EP158- Roulette #12

Today’s Roulette reminded me of something powerful — growth rarely comes from certainty. It comes from showing up anyway. From doing things badly at first. From choosing effort even when motivation is low.

Every action we take is a vote for the person we are becoming.

The world can feel loud, heavy, and distracting… but your responsibility remains the same:

to stay centered, to keep improving, and to build evidence through your actions that you are capable of more.

Your diet isn’t just what you eat.

It’s what you watch.

What you listen to.

What you tolerate.

And who you surround yourself with.

Nothing worth having was ever meant to be easy — and maybe that’s exactly what makes it meaningful.

If this episode leaves you with one question, let it be this:

What are your daily choices compounding into?

Think… and let’s get better together. 🔁

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Transcript

Showing Up Through Discomfort

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Hello and welcome back everybody to Compounding Daily. It's your host, Miguel Sanchez. Welcome to another episode. An episode that I'm excited for. Excited for really anything and everything that I put out because it's always a a a step into discomfort. Despite me doing this for a few years now, I know I've progressively have gotten better at speaking, but I still am, like most people are to themselves, my harshest critic. And sometimes I sit here and even after recording something, I feel a little deflated, maybe a little bit disconnected with the message and the purpose. But um, regardless of the fact I always put myself through the motions because uh if you've been with me for a while, then you know what I say, and that is you get better through repetition, you get better through the things that you repeat in your life, hence compounding daily. You show up daily, and the things that you repeat compound into a great life or a life that you didn't plan for. And with that being said, before we get into today's topics, because we're going to be covering some multiple topics today, uh, I want to emphasize on this before anything. It is Monday, it is the beginning of a brand new week. If you have not been living under a rock, then you have seen the things that are happening around the world, and these things may be causing you stress, these things may be causing you anxiety and fear for the future. And I'm here to tell you that I don't believe ignorance is bliss. I believe in ignorance you lack information, and therefore you shouldn't have an opinion if you don't understand the things that are happening in the world. And with that being said, that doesn't mean that I allow the things happening in the world to become a reason for me to justify a lack of effort. It doesn't become a reason for me to justify a lack of enthusiasm towards my day. It's easy to wake up and say, Well, the world's burning, so what's the point? But what if the world doesn't burn for another hundred years and you just spent your whole life waiting for it to happen? You get what I'm saying? So we must be better than to just give in to the negativity and the poison that were being fed through the social media and the news and all these outlets. And we must understand that regardless of outside circumstances, internally, it is our responsibility to maintain ourselves centered, given ourselves purpose and intention, and making sure that to the people we care about, we show up as the best version of ourselves because the world may be burning, but that doesn't mean that in our personal lives we can't be the center who are uh, as I like to say, being a pillar for those around us, being a a supporting individual to those around us, especially during these uncertain times. So don't go into the week defeated and an enthusiastic. Give yourself a purpose, give yourself a reason, give yourself a little nudge in the back to get you out of bed and go out into the world and experience become and create. Happy Monday, and let's get right into it. So, today's episode is very simple. It is compounding daily roulette, and as I double check here, it is roulette number 12. Uh, every week I cover a different topic. Once a month, I like to sit here and go on my uh what I call the compounding daily roulette, and I sit here with a bunch of different topics, and instead of making an episode specifically about one subject, one topic, one perspective, I instead like to just scroll randomly. Uh, I haven't finished numbering all of them, but the ones that I have finished numbering are in number 212, 13 actually. So um there's plenty of topics to talk about, and understand that these are not in any order, they are just in in places as I go through my life for the last few years. If I read something of value, if I have a thought, if I come across a quote, if I have a good conversation, if anything stands out to me to the point where I want to reflect on it, that is what these themes are for. So, with that being said, we're just gonna be here, and the per the purpose of the roulette is that it's at random. So I'm not going in order from one, two, three, four. I'm just choosing at random, covering it for a few minutes, and then uh we we move on to the next subject. So, with that being said, let's get right into it at random. Randomly, this is number 12. It says, anything anything in life worth having is worth doing badly. Uh, I I think I wrote this wrong, and every time I read it, it reminds me of it. But here here's what I meant by this, right? Anything in life