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EP143- A Strong WHY can overcome anything.

• Miguel Sanchez

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A strong why doesn’t just push you through fear — it steadies you when life feels uncertain, when the path shifts unexpectedly, and when you’re grinding quietly with no applause. This isn’t just about motivation; it’s about the moment you stop drifting in comfort and decide to live with intention. That decision changes everything. Adversity becomes fuel instead of a full stop.


There was a season when comfort softened my ambition and depression tightened the walls around me. I didn’t collapse — I faded. And the first shift wasn’t dramatic. It was a quiet change in language. From “there’s no hope” to “what if I just try again?” That tiny question cracked the door open.


From there, it wasn’t about reinventing myself overnight. It was about reshaping my identity to match who I could become — not an idealized version, but a real one. Then came the small, steady actions. No shortcuts. Just proof earned little by little. Proof builds trust. Trust builds courage. And courage keeps you aligned when plans fall apart.


Along the way, I learned that goals rooted in ego — money, image, validation — crumble under pressure. But service, growth, and responsibility? Those endure. When life hits hard, you don’t cling to how others see you — you cling to who you’re becoming and who depends on you.


Criticism, quiet low moments, plans that didn’t survive reality — all of it can be reshaped. Not into excuses, but into reasons. Reasons to wake up with intention. Reasons to show up with something deeper than ambition — with purpose.


Because at the end of the day, the question isn’t “How fast can I get there?”

It’s “Who am I becoming while I get there — and why does it matter?”


Think and find the answer for yourself. 


Enjoy and as always thank you for listening.

