Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Ever feel stuck not knowing what you want next year? I'm sharing the brain science behind getting unstuck and excited about 2026. It starts with exploring possibilities without commitment. No announcements, no pressure. Just curiosity. Once you find something interesting, your anticipation engine kicks in. That's when everything changes. I'll show you how to use your brain's natural wiring to create a year you're genuinely pumped about. Featured Story Two days before Christmas, I asked my wife for a toaster. She said we're not doing gifts this year. But I know better. When she says no gifts, she doesn't mean no gifts. Our kitchen has 90 cabinets and 92 linear feet of counter space. Every appliance you can imagine. But that massive toaster oven? Doesn't make great toast. Sometimes the smallest things matter most. Like a simple toaster. Or knowing what you really want without overcomplicating it. Important Points Exploring possibilities is the gateway to inspiration. Get interested in things without commitment and see where curiosity takes you. Your anticipation engine is your most powerful motivational tool. Put at least one big thing per month on your calendar and watch your energy shift. Humans are uniquely built for prospection. You can create experiences that don't exist yet and make them real. Memorable Quotes "Scott said it was okay." "If you don't feel like you have hope, I can nine times out of 10, no 10 times out of 10." "The pure excitement of the fact that you're going to go after it is really what the payoff is." Scott's Three-Step Approach 1. Explore without commitment. Drive home a different way. Stop at that random store. Just look around and see what gets your attention. 2. Build your anticipation list. Put at least one exciting thing per month on the calendar and spend the year getting pumped about it. 3. Create using prospection. Make up experiences you've never done before and make them happen. Chapter Notes 00:00 - The Christmas toaster request that says everything 03:15 - Why I reinvent myself every holiday season 05:30 - The explore-interest-passion connection that changes everything 08:45- Your anticipation engine and why it's so powerful 12:20 - Prospection: the uniquely human superpower you're not using 15:10 - Building your 2026 list of things to anticipate Connect With Me - Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. - Email: [email protected] - Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com - YouTube: (https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast - Instagram: @heyscottsmith - https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've set goals before and watched them fall apart six months later. Maybe you thought you had a solid foundation. Maybe you didn't. I'm pulling from 25 years of coaching experience and thousands of hours working with people just like you. What I've learned is this: you need a peaceful base before you chase any goal. Six domains of life that have to be balanced first, or everything crumbles. Think of it like an audio console. Get the levels wrong at the start, and everything downstream is a mess. Get them right, and you can reach for anything. Featured Story My daughter invited me to help with the audio at her church. I produce, I direct, I've got the background. So I stepped in. When you're the audio guy behind that big console, two things are true. You get all the blame. And if you lose control of the balance, you're in serious trouble. Every service starts the same way. You've got 8, 10, 12 people on stage. The very first thing I do is set the foundation - the input levels for every mic, every instrument. Get that wrong, and everything downstream falls apart. Feedback, hot mess, scary stuff. I started thinking about how this applies to life. What if we got the levels right from the beginning? What if we balanced everything before chasing the big goals? That's when the peaceful base concept clicked. Important Points Most people fail at goals because their foundation has cracks they don't even know about. Six domains need balance: time, body, mind, money, relationships, and spirit - in that order. Get these levels right first, and you can chase the biggest goals without upsetting your peaceful base. Memorable Quotes "Time is yours. It's limited in what you have. There's only so much time in the day, and everything you do will take time." "Financial security provides true choice. It's mobility in life." "Connections that are nurtured, not sacrificed." Scott's Three-Step Approach Take inventory of the six domains and identify where you're out of balance right now. Fix the small challenges first before setting any big goals for next year. Maintain that peaceful base as you grow so you don't mess up what you've got. Chapter Notes 0:35 - Why goals fail and foundations crack 1:26 - The peaceful base concept revealed 2:51 - Church audio story and the balance metaphor 4:28 - Setting levels and maintaining control 6:29 - The six domains that create balance 9:27 - Unity and keeping what you've built Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My mom broke her hip at almost 94. You know what she said from the hospital bed? "I guess I needed a new adventure. I just wish I had finished cleaning my house." Then she asked if the cute physical therapist gives baths. Today I'm sharing what my mom's chili dog obsession taught me about what really drives us. Plus, the one question I asked my coaching group that left everyone speechless. It's about mastery, facing your passion, and paying attention to what naturally pulls you forward. Featured Story My sister texted me: "It's about mom, call me." My heart dropped. When your mom's almost 94, those texts hit different. Turns out she'd fallen taking her cat to the vet—something she wasn't supposed to do alone. Broke her hip. Needed it replaced. But my mom? She saw it as an adventure. Said she liked hospital food and was glad someone else did the dishes. Put in a request for the cute physical therapist to come to her house. Then she told me what really threw off her plans—she was on her way to Hardee's for a chili dog when she fell. First thing she wanted when released? That chili dog. My sister picked her up from the hospital and stopped at Hardee's before taking her home. The girl had her priorities. Important Points Mastery comes from clinical hours—I've logged 1,232 hours of individual coaching in 22 months, 220 hours of group calls. The question that stumped my group: What's the one thing you'd do next year that would change everything about who you are? What naturally drives you is probably giving you the most joy—pay attention to your version of the chili dog. Memorable Quotes "I guess I needed a new adventure. I just wish I had finished cleaning my house." "Pay attention to what you're naturally driving yourself to do. It's probably what's giving you the most joy." "If you want to live long and prosper, eat more chili dogs, or your version of it." Scott's Three-Step Approach Track your clinical hours in whatever you want to master—stop waiting and just start doing it. Ask yourself what would change everything if you faced it—not fancy stuff, just the thing lingering inside you've been avoiding. Notice what you naturally drive yourself toward—that's probably where your real joy lives, not where you think it should be. Chapter Notes 0:50 - Mastery through 1,232 hours of coaching calls 2:07 - The question that stumped everyone on the call 3:08 - What would change your character completely? 4:39 - Mom's almost 94 and doesn't care who knows it 6:27 - Hospital adventures and cute physical therapists 7:41 - The chili dog that changed everything 8:41 - What your natural drives reveal about joy Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https//youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The holidays slow everything down, don't they? But next year's coming fast. I'm sharing the simple rule I use every single day with my clients. It's the one that cuts through the chaos and gets you focused on what actually moves your life forward. You've got goals and dreams. The world's going to try sucking the motivation right out of you. Time to figure out what works for you, what doesn't, and just do that. Simple as that. Featured Story My daughter called me out last night. Said my voice sounded raspy from too many holiday parties. Then she offered to teach me to sing. Me. The guy who won't even touch karaoke. Next thing I know, she's buying me a vocal training program and planning to come over. I've always had this weird goal to learn, but I've never been willing. Now I'm probably doing it because sometimes the craziest goals are the ones worth going after. This whole thing sparked a question on my coaching call today that blew everyone's mind. Nobody had an answer. That question tomorrow might do the same for you. Important Points Motivation feels like injecting dopamine, but it doesn't last when chaos rules your life. Transformation only comes after stability—your nervous system can't handle change when you're scattered. Your regrets reveal your real values—track what you wish you hadn't done to find what matters most. Memorable Quotes "You can't have transformation without stability." "This works, that doesn't, do this." "What you really want to do in your life usually shows up in your regrets, in the things you wish you hadn't done." Scott's Three-Step Approach Notice what actually works for you and take responsibility for doing more of it. Write down your biggest distractions and build discipline to eliminate them completely. Use your regrets as a map—inverse them to discover your real values and priorities. Chapter Notes 0:28 - Holiday motivation and the year ahead 1:09 - Raspy voice reveals holiday parties and singing dreams 2:30 - Fisher Passion Inner Circle coaching insights 3:59 - Figure-it-out-itis and the motivation trap 6:18 - The "This works, that doesn't" system explained 7:20 - Phone discipline and deep work transformation 8:44 - How regrets reveal what you really want Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you hanging on so tight to what you have that you can't grab what's waiting for you? I've watched this play out with dozens of clients. They work hard, build something solid, then white-knuckle it into the ground. The irony? That death grip creates the exact scarcity they're trying to avoid. Twenty years into this podcast, I've learned something counterintuitive. The path to more often requires letting go of what you've got. Not destroying it. Not abandoning years of work. Just completing it and moving forward. Featured Story I started the Daily Boost five days a week on January 1st, 2006. People ask if that was some master plan. Big goal. Fresh start. New year energy. Nope. My first wife died on December 6th after a terminal cancer diagnosis. I took a couple weeks to grieve, lifted my head up, and thought, "Well, what am I going to do now?" May as well go back to the podcast thing. May as well start January 1st. That's it. That's the origin story. Sometimes the biggest moves forward come right after the hardest moments of letting go. Important Points Holding onto what you have often keeps you from getting more. Your fear of ending up with less becomes the very thing holding you back from the abundance you want. Most people describe scarcity as not having enough of what they want. But I'd challenge you to consider whether your death grip on what you already have is the real scarcity problem. Time is your friend in this kind of transformation. People expect instant results, but real change takes time to marinate. Every day you move a little closer, but only when you let go of the scarcity mindset. Memorable Quotes "I'm like a pitbull with a ribeye. I hold on. The favorite iteration, but it gets in the way of bigger change." "What if the only requirement for getting what you want is to let go of what you have now? What if your path to success opens up the minute you release?" "You don't lose all the work you've done. You don't lose the knowledge. You don't lose the IP. It's just not active in your life anymore." Scott's Three-Step Approach Ask yourself honestly: Am I hanging on so tight I can't get what's really out there waiting for me? Identify what you're white-knuckling that might be holding you back from bigger change. Complete something instead of iterating it forever. You don't have to destroy years of work. Just seal it, put it over there, and let it become something else while you move forward. Give yourself time to marinate. This isn't an instantaneous transformation. Move a little closer each day toward the abundance you want, but understand that real change takes longer than you think. Chapter Notes [00:00] - Twenty years of the Daily Boost and the unexpected origin story [03:45] - What abundance and scarcity really mean beyond the surface [06:20] - The pitbull problem: when holding on becomes the issue [09:15] - The coaching question that makes everyone start taking notes [12:40] - Why letting go is the path to getting more [15:30] - Time is your friend (even when you hate this answer) Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices