Compounding Daily

EP151- Roulette #10.

• Miguel Sanchez

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Ready to make the year count without chasing quick wins or empty hype? We’re kicking off 2026 with a candid, practical reset built around simple principles that hold up under pressure: embrace obstacles, think on purpose, act on schedule, and create your own meaning. Pulling from a “roulette” of recent reflections, we connect mindset to behavior — and behavior to durable results — so your motivation doesn’t fade by February.


We start with a mental model you can feel: your body is the vessel, your mind is the operator. If the inner script is chaotic or numb, the vessel drifts. Tidy your thoughts. Clarify the target. Pair intentions with cues and consequences so your actions actually align with your goals.


From there, we get blunt about effort: wanting isn’t rare — initiative is. Translate your goals into daily reps, weekly reviews, and monthly thresholds that make progress visible even when motivation dips.


We also reframe suffering as the refusal to accept what is. Acceptance isn’t quitting — it’s getting clear so you can take the next useful step, whether that means rest, boundaries, or one small habit that reduces the load.


Confidence gets stripped of mystique, too: it’s built by doing, not debating your worth. Do it badly until you can do it well. Collect feedback. Let competence update your identity.


And to hold it all together, we zoom out: life arrives in chapters — some bright, some heavy. Both belong. Meeting each chapter with curiosity and standards keeps you learning and opens doors you couldn’t see before.


If you’re ready to stop waiting for perfect conditions and start stacking small, honest wins, this conversation is your launchpad. Listen, take notes, and pick one behavior to lock in this week.