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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 143. I appreciate you being here. As always, I begin expressing gratitude because if there's anything that I value, it is the understanding that you are choosing to spend time with me, and I value time. So I plan to not waste your time. And uh I got I got a lot on my mind. And if you've been listening to the uh to the episodes I've recorded in the last few weeks, a lot all of them have been short and to the point, and I've I haven't had guests on in a very long time, and is because lately I've been focusing on pushing myself into doing things that I don't find myself being comfortable with. And the ability to sit with myself by myself and converse with myself with the goal to provide you, the listener, with value while keep keeping the the subject in focus, while keeping myself coherent and making sure that I make sense. It's something that even now I feel like I lack in confidence. So it's something that I've been wanting to practice. So uh just all of that to say thank you. I appreciate you being here, and let's get right into it. Um, it's the beginning of a brand new week. Before I get into today's subject, I always emphasize on the importance of being mindful on how you present yourself to a new week. Yes, it's Monday, but just because it's Monday doesn't mean that you have to bring a negative Monday attitude. Uh, it's not hard to go out into the real world and find somebody with a it's Monday attitude. There are uh shoulders dragging, there the the frown is present, and they are just ready to tell you that they are not happy, that it's Monday. And I'm here to remind you that you don't have to become that person, and secondly, you don't have to allow that person to contaminate you and your good attitude. So be mindful on how you show up to the day because the day will reflect back to you the attitude that you present to it. And with that being said, uh today's subject is something I believe we all know. As always, those are the things that I speak about. I don't feel like I'm speaking about a scientific breakthrough here, but it's something that we all know, yet I feel it's something we still allow fear to dictate, and it's just the the form of taking risk, the the the the why behind everything. And before I started recording today, I was asking myself, what am I thinking about? What am I going to talk about? Uh, what am I doing in my life that at the moment I feel I can reflect on and and and grow from? And what I kept going back to is a quote that I heard a long time ago. Uh, and of course I'm making it my own, I'm not, you know, making it a verbatim thing because I always butcher up quotes, but you'll get the gist of it. Uh a strong why can overcome any adversity. A strong why can overcome any difficulty. A strong why can overcome any obstacle, and those are all different ways of saying the same exact thing, but I wanted to emphasize on it. And the reason this is so adamant on my mind is because for for for so many years, right, I was doubtful of my abilities. I wanted to become better, but my reasons to become better weren't strong enough. And over time, as life kept testing me over and over and over again, I failed to see the value in the lessons being taught to me because I didn't have a reason to change. I was comfortable, I wasn't happy, but I wasn't comfortable. I was comfortable in the safety of my home. I was saying I was comfortable in the safety net of the friends I made at the time, I was comfortable with I guess this is my career, and this is what I'm going to be, and this is who I am and this is how I'm gonna stay. All of it, because I kind of just limited myself to believe that my life wasn't just meant for much. So because I set myself up to think about my life like that, I didn't have a reason to get out of bed enthusiastic, I didn't have a reason to pursue further intelligence, I didn't have a reason to step out of my comfort until my depression, and that this isn't a sad story. I use that word very specifically because in that chapter of my life it was gloomy, it was dark, it was depressed, right? So I don't mean like, oh, I'm sad, I'm depressed, but because of my depression, I didn't allow myself to set goals, I didn't allow myself to see a future where things were going good for me. I didn't have a reason to enthusiastically just get out of bed, and I was always waiting long enough for something to change, but that never changed, and that is when the depression crept in. The depression crept in and conversations with myself that sounded like, man, if this is what the rest of your life is going to look like, you might as well hit the reset button. And that's not a suicidal joke, that's more of a I was so dissatisfied with life that I was having conversations with God and I was testing him and saying things like dude, if this is everything you have to offer, take me out, let's try again. This ain't it, you know, and I laugh now, and it's comical to me to to to to imagine that I once said that to myself, but that tells you uh that paints the picture as to who I was because if you know me now, and as you listen to me speak, that doesn't even sound like the same guy, but that is exactly how I was approaching my life. So imagine if that is how I was approaching my life, what my life has succumbed to, what it became, and what it became is something that I was dissatisfied with, something that I knew I didn't want to do long term, so I didn't know the what, I didn't know the how, but I knew that the days were getting darker, and I was getting more and more dissatisfied with the day-to-day experience, things were just not working out, something needed to change, and I don't know why, but there was a voice that was nagging in me that just said, dude, you have to change something, something has to change, and circumstances happened and difficulties presented themselves, and I always retreated back to my comfort, but it wasn't until I started changing the conversation happening internally. The conversation that went from there's no hope to aren't you curious, there's no hope to maybe you can do a little bit more. Maybe you're not stupid, maybe you're just lazy. Maybe life isn't against you, maybe you're just an idiot who keeps making bad decisions. You understand what the I don't I don't think the conversation went from a great one to a uh I mean from a negative one to a great one, but it definitely went from a negative one to a lesser negative one. You know, I was looking uh I was changing my beliefs to one of hope, and and with that hope I started working and reframing the image of myself in my mind. And with what I did with that image was create a person who within realistic expectations I can create, and I wasn't sure how, I wasn't sure how long it was gonna take me, but as I looked around my environment, as I looked in the mirror, as I looked at what I've created of my life up until that time, I had all the reasons that I needed to