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Daily Boost Podcast Why Most People Never Get What They Want November 9, 2026 | Episode 5586 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com. Episode Description Most people never get what they want. Not because they're lazy. Not because they're unlucky. They don't know exactly what they want. And I don't mean the big stuff. I mean the little stuff. What time you want to get out of bed. How you want to manage your day. Today I'm walking you through the five rules I pull up on almost every coaching call I have. They're simple, and that's why they work. Know what you want, then build the skills, clear the road, and stay on the direct path. Write them down and keep them close. Featured Story Last Tuesday was election night. Half the country was thrilled. The other half thought the world was falling apart. I went to bed at four in the morning. My dog woke me up. Dad, gotta go out. So I got up, let him out, and stepped on a thorn in the backyard. Hurt my foot. I came back inside, and the cat pooped in the living room. Then I couldn't fall back asleep. And lying there, it hit me. I don't need to live my life according to a used car salesman who calls himself a politician. Doesn't matter who won. My dog still has to go potty. Life goes on. Important Points * You can't get what you want until you name it. Get specific about the little stuff, like when you want to wake up. * Wanting something badly isn't enough. If you don't own the skills to produce it, factor in the time to learn them. * Do the most direct thing today. In business, that's finding new prospects, every single day, until they become customers. Memorable Quotes * If you don't know what you want, you can't get anywhere. Until you do, you'll get whatever comes your way. * It's not hard once you own the skills to produce it. So you've got to know what you want and own the skills to produce it. * Sometimes you've got to bring up the dynamite and blow it up to get through it. And sometimes it's just a mindset. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Write down exactly what you want, including the little stuff, until you can name it without stopping to think. * List the skills you'll need to produce it, and give yourself a couple of months to learn the ones you're missing. * Clear out everything that doesn't lead there, do the one most direct action each day, then track it and adjust. Chapters 0:15 - Election week and a country split right down the middle 0:30 - A thorn, a dog, and a cat that pooped in the living room 1:12 - Why 99% of my coaching group keeps showing up 4:08 - Rule one: you have to know exactly what you want 4:22 - Skills, dynamite, and the direct path to your goal Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com. * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Daily Boost Podcast So Good They Can't Ignore You: How to Sell Without Selling November 6, 2026 | Episode 5585 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com. Episode Description You're selling all day, every day. Your ideas, yourself, your next move. Don't run and hide. A lot of people figure out what they want to do with their lives and then stall because they can't sell it. They decide they need a business, then freeze at the word sales. Today I'm flipping that. Steve Martin told performers to be so good they can't ignore you. I'll show you why that's the first step in sales, what a lifetime in radio taught me about marketing, and how Tesla sold me a car without selling. Build something people love. Featured Story I asked for a demo ride in a Tesla. The guy said he'd check if they had one. Then we walked out front, he tapped his phone, and the car drove itself up to us. We drove about three miles. He showed me full self-driving and took me back to the store. Then he got out and said, " See you in an hour. Have some fun. So I did. I pushed the button and let it drive. When I came back, I said We're buying this car. I'd never owned an EV. It broke every rule I'd ever known about buying a car. He barely sold me anything. Important Points * Everything is sales. You're persuading someone every day, so accept it and get good at selling yourself and your ideas. * Be so good they can't ignore you. When you stop doing what you do best, people stop listening, and the money slows down. * Great marketing makes selling almost unneeded. A dynamic demonstration lets people fall in love before you ever ask. Memorable Quotes * Everything in life is sales. It doesn't have to be money, but every day you're selling or buying something. * I get in trouble when I try not to do what I do best. That's when people stop listening to the whole thing. * I know what I do. I do it as well as I can. If I keep doing that, it keeps working. Be so good they can't ignore you. