Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching
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.
Episodes
December 9, 2025 • 10 mins
The Law of Attraction isn't some mystical secret.
It's actually dead simple: know what you want, believe you can get it, and get your ass to work. Three steps. That's it.
So why does it fail for most people? Because they're focusing on the wrong thing. They're thinking about what they don't want instead of what they do want. They're maintaining vision boards without taking action. They're journaling about dreams without making th...
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December 8, 2025 • 10 mins
Ever ask someone to hold you accountable, only to get annoyed when they actually do it?
Yeah, I've seen that pattern destroy more goals than I can count. And that whole "announce your goals publicly" advice? That might be setting you up for failure. Because accountability isn't about crowdsourcing support from people who barely know you.
It's about something way more powerful.
I share why the best accountability partner you'll e...
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December 5, 2025 • 11 mins
You're getting distracted and you don't even know it. Your attention gets grabbed, you become interested, and suddenly you're doing things that weren't on your plan.
I'm going to walk you through two advertising principles that explain exactly how this happens. One shows how your mind naturally works. The other shows where you are right now.
Understanding these will change how you move through your day. You'll see why you drift o...
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December 4, 2025 • 11 mins
It's the end of the year and you're thinking about what's next. But here's what most people get wrong about goals.
I'm not talking about those 10-year vision things or tiny incremental goals. I'm talking about something so big it changes how you live right now.
A goal that's actually worth your time has to grab your attention and redirect your entire day. And you don't build to it over months or years. You start living it today.
...
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December 3, 2025 • 11 mins
Ever meet someone who wants to be great at something but has no idea where to start?
That was me in a sauna on Thanksgiving morning, talking to a young guy who wanted to be a motivational speaker. He had the passion but zero clue about the path forward. Sound familiar?
I shared a classic Zig Ziglar lesson about the stages of competence that changed my life years ago. Turns out, knowing what stage you're in makes all the differenc...
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December 2, 2025 • 10 mins
You think 2025 flew by?
I get it. My whole family said the same thing at Thanksgiving. Everyone was busy, busy, busy all year. But when I asked what they actually accomplished, it was maybe one or two big things.
That's the hustle trap.
I spent this past year doing the opposite. I dropped almost everything that wasn't serving me. I focused on deep work in my passion zones. And you know what happened? The year felt like five year...
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December 1, 2025 • 11 mins
I just hosted Thanksgiving for 15 people. Youngest was my grandson Evan at four months old. Oldest? That was me, cutting the turkey and saying the prayer.
How did I get here?
Same way you'll get where you want to go. By deciding what you want, paying the price, and taking massive imperfect action. As we head into year-end planning, I'm sharing the wisdom that separates dreamers from achievers. Less tactics, more framing for how t...
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November 28, 2025 • 9 mins
My wife Joy is a creature of habit.
She has a rule. After Thanksgiving, nobody goes to a restaurant for breakfast, lunch, or dinner until every single piece of Thanksgiving food is gone. Magically, it always lasts right through Sunday evening.
One year we went to someone else's house for Thanksgiving.
Joy brought leftovers home. The next day she went to the store, came back, and started cooking. I'm thinking you've been cooking ...
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November 27, 2025 • 10 mins
Happy Thanksgiving.
My entire family comes over today. Four kids between us, six grandkids including a four-month-old. Some in-laws too. This is the place to come now and I'm so grateful for it. I also understand it won't go on forever.
Guys miss the whole grateful thing sometimes.
I wrote A Gratitude Journal for Men a few years ago because I kept seeing men treat gratitude like another task. Like something they have to go do. J...
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November 26, 2025 • 11 mins
You have an ideology whether you know it or not.
Not political. We're not going there. I'm talking about your personal rulebook. The boundaries you set. The values you stand for. Who you actually are when nobody's watching.
If you haven't decided who you are, the world will decide for you.
They'll tell you who you're going to be and that's how you'll get treated. I created something years ago called a Who I Am document. It's my ...
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November 25, 2025 • 10 mins
You're sitting around waiting for your shot.
Someone else is losing sleep because they can't find you. They have a problem only you can solve. A gap only you can fill. But they don't know you exist yet.
My mother-in-law taught me this years ago and it changed everything about how I approach opportunity.
She didn't let me sit around hoping things would work out. She kicked my butt and told me the truth. Somebody needs what you ha...
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November 24, 2025 • 10 mins
Your morning routine is broken.
Not because you're doing it wrong. But because you're doing what someone else told you works for them. I tried all the guru stuff. The ice baths, the 5 a.m. productivity sprints, the meditation marathons. Some of it worked. Most of it didn't.
I spent years punishing myself with morning routines that looked perfect on paper but made my life worse.
Then I asked myself one simple question that change...
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November 21, 2025 • 11 mins
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Ever feel like you're stuck on repeat?
I'm celebrating my birthday today and starting a new nine-year life cycle. Yeah, you read that right. About 25 years ago, a spiritual pastor taught me something that changed how I see patterns in my life. It's a nine-year cycle that repeats over and over. Once I learned it, I started seeing it everywhere.
Not just in my life, but in every coaching client I've shared it w...
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November 20, 2025 • 11 mins
Another year flying by? Another birthday that came too fast?
I get it. Time feels like it's speeding up every single year.
But what if I told you that you can actually slow time down? Not with some weird trick, but by understanding how your brain processes time.
When you rush around all day, time flies. When you slow down and focus deeply on what matters, time expands. I've been studying Einstein's theory of relativity and Benja...
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November 19, 2025 • 10 mins
Everyone tells you to find your why.
But what if that's backwards?
I've had tens of thousands of conversations with people trying to figure out their lives. And I've noticed something controversial: nobody leads with their why. They lead with what they want. The why comes later when things get hard and you need fuel to keep going.
Most of your happiness comes from stumbling into things you love, not from some mythical why you di...
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November 18, 2025 • 11 mins
You make smart business decisions all day long.
ROI calculations. Risk assessments. Strategic planning.
Then five o'clock hits and you clock out. Suddenly you're just winging it with your personal life.
Wild, right?
I spent years consulting business owners on quarterly goals and customer journeys. One day a successful client had this lightbulb moment: "I wish my personal life was this organized."
That's when it clicked for me ...
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November 17, 2025 • 10 mins
End of year. Time to reinvent yourself.
Sometimes tweaking what you've got just doesn't cut it. Sometimes you need to blow it up and start fresh. I call it creative destruction.
This episode digs into why waiting for perfect alignment keeps you stuck. You're tired because you're not inspired. And why your current activity might be completely incompatible with your future self.
Ready to stop patching and start building? This conv...
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November 14, 2025 • 11 mins
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 com...
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November 13, 2025 • 12 mins
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 abou...
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November 12, 2025 • 11 mins
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 the...
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