? Right? Do you not see that as a problem that can probably hinder your health over the long period of time? You know, wouldn't you be interested to figure out what happens to you when you go 75 days building discipline, building momentum, treating your body like it's a temple, the way you're supposed to treat it? Aren't you a little bit curious? Can't you paint an image in your mind of the best version of yourself? Open it, look in the mirror, and then say, Wow, I am far from that. Something needs to change. The daily choices you make need to change. And people think that you just need to go and immediately run a marathon or do a bodybuilding show. No, no, no, no, no. The changes I'm gonna implement is you're gonna see my walks outside again. No more will I uh give in to temptation and go and get an ice cream in the middle of the evening. I will track my foods, I will weigh my foods, I will drink my gallon, I will take my selfie, I will open a book. I already have the first book I'm reading, one of my fur favorite books, Third Circle Theory. Highly recommend it, you know? But all of that to say this we are a few months away from going into a new year, and either you will show up wishing you did more, or you will show up grateful and proud of the person you you became. Those are your two options. Which one will you choose? You can di this is why I'm calling it an invitation. You can join me knowing that without a doubt, unless sickness and health gets in the way, I will do another 75 hard. And you can be next to me doing it with me. I plan on creating a community group chat, uh uh uh inviting everybody who wants to do it with me. And uh it's more of an accountability group. You wake up and you see that I already went on my walk. You you you're prepping your lunch, and as you're weighing it, you take a picture and you say, make sure you track your meals, whatever, whatever the case may be. The point is is that you can suffer alone, and sometimes I enjoy that. Or you can suffer together and know that as a group you're getting better. So that is my invitation to you. Uh no no no no real, you know, uh specific topic besides the topic of self-betterment today. I challenge you to challenge yourself. People always tell me, dude, how can you say how can you always stay motivated? Well, it's because I've been better than I am now. And and knowing that I've been better than I am now, I know I'm so curious to know how much better can I get to be that last guy who I used to be, if that makes sense. Even though the the little decline in my health was intentional, uh turning off the switch and giving me a moment to enjoy the presentness of my current blessings in my life, you know. But now it's time to turn the switch back on. Now it's time to get a little serious again. Now is time to have a conversation with myself that says, should you not change anything, as I said earlier, you will not like who you are by the end of the year. And I thought you said you were doing this next year and you're planning this next year. What happened to those goals? Did you already give up? No, I did not. So, suffer alone or suffer with me. The invitation is there. 75 hard day one begins tomorrow, and you can do it with me, or you can do it by yourself, or you don't have to do it at all. But do yourself the favor the best version of you needs to arrive with you at the end of 2025 and into 2026. Don't try to create it in the beginning of a new year, because that whisper of 2025 is gonna be right nagging, right over your shoulder, just telling you, You said the same thing last year.

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Last year you said you were gonna get better, and now you're here and you're not better.

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So now your words don't have value. Your words to yourself don't hold power because you've lied to yourself before. I've been there, I've done that to build that trust within myself took a lot of effort and a lot of time. And how did I do it? Uh, over a consistently, over a long period of time, I've just been really hard on myself, and I've discovered, thanks to Andy Forsella and the real AF world, right? That community, uh, that 75 heart is a great, absolutely great, I vouch for it, great way to build momentum and to understand that you really are full of shit, and you are full of excuses. And when you do something so difficult like this, eventually by the end of it, you're not even gonna be concerned about what you look like physically. The conversation you're having internally will be a hundred percent different. So mark my words. 75 days from now, I will be 30, 35 pounds lighter, and I can't wait to hear it, dude. How did you do it? And I'll say, What do you mean? I've documented day one through 75 again. The instructions are all over online, it's not difficult to understand, it's difficult to stay consistent long enough to get results from the program, and that is where most people fell. So, what will you do? Will you join me or will you reach the end of the year wondering what went wrong, hoping for a better year? You got some thinking to do and a decision to make, and if you're with me, then let's think and together let's get better.

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