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Pick the one thing you do better than almost anyone and decide that's what your business or your work is built on. * Make it so good your customer falls in love with it. Not everybody will. Build it for the people who get it right away. * Then show it instead of pitching it. Give people a demo, a taste, or a test drive, and let the work close the sale. Chapters 0:15 - Why I dumped Facebook and made Skool my social home 4:06 - Everything in life is sales, even when it's not money 5:56 - Steve Martin's advice: be so good they can't ignore you 7:12 - A young DJ, a peddler, and a $20 live endorsement 8:56 - Elon Musk on great products and the companies behind them 10:14 - The Tesla test drive where the salesman just walked off 12:30 - Funding your passion by doing what you love really well Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com. * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast I Know I Should Be Grateful, But… How to Practice Gratitude as a Man November 5, 2026 | Episode 5584 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com. Episode Description Guys, you know you should be grateful. You've got the family, the work, the life. But you work so hard. Sound familiar? I hear that line from men all the time. Women seem to do gratitude more naturally. Most of us men were wired from day one to fight in the jungle. Today, I'm letting you stop waiting for permission. Then I'm sharing a silly ten-minute dog walk that turned into a flood of gratitude. Counting your blessings helps you sleep better, move more, and feel better about your life. Grab the leash. Featured Story Every morning I walk my two dogs, the sniffer and the dragger. Same block, same posts. They've got to check their messages. The other day I started counting how many cars I've bought since I was 18. I couldn't, somewhere between 25 and 30. Then motorcycles. Six, instantly. Two boats. Three campers, from a pop-up to a 40-foot diesel pusher. Seven houses, plus a 12-acre alpaca farm. I wasn't bragging. It hit me fast. I've been blessed enough to work, earn, and choose. Then I remembered my pastor. Twenty years and 180 million downloads, Scott. Do you have any idea what platform you have? Important Points * Count your blessings a little every day. People who notice what's good in their lives sleep better and move more. * Stop waiting for permission. Decide what you want to do, do it, and change your mind later if you need to, guys. * Start with the stuff that's easy to count, like cars, homes, and toys. It's silly, but it gets gratitude flowing fast. Memorable Quotes * Most of you are waiting for permission to do something. You've got it right now. Whatever you want to do, do it. * One day you'll be dead, and it won't matter anymore. For today, it's your life, and it matters. Decide and do it. * Exercise is one of those things that solves every problem. Lift weights, do some cardio, and see for yourself. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Take a ten-minute walk with no phone, and let your mind wander to what you've been given over the years. * Pick one simple category, like cars or homes, and count every one you've had, then let the gratitude for it land. * Move from the stuff to the people, your health, your kids, your work, and thank someone for one of them today. Chapters 0:15 - Ten minutes walking the dogs sparked today's idea 1:21 - Busy until mid-December, then I disappear too 2:11 - Your permission slip just to do what you want 5:47 - Why men say they know they should be grateful, but 6:58 - Grateful people move more, sleep better, feel better 7:43 - Counting cars, Harleys, boats, and an alpaca farm 11:40 - My pastor asks if I know what platform I have Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com. * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast 9-Year Life Cycle: How to Plan Your Life Around Where You Are November 4, 2026 | Episode 5583 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com. Episode Description Life runs in patterns. If you've been around long enough, you've seen them repeat again and again. Today I'm sharing something my friend and spiritual advisor Lewis Gates taught me 25 years ago. It's called the nine-year life cycle, and it fits this time of year for planning perfectly. It's a little woo-woo. I know. But I've watched it play out in my own life and with client after client. You'll learn the nine stages, from asking for something new to clearing the clutter, and figure out which year you're in right now. Then plan around it. Featured Story I can tell how old my notes on this are. My first notes on the nine-year life cycle stop at age 54. I guess I never figured I'd get past that cycle. Now I'm turning 67. So I did the math live on the show, which isn't easy at my age. I'm in year five, the year of evaluation. That stopped me. I'm looking at everything I've built, where I'm going, and what I want. I didn't even know I was doing it. I just started. It's why I'm changing this show after 20 years. I've also said for years I'll make another shift around 71. The cycle ends at 72. Important Points * Your life runs in nine-year cycles from birth. Count from 0, 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, or 72 to find where you are. * Year five is evaluation. If you've spent the last year searching for a different path, you might be right on schedule. * Whatever you do every day is your purpose right now, whether you like it or not. Pay attention to where your time goes. Memorable Quotes * Life is nothing more than patterns. If you've been alive long enough, you start to recognize the ones that repeat. * Whatever you do every single day, 24 hours a day, that is your purpose. Whether you like it or not, that's your purpose. * You can't keep building on top of things forever. You've got to make some space for what is coming next in your life. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Count from your last cycle start: 0, 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, or 72, to figure out which of the nine years you're in. * Read what that year usually brings- asking, focusing, gathering, evaluating, or clearing- and look for it in your life. * Build your 2027 plan around that stage, so you're working with the season you're in instead of fighting against it. Chapters 0:18 - Why planning matters more the older you get 1:37 - The show is changing, but it isn't coming to an end 3:46 - Lewis Gates and the nine-year life cycle he taught me 5:37 - Every nine years a new cycle starts, from birth on 6:23 - Years one to four: asking, focus, goodies, purpose 8:35 - Year five is evaluation, and that's where I am now 9:58 - Years seven to nine: clear the clutter, decide next Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com. * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast 80/20 Rule: More Is on the Other Side of Less November 3, 2026 | Episode 5582 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com. Episode Description Eighty percent of what you're doing today is messing with you. You're spending your day managing stuff that doesn't move you forward. We all do it. We add hacks, frameworks, apps, and blueprints because nobody likes having things taken away. Today I'm taking the 80/20 rule you've heard a hundred times and adding some special sprinkles on top. More is on the other side of less. The people who get what they want are subtractive. I'll show you why, and I'll throw in a Tesla story that proves the point. Find your 20 percent and start cutting. Featured Story Twenty-some years ago, I watched David Allen teach his Getting Things Done system. It's an awesome system. After the talk, I walked up on stage and asked him what most people won't. Let me know what you do. Not what you wrote. He smiled, reached into his pocket, and pulled out a folded yellow sheet from a legal pad. He told me he carries it around all week. I cracked up. That was his review. That was how he ran his life. I can't tell you how many executives I've met since then with one piece of paper in their pocket. I carry one too. It changed how I think about keeping up. Important Points * Only 20 percent of what you do gets you results. Find those few actions first, then question why you keep the rest. * Adding more means more to manage. The people who get what they want are subtractive. They take things off the plate. * You likely know enough to do what you want already. What's missing is discipline, desire, and the nerve to cut stuff. Memorable Quotes * More is on the other side of less. The people who actually get what they want in life are subtractive in nature. * Instead of keeping up, get rid of the stuff you're trying to keep up with. Then you won't have to keep up anymore. * If you're not making the money you want, I guarantee you're not focused on the right 20 percent of your day. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Write down everything you did this week, then circle the 20 percent that actually moved your results or your money. * Take a hard look at the other 80 percent and decide what you can drop, hand off, or stop managing starting today. * Cut those things and keep your day so simple you know what matters without checking a system or a review again. Chapters 0:20 - My wife's princess life gives me a prince's life 1:01 - Buying a Tesla got me thinking about efficiency 4:08 - The 80/20 rule with some special sprinkles on top 5:21 - Why we keep adding hacks when we need to subtract 7:20 - What David Allen pulled out of his pocket on stage 8:54 - The Tesla app versus the car dealer's back room 11:40 - My Australian shepherd and a NASCAR recliner Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com. * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast Finish the Year Strong: No More, Many More, and Planning for 2027 November 2, 2026 | Episode 5581 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com. Episode Description Most people wait until New Year's Eve, grab a glass of champagne, and try to plan a whole year in sixty seconds. That's not you. High achievers plan in November. They settle things before Thanksgiving, enjoy December, and hit the ground running in January. Today I'm walking you through the first steps I take my private clients through. No wheel of life. No stack of goals you'll never reach. Just a debrief brief, a look at what you'll create, and two simple lists I call the no mores and the many