Daily Boost — Motivation and Personal Growth

By Scott Smith

The Daily Boost is a weekday personal growth podcast for adults who live in the real world and want real results.

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Number 1: What Makes You Procrastinate
Daily Boost Podcast What Makes You Procrastinate September 3, 2026 | Episode 5534 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Procrastination is one of those clubs we all joined without signing up, and nobody's letting us cancel the membership. I've been coaching this for 20 years, and the thing most people get wrong is right at the start. You think it's a time problem. Your schedule is packed; you can't fit it in. You need to make time. That's not it. Once you name what's actually happening, you stop reaching for willpower and start reaching for something that works. I'll walk you through it today and give you the one move that changes everything. Featured Story I was sitting at my desk this morning when a message popped up from the chatbot on my website. A gentleman wanted to know how to deal with procrastination. I answered him back in about 30 seconds. I freaked him out a little. He didn't expect to type a note into a chat window and have an actual human answer that fast. But the question stuck with me all morning. Not because it's rare, but because it's the opposite. It's the question I've been hearing for two decades from smart people with good jobs and full calendars who still can't bring themselves to start the thing sitting right in front of them. Important Points * Procrastination isn't a time problem; it's a feeling problem, and you're delaying the feeling more than the task. * Willpower only treats the symptom, so the real fix is making the decision long before the moment actually shows up. * A vague task like I need to work on my business has no first step attached, so it never actually gets started. Memorable Quotes * Willpower is your friend that shows up to help you do things you don't want to do, and then it just goes away. * When you delay a decision, you've already decided to delay it. Not taking action is still an action. * You're trading a little bit of relief right now, but the bill will be much bigger when it shows up tomorrow. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Start by naming the feeling you're avoiding, because the task isn't the problem; the emotion attached to it is. * Then decide tonight what the first move is and the exact time it happens, before the feeling gets a vote tomorrow. * Start at that time no matter how you feel, and let the relief of being done replace the dread you carried around. Chapters 0:15 - A chat message about procrastination shows up 1:58 - Why this question never goes out of style 3:34 - It's not a time problem, it's a feeling problem 3:47 - Delaying a decision is still making a decision 6:00 - Certainty seekers and vague tasks that never start 7:06 - The pre-planned response that beats willpower 9:04 - Get it done today and feel better tonight 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: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 03, 202612min
Number 2: Remember What Makes You Happy
Daily Boost Podcast Remember What Makes You Happy September 14, 2026 | Episode 5541 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description You're the boss of you. I'm the boss of me. And every week I watch people who know exactly what they'd love to do wait for the weekend to do it. That's a lot of Mondays through Fridays spent on hold. Today I'm handing you a challenge. It'll sound counterintuitive, then you'll try it and go, " That was easy. I'll walk you through six zones where your passion lives, and why a couple of small things from those zones today beat all of them on Saturday. Do it today. Maybe tomorrow too. You'll feel more fulfilled and more in control. Featured Story I live in Florida. I see it all the time. Somebody spends forty years caught up in the kids, the job, the traffic, the cost of everything. They know what they love. They'll get to it later. Then they turn 65, sell the house up north, and roll into town. I escaped the great north. Now it's my turn to live. And then they check out. Heart attack. Gone. I've seen it way too many times to laugh about it. That's why I built six passion zones. Not so you can plan a retirement. So you can find the couple of things that make you happy and do one of them before the sun goes down today. Important Points * Doing three of your hundred passions today beats doing zero. Small daily doses beat saving it all up for Saturday. * You can pick how you want to feel by picking who you connect with. Need support or love today? Reach for that person. * Legacy isn't what they say when you're gone. It's the thing you do every single day that people already know you for. Memorable Quotes * If I know what I like to do, then I should do it, because if I do what I like to do, my life should be better. * Just because you have a list of ten things you think make you happy doesn't mean you need to do them every single day. * I don't really care when I'm dead. I consider legacy a living legacy: what am I doing every day that people know me for? Scott's Three-Step Approach * Name one thing you love in each of the six zones: personal, purposeful, connection, spiritual, abundance, legacy. * Pick two or three of them, not the whole list, and do a small version of each one before this day is over tonight. * Notice tonight how much more in control you feel, then run it again tomorrow. Start today, start moving, stay moving. Chapters 0:15 - A doggie birthday party and a challenge for your week 1:08 - You're the boss of you, so why keep beating yourself up 2:06 - Face Your Passion opens Thursday with 100 founder spots 3:24 - Caveman common sense: know what you like, then do it 4:56 - Six passion zones, starting with personal and purposeful 6:04 - Connection, spiritual, and my morning Jesus talk 7:22 - Abundance, living legacy, and the Florida retirement trap 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: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 14, 202613min
Number 3: Honest With Yourself Decision Making
Daily Boost Podcast Honest With Yourself Decision Making September 8, 2026 | Episode 5537 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Yesterday I told you about the young man at the gym who couldn't pick a career. Today I'll show you what I'd actually do with him, and with you. Being stuck isn't a one-time problem you solve and retire from. Solve one thing and something else shows up. So I dump it all on the table, look for the pattern, and get honest about the direction I'm already leaning. Most people won't admit that last part, and that's the whole holdup. Bring your mess and let's sort through it together. Featured Story When I met my wife, Joy, I never worried about whether we'd get married. That sounds cold, but it wasn't. I put my toe in the water; we had something good, and my logic was simple. If it's good, it probably gets better. If it went bad, we'd unwind it long before a wedding. So I quit auditing the ending and worked what was in front of me. Infatuation, girlfriend, fiancé, married. Every stage tested it a little harder. That's exactly how I treat a career, a business, a direction I'm curious about. Get in, feel it, and let the thing prove itself to you. Important Points * Change is coming whether you choose or not. Accepting that beats pretending you have unlimited time to decide. * You already know your answer. You were trained to hold back, and that training is exactly what has you sitting still. * Don't hand this to AI. It flatters you, it never concludes, and you'll walk away more confused than you started. Memorable Quotes * I've always believed you already know what the outcome will be. My job is to get you to accept that. * AI will tell you whatever you want to hear, and give a lot of flattery too. You're going to be so much more confused. * Practicality and optimism go together really well. Optimism without practicality is unicorn rainbows and a crappy life. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Accept that something in your life has to change, and give it a real deadline so the decision stops floating out there. * Empty every option onto the table, sort the mess into piles, and watch for the pattern you keep leaning toward. * Put your toe in the water on that pattern with zero commitment, and let the very next step reveal itself to you. Chapters 0:20 - What is really going on when you feel stuck 2:08 - Accepting that the change is coming either way 3:38 - Dumping every option onto the table like Legos 5:34 - Why AI will only make your confusion worse 6:55 - Explore it, put your toe in the water, and see 8:17 - Joy, infatuation, and how I knew it would work 11:43 - Practical optimism beats unicorn rainbow living 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: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 08, 202615min
Number 4: Everything Is Possible
Daily Boost Podcast Everything Is Possible September 10, 2026 | Episode 5539 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Have you ever had one of those days where you're trying everything and nothing moves? You push, you plan, you show up, and the door still won't open. I've had plenty of them. Today I'm sharing a story about a man I met near the end of his life, a small pin he put on my shirt, and six words he said that I've carried for over 20 years. Those six words changed what I believed was possible. They built everything I have now, one day at a time. Listen. You might need them today. Featured Story The cameras were set. The crew was ready. Grandmaster Lee was late. He'd had a rough night; the cancer was winning, and he'd spent part of it in the hospital. Then the door opened, and he strode in as if nothing had happened and Sat down. Ready. He talked for two hours, and when he was done, he was done. Then something crossed his face. He got up, climbed over cables and light stands to a desk in the back, dug through a drawer, and came back with a little American flag pin that said Instructor. He pinned it to my shirt. I told him I wasn't an instructor. He smiled. Important Points * You're not behind because you're incapable of it; you're behind because you simply haven't started the thing yet. * Every library, business, or body of work you admire got built the same slow, boring way, one single day at a time. * Impossible today and impossible forever are two very different things, and only one of them is ever actually true. Memorable Quotes * Today, not possible. Tomorrow possible. I'll let you add a little Korean accent if you want to hear it. * When I began, only in my heart, like yours, you're just doing it. I'm counting on you to help people your own way. * My entire life, my entire legacy, everything would boil down to 5,500 podcasts, and I ain't anywhere near done yet. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Name the one thing you keep saying you'll start someday, and admit that today's version of it feels impossible. * Do the smallest piece of it today anyway, one call, one page, one recording, and then stop and walk away for now. * Come back and do the same small thing tomorrow, because tomorrow is where impossible quietly turns into possible. Chapters 0:15 - When the day refuses to go the way you planned 1:30 - Why I'm opening the Face Your Passion community 3:00 - Flying to Little Rock to film a legend's last story 4:49 - Ten thousand people and a curtain that opens 6:17 - He crossed a room full of cables to find a pin 7:50 - The mountain you see when you haven't started 8:11 - Six words that built the next twenty years 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: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 10, 202612min
Number 5: Design Your Perfect Day
Daily Boost Podcast Design Your Perfect Day September 9, 2026 | Episode 5538 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description I haven't taught this one in many moons, but it's been central to my coaching for close to seventeen years. It's called your average perfect day, and the first time clients do it, it freaks them out. Then everything changes. Not because it's magic. Because writing down how you actually want to live wakes your brain up to what you want. I'm going to dare you to try it. Most of you won't, and that's fine. But the ones who do end up looking around five years later at a life that matches the page. Featured Story My wife and I don't need a car. The one we have is fine. But I've been working on her about a Tesla, and now she wants one, and we're sitting right there on the edge of pulling the trigger. Then I noticed something. Everywhere I go now, all I see are Teslas. Parking lots, the highway, the grocery store. They were always there. My brain didn't bother telling me about them until the thing mattered to me. That's the reticular activation system doing its job, and it's the same machinery that goes to work the minute you write down the day you actually want. Important Points * Write your average perfect day from wake-up to dreams, and don't allow one limitation or consequence on the page. * Your calendar tells the truth about what really matters to you, not the beliefs you say out loud when somebody asks. * You'll get it wrong on the first pass, and that is the point. Come back a week later and make it a little more real. Memorable Quotes * I know it is stupid, but you write it down anyway. There are no limitations, and there are no consequences. * I don't care what you tell me you believe in or what you tell me you want to do. What matters is what you actually do. * Your day can't be perfect every day, so on average, write down what you want and it will probably happen. Scott's Three-Step Approach * Grab a sheet of paper tonight and double-space the whole thing, because you will be adding lines to it for years. * Write out every single event of the day you want in order, from the second you wake up through the dreams you have. * Read it again a week later, correct whatever feels off, and then let your brain go hunting for the rest of it. Chapters 0:38 - A core philosophy I have not taught in years 1:18 - Naming the new community Face Your Passion 2:34 - Founders pricing and the doors on September 17 3:24 - The average perfect day concept, start to finish 4:43 - My wife, a Tesla, and seeing them everywhere 5:31 - Why average beats perfect every single day 8:03 - The drawer, five years later, half of it true 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: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith * Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove * Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 09, 202612min