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Hello and welcome back, everybody, to Compounding Daily, the first episode of the brand new year of 2026. So, first and foremost, I want to wish you a happy new year. I hope that this year is full of challenges for you. I hope that there are obstacles in the way. In fact, I don't have to hope for those things, they are going to be there, and I know that's probably not what you want to hear, but how else do we grow? How else do we get better? We must observe the facts of life, and the facts are that it's through these obstacles and through these challenges and through adversity that we learn what we are capable of, that we learn the things that we lack, that we learn the things that need to be worked on. So as we go into the new year, don't try so much to avoid the pain, but instead embrace it and understand that through it you grow. And with that being said, I can't believe it. We sit here at episode 151. Thank you for your patience. I took a one-week break going into the new year since we did hit episode 150. I thought it was a perfect time to just reassess everything, reevaluate everything, and see what is going to be different this year, what things will be uh uh what things I will for better wording will be challenging myself with. So today's episode um it's it's gonna be something that I've done before. Uh it's gonna be a compounding daily roulette. And if you've been with me for a while, then you know what that means. If you are new to to the page or new to the podcast or new to the platform, then understand that the roulette is something that I've come up with over the last few years. Um I don't know how you work as an individual, but I know how I operate, and I know that whenever I come across what I consider value, uh a little bit of wisdom, a different perspective, something that I may want to reflect on later. I write it down. I write it down. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it doesn't make sense even to me, and I'm the one that writes it down. But what has happened is over the past few years, I've I've created a long list of these thoughts and ideas. Some of it is quotes, some of it are reflections, some of them I honestly forgot why I wrote them, but I don't delete them because sometimes it makes for good humor. But with that being said, I out of that list I pick out at random different topics, and the purpose of the episode is for you to gain not just value on one subject, but in my own opinion, to give you a lot to think about. And in my own opinion, what better way to start a new year than to have a lot to think about? And I want to do something different too. Typically, I scroll up and down, and whatever I come across is whatever I talk about, but I want to since it is the beginning of the year, I want to read the some of the most more some of the most more recent entries. Uh the reason being is because obviously if they're recent, it means they're more um more adamant to the things that I'm going through at the moment, or uh just the experiences that are more close to who I am now. So I'll be able to reflect on that. So with that being said, um thank you for being here. Uh, I always just start every episode with gratitude, and uh let's get right into it. So this is the first one that got uh my attention, and this is what we will begin with. The keep in mind everything that I speak about is through my own experience, through my own opinion. I'm not sitting here telling you what to do, how to do, I'm telling you what's working for me, the perspectives that allow me to show up with a good attitude consistently over a long period of time, which in my own opinion is the very thing required to make growth in in fulfillment and growth in achievement. So let's get right into it. The first the first thing that stood out to me goes like this the body, a vessel, the mind its operator, the results, then a reflection of your thoughts. Uh I I wrote this down because I loved how that was worded. The body, a vessel, the mind, its operator, the result, then a reflection of your thoughts. This ties in directly to the idea that we become a direct reflection physically of the thoughts that we harbor most in our minds. And the body is a vessel, the body is is a reflection of how you as an individual think. Why? Because when you think, your thoughts lead to actions, those actions are either leading you to positive or negative results, therefore, the body, the vessel, is a direct result of the reflections that you are having. So think about that. It's it's in my own opinion, especially in the beginning of the new year, as people tell themselves, this year I'm going to be healthy, this year I want to lose weight. Uh, a lot of people, and by a lot of people, I include myself, because I did this for the first few years of my weight loss journey. A lot of people focus on the physical aspect of it. A lot of people tend to neglect how powerful the mind is and how powerful the mind must become in order to keep the weight off. So if you're gonna if you're gonna go into this new year and tell yourself physically you want to be healthier, you want to be better, one of the best places to start from my own experience is from within. Because if you are able to get your thoughts in order, if you are able to not just allow your mind to be chaos or the exact opposite, just elevator music, which means pretty much nothing going on, then it's it's a powerful tool. And once you get yourself to that point, the vessel, the body, will slowly and surely start reflecting the good thoughts you are now having. Boom. Think about that. That's the first one. Uh, secondly, wanting it bad just isn't enough. Think about that. What wanting it we all want. There isn't a single person on this planet that doesn't want something. If wanting was enough, wanting is all that we would do and our lives would be perfect. But life wasn't created in such a way. Life requires something called effort, life requires something called initiative. Life requires you to understand that the bigger the thing that you want, the bigger the effort required. So wanting it is a given. Sure, you can want it. Now you must understand that that is simply just not enough. Which is where the initiative comes in because now the conversation is okay, I now have clear vision of what I want, what is now required of me in order to