Compounding Daily

EP144- Choosing Abundance Over Lack

• Miguel Sanchez

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What if the biggest lever in your life isn’t time, money, or status — but the story you tell yourself each morning?


This isn’t about pretending the hard stuff isn’t real. It’s about choosing a lens that helps you move through it.


In this conversation, we break down the mechanics of mindset — how language shapes behavior, how your inner narrative can either anchor you or lift you, and how small, repeatable habits quietly compound into identity.


I share why I stopped comparing myself to other people and started measuring against the man I was seven years ago — and how that simple reframe made progress visible.


We also explore what I call the algorithm of attention: when you feed your mind gossip and outrage, you get more of it. But when you feed it gratitude, craft, and consistent action, opportunities begin to stick.


From upgrading your vocabulary to surrounding yourself with builders, I walk through the practical steps that turned abstract positivity into real, measurable progress — the kind that shows up in how you think, work, and respond.


If you’re navigating uncertainty, battling negative loops, or waiting for perfect conditions before you start — this conversation offers a clear path forward.


You’ll learn how to become the kind of person opportunities find, why failure is simply useful data, and how to practice optimism in hard environments so it becomes portable when life improves.


Listen. Take one idea. Put it to work today — and watch the compounding effect begin.


If this resonates, follow the show, share it with someone who needs a reset, and leave a quick review to help more people choose the story that helps them move forward.