mores. Grab a pen and think. Featured Story The government keeps handing me titles. Two years ago they said I was a senior citizen. I told them to get out of my face. Now they say I hit full retirement age on November 21st. Evidently that means I get to stop—recliner and crosswords for me. It's not even possible. Last year's word of the year was six-seven. I'm turning sixty-seven. This year's word is maxing, so I'm thinking about some six-seven maxing. That takes planning too. Your mindset changes at this stage. I'm asking what more fun I can have and who else I can impact. That's why I'm changing the show. I'm not retiring. I'm rewiring. Important Points * Plan in November. Settle the big decisions before the holidays, rest in December, and start January already moving. * Start with a retrospective debrief. Write a page on how this year went and how you felt, not just which goals you hit. * Skip the values list up front. If you haven't done the awareness work, you'll make up your values and get them wrong. Memorable Quotes * You can't make a whole year plan in 60 seconds with a glass of champagne and a girl on your arm on New Year's Eve. * You filled out your wheel of life last year, and it ran you over this year. So I think differently about planning. * In year-end planning, we don't want to do anything about it. We want to create on top of it. That's the difference. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Look over your shoulder at this year and write a paragraph or a page about what happened, why, and how it felt to you. * Use that debrief to decide what you'll create in 2027. Don't rush into action yet. Build something new on top of it. * List your no mores, the things that are gone for good, then your many mores, the things you love and want more of. Chapters 0:13 - Fifteen takes later, this Monday show rolls finally 1:02 - Why high achievers do their planning in November 4:07 - The government says I'm retiring on November 21st 6:06 - The debrief brief: looking back over your shoulder 7:48 - Prospection: you can build the track for your horse 9:22 - No mores, many mores, and why values come later 11:02 - Not retiring, rewiring, and becoming Benjamin Button Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com. * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast Motivation Isn't Dead. You're Just Using It for the Wrong Job. October 30, 2026 | Episode 5580 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description The internet says motivation is dead. Jocko says count on discipline. My buddy Billy says all you need is execution. I get it. I don't buy it. I've worked with some of the most disciplined people in the world, and they still call me saying they need help getting moving. Today I'm throwing a few stones at the motivation-sucks crowd and showing you why motivation, discipline, and execution are three tools with three different jobs. Use the wrong one, and you'll blame yourself. Plus one question to ask before your weekend starts. Featured Story I have a lot of friends who do podcasts. Or want to. Some tell me they record one every couple of weeks, and that's okay. Others can't get themselves into the studio. Then some of them finally come in, record an episode, and never post it. I asked one of them why not. I can do five a day, and you can't post one every three or four weeks? They aren't short on motivation. They're fired up about it. Something else is in the way. This show is 5,600 episodes, every day for 20 years. Plenty of mornings I walked in here not feeling it at all. I showed up anyway. Important Points * Motivation is your why, discipline is showing up, and execution is knowing the next step. Each one has its own job. * If you're fired up and still not moving, you either don't know the next step or you're scared of it. Fix that first. * Shrink the job with an if-then plan. If this happens, then I'll do that. One small, clear step beats a wall of tasks. Memorable Quotes * People say motivation doesn't last. Neither does taking a bath. That's why we recommend it daily. It's maintenance. * Discipline can't march you down a road you can't see. That's not a character flaw. That's just being human, guys. * Motivation gets you to the start line, and it brings you back. Discipline keeps you showing up. Execution makes it real. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Let motivation do its job. Find what inspires you and use that spark to get yourself up to the starting line today. * Build the discipline to show up every day, even on the mornings you're not feeling it, so the work keeps moving. * When you stall, make an if-then plan for the next step, take it, and let motivation pull you home on the final lap. Chapters 0:12 - Happy Friday, and some TMI you didn't ask for 1:48 - The question to ask before your weekend even starts 2:31 - Jocko, my buddy Billy, and the motivation-is-dead crowd 4:35 - Three tools, three jobs, and why you blame yourself 5:44 - Why every coach is suddenly selling you a framework 7:20 - The if-then plan that shrinks a scary next step 8:56 - 5,600 episodes and all