Compounding Daily

EP146- Be the Change.

• Miguel Sanchez

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Stop waiting for a green light that never comes. Change begins the moment a person stops reacting to the world and starts leading themselves—beginning with the one lever that’s always available: the attitude chosen each morning.


A Monday mindset sets the tone. “Passenger mode” slowly drains confidence. Influence grows not through advice, but through the quiet evidence built in daily choices.


The shift happens when someone chooses to go first—without applause, without certainty, and without needing others to understand right away. That choice sends ripples outward. Every action touches the larger web of life: family, friends, coworkers, even strangers. Chaos spreads. Excuses spread. But so do respect, consistency, and discipline.


The path forward is simple:

Take responsibility instead of judging.

Build habits that speak louder than words.

Let results create curiosity.


Clearer conversations, better decisions, a calmer tone, steady progress—little signals that things are moving upward. And when questions eventually come—What changed? How did you do it?—the answers mean something because they’re earned.


For anyone feeling stuck on the sidelines, this is the reminder:

Step into the driver’s seat.

Collect small daily proof.

Let the shift in your life speak for itself.

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Hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, Miguel Sanchez. Welcome back to another episode. You are with me in episode 146. First and foremost, thank you for being here. I I begin every episode by expressing gratitude by reminding you that there are things I value more in life than other things. And what at the top of that list is the time. I value my time, I value how I spend it. So when I know that you are taking your time out of your day to spend it listening to what I consider my experiences in hopes to provide you with value, it is not something that I take for granted. It is usually why I like to get straight to the point. I'm never selling you anything, I'm never telling you what to do. I'm literally just a regular human being going through my life experience, and through my day-to-day, I am looking for lessons. I am looking for lessons and failures. I am looking for uh what I consider attributes of a good character, what I consider values that lead to a good life, and I like to share that with you and understand something. It's never me reaching the top of a mountain, looking down, telling you how to get there. It's me still climbing the mountain, sharing the things that I'm going through, and hopes that you challenge yourself to climb a different mountain because we are different individuals, but the lessons I speak about, the things that I value, what I consider to be the things that lead to a fulfilling life, are things that are not unique to me. Uh, and that's why I share the things that I share. So thank you for being here with me. Um, I am here alone today in the studio. This is gonna be a quick episode. Um, I I feel like it's gonna be a reminder more than anything. It's a lesson I feel we've learned uh long ago. But before I get into today's topic, uh I always love to emphasize on this. Uh, yes, it's Monday, the beginning of a brand new week, and the short form of what I'm trying to say is every day, not just Monday, but I always focus on the Monday because it marks the beginning of a new week. You are presented with the freedom of choice, and you can wake up and choose a bad attitude and choose negative conversations and choose bad, unhealthy foods that are fueling your body in the negative direction. You can choose these things, but don't be upset when at the end of the week you are still dissatisfied with life and dissatisfied with the results you are getting. And the same way you are free to choose that is the same way that you can choose to wake up, allow your initial reaction, if you're like me, to curse the world real quick, but watch that, be mindful of that, catch it, bring it back and say, Whoa, not today. Today I practice a good attitude, today I entertain good conversations, today I feed my body the things that I know it it needs, not the things that it wants, right? Because if I give my body everything it wants, I'd be fat migo again, you know, and and those are things that you can choose. So, sure, it's Monday, sure you may not be where you wish to be, but that's not justifiable enough to have a bad attitude about it. Show up and be the change you wish to see in others. And with that being said, ironically, that tied in perfectly because that is what I wanted to talk about today. Uh, today's episode is gonna be short because the things that I'm speaking about aren't things that need to go fully in depth. But I love to to serve reminders because I listen to this show myself. I I listen as if I was sitting in the audience and and I look for values and I and I as weird as this sounds, as I listen, I I aim to absorb the words that are being said, and uh I criticize myself and I feel like it's a big contributor as to why I've been able to progress so much in my confidence of speaking. And with that being said, I I was able to tie in that Monday rant perfectly with what I want to speak about today, and what I want to speak about today is being the change. Being the change. And I'll start it with this in the beginning of my