worth having is worth doing badly. Anything in life that you think you want to experience that you think you want to get good at, you must understand that unless you're a prodigy, right? Which chances are slim to none, you're probably not a prodigy. Chances are you're gonna have to go through uh a few phases, and sometimes those phases are weeks, sometimes they're months, and sometimes they're years. But the purpose is that if it's of value to you, if it's meant to have meaning and excitement in your life, chances are you're going to have to suck at it first, you're going to have to do it badly first. And ironically, just as I said in the beginning of this episode, it's through repetition that we become better. So uh I used to avoid doing difficult things just for the fact that I knew I was going to be bad at it and I wanted to avoid embarrassment and or making a fool of myself. So therefore, I convinced myself, oh, I don't really want to do that. And it's not that I didn't want to do it, it's that I didn't want to look stupid. Now I'll be the first one to look stupid because that means I'm the first one to learn the lesson. Um I could be the example to others and say, hey, I already been through it, I messed up through it, so learn from my mistakes and we can all move forward. If it's meant to be of value to you, if you feel like it's worth it, then embrace yourself because chances are you're going to have to suck at whatever it is you want to attain first before you get good at it. Okay. So boom. First topic. Now we're in 93. It says every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become, right? So understand something. Uh this is from James Clear, and I'm pretty sure that it was from the book Atomic Habits. And uh you can view your life. I enjoy to view my life as like I'm the main character of a movie, I'm the main character of a of a video game, right? And j if you are a fan of video games or if you're a fan of like action movies or anime or anything like that, then you understand that it's always uh uh the hero in the beginning that gets stripped of everything. He loses all his weapons, all his power, and throughout the the video game, throughout the movie, throughout the anime, what you witness is the the the the main character, in this case yourself, going through difficulties in life, and those difficulties will often lead them to a a fork in the road, as the saying goes, where a decision has to be made, and uh there's uncertainty regardless of which path you choose. But here's where the important question comes in. If you were to ask yourself, is what I'm about to decide going to get me closer to the type of person that I wish to become? If you answer yes before you pick a road and you ask yourself that question and you say yes, this road leads me to the person I wish to vote to become, and this road leads me to a place where it's regressing me, it's leading me towards comfort, it's leading me towards uh almost like a vote against the person I want to become. You know, when you start thinking like that and you start placing yourself in the center of your world, right? Because sure, we all share this planet, but at the end of the day, it is Miguel's world and it is my place, right? Because I am my own existence and everything I do revolves around me because it's me. You have that same power. And if you wake up and you say, Man, what what kind of episode do I want to give myself today? And and you remind yourself, what if everybody was watching you like a movie, like a TV show? How would you choose? How would you choose to to uh introduce yourself to the world? How would you choose to make sure that you're not wasting time but instead using it to the benefit of your growth and achievements, right? Because as I said, it if if you just wake up and say every action I'm taking today is going to be a vote towards the person I wish to become, without doubt, that's a good day. I promise you that. There's no there's no way around it. All right. Okay, let's go to the next one. 171 First comes the work, then the results, and in between is failure. Uh it's pretty self-explanatory. You know, as I said, I write things down that just stand out to me. And this is just the understanding that you you must be patient, you must understand that uh you to expect immediate results and to expect immediate gratification is what I call an unrealistic expectation. So understand, as I said it with the first one, if it's meant to be worthy to you, chances are it's going to be difficult. Chances are you're going to fail at it multiple, multiple times before you get into it. Like I promise you, I'll use myself as an example. Anything that I've done in my life that I consider valuable, whether it was the the fact that I I found the love of my life and I'm now a married man, the fact that I did a bodybuilding show, the fact that I'm on episode 158 of my own podcast, the fact that I've spoken multiple times at at state universities uh to students, all of these things were a result of me first doing the work and failing morning message after morning message, episode after episode, sounding dumb, and some episodes cursing a lot of some episodes doing um um, you know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying, you know what I'm saying, over and over and over. But over time, as you can tell, not to pat myself in the back, but I got better, and I got better because I started understanding that who cares if I suck at it first, eventually I'm going to get better because I never gave up and I never wanted immediate