achieve, in order to become, in order to create. Wanting it bad just isn't enough. You must want it more than the rest. You must want it as if your life depended on it. Because if it's truly something valuable, guess what? Your life does depend on it. If it's meant to create the best version of yourself, your life does depend on it. Boom. Let's go with this one. So that's two. Uh, I'm moving a little quick today. It's not because I'm in a rush. I feel like I feel I feel like I have a lot to say, and as I'm reading through some of these, uh, the inspiration lightens up, the fire in me gets a little brighter, and it just makes me want to uh speak the thoughts that come into my mind. And sometimes the thoughts come a little bit faster than expected, and I lose myself in thought. But bear with me, so far I've got it together, I've kept it together, and it all makes sense, at least in my head. So I hope it makes sense as I'm speaking it. And let's go into the next one. There is more to life, but the meaning must come from you and the things that you want to experience, the character you wish to become, the impact you intend to have. There is more to life, but the meaning must come from you. That's where I wrote this, and that's where I would have ended it, but I get why I wrote the rest of it. But think, as I always say, think. Uh if you look at through my social media, you'll see that I write think at the end of all my captions. And the reason being is because the things that I speak about require you to think. You can't just listen to everything that I just said and say, Wow, that was great. Walk away and not reflect on it, because if that's the case, there's no value gained from it. And again, value is uh subjective. You can look at what I'm saying and say there's no value in it at all, and that's you know, to each their own. But if you are listening and you feel like there is value in it, wouldn't it be valuable to you to set some time aside and think about what I'm saying? You know, in my opinion, is how I have gotten better is how uh I've been able to get myself out of the rut, out of depression, out of places where I thought I'd never climb out of. So that's why I share the things that I share. So there is more to life, but the meaning must come from you. This is a purpose-driven quote. Don't wait around waiting for somebody to give you purpose when within your control is the very freedom required to give yourself purpose. And what I mean is, you give your life meaning, you are the main character in your story, so you can wake up and say, This is what I want, this is who I want to become. Now, does that mean that you're just going to get that? No, what did I just say? Wanting it bad is not enough, but waking up and saying, I'm looking for purpose, and purpose is not coming to me, so therefore I'm going to create it, and then you go and you experience purpose and meaning comes from you, and that is how your character is developed. And by character is the understanding of the things that you like, the things that you don't like, the understanding that who you are may not mesh with everybody else, and that's okay, but there is a group out there who will take you in because of who you've chosen to be, and if you do that carefully, you can do that intentionally and get yourself to places most people will never get to. Period. There is more to life, but the meaning must come from you. Um, I'm gonna save this big one for the the ending because it I wrote a whole essay there. I don't know, I'm not even gonna read it right now, right? So, ooh, this is a good one. Uh, and you understand some of these I didn't even make a post about, some of these I didn't even do a morning message about, but as I read some of them, I should have. But as I said, this is sometimes I'll be in the car, sometimes I'm reading, sometimes I'm overhearing a conversation, and I'm gonna hear something that's like, wow, I want to think about what I just heard. So here's the next quote suffering is just the refusal to accept what is, accept the suffering you are experiencing. Accept that the suffering you are experiencing is your reality, set the emotion aside and instead focus on what action can be taken to decrease the suffering. Where do I even go with this one? Let me I I love to dissect the things that I write, right? So suffering is just a refusal to accept what is. If you are currently suffering, if it it means that you are going through something that is causing that suffering, if you are constantly focusing only on the suffering, you're not focusing on the fact that it's there, you're focusing on the fact that you wish it wasn't. So in accepting that it's there, you are now setting the reality that instead of focusing on the suffering, you can focus on what is within your control. And sometimes this is very short. And what I mean is, oh, my suffering is caused because I'm sick and that sickness is out of my control. I'm taking the medicine, I'm taking the antibiotics. Now it's just a waiting game. End of story. That's really all you can do. But sometimes the suffering comes from the conversations we have from ourselves, the conversations we have when we are with ourselves by ourselves, and we start painting pictures of miseries and fears and anxieties. It's easy to exaggerate the the things we are going through in our lives so much so that it becomes suffering. But what if instead of focusing just on the suffering part, you focus on the what can I do to decrease my suffering part? And if you focus on that, without a doubt, I guarantee you the suffering will lessen, will it lessen so much that it'll become a uh uh uh what's the word that I'm looking for? Uh ignorable, or it will it become to the point where you may uh decrease it altogether. That's really upon um the kind of action that you take, but that that is where you must, as an individual, set the time and reflect on that thing, right? Most people are suffering simply for the fact that they allowed themselves to replay that conversation over and over and over again, and it's only focusing on the pain, it's only focusing on the bad. There's never a conversation about well, what can I do about it? And if they uh if there that conversation is happening, sometimes it isn't uh productive, sometimes it's it's a little bit more of excuse making, and I can't figure things out, and I guess I'm just gonna go back