Compounding Daily

EP155- Roulette #11

• Miguel Sanchez

Share episode

Lets us know your thoughts thru TEXT!

Some days don’t ask for productivity.

They ask for honesty.


Honesty about the conversations you keep avoiding.

The patterns you keep repeating.

The dreams you keep postponing because someday feels safer than now.


In today’s episode, I talk through the same questions I once had to sit with in silence.

Questions that made me uncomfortable before they ever made me better.


Not What do I want?

But Why haven’t I gone after it yet?


Your past isn’t holding you hostage.

Your age isn’t disqualifying you.

And time isn’t slipping away the way your fear says it is.


What quietly shapes your life are the choices you make when no one is watching—

the thoughts you entertain,

the standards you tolerate,

and the moments you decide to stay the same instead of grow.


This isn’t an episode to rush through.

It’s one to sit with.

To listen, pause, and maybe ask yourself a question you’ve been avoiding.


If you feel unsettled after… that’s not a bad thing.

That’s awareness knocking.


Think. Reflect. And choose deliberately


Enjoy and as always Thank you for listening!

Thank You for listening ! follow us on Instagram.
@compoundingdailypodcast
Miguel:@m_sanchezvillafane
Email: Compoundingdailypodcast@gmail.com

SPEAKER_00:

Hello and welcome back everybody to compounding daily. I'm your host, Miguel Sanchez. Welcome back to another episode. Today's episode is going to be something that I enjoy doing because once a month I get to instead of focus on one topic, I get to go over a variety of topics. These topics are topics that I've spoken about before, uh new ideas, different perspectives, things that over the years I've written and kept almost a journal on, and it is often what I go back to to reflect on. And uh what I'm doing with this compounding daily roulette, uh, this is the 11th one, and what I'm gonna do with this one is I'm going to go to the very beginning. So understand something. So the very beginning of this what I call roulette is the very initial thoughts that I was having at like you know uh year one of the podcast. It was uh, you know, happening a few months before where I was starting to, you know, question whether I should take leaps of faith. A lot of insecurities and doubts were present. But in in what I'm about to read to you guys, is the very questions and the very conversations that I had with myself, by myself, that I journaled on, that I reflected on, that I believe has led me to what I consider in my own opinion, in my own experience, and the things that I'm going through, a life of abundance that I've been uh extremely blessed with. Um, but it wasn't given in my own opinion, not to pat myself in the back. It was earned. I worked really hard, and I don't take I don't take that for granted and I don't take that away from my messages, right? Because I don't want to give you the inclination that it's easy, I don't want to give you the the false lie and expectation that you can just wake up tomorrow and everything will be handed to you. So uh a lot of people think I'm a motivational speaker, and even though I'm I'm grateful for that, I like to think I'm more of a um intentional speaker, and it is because I the things that I bring to you, and I'm not trying to motivate you. Of course, I want you to look into the future with enthusiasm, but the goal isn't motivation, the goal is to bring intention into your life so you have direction and purpose and uh things to work on uh as you work on the vision of creating and becoming. Um so yeah, that's what today's episode is gonna be a compound and daily roulette episode, well, uh number 11, episode 155. Um, before we go into the specific topics, I got ahead of myself out of uh a little excitement. I wanted to always emphasize on on the fact that I release an episode every Monday early in the morning because I like hopefully to catch you before you begin the week, before you begin the day, you tune in. And in tuning in, you're not just getting a message of accountability, but you are receiving a reminder that despite all of the things that are out of our control, the thing that is within our control is our emotions and our thoughts and our reactions to things. And it's easy to wake up on a Monday, especially during this cold winter, and think to ourselves how depressing it is, how we wish things were different, and it's easy to allow those thoughts to plant and root themselves into our mind, and now in the way that we present ourselves to the world, we are carrying that energy. I believe it's very, very important to be mindful of that, and like I said, it is a decision. Uh one of the episodes I spoke about before is the the happiness is a choice, and some people don't agree, but I believe uh that you can wake up and direct your thoughts to a place of gratitude, and in that gratitude begin to express a form of joy, right? I don't think I don't mean like uh put on a fake smile and pretend you're happy. You know, I'm more about understanding that within your control is the very things you need to experience a better life, and one of those things is a chosen attitude. So, yes, it's Monday, what attitude will you entertain? And with that being said, let's get right into it. So, this is the very first thing, literally number one on the list. It says, It's not your fault where you started in life, but it is your responsibility to choose where you are going. So, I want you to put into perspective that uh as as I was thinking this, I was um going through a breakup, I was going through a lot of imposter syndrome, I was going through a lot of uh family issues, I was going through through what I consider is everyday life for everybody, right? We all we all have issues, and my issue at the moment was the very fact that because of the difficulties in my life, I always sought someone to blame. I always looked to place responsibility on others. Well, why are you