life, the majority of my life, I waited for others first for then me to show up. Uh it I waited for others to take action to then I can justify taking action as well. And I from that position didn't allow myself to be a leader, I didn't allow myself to set an example to others because I was just reacting to the environment and the people around me and becoming a replica of them. I was just uh just like the saying goes, just becoming another another um bird that flies with the flocks. I probably messed that up, but you had you understand what I'm saying. Uh I was just uh matching my environment, never really forcing change upon that environment from fear of rejection, from my insecurities, and uh I was far from what I would have considered a leader back then, but I knew deep down that changes needed to happen. I knew that the habits we were doing, the things we were talking about, the things we were doing over and over again were not leading us to what I felt was going to be a life that we can be proud of. So what happens when those are the thoughts you are having? You know something needs to change, but you've placed yourself in a position where change then doesn't happen from you. Change always comes from outside circumstances, changes always come from other people, and you sit there patiently waiting for that change to arrive before you take action, before you react. If you place yourself in that position, I think you might be waiting a long time andor you might not like the changes that come your way, which is very important if you want to live a life of success and a life of fulfillment, at least in the individual aspect of it. The individuals who are able to understand that change needs to happen and then realize that I can wait for change to come or I can become the change that's required, you are giving yourself an option to exercise freedom. You are giving yourself an option to understand that you don't have to wait for anyone. And in not waiting for anyone, you initiate that change. You are the first to take that step into the unknown. You are the one who's admitting that something needs to change. And here's the thing maybe not everybody agrees that something needs to change. Maybe now you're the weirdo who's trying to do something different and it doesn't make sense to others. But what if this change leads you to a better place? What if in uh forcing yourself into the unknown you experience something unique that provides your life with value that now you can put together into words and bring back to your peers and say, Hey, I'm experiencing something different, and I think you guys will like it. And the reason I say this is because back to where I started to be in that position of the passenger, to be in on the court side, not on the court, to know that I want to be on the court, to know that I want to be in the driver's seat, but never having the courage to step up to it is the reason why I led myself to a lot of unfulfilled places, and not unfulfilled materialistically, unfulfilled as an individual. So I had to give myself that that choice and that observation that I created for myself. I could wait for change to come, or I can finally put myself in the driver's seat, I can finally be the change that I want to see happen around me and within others, and that is what this message is truly about, others, because for most of my life I judged my family, I judged my friends, and I and I said, Well, why aren't you doing this? Well, you could be better and you could, but I never not once turned the mirror to myself, turned the finger to myself, and said those exact words to myself because I too was making bad decisions, I too was not uh uh living to my potential, I too was allowing life to pass me by. So, who was I to criticize anybody for anything if I first didn't go through some changes to justify why I was saying the things that I was saying? So I went and I became and that is the person talking to you now. Listen, we are part of a web, we are part of a community. You know people that I don't know, you are at the center of your own world, and from that world, there are strands of webs that branch out and connect to other people that I may never even come across. So whether you like to admit it to yourself or not, you are always in a position of influence. Whether that influence is good or bad is always up to you. But the fact remains that at all times you are always able to place yourself in a position where your existence will have an effect on other people. And I started understanding that, and in that understanding, I understood that the person that I allowed myself to become was the person that was influencing people uh in ways that I would not be proud of. I was encouraging bad decisions. Let's go out and get fucked up, let's go out and smoke, let's stay up late, let's this let's wait till the sun comes back up, let's do drugs, let's just do all these things, and I was the one that was influencing that. So I needed to change in order for the people that are tied to my web to experience the change, because from what I was observing, nobody was going to to do that change for me, I couldn't force that change on others. So first I had to come with evidence if I was to impact those within my web, within my community, right? So I went and experienced, I went and failed, I went and gathered evidence. I instead of trying to preach and judge to others about why they could be better, first