to the suffering part. Really give it your best effort to give yourself action that will make you lead you to a better place. Period. So um, this is a quote, and if I don't write it, I write I put it in quotation. So this is a quote by unknown, but it wasn't for me, so that's why it's there. So it says that confidence is built by doing, not by debating your worth. I know I know exactly why I wrote that one. So understand something. This is something that took me a very long time to to figure out in my own life, and you know, I I don't consider myself smart, so sometimes I know I'm certain people figured this out way before me. So bear with my slowness here. But it took me a very long time to understand that if I wish to be confident, I must do something bad long enough to become proficient at it, and the confidence comes after that part. So I would I would be upset with myself because I wasn't confident, I wasn't a confident talker, I wasn't confident uh as a human being, I wasn't confident in how I walked, it would I wasn't confident in in a lot of things in my own life, and it wasn't until I I embraced fear, it wasn't until I put myself in uncomfortable situations, it wasn't until I put on my permanent hat of being a student where I started learning, and in learning I realized that I knew nothing, even less than I thought that I didn't know, and I had a lot to work on, and when I started working on the things that I knew were important to me, over time the confidence started building. Not because uh uh not because I got older, right? I want to emphasize on that. I was a 24-year-old dummy, right? I didn't get better simply because I got older, right? That's the debating your worth part. Some people say, Well, I I I I am worth more because I've lived longer than you. I am worth more because I've experienced more than you. Okay, well, what if your experience is shit? How does that transition to value to the market, right? You as an individual don't get to decide your worth. You can decide your worth, but in reality, the world decides your worth for you by the way that it treats you. So if you wish to be a confident individual, don't go out there without experience, without knowledge, and then be upset when you are treated like an idiot. Gain the confidence by gaining the experience. And when you gain the experience by doing, you don't need to debate about your worth because your worth is shown in the actions that you take, in the character that you are, and the words that you speak, and the thoughts that you have. That's all within your control. Confidence is built by doing, not by debating your worth. Damn. And uh I don't want to give you guys too much to think about, right? Because I feel like I've gone over a lot of things already. Um I'm gonna leave you guys with this one. Uh I don't know, I don't know why I wrote it. Sometimes I got a little nervous about reading things all the way before not reading them on my own. But here we go. It doesn't matter. I like to view my life in chapters. I've accepted that some chapters will be filled with progression, joy, enthusiasm, love, happiness, and all of these wonderful emotions that paint a picture of beauty and this gift I call life. And some chapters with pain, suffering, sorrow, sickness, a lack of love, emptiness, solitude, and those chapters are also part of my life. And I welcome it with the understanding that as they continue to be a part of my life, I will continue to progress and learn more about myself. Uh I wrote this not too long ago, and and this is the a reflective thought, right? And and reflective in the sense of the sooner I accept it in my life that not everything, not every day, not every month, not every year is going to be filled with progression and joy and enthusiasm and love and happiness only, right? The acceptance of like, oh, the pain, the suffering, the sickness, the loss of love, that that's also part of it. To want one without the other is unrealistic, it's almost selfish because you're missing half of the experience. So when I wrote this, I wrote it in the sense of like accept it all, find joy in it all, even if it's painful at the moment. And in accepting that, I look forward to life, I look forward to the day, I look forward to my experience. Why? Because as I continue to progress, I learn more about myself. And the more I learn about myself, the better I can present myself to the world, and the better I can present myself to the world, the better opportunities come my way. And the better opportunities that come my way, the more I get to learn about the things that I didn't know because I now must get better if I want to take advantage of that opportunity that are coming my way. Think about that. Think, and I mean it. Set some time. I give you a lot to think about. This is 20 minutes, but in 20 minutes I was able to uh give you guys things what I would consider some of my more uh reflective thoughts, right? And I don't mean uh what I mean by that is you they require you to sit and ponder, they they require you to sit and think about past activities, packed thoughts, and as you do those things, it's not really something that you can just dismiss, never think about again, and gain anything from it, as I've said before. So think about what I've spoken about. Reflect, reflect, reflect. Think about the person you wish to become, about the life you wish to create, about how you want others to experience you. We have this gift called life. If you are listening to this, regardless of the difficulties that are out there, you are still being blessed with this gift. And uh, we don't decide when our time is coming to an end, but we decide how we spend the time that we have, and that time can be used productively to help us and those important. To us and the people who come across our path, or we can use it unproductively and just waste it. Allow time to just pass you by. Ironically, those are the people that live longest and they get to the end full of regret. With those I wish I could have I should have thoughts. So I leave you with this with the questions. My favorite thing to do. A new year is being gifted to you right now as you listen to this. What are you going to do with it? How will you show up? You got a lot to think about, and I hope you said the time. Thank you for being here, and until next time.

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