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Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

By: Scott Smith - Motivation and Coaching
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 Start your day with practical philosophy that actually works. In under 10 minutes, Scott Smith cuts through the noise with straight talk about navigating life's messy middle—where personal and professional challenges collide. No hype. No fluff. Just 20 years of hard-won wisdom, Stoic principles, and real stories from someone who's been there. Monday through Friday, learn to think clearly, act wisely, and build a life that's actually yours.Copyright 2025 • Motivation To Move, LLC • All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Economics Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success
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  • Creating Your Wonderful Life

    Creating Your Wonderful Life
    Nov 14 2025
    We're playing off that Jimmy Stewart movie today because you can actually create a wonderful life. And right now—when everyone else is busy looking that way—you can go the other way and make it happen. I'm sharing three stupidly simple ways of thinking that should empower you to make any change you want. No more drifting in the winds of life. It's time to start driving through it instead. Fair warning: it's so simple that the complicated nuance gets in the way. But that's what makes us human. Featured Story I have a friend who writes a book every single year. Done just before Christmas. He keeps telling me, "Scott, you should try it." He's right. I should. I'm on my seventh book and haven't finished any of them. Trust me, I get it. But people actually do this. Friends have written entire books over Thanksgiving weekend. Four days. Book done on Monday. Boom. You know why this works? Because right now through mid-January, everyone's busy. Your boss is busy. Your friends are busy. They're all looking that way while you can go the other way. You can write your book. Start a new business. Clean out your garage if you want to keep it that simple. This is the perfect time to do anything you want when nobody's paying attention to you. Important Points • Everything begins when you become aware of what you want and accept that it's up to you to go get it—in my coaching program, I make people answer nine questions daily for 21 days, and they fight me on it until they see how awareness creates change. • If you believe your dream can be real, all you have to do is start living it right now—want to be a writer, sit down and write, you are one just like that, want to be in shape, go to the gym and be in shape, the click is a millisecond in time. • You are the boss of you, which means you can decide to go on a diet on Monday and not do it because the boss said you didn't have to—nobody else has to give you permission to start or stop anything. Memorable Quotes "Most people are drifting in the winds of life. True happiness arrives when you start driving through life instead of drifting in those winds." "If you believe your dream can be real, as soon as you start living it, it will be. The trick is the click. The click is a millisecond in time and you get it and you make things happen." "You're the boss of you. You can decide to go on a diet on Monday and you don't have to do it. You know why? Because the boss said you didn't have to." Scott's Three-Step Approach • Become aware of what you want and accept personal responsibility to go get it—answer the same questions about your life daily until you become so aware that changes naturally start happening and you can't help but take action. • Believe your dream can be real and start living it immediately without talking about it on ChatGPT or anywhere else—if you want to be a runner, go out the door and run, you are one just like that, could it be that easy, yeah it could. • Recognize you're the boss of you and stop planning, start doing—forget wishing and hoping and dreaming, just start with little bits of happiness and work toward your dream every single day because you decided to. Chapter Notes 0:15 - Why this is the perfect season to create change 5:26 - The awareness that changes everything explained 6:08 - When believing your dream makes it instantly real 8:10 - The ChatGPT trap and why talking kills dreams 9:15 - You're the boss of you: permission not required 10:15 - Drifting versus driving through life Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: motivationtomove.com YouTube: youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: Join the Daily Boost Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    12 mins
  • Emerging Into Who You Are

    Emerging Into Who You Are
    Nov 13 2025
    After 20 years in this chair, I'm seeing something that challenges everything the personal growth world teaches about becoming your future self. What if you're not trying to become someone new? What if the person you're searching for is already inside you, waiting for the right conditions to emerge? I'm sharing a brand new model that came together on a Wednesday morning call. It's not about motivation or forcing change. It's about creating the conditions where that feeling you've been chasing—that thing you just can't quite touch—naturally appears. Featured Story I was sitting on my 7 a.m. Face Your Passion Inner Circle call Wednesday morning, wearing my alpaca hoodie because it's been so damn cold everywhere. Years ago, you'd never have convinced me I'd get out of bed for a 7 a.m. call. But when you hang out with people willing to show up and go all in that early, your life changes. During the call, I shared this emerging model I've been developing. And I watched it happen multiple times—that moment when someone's body language shifts, their breathing changes, and you see them go "Oh." That's where life is lived. Those small moments of emergence. It got me thinking about retirement too. People keep asking if I'm done after 20 years. Now when they ask what I do, I just say I'm retired. They go "Oh, that's good," and we move on. I emerged into being able to say that. Interesting how that works. Important Points • You'll change when you wear yourself out, and that's not negative—it's the natural process of pieces coming together until you finally go, "Oh, I should do this instead of that." • Everybody knows exactly what they want and how they want to feel, but they can't quite describe it—it's that thing you just can't touch, that moment when everything feels good and you think, "Damn, this is good." • Who you want to be isn't your past, present, or future self—it's an emergent property that appears when conditions are right, like consciousness emerging from neural activity or life emerging from chemistry. Memorable Quotes "You will change when you wear yourself out. You want motivation? If life is not going the way you want it to go, it's okay. You'll get tired one day, you'll change." "I believe that everybody knows exactly what they want, how they want to feel, but they can't quite describe it. It's that thing you just can't touch." "The Person who you actually are emerges. That mythical me, that person inside of you where we're like, if I could only get this feeling all the time, is it possible? Yes, it is." Scott's Three-Step Approach • Accumulate wisdom through pattern recognition across all domains of your life—it's not just reading more books or living longer, it's the integration of learning with actual living and understanding principles through experience. • Practice consistency over intensity by showing up regardless of motivation and building a bridge between your accumulated wisdom and future intentions through sequential daily action in actual conditions. • Navigate the messy middle instead of trying to escape it—get tools and techniques to manage the collision zone where life, home, and inner self converge, because that's where the magic happens and where you'll emerge. Chapter Notes 0:15 - The warm studio and why 7 a.m. calls changed everything 3:27 - Challenging the future self model after 20 years 5:05 - The four-step emergence model revealed 6:24 - Building the bridge between wisdom and intention 7:49 - Why the messy middle is where magic happens 9:11 - Caring without caring: detached engagement explained 10:44 - The retirement emergence story Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: motivationtomove.com YouTube: youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: Join the Daily Boost Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    12 mins
  • Is the Universe Whispering to You?

    Is the Universe Whispering to You?
    Nov 12 2025
    That voice in your head keeps nudging you in a direction. You hear the same message from different sources. Random conversations suddenly feel connected. Is something trying to get your attention? I'm a practical guy who doesn't chase unicorns, but I can't ignore what happens when life starts dropping hints. As we head into winter and the holidays, messages have a way of getting louder. Most people already know what direction they should be going. They're just not willing to lean into it. This episode breaks down how to recognize when something's genuinely calling for your attention and what to do about it before you drive yourself crazy sitting on the fence. Featured Story It's 36 degrees in my Daytona Beach studio with a wind chill at 31. I'm wrapped in my alpaca hoodie thinking about how this time of year shifts us into reflection mode. I've coached thousands of people over the years, and something wild keeps happening. I'll share an insight with someone, and they'll look at me like I'm reading their mind. "Are you inside my head?" they ask. Kind of. Because we're all just humans navigating the same patterns. For me, the universe whispers all day long. I believe God created it, so those whispers feel like guidance. You can have whatever belief you want. But after years of coaching and living, I've noticed messages come in triplicate. Three times is when I start paying real attention. Hard-headed and distracted as I am, even I can't ignore the pattern by the third time. Important Points When seemingly random situations and people deliver the same message within a short time frame, your path is being altered whether you recognize it or not. You already know what direction you should be going, and if you're heading the wrong way, you know that too—you're just not willing to lean into what's obvious. When something gets your attention, you've got three choices: say yes and go for it, say no and move on, or sit on the fence getting splinters forever. Memorable Quotes "Most people already know kind of what direction they should be going. And usually if they're going the wrong direction, they kind of already know that. They're just not willing to lean into it." "If it starts getting your attention, it's real. Anything that gets your attention, it's going to take you down the road." "Eventually you will change when you wear yourself out. When you get tired of rejecting what is obvious that you have to do, you're going to do it anyway." Scott's Three-Step Approach Notice the pattern. Pay attention when the same message appears through different people, situations, or sources within days or a week—that's your signal something matters. Ask what you're supposed to learn. When patterns emerge, stop resisting and get curious about the lesson or direction being presented to you. Choose and act. Make the call—yes, no, or fence-sitting—but know that fence-sitting just delays the inevitable while causing unnecessary pain. Chapter Notes 0:15 - Cold morning spirituality: Winter reflection begins 2:03 - Practical vs theoretical: Why I skip the unicorns 2:58 - Messages and guidance: Life's crazy sum total 4:01 - The triplicate rule: When to actually pay attention 7:45 - Three choices framework: Stop driving yourself crazy 9:22 - Eventually you'll change: Wearing yourself out 9:40 - Watch for your messages: The next two months matter Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: motivationtomove.com YouTube: youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: Join the Daily Boost Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    12 mins
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