gratification. Instead, I just showed up with the expectation that with enough times, since I'm not an idiot, right? And the chances are if you're listening to this, you're not an idiot either. Then you understand that if you just show up over and over and over and over again with the intent of learning and learning from the experience and becoming better, then without a doubt, the results you are seeking will be there, and you will get better at speaking, you will become a bodybuilder, you will you will become a great business owner, you will be a great father, a great mother, a great cousin, whatever it is you're trying to be. If you first do the work, the results will come later, guaranteed. Okay. Hate to sound like a broken record. Um all right, now we're in uh now we're in the the un unnumbered uh the unnumbered phases, right? Uh so I haven't I haven't even numbered any of these, so we're just gonna go at random here, right? But belief without evidence is delusion. Oof. I don't know why I wrote that. I'm gonna be honest with you. I I my mind could go in so many different places, but let's dissect it, right? Because there's always a reason as to why I write things. Belief without evidence is delusion. Understand something. I'm a big I'm a big factual guy. I it's difficult for me to not to believe in things that I I haven't proven to myself is truth. And typically if I'm speaking about this, what I'm what I'm speaking in regards to is uh the the ability to with our own actions prove to ourselves that what we want is real, that what we want can be ours, right? I used to fantasize about a healthy body, I used to fantasize about a good life, I used to fantasize about certain experiences, and for a long time I convinced myself that those things would just be given to me. Uh, if I just pray hard enough, wish long enough, then eventually maybe it'll just you know be my lucky break, and then I'll get all those things. And I fail, you know, came to realize at 24 years old that that's not how life works. I needed to start gathering evidence. I needed to start gathering evidence in the actions that I chose to take every single day, and with that evidence, I started reaffirming my beliefs that you know maybe you're not stupid, maybe you are capable, maybe you can achieve, maybe you can become. But right now I don't believe that. Okay, well, you don't believe it because you don't have enough evidence. But if you go out into the world and you start gathering evidence with your actions, with your experiences, then you'll start understanding that belief can be backed up by the people who shut their mouths and instead of just talking about what they wish was true, they go out into the world and experience what the truth is. Don't ask me where some of these things come from because sometimes I speak and I'm just like, damn, that's good. And that was one of those times, right? Uh we're we're at 15 minutes, we are making progress, we are back in the numbered areas, and we are at 80. Oh, very simple, very simple, and I could go off on this one. Number 80. If it was easy, everyone would do it. It's take that as you want. We've all heard that. We've all heard that. Well, if it was easy, everybody would do it. Yeah, so why aren't you doing it? Are you are you part of the crowd that says, Well, it's hard, so I'm not gonna do it. That's not the saying. The saying is if it was easy, everybody would do it. But here's the beauty of it since everybody's not doing it, whatever it is you're referring to, chances are is if you observe what you wish was easy, and the person that has it, you'll come to understand that it wasn't easy, but it was worth it. The people who don't look for easy and in difficulties achieve, turn in life to acquire the very things that most people only dream and talk about for their whole life. Don't seek easy, right? I I I wish it was easier, like my mentor says, right? Jim Rohn says, Don't wish it was easier, wish that you were better. And that was a slap to my face because I wanted easy. I used to be the guy who would look at wealth, success, and achievements and say, Must be nice. What a lucky guy, you know, probably born into a silver spoon family, probably didn't understand struggles. And then I got to reading, and then I got to understanding, and then I got to experience, and through that experience, I learned, man, it's all hard. If it's meant to be worthy to you, it's hard. If it's meant to change you, it's going to be difficult. If you want more, chances are you have to overcome more. Like, there's no such thing as like must be nice. Because when you see somebody achieving at a high level, the chances are very simply that they probably had to overcome so many difficult things. But most people are ignorant in this world. All they see is the luxury, all they see is the lifestyle, all they see is what they see on social media, and they convince themselves that all must be nice. Well, what what about the difficult path that those people walked? What about the challenges that they had to overcome? The things that you don't know about because people don't post their skeletons on social media, they only post their highlights, they don't post the difficulties of life unless they're trying to gain some attention from it, which by then you're an idiot and you shouldn't be doing that. You know, like the people that are crying on social media, you gotta cry and then press record. I digress. You get what I'm trying to say, just be mindful of that. Okay, if it was easy, everyone would do it. That's why getting in health