said, I will go and experience and make myself look like a fool and experience failure after failure and disappointment after disappointment so I can gather enough evidence to hopefully one day inspire you to create change in your life. I no longer tell people to change. Do you know how grateful I feel to be in a position where I can say, Oh, would you like to change? Just watch what I do. I am living to change because every day I put myself in positions of uncertainty. I put myself in positions of where I'm the dumb one, where I don't understand what is happening, and I am forced to learn, and then I share that back with everybody because there's value in it, and since we are all part of the community, what you know is value to me, what I know is value to you, and we are experiencing different things, but I won't tell you to become like me, I won't tell you to become a copy and paste. I will tell you that there is more out there for you, I will tell you that you are not the best that you can possibly be right now. I could tell you uh that you are filled with dreams and abilities and visions that only you see and only you can make a reality. I can tell you that. And then telling you that, I can tell you that some things need to change. What things need to change? Well, I don't know, but I'll tell you the things that I changed that led me closer to my goals, closer to my dreams, closer to what I consider a better version of myself. I first became the change I wanted to see in the world. I controlled my own actions, and in those actions I began to see the change I wanted to see in others within myself. And once that started coming together, man, did momentum start building, man, did I gain confidence? Man, did I want to help others even more? You too can manage something like that. Be the change. Stop waiting for others to change for you to say, I guess I'll join. Look into others and see what you don't like about them. Are they liars? Don't be a liar. Are they cheap? Don't be cheap. Are they narcissistic? Don't be narcissistic. Are they always angry? Don't always express angry. Are they hostile and people want to avoid them? Don't be hostile. Be the kind of person that people want around. Be the change. Don't wait for others to change. I no longer ask myself as I look at others, man. I wonder why they're like that. I no longer ask that. Because I knew why I was the way that I was, and it was my own doing, it was my own choosing. And it wasn't until I said, first I'll change. And then I'll see what's up. I'll I'll I'll see if life is really against me. I'll see if maybe I was uh dealt a bad hand. Uh I'll I'll see what life is really about. And then I and then I guess I'll I'll I'll I'll see what why others are failing like me, etc. etc. And then I went and I experienced and I realized oh my god, it's not that we needed to wait for life to change. The things that were causing me uh anxiety and depression back in the day are still around today, probably even more. But guess what? I'm no longer full of anxiety and depress because I've put myself through the changes that I wanted to see in others. I wanted to see other people speak formally, so now I speak formal. I wanted other people to be respectful to others and and and treat anybody and everybody like a human being. So guess what I do? I am respectful to others, and no matter where others come from, if you are crossing my path, I will treat you with respect. Right? I wish others shared values that they are experiencing with others because who knows what gold they might be holding within themselves. So now I share that with you. What I consider value, what I consider valuable in my life. I now share that with you because I want people to share those things that they consider valuable with others. You know, I want to see a healthy, physically fit society running around, everybody's in shape, not a nut, you know, wheelchairs don't exist. I mean, you know, you can't control certain things, but man, that's exaggerated. But you understand what I mean. I wanted to see those things. So I first went and experienced it for myself. I gained health, and in gaining health, I want more people to even more people to experience it. So you get what I'm saying. Be the change first that you want to see in others, and once you experience that yourself, you'll understand, because you've gone through it, that you have now created value within yourself that is worthy of sharing with others that may allow them to experience the same changes you did that allowed you to feel as fulfilled and proud of the person that you've become. That is today's episode. A lot to think about. I appreciate you being here as always. And before I go, one last thing to emphasize on it is be the change you want to see in this world. Don't wait for others to change, become the change, and in becoming the change, you will influence those around you to experience the same thing if you choose your words carefully. But most importantly, if you become undeniably filled with evidence that the things that you are doing are making you better, without doubt, others will become curious, so curious that they will undoubtedly start asking questions. When those questions are being asked, that is your opportunity now to help, to help them become, to help them achieve, to help them experience. Be the change that you want to see in others. And until next time.

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