the days I wasn't feeling it Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast Most Businesses Don't Fail. The Owners Run Out of Time. October 29, 2026 | Episode 5579 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Resilience is just about everything. And it's simpler than you think. Ask ChatGPT or Claude how to stick with something, and you'll get a list of 50 things. You don't need 50. You need four honest questions. I've picked these up over years of coaching business owners, and I still ask them in my groups every week. They're common sense, but most people never sit down and answer them. Today I'm walking you through all four, and why most people who quit didn't fail. They ran out of time or money first. Hang on for the ride. Featured Story Our HOA said paint the fence. It's a 20-year-old wrought iron fence, well made and expensive to replace, so painting it made sense. Simple enough. Except it wasn't. We had to find people, get estimates, listen to how each one would do the job, and figure out the right way when we didn't even know what right looked like. Then the crew showed up to spray paint it on a windy day. They pressure washed, sanded, primed, and laid down two coats. I watched how hard they pushed. When they finished, they were all smiling, and they got paid fast. And it hit me how much resilience it took from all of us to make a fence better. Important Points * Whatever you think it'll take to learn your new business, it'll take longer. Plan for it, and lean on what you know. * Decide you'll work as long as it takes. Put a three-year limit on it, and you've already set yourself up to fail. * Know how long your money will last before you start. With six months of runway and no real plan, don't even start. Memorable Quotes * You're broke when you have no keys to anything. If you have any assets at all, you have more money than you think. * When I set this business up, I said I'm willing to work as long as it takes. I don't care. I like what I'm doing. * If you've never made $500,000 a year before, you don't understand what that feels like. You're just guessing, guys. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Figure out honestly how long it'll take to learn what you need to succeed, then add time, because it's always longer. * Decide how long you're willing to work for it and how long your money will last, and make sure both cover that time. * Set a realistic number for what you'll earn once money comes in, based on real figures, not what the internet says. Chapters 0:15 - Four questions, not the 50 things ChatGPT hands you 1:16 - A windy day, a wrought iron fence, and a really hard job 3:21 - The struggling martial arts school that started it all 4:08 - Why it always takes longer to learn than you think 7:01 - How long your money will last, and when you're really broke 8:47 - How $100K a year quietly turned into $20,000 a month Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast Why Work-Life Balance Feels Impossible and What to Do Instead October 28, 2026 | Episode 5578 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Work-life balance. I don't like the phrase. Depending on the day, I think it's a little silly. About 65% of workers believe they have to sacrifice their life to get ahead. They work 12-hour days, wonder why their kids don't like them, and wait for retirement to finally take control. Today I'm giving you the one word that fixes balance, plus a new way I've been running my time with my clients and my Skool group. It builds on Monday's happy obsession. Once you hear it, balance takes care of itself. Press play. Featured Story For years, when people asked what I did, I'd say I'm in business. Or I'd say I'm semi-retired, because I work maybe 20 or 25 hours a week. Nobody got it. So I changed my wording. Now when somebody asks, I say I'm retired. Oh, what do you do with your time? Well, I stay pretty busy. I manage a little business. It's not that little. And I do some investments. And they light up. Man, that's what I want to do—just managing, consulting, things like that. I've been doing that for 30 years. Same life, same work. I changed one word, and suddenly everybody understood what they'd been chasing. Important Points * Balance is something you do, not something you reach. Like riding a bike, you have to keep moving to stay upright. * What you're really after in work-life balance is control. Get control now, and balance will take care of itself. * Lock in a few non-negotiables and let everything else flow. Simple rules work better than rigid hours and ratios. Memorable Quotes * Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Balance is something you do, not reach. * I don't consider what I do working. I consider what I do, what I do—the working stuff I give to people or to AI. * Control is a top factor in happiness for people who retire, and it's the thing most people who aren't retired want. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Admit that what you're chasing in work-life balance isn't a perfect scale. It's control over your own time and life. * Lock in the few non-negotiables that matter most, and set simple rules for them instead of fixed hours or ratios. * Let everything else flow around those rules, keep moving like you're on a bike, and let balance take care of itself. Chapters 0:19 - Why I can't stand the phrase work-life balance 1:11 - Twenty seasons in, and some changes are coming 2:34 - The 65% who believe they must sacrifice to get ahead 3:58 - Einstein's bicycle and the seesaw that always drops 6:33 - Why I started telling everybody I'm retired 8:13 - Intentional fluid scheduling and a few non-negotiables 9:35 - The first person in the world ever to have two kids Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast I Spent a Year Learning AI. Here's What Nobody Tells You. October 27, 2026 | Episode 5577 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Trigger warning. We're talking about AI today. But not how to make money with it, build bots, or code apps. This one is about what you and I have had to go through to get here. Most people in their forties and fifties never expected to go back to school for something called artificial intelligence. And this time you paid for it. I spent a year buried in it so I could help my clients, and I came out the other side seeing it differently. Today I'm letting you off the hook a little. Hang on for the ride. Featured Story When AI first showed up, I didn't care. What's this chat thing? I didn't need it. About a year in, I looked again and saw what was coming. So I dug deeper than most. It took a year. I stressed myself out, stayed up late, made apps, did all the vibe coding. I'm no stranger to computers. I bought a VIC-20 at 19 for about $300 I didn't have. Where I landed surprised me. I don't even use many bots. Why get a bot to do the work when you can fix the work so you don't need the bot? This past week I finished something in two hours that would have taken me a week a year ago. Important Points * If you run a business, you better use AI. You won't stay competitive without it, and it's more fun to build it in. * AI made my drudgery disappear. Let it handle the grunt work so you can get back to the fun stuff you started to do. * You've learned new skills dozens of times to get the job or land the client. AI is one more, and you can do it again. Memorable Quotes * People like easy. We're all wired for it, and that's exactly why AI is here to stay. We're not going to stop it. * I paid the price. I put in the blood, sweat, and tears, and I learned something that is changing the entire world. * If you haven't started, that's a choice. But if you're in business, you better get good at it. It's coming anyway. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Accept that AI is coming whether you learn it or not, and decide today that you're willing to pay the price to learn it. * Put in the time on the learning curve. Take the courses, push through the frustration, and keep going until it clicks. * Once you find your groove, hand AI the grunt work, fix your processes, and put those hours back into the fun stuff. Chapters 0:15 - Trigger warning: we're talking about AI today, sort of 2:55 - Why 90% of people will never learn a thing about AI 3:53 - This isn't just tech; it's a whole lifestyle change 4:57 - A VIC-20 at 19 and a year of staying up way too late 6:58 - A week of work done in two hours, and the fun came back 9:23 - You've learned new skills before, and you can do it again Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast Passion Isn't Enough. Find Your Happy Obsession. October 26, 2026 | Episode 5576 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Are you a happy person? Not clap-your-hands happy. Just happy in general. Now, are you obsessive? I think the two go together when you do it right. Psychologists talk about harmonious passion and obsessive passion—both work. But I've been testing a third version with my clients, my Inner Circle, and my Skool group. I call it a happy obsession. Today I'm asking what you're happily obsessed about, and what happens when you flip the script and build your day around it instead of squeezing it in last. Don't wait until you're 65 to try this. Press play. Featured Story My first radio job was at WAKS in Fuquay-Varina—a daytime AM station. We read the obituaries on the air, tuned in to the tobacco auction, and played some country music. When a trucker blew his horn as he drove by, I had to open the mic and say, "Hey, trucker." It was the law in that town. At seven o'clock we turned the transmitter off. That's when my buddy and I pulled our 45s out of the case and played rock and roll until two in the morning—big-time DJs in our minds. Nobody could stop us. The whole day was just a way to get to that studio at night. Then one night we forgot to turn the transmitter off. Important Points * Obsession and passion are really the same thing. Something grabs your attention, you're all in, and nobody stops you. * Flip the script. Stop saving your happy obsession for after the business of the day and make it the reason for the day. * Stay responsible. Pay the bills and give your boss his money's worth, then get it done fast so you can get back to it. Memorable Quotes * When you're obsessed, you can't wait to get back to it. You get out of bed in the morning, and that's the driver. * You get out of bed in the morning, and that's what you do. Everything else is in the way of your happy obsession. * Do not wait until you're 65 and retired to decide to do this. Decide to do it today. Watch how everything changes. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Ask yourself what you're happily obsessed about, the thing you'd do all day long if nobody stopped you, and name it. * Flip the script so obsession leads your day, and the rest of the work becomes what you finish on the way back. * Get efficient at the must-dos, stay responsible to your job and bills, and pour every hour you save into what you love. Chapters 0:13 - Broadcasting live between the race cars and the rocket ships 2:44 - Obituaries, tobacco auctions, and rock and roll till 2 a.m. 3:46 - Harmonious, obsessive, and a third kind of passion 6:01 - Skipping the gym because the studio was calling me 7:15 - Why my clients' eyes crossed when I asked this question 8:25 - Don't wait until you're 65 and retired to do this Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com. * Email: [email protected] * Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com * YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast * Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast Dolly Parton Didn't Make It Look Easy. She Made It Easy. October 23, 2026 | Episode 5575 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Dolly Parton made a 60-year career look easy. It wasn't. But she made a handful of disciplined decisions early and repeated them for decades. I took the grandkids to Dollywood this past week, my first visit since Dolly passed in August. It hit different. So I dug into what she actually did. Today I'm walking you through how she owned her work before she was famous, built a brand out of who she was, partnered smart, protected her private core, and guarded a daily rhythm. It ties this whole week together. Listen in and steal a few. Featured Story Dolly wrote "I Will Always Love You" the same day she wrote "Jolene." It's on a cassette tape. Then Elvis called. He wanted to sing her song, but he also wanted the publishing rights. She said no. If you know the music business, you know the person who owns the publishing gets rich. Bands barely get paid for radio or streaming. The songwriter always gets paid. Dolly knew that. Years later, Whitney Houston's version became the best-selling single ever by a female artist, and it made Dolly rich beyond imagination. She used to say her songs were like her children. In her old age, they'd support her. Important Points Own your work before you're famous. Stop giving your stuff away, because whoever owns it is the one who gets paid. When your brand is who you already are, everything gets easier and more honest, and you almost never get busted. Protect a daily rhythm. Dolly woke at 3 a.m., prayed, then wrote and handled business while the world was still calm. Memorable Quotes When your brand is simply who you are, everything gets easy. It gets honest as well. My brand is like me. A hot mess. She made her biggest decision in advance and followed through. A system she built and a discipline that ran it. It's not distance, it's protection. Always keep something back for you, and meet your own needs before anyone else's. Scott's Three-Step Approach Decide in advance what you'll never give away, whether it's your songs, your content, or your time, and own it. Wrap your brand around who you already are, then bring in partners to scale the parts you shouldn't run yourself. Guard a daily rhythm for your best hours, and tie the work to a purpose bigger than you so you keep on building. Chapters 0:21 - Six hours of nonstop talking and loving every minute 1:37 - All week long and I never asked you to buy a thing 2:09 - A day at Dollywood with the grandkids after Dolly's gone 3:40 - Elvis wanted her song and its rights, and she said no 5:11 - A brand built on who she was, six-inch heels and all 6:21 - Half her park and the partners who scaled her vision 8:16 - A 3 a.m. rhythm, 332 million books, and building to the end Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast You Don't Have a Motivation Problem. You Haven't Decided Yet. October 22, 2026 | Episode 5574 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description You keep saying you need more motivation. You don't. You have a decision problem. Most of what we call deciding is wishing. "I want to grow my business" is a wish. A real decision has an edge to it. It cuts off other options, and that's exactly why we avoid it. Staying vague feels safe. Today I'm giving you a simple test to tell the difference, plus why wishing looks so much like work. I'll even tease where Dolly Parton fits in. Listen in, then pick your there before you go looking for another way to get there. Featured Story This show is 20 years old. We were one of the first podcasts ever, before Apple