here? Well, because this and this and so and so. You understand what I'm saying? So that quote is just very simple. It's not a quote, it's more of a thought that I had, you know. Um, and it's just like you are not responsible for where you started in life, out of your control, you know, and it's funny. Tie it right into the morning message that I just did, right? About the Monday, right? You focus on what you can control and where you are born and what you are raised to believe is out of your control, but you do reach a certain point in your life where responsibility is now transferred to you. You are now an adult, and now you gotta make conscious decisions, and those decisions are responsible for the life you create or don't create. It's very important. Um, I'm I'm just gonna go down the line. I haven't done this ever, so I don't know what we're getting. So here's number two you can't change your past, but you can plan for your future. Uh, this is a reminder that the past is in the past, and you can see it as a story of regret and a story of sorrow, and oh, my past was horrible, and that's why I'm sad in the present, or your past could be a story of lessons learned, it could be a story of difficulties and pain that you overcame. Though that, in my opinion, is a better perspective about your past, and you once you understand that lingering in the past with thoughts of regret is just like poisoning yourself. You're not doing yourself any favors, you can't change anything about the past, it's happened, you are still here, so while you are still here, will you live in the past or will you set the time aside to plan for the future? If you listen to the podcast like overall, like on Compounding Daily Podcast on Instagram, then you know I do a morning message, and every Sunday I do a preparation Sunday message, and I emphasize on the idea that you will not accidentally get to success, you must have a plan for success. So this one is just a reminder to myself that just because I had a difficult upbringing, just like we all did, that difficult upbringing doesn't need to define who I am to you today or who I am to myself today, right? I get to decide that that's within my control. Number three, there is no such thing as not having enough time, there is only what you make a priority. By this point, you understand that I'm talking to myself by telling myself things I don't want to hear, right? Because that's one of those quotes. That's one of those quotes that you sit there and you want to argue with it, but if you really observe your time, you realize that you waste a lot of it. And this was one of what this was one of my realizations. Ironically, um just this morning I was speaking with uh a life coach and she was emphasizing on the importance of setting boundaries and and prioritizing my time, like you know, just being mindful of it. And part of the homework that I was given was to write down my days, not a schedule. I got a schedule, believe me, is packed. I'm I'm very grateful, right? Uh, but it to do a day schedule. What time are you waking up? What time is meal one? What time are you going to work out? What time are you having meal two? And I've lived like that before. That's when I was in prep for the bodybuilding show. But now I'm in a position where I'm building the business for plumbing, I'm expanding a little bit on the on the on the speaking, right? I've gotten so much more comfortable, so much more fluent and and confident in my speaking. And now I'm I'm looking for opportunities in different places, and it's easy to tell myself that I just don't have the time. So now I'm in a position where I have to write down what I'm doing, not just on the day and you know, around what time, but like what am I doing at what time on what day? And that has put me in a place of self-accountability where I can't tell people that I don't have time because I just went through everything and I definitely found places where I could have made adjustments, sacrificing a little bit more sleep, maybe, but in doing so, I'm creating more time for the things that are important to me. So hence there is no such thing as not having enough time because based off what I just told you, you know that I still have the same 24 hours that you do, so there's there's really no argument, right? It's all about how you're using your 24 hours, and you can throw the excuse my way, but you don't have children, Miguel, and you don't have this, and you don't have that, so you don't understand. I don't, but I know people that do, and they're crushing it. So, you know, unvalid reason. Let's go to number four. Why do we not hold ourselves to the same level of accountability we expect other people to? So understand something. I didn't sit down and just write these, right? So uh as I was writing these and I still write these, um, it's it's at random. Uh now it's longer periods in between. But when I first started, I was probably doing like maybe once a week, you know, or maybe two, two, three times a week. Just I was reading a lot, I was listening a lot, and it it was a lot of things running through my mind. So um they're they're not in order uh in regards to what I was going through. It's more in the way that I was learning and questioning things. So I'll read it again. Why do we not hold ourselves to the same level of accountability we expect others' peoples to? This is this is uh a message to remind ourselves that it's so easy to judge others, but it's so difficult to put a mirror in front of our face and hold ourselves to the same level of judgment that we just placed on others. That's really what that one's about, right? It's it's easy to expect greatness from others, but what about yourself? What are you doing? It's easy to tell people, well, why aren't they working out? Well, why aren't they doing this? Well well, you don't know what they're going through, right? And instead of expecting them to change, what what are you doing? Are you living the expectation that you