change, and that was my why. I just knew that I was wasting my life and now uh to not bore you with the specific details, fast forward seven years, my why has only gotten stronger, stronger because I've got clearer goals, stronger because I've experienced what happens when you stay consistent long enough to benefit the reap of good decisions. Uh I I my now is my why is now never clearer because I've lived things that I once dreamed about for myself. My why is is the fact that I'm not existing for the sake of I guess I was just born into this world, but my existence I've given purpose to, and with that purpose I've chosen to be of value to others and serve others, so it's no longer about me. How could I not get out of bed enthusiastically when I'm so excited to see what the world has for me, or more importantly, what the world has set up through me to serve others. That's exciting. That's a big why when you have a big enough why you can overcome anything. I can't tell you how I'm saving the details for a conversation I'm sure is gonna happen soon, but uh I'm telling you now, I'm I'm doing so many things in my life where when I stopped and I reflect and I and I think of the present moment, I catch myself often saying like, You are crazy, dude. Like what are you doing? And it's not in a negative sense, it's more like dude, you're you're taking some risks, you're being you're you're you're taking leaps of faith and and why are you doing this? And I'm just like, I know why. I just never thought I'd be here. Uh I I thought things were gonna go a different path, but that's the fun funny thing about life. You can say you want one thing, but just because you say you want it doesn't mean that life has set a direct path to it. Sometimes you have to reroute, and then that reroute, your why keeps you centered. Your why keeps everything aligned so you don't fall apart. You know, it's it's uh I believe it's idiotical to to think that uh a plan could be set in motion and things are gonna go exactly as planned. You have to understand you're going to be tested. No matter what, the bigger the risk, the the the the more the reward that you're seeking, the bigger the reward chances are the more risk you're gonna have to take, the more risk you're gonna have to take, the more you have to understand yourself because you have to understand why those risks are being taken, and it has to be bigger than just I want more money. That motivation fades real quick when life slaps you in the face. It has to be more than man, I just want to lose a few pounds. No, no, no, because you're gonna lose the few pounds and life is gonna tempt you with another cookie in your face, and you're gonna regress right back to it. But a strong enough why, when you remember, and this is personal, when you remember that private conversation with uh the doctor, and the doctor's telling you you're fat, you're obese, you're disgusting, you're you're you're just not gonna uh amount to anything in your life, you know. When you when you have family members uh be uh speaking negatively about you, when the when they are telling you that they they were right to judge you the way they did because they all said you wouldn't turn into anything, right? You use that as fuel. That becomes a why. At least it did for me. Right? And it's not because oh I'm gonna prove everybody wrong, but because I was proving everybody right and that pissed me off. Pissed me off long enough, good enough, for me to say I have reasons to change and the reasons are personal to me. And fast forward seven years, I have changed, and the whys have only gotten stronger. They went from I'm gonna prove others wrong or prove myself right or or I need more money or I wanna be ripped, and it it it's it's grown and matured so much further than that. And now I'm in a position where I can tell you that whenever life tests me, whenever life throws sickness my way, whenever life throws unexpectancy my way, whenever I wake up and I say, Why am I doing the things that I'm doing? I don't have to think very long before my mind reminds me of why the hell I'm doing the things that I'm doing. And with that, I get up and I move and I encourage myself and I inspire others and I aim to make the best that I can of this gift called life. And that's today's message. Sometimes I say, Oh man, I hope I left you with some value. No, I know for a fact today I spoke value because there are just some times where I just let myself express, and in that expression, I get to catch myself off guard as they are as I allow my reflections and my insights and my experience to just speak for themselves. And today, the importance of finding purpose, of giving yourself reason, is something that is underappreciated, it's something that people don't pay enough attention to. I'm telling you, most most are drifting through life hoping for a good life. Few are waking up and asking themselves, why am I here? I have to be more than a piece of meat, just just you know, indulging in entertainment and and and lusting for these uh these these things in life that just are serving for instant gratification but aren't doing myself anything in the long term. What am I here for? Those are the questions that inspire change. And with that being said, thank you for being here with me. And before I let you go, I'm very excited to to say this because uh I started today's episode um emphasizing on the fact that I've been practicing alone, and clearly I've uh uh gotten myself to a point where I can say I've confidently can speak to a room, I can speak to an audience, whether I'm alone or whether I'm with people. And uh since I've been alone for a while, I think it's about time we start bringing uh guests back on the show. So I'm very excited. Um, some of them have been here before, some of them are going to be new. Uh, but the point is uh I'm ready to start having conversations with others. I'm ready to start not just providing you with value through my experiences and my stories, but through the experiences of others and people in my life who I consider valuable or I feel are in a position to share value to you, my friends, the listeners, and the community. So uh look forward to that. It starts next week. Um, and as always, I appreciate it. If you feel like this resonates with you, if you feel like anybody in your friends and your family, uh in your work environment may benefit from the things that I speak about, please share the show. It it's it's it's how I will grow. I will never be here selling anything. I'm not ever, you know, telling you to sponsor me or anything of like that. My goal is very simple. I speak through experience, and through my experience, I hope to teach you the lessons that I went through in hopes that you don't have to go through them and instead you just learn the lessons ahead of time and gain the value so you can get it ahead in life and not be a dummy like me. So, with that being said, thank you as always for being here, and until next time.

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