Daily Boost With Scott Smith

• Bridge Method: Build Your Dream Life Without Burning Everything Down

  Bridge Method: Build Your Dream Life Without Burning Everything Down October 31, 2025 | Episode 5215 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Ever feel stuck where you are but terrified to make a move because you might lose everything? You're not alone. Scott's seen it happen too many times. People so desperate to build their dream life that they torch their current one. Credit cards maxed out. Relationships destroyed. All because they didn't have a plan. The Bridge Method changes that. It's about getting from here to there without burning down your house in the process. Scott breaks down the three foundations you need before you make any big move. And yeah, the first one isn't sexy at all. But it's the only way this works. What happened when he stood at the Hoover Dam in 2008 changed how he coaches forever. Featured Story You ever been so ready to change something that you'd do anything to make it happen? Scott's had clients lie straight to his face about it. They want the coaching. They want the change. So they say everything's fine financially. Then six months later? Thirty grand in credit card debt. All to pay for something that was supposed to make their life better. That's when it hit him. Standing at the Hoover Dam years ago, watching them build a bridge across that massive gap. Two solid foundations on either side. And a carefully constructed span connecting them. Your life works the same way. You can't just leap across the canyon and hope you make it. You need foundations. You need a plan. You need to build the bridge first. Important Points Why building a "peaceful base" where you are right now is the unsexy first step that prevents you from crashing everything later. The nursing career story that shows how to map your future foundation before you quit your current job or go into debt for change. Why most people spend all their time dreaming about the future or stressing about today but never build the actual bridge between them. Memorable Quotes "I have seen a lot of folks so anxious to go someplace else and do something else that they crash everything today to get there." "We need to build a foundation for where you are today. Your foundation is a peaceful base." "You're going to do this anyway. You're from here and you're going to go there. In between, you got to figure out how to get there. Scott's Three-Step Approach 1. Fortify your current foundation first—take away the stress, make sure you can pay your bills, get your goals aligned, and create a peaceful base before you try to go anywhere. 2. Define your future foundation clearly—know exactly what it's going to take to get there (certifications, training, costs, timeline) so you're building toward something specific. 3. Build the bridge span with a realistic plan—map out how you'll pay for it, how long it will take, and the hundred little things you need to figure out without messing up your peaceful base. Chapters 00:00 Why Scott's Wife Gets More Instagram Likes Than He Does 01:29 The Bridge Method Origin Story at Hoover Dam 04:32 Step One: Build Your Peaceful Base First 05:27 Step Two: Design Your Future Foundation 09:13 Step Three: Cross the Bridge Without Falling Off Connect With Me Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast 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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• Take Control of Your Calendar This Week (Before It Controls You)

  Take Control of Your Calendar This Week (Before It Controls You) October 30, 2025 | Episode 5214 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Your calendar running your life instead of you running it? Look. I've seen those AI calendar apps you're using. Five-minute blocks. Color-coded chaos. That's manager thinking, not founder thinking. Here's what nobody gets: High performers don't manage their day five minutes at a time. They hold space. They protect time. They say no without apologizing. This week I'm breaking down exactly how I went from calendar chaos to actually controlling when I work. Thursday planning. Standing appointments. Deep work days that people can't touch. And yeah, my biggest problem now? Other people who learned this system trying to move MY calendar around. Time is all you got. Somebody's trying to take it from you right now. Featured Story Ever look at your week and realize you don't even know what's happening today? That was me. Getting pulled around by everyone else's agenda. No time to think. No time to create. Just reacting. So I started doing something simple on Thursdays. I'd sit down mid-to-late day and plan the next week. Not hoping it would work out. Actually blocking it in place. Monday and Tuesday became deep work days. Wednesday and Thursday morning for coaching. Friday? Motorcycle day or whatever I want. Here's the weird part: When I started holding that space and saying no, people just... went along with it. Took a few weeks. But it worked. Now my biggest challenge? The people I taught this to trying to reschedule me. "Scott, I'm doing my Perfect Week Planner, need to move you." Nope. Not moving. Your time is all you got, man. Important Points Why managing your day in five-minute blocks is killing your ability to do creative work and make real money (and what founders do instead). The Thursday planning ritual that locks in your next week before the Sunday scaries hit and everyone starts grabbing your time. How holding space for deep work days forces people to work around you instead of you constantly moving around them—even if you don't think you have that control yet. Memorable Quotes "Time is all you got, man. That's all you got. And somebody on this planet, every single day for the rest of your life is going to try to take your damn time from you." "If you want more money, you got to get this under control. I'm sorry." "Why do I do it on Thursday? Common sense. I just noticed that a lot of y'all were trying to figure it on Friday. You're all stressed out." "This is a kind of meandering episode today, which is kind of what I do best. My whole thing is to meander all over the place." Scott's Three-Step Approach 1. Plan your next week every Thursday (mid-to-late day works best)—lock in your schedule before Friday stress hits and before the Sunday scaries make you reactive instead of intentional about your time. 2. Block your deep work days first—protect Monday/Tuesday for creative work, hold specific days for focused tasks, and make standing appointments for everything else so people move around you instead of you constantly rearranging your life. 3. Start saying no and holding your ground—people will test you at first, but within 2-3 weeks they'll just go along with your schedule because time is all you got and you need to protect it like your life depends on it. Chapters 00:00 Your Calendar Is Out of Control (And You Know It) 03:39 The Perfect Week Planner That Changed Everything 05:40 How Standing Appointments Make Your Life Easier 07:01 Why Saying No Gets Easier Every Single Time 09:07 The Thursday Planning Ritual That Actually Works Connect With Me Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Get the Perfect Week Planner: perfectweekplanner.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• The Hidden Cost of Being Fake and How to Stop

  The Hidden Cost of Being Fake and How to Stop October 29, 2025 | Episode 5213 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Ever feel like you're not being yourself? Like you're putting on a show for everyone around you? Scott gets it. He gets in trouble for being himself all the time. But here's the thing—being fake costs you way more than being real ever will. In this episode, Scott breaks down the hidden price you pay when you're not authentic. He introduces motivational awareness—understanding what actually fires you up instead of forcing yourself to do things that drain you. You'll discover why everything in your life comes down to just two things: people and money. And Scott shares his daily awareness filter that helps you catch yourself before you veer off course. Stop pretending. Start paying attention. Here's how. Featured Story You know when you say you're going to do something and then... you don't? Scott does this all the time. He'll get an idea, tell everyone about it, then just sits on his butt. Doesn't start. Doesn't move forward. For years, he thought something was wrong with him. Then he figured it out. He won't start anything unless he's actually motivated to do it. If he's not moving toward what he said he wanted, that tells him something. Either he doesn't really want to do it, or something about the process feels wrong. Now it's a rule. If the idea doesn't fire him up enough to get him moving, he scratches it. Simple as that. The problem? He sometimes opens his mouth and tells people first. Then they ask, "Why didn't you do it?" Because I didn't want to. Motivational awareness. Important Points Why forcing yourself to do things you're not motivated to do keeps you stuck in a cycle of starting and stopping. The reality that everything in your life—good and bad—comes from just two sources: people and money. Including you. How building a daily awareness filter catches those moments when you're being fake before they derail your entire week. Why saying yes to things you're not fired up about is the fastest way to lose touch with who you actually are. Memorable Quotes "I get in so much trouble for being myself. I really freaking do." "If I can't get myself moving, it's just not firing me up." "Everything, good, everything bad, everything comes from people and money." "Nobody else is responsible for your health. You are." Scott's Three-Step Approach 1. Build motivational awareness by noticing what drives you. Pay attention to what fires you up naturally. If you're not moving toward something you said you wanted, that's data. You either don't really want it or something about the process is wrong. Stop forcing it. 2. Accept that people and money control everything in your life. Every opportunity, every obstacle, every win, every loss—it all comes from people (including you) and money (including yours). When you're stuck or unhappy, look at these two things first. 3. Activate your daily awareness filter to catch yourself being fake. Ask yourself the same questions every day. Track what you're actually doing versus what you said you'd do. Notice the gaps. That's where the truth lives about who you really are. Chapters 00:15 The Hidden Cost of Being Fake 03:45 What Motivational Awareness Actually Means 06:27 Why Everything Comes Down to People and Money 08:53 The Daily Awareness Filter That Changes Everything 10:50 What's Next and Tomorrow's Show Connect With Me Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast 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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• One Project Rule: Why You Never Have Enough Time

  One Project Rule: Why You Never Have Enough Time October 28, 2025 | Episode 5212 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Ever wonder why you've got ten things going and none of them are getting done? Yeah, me too. This week I'm sitting here with about 10 browser tabs open working on the YouTube channel. My wife walks in and goes, "Are you making it simple?" I just 10x'd my work, man. But here's the thing about the one project rule. Your brain can only focus on one thing at a time. Not four. Not seven. One. And when you're bouncing between multiple projects, you're delaying the completion of ALL of them. What if you could finish one thing today and actually have more time tomorrow? What if getting more done meant doing less at once? That's what I figured out this week. And it changed everything. Featured Story You know when you look at everything on your plate and think, "How am I ever going to get this done?" That was me. Ten browser tabs. New YouTube channel. Big workflow changes. A ton of moving parts. My Australian shepherd is literally trying to break into the room because he can open doors now. Life's happening. And I'm sitting there thinking I need to make this simpler. But I just made it ten times more complicated. Then it hit me. I'm still working on one thing. Just one. The YouTube channel. All those tabs? They're part of one project. And while it seems like it's never going to get done, there's actually peace in that focus. Because I'm not also trying to finish nine other things at the same time. And that's when the whole thing clicked for me about why we never have enough time. Important Points When you work on multiple projects at once, you're delaying completion of every single one because your brain keeps bouncing back and forth. If you have 10 items that could make you money and you're working on all of them, none of them are making money yet—finish one and tomorrow it starts working while you tackle the rest. Your brain fundamentally can only focus on one thing at a time, and that's not a weakness—it's how you get actual results when you stop fighting it. Memorable Quotes "When you work on multiple projects at a time, you are delaying the completion to all the projects because your brain is bouncing back and forth." "If you could create more time in your day and you didn't have to give anything up, wouldn't that be a cool thing to do?" "I operate on the one project rule so that I can get more time. But one thing I've learned is a phrase I coined a long time ago called holding space." Scott's Three-Step Approach 1. Pick one project that needs to get done and commit to finishing it today—not making progress on ten things, finishing one thing completely so tomorrow you're free to move on. 2. Recognize the difference between absolute focus tasks and long-term memory habits—you can't multitask focused work, but you can run through your daily repeating patterns without thinking about them. 3. Hold the space once you clear it—fight to keep that free time open for yourself instead of immediately filling it with more stuff, so you actually create breathing room in your life. Chapters 00:00 Why You Never Have Enough Time 00:50 The One Project Rule Explained 02:39 How Multitasking Kills Your Progress 03:22 What Your Brain Can Actually Handle 05:58 Why Multiple Projects Delay Everything 07:37 Getting More Done By Doing Less 08:14 Holding Space For Yourself Connect With Me Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast 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 Trailer

  The Daily Boost is where WANT meets WAY—every day. I'm Scott Smith, and for 20 years, I've helped people like you turn what you want into what you do, even when life gets messy. Every Monday through Friday (under 10 minutes), you get actionable frameworks, real stories from two decades of navigating life's complications, and Stoic philosophy that actually works in the real world. This isn't another podcast telling you to dream bigger or hustle harder. It's practical coaching for people who know what they want but need the how—the daily direction that turns wanting into momentum, obstacles into strategies, and confusion into clarity. Whether you're rebuilding after a setback, leveling up your career, or just trying to keep what matters while reaching for what's next—this is your starting line. Short. Real. Daily. Get your Daily Boost on ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Apple Podcast⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠ every weekday. When you're ready to go beyond the boost and build your personalized roadmap, visit ⁠⁠MotivationToMove.com⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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