Compounding Daily
Do you feel stuck? Uninspired? Stagnant? The Compounding Daily podcast hosted by Miguel Sanchez, aims to spark curiosity and drive. Each episode gives you deep insights on how to cultivate healthy habits, practice discipline, change your perspective of life, and restructure your mindset in a way that promotes small changes in your daily life that will compound to help you earn that 1% needed everyday to reach your goals, whether they be physical, mental, or both.
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Compounding Daily
EP150- Becoming Better Starts With You, But It’s Not About You
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Ever notice how the biggest goals feel lighter when they aren’t carried alone?
This milestone solo episode explores a truth learned over time: self-improvement often begins with a selfish edge. Protecting time. Pruning habits. Creating distance from environments and circles that keep growth limited. That phase matters. It’s often the necessary bridge between where someone starts and where they’re trying to go.
But real fulfillment begins when that same energy turns outward—into kindness, service, and community.
The episode reflects on the early, ego-driven phase that builds momentum and the realization that progress accelerates through people. Growth can start in isolation, but it rarely thrives there long. Eventually, the climb demands connection.
Small, easily overlooked moments—returning the shopping cart, saying good morning, treating a waiter with respect—quietly shape opportunity. Good people are always looking for good people. Daily attitude becomes a signal. A beacon. Over time, it compounds into trust, deeper conversations, and a network that nudges better decisions and bolder goals.
The difference between achievement and meaning is explored, along with why the memories that last rarely involve titles or milestones, but rather mentors, friends, and strangers who showed up at the right moment. Practical ways are shared to step into rooms with diverse perspectives, ask better questions, and carry an energy others can feel.
Kindness costs nothing—but it pays in access, insight, and resilience.
The small choices add up. Often, they matter more than the finish line itself.
If the year is closing with a desire for a reset, let this serve as a nudge. Choose to be the person who leaves others steadier than they found them. Let generosity be the strategy, curiosity the engine, and simple respect the daily practice
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Hello, hello, and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. I'm your host, Miguel Sanchez. Welcome back to another episode. Thank you for being with me. I want to say thank you for being with me this year. Uh, this year is now coming to an end. And uh, if you know anything about me, you know as the year comes to an end, I tend to get more into a pensive state, more into a reflective state where I like to think about the year. I like to think about what I accomplished, I like to think about the difficult things, I like to just make sure that I don't just have the conversation of wow, this year passed me by. I like to think about what was gained, what was lost, am I better, what could have been different. And one thing that I bring to the forefront of my mind quite often is the reminder that I am blessed with a community of people who are aiming to become better. I am blessed and surrounded with people in my personal life and in my social media uh platforms that engage in conversations with me uh that go deeper than just the how lovely weather we're having. You know, we like to speak about the things that most people uh typically carry within themselves in secret. And I just want to say thank you, thank you so much because here I now sit in episode 150, and it's it feels surreal, and I can see it's growing, and it is making me emotional in all the right ways. Um, so just thank you, thank you for being here, and I want to speak about about something specific today. It is a solo episode today. Um, I I'm gonna be quick to the point. I'm I'm assuming maybe 10-15 minutes here. So bear with me. I want to emphasize on something. Um, I want to emphasize on a starting point, the understanding that to become better in life, you must make individual, selfish decisions. You need to see how you're spending your time, you need to be mindful about the people that you surround yourself with. And if you start that later in life, the selfish part becomes the act of separating yourself from the people that you know and choosing differently and acting differently. And as you go through those things, I like to remind myself that that I must be careful that the ego isn't involved, that I work on myself so much that I forget about the people in my life. Understand something. I've gone through a journey, and I could only speak about mine, so I'm sure everybody goes through something different. But from my own experience, at first it was significantly full of ego. It was all about Miguel. What does Miguel want? What does Miguel want to become? What can Miguel get out of this? And it got me from point A to point B. But you eventually reach a point where you understand that you can't do things alone. Uh, you have to understand that you're going to need people who support your ideas and your mission and the things that you're working on. You find out that life is so much more enjoyable when you surround yourself with good people. So, even though the act of personal development is a little selfish because you do have to be mindful of the things that I just spoke about, it's also very important to remind yourself of the importance of having people around you. And this is where I want to hit the nail on the head with the hammer. It costs nothing out of you to be a good person, and you don't know what opportunities you may be missing out on by simply treating somebody with a bad attitude. Uh, and that doesn't necessarily mean like at the person, but maybe you cross paths and you're the one carrying negative energy. You're the one who doesn't hold the door open, you're the one who doesn't put the cart backs, you're the ones who doesn't say good morning to people, you're the one who reminds people that it's Monday and it sucks. You're the one that reminds people that when they have problems, you have problems too, and now it becomes a competition about who has the bigger problem. You do not want to be that person. That person leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. That individual, typically in long term, is just surrounded by other miserable individuals. So the act of of becoming better is selfish at first, and then as you start working on yourself, you start feeling good about yourself. You start feeling good about the results you're getting back from life, and as you start going through that, you start looking at the people you care about, you start looking at the people who you value in your life, and you say, I