are setting on others, or are you just placing your judgment on them? It's very important to know the difference. Alright? Number five, I don't know when I'm gonna stop. Um probably gonna stop at about 15 minutes. Alright, we're at 11 minutes now. I'll stop at about 15 minutes, so because I feel like I'm giving you guys a lot to think about, and I'm definitely flowing, so I don't want to stop that. So I'm gonna just keep going until 15 minutes, and however many we get, we get. So five. Um, who do you want to become, and what price are you willing to pay to become that person? Uh, I love this because it's always a reminder that in this world, a law that is set in place, whether you like it or not, is that there is no such thing as something for nothing, it doesn't exist. So you have to ask yourself, what is the level of success that I want to experience? How far do I want to climb this mountain? And and you get the beauty of being a human being is that in your imagination you can set that to like the highest mountain ever. How far do you want to go, right? Because the imagination is a beautiful thing. You can paint yourself far, far into the future with an abundance of whatever it is that you want, right? But dreaming is the beauty part, and then we gotta go back to reality because everybody wants the money, everybody wants the body, everybody wants the house, everybody wants the boat, everybody wants the lifestyle, but nobody wants to pay the price. And that's what I'm emphasizing on in this quote. What are you giving in return? And like I said, if it's worth having, it's going to require an insane amount of effort. Right? I hate to say it like that, but just do the homework yourself. I'm not making this up. If chances are the bigger the dream, the bigger you're gonna have to work, the the bigger the effort, the bigger the investment. So I encourage you to dream big, but I also encourage you to set yourself in a realistic place and ask yourself, am I willing to pay the price that is required of me in order to make that dream a reality? For most people, the answer is absolutely you can, but are you willing? That's the key word in that whole quote. Number six, it's never too late to be what you might have been. I love this one. It it's it's it's a reminder that you you it's so easy to convince yourself that because you are in a certain place in life that you're stuck there, it's so easy to say, well, I've been here for 10 years, or what am I gonna do if I leave? Or this is all I know, this is all I was taught to believe, and now I don't know if if going against it marks me as a bad person, yada yada. You get the point. The point is that it is never too late to look at your life and reassess the situation. It is never too late to observe yourself and place of uh place a mirror of accountability in front and just start writing down what am I experiencing in my life, and is this the life that I wanted to live? If the answer is yes, congratulations, you're part of the 1%, maybe, right? But chances are you're on the other side. You see that there are things that need to be worked on, you see that there are things that you know you wanted to experience and never got to experience, and of course, there are things in the way of us getting there, and some of those things are out of our control, like health and sickness and loss of love. Those things I said out of our control. But what about the things that you can control? What about the understanding right of compounding daily? And I'm not talking about the podcast, I'm talking about the earning of that one percent every single day. You have a choice, and every single day you can keep voting to keep the same life in place, or every day you can make decisions that make a vote towards the best version of yourself. What will you do? That's what's important. It's never too late to change into what you might have been, right? Because in your head, you're like, I might have been a better person, I might have been in a different place, I might have, I might have. And that conversation leads you to a place of regret. But what about the person who says, I don't care if I'm 35, I don't care if I'm 40, I don't care if it's a new career, I don't care if if if the the challenges in front of me seem unsurmountable at the moment. I don't care, I'm going to overcome. Why? Because I want to become and create and experience the person who I once imagined myself to be. And then you work on that. And that's what I'm gonna leave you guys with. Compounding Daily Roulette number 11, episode 155. My favorite thing with this is if you really sit here and intentionally listen, there's so much to think about. If you're anything like me, almost overwhelming, right? And now you gotta sit and be like, damn, that's a lot to process and a lot to observe. But if you are able to receive some form of value in any way, shape, or form, and it inspires you to action, then I've done my work. I that's literally the goal of this podcast. I use my experience, my stories, my perspectives, and I tell you what has worked for me, and I told and I'm telling you about the mindset that I used to have that didn't work for me and what changed in the way, and in that process, I'm learning to love myself, I'm learning to challenge myself, I'm learning to experience new things, and in doing so, I'm telling you, my life is good, and it's not because I've gotten lucky, it's because I realized I was wrong, and then I started working on what was wrong and what needed to be changed, and what needed to be changed was all up to me my mindset, my attitude, my vocabulary, my friends, the things that was feeding my mind, the things I was feeding my body, uh, my spiritual conversation with God. Everything had to change in order for me to be here today and be able to share that in a form of value to you. And I believe I've given you that today. So, with that being said, thank you for being here, and until next time.

Head Shot

Miguel Sanchez

Host