is not easy, acquiring wealth is not easy, staying in a marriage, it's not easy. You know what I mean? It it's not easy, but if you are willing to put yourself in front of what's not easy and understand it and learn from it, guess what? It becomes easier over time. So it's not easy because most people aren't willing to put the effort towards it. And that's the last thing I'll say. And we'll round it up in about 20 minutes, so this is gonna be the last one. Ooh, number 112. Your diet isn't only what you eat, it's also what you watch, read, think, and surround yourself by. I can't emphasize on the importance of this. People hear the word diet and they think about food, they say, Oh, I gotta get on a diet, I gotta lose weight. Understand something. If you are to walk a path that changes your character so profoundly that even you have trouble recognizing yourself, that's not a physical diet only. That's a diet of the spiritual journey, of the mental journey, a diet of observations of domestications that were given to you as you were growing up, a diet of what was I taught to believe is true, that now I believe is true, and it is not serving who I'm trying to become. That diet is a diet worth doing for the rest of your life. But just like I said with the last quote, with the last message, it's not easy. It's not easy to uh observe and self-analyze yourself and realize that there is part of you that you must destroy, that there are things that you do that don't serve you. People hear diet and they say, I need to eat better. Well, maybe you need to listen better. Maybe what you feed into your ears every day doesn't need to be poison that makes you feel bad about the world and yourself, but instead you listen to some positivity, maybe you listen to some knowledge, maybe you listen to some history, maybe you listen to something that makes you enthusiastic about the day. You know, food is one thing because without a strong vessel, as I said in the last episode, wealth is health, right? Because when you have health, pretty much you can focus on anything else. A strong body allows you to go through the difficulties that I'm talking about throughout this episode without that physical strength. All of a sudden, nothing else matters because you can't even carry yourself. So, of course, a physical diet matters, but what about the thoughts you think every day? What about when you wake up and the conversation says, I don't want to go to work, I don't want to do this, I don't want to be here, I'm tired. What about the bills? What about my family? What about my children? And before you know it, you're stressed out and you haven't even begun the week. That's part of a diet. Because if you instead of feeding yourself and allowing those negative thoughts to dominate your mind, you instead bring awareness into your life and you say, Wow, that conversation was not good. I'm going to change that conversation, and instead, I'm gonna go on a mental diet. No more negativity before bed, no more conversations about gossip and drama, no more war on entertained, poisonous conversations that leave me feeling worse about myself, right? You have to be more mindful. What are you reading if you read at all? Most people aren't even doing that anymore. But if you're reading, are you just reading for entertainment? Which I'm not against if I'm being honest. But if are you reading factual things? Are you reading things because you're curious and you want to learn? What are you doing with your time? It all matters. And the last one and the most important one who are you surrounding yourself by? What does your environment say about you? When you are surrounded by the people in your life, do you feel uplifted or is it negativity? Are you part of a community who is pushing each other to grow, or a community that's just spreading poison and gossip around each other and hoping that things work out and hoping that you get your lucky break? This is probably one of the most important ones because the people that we surround ourselves with and the environment that we create to spend most of our time with highly, highly has an impact on the life we create and the person we become. So remember this. Next time you say, I need to go on a diet, make sure you're specific about what kind of diet you're going on. And chances are if it's a diet that you need to go on, it's not going to work. It's a lifestyle change. You need to think better, read better, surround yourself better, eat better, read better, you know, anything, just better overall. Okay? So, with that being said, I'll leave it at that. I I rarely say this, but man, what an episode. Value after value, golden nugget after golden nugget. You don't have to listen to this and feel as if I'm preaching to you. Please don't place me as if I'm better than you or higher than you. Because I would never do that with anybody. We're all human beings. The goal here is for me to sit down and share with you my perspective, my ideas with a single hope. The hope that you find value in it. The hope that after you stop listening to this episode, you say, you know, maybe he's right. Maybe I do need to change my surroundings. Maybe I do need to be a little bit more mindful about the people I surround myself with. Maybe I should be a little bit more mindful about the conversations happening internally. You know what I mean? All of these things matter. And whether they change your life and has an impact on it or not is truly up to you. So what will you do? Think. And together, my friends, let's get better. And until next time.