wonder if I can give them some of this. I wonder if I can share my good experience with them. I wonder if maybe somebody will listen to me in depth to a point where maybe now I am leading them to a place of curiosity where they are now a little bit more observant about their life and the decisions that they're making. Most people don't approach their day-to-day like this. It's easy to wake up and just say, I'm just gonna go through the day, and if I'm gonna I got a bad attitude today, and if you're in my way, you're gonna get some of that bad attitude. You don't know how many opportunities you're missing out on by choosing to go through life like that, by choosing to seclude yourself, by choosing to avoid conversations. I've learned as I continue to grow and as I continue to add things to my bucket list, as I continue to cross things off my bucket list, it's never the achievement, right? It was the oh, I want to lose weight, oh, I want to do a bu a bodybuilding show and I did it. Oh, I want to be a podcaster and I'm doing it, oh, I want to be healthy and I'm doing it. Oh, I want to uh, you know, uh be successful in my career and I'm working on that, you know. And as I'm doing all of these things, I'm always reminded, reminded about the fact that despite achieving those things that I maybe once considered dreams, what I enjoyed the most through it all was the people I got to help along the way, the people I got to meet along the way, the people who helped me along the way. And I often get to the end point of a goal as I'm stepping on that stage to compete, as I sit here to record, and I often go back to the people in my life, and I'm like, wow, I wouldn't be here. My story wouldn't be what it is if not for the people in my life. And oh, sure, I'm I can say that oh, I'm just lucky to have met good people, but I've understood that good people don't just show up. Good people are always on the lookout for good people. So, what does that mean? In my own opinion, I believe it means you must become first a good person, work on yourself, show that you care about yourself, engage in conversations that enlighten people and fill them with enthusiasm instead of leading them to depression and feeling bad or full of anxiety. You know, put yourself as part of a community of people who are challenging each other to grow despite having different beliefs. Do these things, surround yourself by maybe people you wouldn't surround yourself with, uh uh maybe because it's just not part of the the norm in your life, but now you put yourself in a different environment around different conversations, now you get different perspectives, now you get different ideas, and they get the same thing from you. Everything that I just said is free. It's it's called being a human being, it's called caring about what other people think. It's called you never know what somebody is going through or has to offer in regards to enlightenment or fulfillment or a change of perspective or a new idea that maybe you just never had before. I am who I am today because enough people cared about me to leave me value behind. I am here today because enough people talked to me, whether it be positive or negatively, to push me into a state of reflection where I understood that their words weren't meant to harm, they were meant for me to understand. And as soon as I understood them, I realized I wasn't being attacked, I was being helped, and they were doing that for me, and it cost them nothing. I was just a little hard-headed and stubborn, so maybe I didn't listen at first. But the message today as as as you go into the new year, maybe challenge yourself with this. Just try to be a better person. And what does that mean? Treat other people good. I see it all the time. You know, I go out to restaurants, you see the person treating the waiter wrong. You know, you see that person carrying the the negative energy, treating the the cashier wrong, throwing the money down on top of the platform. You know, you say good morning to somebody and they just look at you and look away, right? It cost them nothing to have that bad attitude. It took nothing out of you to try to brighten their day up. Nothing. Try it out. I believe a lot of my own personal success now, and listen, I'm not rich. You know, I'm not in a place where people, you know, maybe a lot of people aren't striving for, but I'll tell you where I'm at significantly further than I was or thought I would ever be compared to who I was before I started caring about myself significantly further, and I didn't do anything special, and I attribute a lot of it to the people who I've come across so much so that I make it my mission to meet as many people, to converse with as many people, to question as many people because I love engaging, I love learning, I love knowing because this feels good. And there is, I want to say, almost no better feeling than this. It feels good, and I'll end it with this, because this is profound. Listen to this, it feels fulfilling, it brings warmth into my soul to know that somebody going through a difficult time was placed on my path, and then us crossing each other, they are now a little bit better, they feel a little bit better. Whatever difficulty maybe they are going through at the moment, guess what? It's still there, but maybe they feel as if now they can face it a little bit more confident, or because they crossed my path, and I share that because many times I was the person just walking depressed, alone, without guidance, and without me realizing it, I came across people who had that contagious positive energy and they took their time, their most valuable asset, and spent it on me, spent a little bit of it on me, uplifted me a little bit. And over the years, that little uplifting has gone so, so much further than they even probably know. And I like to share that forward. That's part of the reason why I'm here, why I'm speaking about the things that I speak about. This that I'm doing here, it costs me nothing. You listening to me, it costs you nothing. Now to go and do something with it, to go and share the message, it costs you nothing. And what will be gained from it is maybe enough people will listen to a point where, as I spoke about in the last episode, that ripple effect is created. And because I became a good person and you tuned in and you decided I'm gonna be a good person, and people came across you and they liked you so much, and they said, I want to be a good person just like them. And before you know it, there's just good people walking around everywhere. And that's the case now. I in my opinion, they're just a little bit harder to find because it's easier to be miserable than it is to be filled with contagious positive energy. So we have a choice to make. And I end it with this episode 150. To be a good person, it costs you nothing. So the question becomes will you invest in that? Or will you just let life pass you by? Think, and together let's choose to be good individuals. Until next time.