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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 144. First and foremost, as always, I express my gratitude for you being here. I am grateful for your time. I know I said last week that this week I was gonna have guests on, but that first guest was going to be my lovely wife, and unfortunately, she's under the weather, so I sit here by myself until next week when she feels better. And with that being said, um, I want to do a short episode, uh really short episode. I just want to speak about what's on my mind, what I've been thinking about lately, what's been helping me as I put myself in uncomfortable situations. I got a lot of changes going on in my life, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of I wonder if I'm making the right decisions kind of moments. And in those moments, I find myself reflecting a lot on my values, on my beliefs, on the things that have gotten me better, on the things that have allowed me to go from the guy who I call Fat Miguel to not to now the guy who I call Fit Miguel. And uh one of the biggest differences that I want to emphasize on today is the difference that you experience as an individual when you shift your mindset from one of scarcity and lack to one of abundance and and and a world overflowing with the things that you need. Um as always, I always speak from my own experience, and when I tell you that my my shift in character, my shift in conversation, my shift in perspective, all played a huge part into me building momentum in the right direction. I always tell people you don't have to be like me, but if it worked for me, it must work for you. I used it to lose weight, I used it to get better in vocabulary, I used it to surround myself by with better people, I used it to advance further into my career. Everything that I speak about has helped me as an individual thrive, and in me as an individual thriving, I've been able to surround myself with like-minded individuals, and now together as a community, we thrive together. And the importance of that, that shift of mindset, I feel is something that isn't emphasized on. Sure, people say think positive, sure, people are saying, hey, you gotta have a good attitude, but when are you really sitting there and observing the conversation that you are having with yourself? When is the last time you sat with yourself and observed your perspective in which you choose to see the world through? When is the last time you took accountability of the words that you use to describe your current environment and or situation? Because all of those things play a part, and it's easy, it's so easy in today's world to wake up and say, Man, I wish things were better. I can't do this, I can't believe this is happening, I won't be able to. I I was hoping that things would work out. It's so easy to look for any reason to justify why you are lacking something in your life. And the beauty of life is, as I always love to emphasize, the beauty of life is that it doesn't discriminate, it doesn't care whether you have a sad story or a good story, it doesn't care whether you're choosing to see the good or the bad, and it doesn't care because whatever you choose to see, it will give you more of. So if you are a pessimistic person, if you are a naysayer, if in your mind opportunities are far, far from each other, and you have to be lucky to win, then guess what? Opportunities will not come your way, and maybe you will win, but when you do, you won't contribute it to hard work and discipline and consistency. You'll just say, Oh man, I got lucky once, and then you go back to that pessimistic mindset. In the same world, in the same environment, imagine a different conversation, a conversation that instead of focusing on the lack, focuses on the fact that every day brings with it an opportunity for you to choose better for yourself. Uh, anything that may be causing you a hindrance at the moment can be used as a lesson of growth. Um, you can choose to reflect on the past, and instead of using it as an anchor, you can choose to say, Wow, how blessed have I been to be able to have overcome those difficult times in my life. That is the same story, but is being explained and expressed from a place of abundance, a place of gratitude, a place of good character and positivity. The difference between a good attitude and a bad one is the choice to have one or the other. Most people tell themselves, I don't have a choice, this is just who I am. You would have a bad attitude too if you knew about my life. Yeah, and and I probably wouldn't. Why? Because I choose to not have that sort of attitude. And that change of perspective changed my life. And I know right now you say, Well, Miguel, I look at your life because you're on social media, and you know, you're you're a plumber, you're a speaker, uh, you you work out, sure, but you don't, you know, you're not living a life of abundance, you know, in comparison to others, sure, right? But understand that I'm not comparing myself to others, I'm comparing myself to who I was seven years ago. And who I was seven years ago was an overweight, lazy individual who lacked consistency towards anything, didn't have a vision or plan for his life, and without doubt, have I stayed that character, I would not have built the momentum that I have now. I would not have found the love of my life, I would not have uh discovered all of these beliefs and ideas and change of perspective that have now allowed me to check goals off my goals list, off my bucket list, to be able to confidently say I know that my future is going to get better because the things that I practice are guaranteeing me a good future, at least within the things that are in my control. You know, in comparison to who I was, I've taken leaps and bounds in comparison, and I haven't done anything crazy. I I promise you I I've never done anything that requires waking up at three in the morning and doing excessive things that that seem ludicrous and and maybe a little bit far-fetched. Everything I've done is within reason. I have failed time and time again. I've started so many diets and cheated on them, and I've told myself this year I'm gonna be different, and nothing was different except you know the fact that I got a little worse at the time. You know, it's it's all part of the human experience. But the second, and I'm emphasizing on this, the second that I said, hey, today's gonna be a good day. Hey, there's gotta be an opportunity out there for me. But I gotta get out there and find it. I had to have a conversation with myself that says there are opportunities out there for everyone, but maybe Miguel, the person that you are now is not the kind of person that an opportunity presents itself to. So what must you work on? Well, maybe you should stop speaking words of hate, maybe you should stop speaking words of poison, maybe you should stop being a naysayer, maybe you should stop complaining out loud, maybe you should work on your vocabulary so you can better express your emotions and ideas to others. Maybe you don't uh uh uh add fuel to an already burning fire inside of somebody who who has built that fire of negativity, right? Because that is the person that I was, and I had to change, and change didn't come overnight and it didn't come easy, but it man was it worth it. Why? Because it helped me build a a better version of myself with having conversations with myself, with understanding that waking up and having a good day or a bad day, it's no longer dependent upon the things that I'm experiencing, but instead dependent on the attitude in which I choose to approach the day with. Then I get excited to get out there, I get excited to go and experience and create and and just live. But that whole experience is taken away and can't be appreciated if in your mind you wake up and the first thing you say is today's gonna suck. I don't want to be here, I don't want to do this, I don't want this, I wish things were different, I want more, I want this, I want that, and I wish this was different, and I wish this was the different person, and I don't want to deal with this today, and I wish tomorrow was already here, and I wish Friday was already here, and I can't believe winter's already here, and I can't believe summer's already here, and oh my god, it's too hot, it's too cold, it's too up, it's too down, it's too left, it's too right. It doesn't matter, man. If you're focusing too much on the negative side of it, then that is what your life will pick up, just like social media picks up your algorithm. If all of your videos are are those war star videos of people fighting and drama and gossip, then guess what? Your your algorithm is going to pick that up, and guess what you're going to see every single time you open your social media? That negativity, that drama, that negativity that's going to just start draining your energy, and before you know it, you wonder why you don't feel good. But just like you can choose your own life, the algorithm is the same thing. You don't have to accept a negative algorithm, you don't have to choose a negative attitude or perspective. You can choose to see the good despite the bad, because the bad is part of life. You can't get rid of the bad without getting rid of the good. You can't put yourself into a corner and hope to survive without anything going wrong. Things are going to go wrong, and that is a part of life. But when you change that perspective and choose to see the good in the bad, you choose to wake up and look for the good, despite the bad, things get better. And that is not mean guessing, that's me speaking from my own experience. So today's short message, which was a little unplanned, but this is literally what's on my mind at the moment, is just that a mindset of lack and scarcity, a mindset of pessimistic thoughts and negativity, or an attitude of abundance and joy, an attitude of positive mental emotions. Those are your choices, and and I emphasize on that choices, because you can wake up and choose either one of those. And you might say, Oh, but it's difficult to have a good attitude in my environment. Well, good, because that means if you dis if you if you practice consistency long enough in a negative environment to make something positive out of it, imagine what you're going to do when you are able to create your own environment built on a positive foundation. If in difficulty you can find some positivity, what happens when you have an abundance of positivity around you? What can you create then? Stop expecting great scenarios to then start making good decisions. Good positive change comes from a difficult time in most people's lives, and that is just the mother of of nature. It is just how things go. You don't question it, you accept it as reality, and you build from there. So, an abundance mindset or a lack mindset, what are you gonna choose? Think and together let's get better.

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