even had a podcast directory. Apple sent me a note asking if I wanted to be in their new podcast thing. I said yes. That's how long ago this was. Now, at 20 years, I've made a decision. Things are going to change at the end of the year. I won't tell you what yet, because y'all hold me to things. What I will tell you is I've decided not to keep doing it the way I've been doing it. That decision cut off other options. And once it did, a hundred smaller choices disappeared. Important Points "I want to grow my business" is a wish. "I'm going to grow my business" is a decision. Learn to hear the difference. If you've truly decided, you can name your next step and when you'll take it. If you can't, you haven't decided yet. Wishing looks like work. Planning, podcasts, and research feel productive while they let you skip out on commitment. Memorable Quotes A decision has an edge to it. It cuts away other options. If nothing got cut, you didn't decide. You only wished. Dreaming don't pay the bills and dreaming don't get stuff done. Sometimes you have to decide to make it happen. Once you have made a decision, a hundred smaller choices kind of disappear, so you don't need willpower anymore. Scott's Three-Step Approach Write down the thing you keep saying you want, then rewrite it from "I want to" into "I'm going to" and mean it. Cross off at least one option that decision cuts away, because if nothing got cut, you only made another wish. Name the very next step and the day you'll take it, then put it on your calendar before you finish this episode. Chapters 0:15 - You don't have a motivation problem; you have a decision one 1:45 - Twenty years, one of the first podcasts, and a big change 3:00 - My simple goal is to wake up and have an awesome day 4:39 - Dreaming don't pay the bills, so decide to make it happen 5:32 - Decide means to cut off, and that's why we avoid it 7:45 - Wishing looks like work, plus a test for a real decision 8:41 - Dolly decided to own her songs long before Elvis called Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daily Boost Podcast Disciplined People Don't Try Harder. They Set It Up Better. October 21, 2026 | Episode 5573 Host: Scott Smith Go beyond the boost! Join my Skool group at https://faceyourpassion.com Episode Description Everybody wants the exact steps. The perfect app, the morning routine, the cold plunge. I've watched productivity hacks come and go for 20 years, and most of them don't move the needle. The people who look disciplined aren't straining harder than you. They've arranged their days so they face fewer fights. That's it. Today I'm walking through what the science says about willpower, habits, procrastination, and that phone sitting next to you. Then I'll give you the four things productivity really comes down to. Stop hunting for the hack and build a setup that carries you. Featured Story Twenty years ago, I came into this world right in the Four Hour Work Week era, an original laptop lifestyle guy. But I never sat down and decided to build a freedom lifestyle. My wife had passed away. When you go through a disruption that big, you get quantum change. My change was this. I just didn't want to go back to doing it the other way. So I said, okay, let's do it this way, and I went after it. What I've learned since is that freedom without structure falls apart fast. The freedom I wanted only worked once I built a setup to carry it. Important Points Willpower isn't a tank that runs dry. Disciplined people arrange their days so they face fewer temptations to fight. Missing one day won't break a habit. Missing a week will. Get a little done every single day, and you'll keep rolling. Procrastination is an emotion problem, not a time problem. Fix how the task makes you feel, and the calendar follows. Memorable Quotes People with strong self-control don't resist harder. They just arrange their days to have fewer fights. That's it. Willpower is your friend who shows up to make you do things you don't want to do. As soon as it stops you, it leaves. You're not putting it off because you're lazy or disorganized. You're avoiding how the task makes you feel inside. Scott's Three-Step Approach Get clear on why the work matters to you, because valuing the work beats chasing your passion every single time. Build structure around that work by deciding in advance: at 8 a.m. I open this file, and I do this task, no debate. Protect that time by putting your phone in another room, so willpower never has to show up and fight on your behalf. Chapters 0:15 - Why disciplined people don't work any harder than you 2:00 - How losing my wife made me a laptop lifestyle guy 3:00 - The cold plunge and other hacks that only feel good 4:15 - Willpower is overrated, and setup beats strain 5:16 - Habits don't take 21 days, and one missed day is fine 7:59 - Your phone is costing you even when you don't touch it 9:45 - Four things productivity really comes down to Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join my Face Your Passion Skool group: https://faceyourpassion.com Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices