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
November 21, 2025 • 11 mins
Episode Description
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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November 11, 2025 • 12 mins
Think having a word of the year means picking one generic term and calling it good?
I tried that. It didn't work.
Last year I went with "joyful" and it was solid. But this year I realized something during an Inner Circle call that changed everything. One word isn't enough if it doesn't tell you exactly what to do. My clients were throwing out words like "focused" and "determined," and I could see it in their faces. They were trap...
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November 10, 2025 • 11 mins
Ever catch yourself tweaking and fixing things that honestly work just fine?
I spent last week watching smart people waste time optimizing stuff that should just be eliminated. We do it in business. We do it in life. We convince ourselves we're being productive when we're actually spinning our wheels.
Today I'm sharing the exact framework that gets anything done without the busy work. You'll learn when to optimize, when to elimin...
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November 7, 2025 • 10 mins
Episode Description
Scott gives you ultimate freedom today.
Permission to build your dream in private. Without telling anyone. Without asking for permission. Without performing for an audience.
This week, you discovered your internal mission, identified the 80% stealing your vision, learned the one question that filters everything, and took control of your agenda. Today brings the final piece—protecting your vision by practicing...
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November 6, 2025 • 12 mins
Episode Description
Right now, someone across town is thinking about you.
You're on their to-do list. It could be your boss. Maybe your spouse. A client with an emergency that becomes your priority.
They're going to walk through the door, send a text, make a call. And suddenly you're doing something you never planned on doing.
Scott reveals the daily battle everyone faces—and why most people spend their entire morning before lu...
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November 5, 2025 • 11 mins
Episode Description
On Monday, you wrote your internal mission. Tuesday, you discovered 80% of your daily actions are completely
Irrelevant to your vision.
Today, Scott gives you the one question that filters everything.
No complicated system. No elaborate planning. No superhuman willpower. One question asked every single day that protects your vision from the thousands of opportunities trying to derail you.
A client used th...
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November 4, 2025 • 11 mins
Episode Description
You wrote that internal mission yesterday. You know what drives you.
Then Tuesday arrives, and you spend the entire day defending things that have nothing to do with your vision.
Emails that don't matter. Meetings that go nowhere. Drama that isn't yours.
Scott reveals the harsh truth nobody wants to hear—80% of what you focus on daily has zero connection to what you ultimately want. But here's the twist: You...
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November 3, 2025 • 11 mins
Episode Description
You've got a mission statement. Great.
But here's the problem—you're probably confusing everyone, including yourself. Most people share one mission with the world and wonder why they're exhausted, distracted, and pulled off course constantly.
Scott reveals why you actually need two mission statements to stay on track. One protects your why from the inside out. The other communicates your purpose without givin...
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October 31, 2025 • 11 mins
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 becau...
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October 30, 2025 • 11 mins
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 hol...
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October 29, 2025 • 13 mins
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...
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October 28, 2025 • 11 mins
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 ...
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October 27, 2025 • 12 mins
Dopamine Method: 3 Steps to Find Your Passion (Science-Backed)
October 27, 2025 | Episode 5211
Host: Scott Smith
Episode Description
Still collecting productivity frameworks that don't actually work?
Smart goals. Atomic habits. All those little tactics sitting in your notebook while you're still off track.
Here's the thing. They're too tactical. You need something that's wired into how your brain actually works.
Three simple...
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