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 changed everything. It's not about what you should do. It's about what serves the life you're actually trying to build.

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I wasn't always a morning person.

When I started in radio at 18, I'd stand in the shower thinking about how long I could keep getting up at 4 a.m. Later in my career, I'd hit my desk by 5 a.m., pounding through my to-do list like my life depended on it. But I was miserable.

Then I swung the other way. Spent a couple years doing the personal development morning. Reading, meditating, taking care of myself before heading to the gym. I got in better shape. My bank account shrank. My future goals felt unreachable.

One day I got frustrated and asked myself one question. That question put everything in perspective. It wasn't about productivity or personal care. It was about something bigger.

Important Points

Traditional morning routines fall into two camps: personal development or productivity, but neither one serves everyone all the time.

The magic isn't in following someone else's perfect morning formula but in asking what serves the life you're designing.

Flexibility beats rigidity when your routine adapts to what matters most that day instead of following the same order forever.

Memorable Quotes

"Stand your butt up. Just stand up and then take a step in the direction you want to go and just keep going until you get it."

"Everything works to some level, but does it work for you?"

"What's the first thing I should do tomorrow morning that if I do, will allow me to live the life that I design?"

Scott's Three-Step Approach

Ask yourself the night before what one thing tomorrow morning will serve the life you're designing, not what's on your to-do list.

Build flexibility into your routine so some days it's work, some days it's wind therapy on a motorcycle, some days it's grandkids.

Stop punishing yourself with morning rituals that look perfect but make your life worse in the ways that actually matter.

Chapter Notes

1:02 - Your habits are your life, choose wisely

1:33 - Andrew Huberman and why ice baths are stupid

2:24 - Two morning groups and the satisfying third option

3:18 - Confessions of a guy who hated mornings

4:34 - Little fairies running through my fingers at 5am

5:21 - The one question that changed everything for me

6:42 - My actual morning routine without the BS

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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 with.

Each year has its own energy and purpose. And knowing where you are in the cycle? That changes everything about how you approach your next move.

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It's my birthday today and I'm in year three of my cycle.

That means the resources I need are arriving. I've spent the last two years looking around, deciding I wanted to do things differently with the show. New theme music, new direction, all of it.

And now? Everything I need is showing up.

I'm excited. I want to go. But I've learned to trust the pattern because I've seen it work at least two and a half times in my life. This isn't woo-woo wishful thinking. It's practical wisdom wrapped in a spiritual truth. The kind that makes successful people like you take notice and say, "Wait, that actually makes sense."

Important Points

Life operates in repeatable nine-year cycles that start with seeking and end with clearing space for what's next.

Each year serves a specific purpose from decision-making to intense focus to letting go of what no longer serves you.

Understanding where you are in your cycle removes confusion and gives you permission to change everything when the time is right.

Memorable Quotes

"Stand your butt up. Just stand up and then take a step in the direction you want to go and just keep going until you get it."

"I'm not the most woo-woo guy on the planet, but I got some woo-woo in me. I'm a very practical guy."

"If you're asking for new and you haven't cleaned up your mess first, you're just going to get more mess."

Scott's Three-Step Approach

Identify where you are in your nine-year cycle by looking at what's naturally happening in your life right now.

Stop fighting the patterns and work with them instead of wondering why things feel off or perfectly aligned.

Use each year's energy intentionally whether you're deciding, building, intensifying, or clearing space for what's next.

Chapter Notes

0:32 - World's simplest success recipe revealed

1:12 - Meeting Louis Gates changed everything for me

2:24 - Nine-year life cycles explained year by year

4:12 - Year three arrival: resources stack up fast

5:18 - Midpoint re-evaluation: keep what works only

6:27 - Years seven through nine: preparing for reset

7:50 - Complete cycle recap you can apply today

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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 Benjamin Hardy's work on extreme goals, and I'm going to show you how to take control of your time starting today.

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My birthday's coming up. November 21st, if you're wondering.

And like clockwork, I catch myself thinking the same thing I think every year. Is it my birthday again already? Didn't we just do this?

When I was five years old, waiting for Christmas felt like forever. A year was an eternity. Now? A year feels like a month.

But I've figured something out. When I'm rushing around all day, busy-busy-busy, trying to get everything done, time absolutely flies. Days blur into weeks. Weeks blur into years.

When I slow down and focus deeply on the work that matters? Time stretches out. The day feels longer. I get more done and still have time left over.

That's what relativity looks like in real life.

Important Points

When you run fast all day trying to get everything done, your entire life speeds up and years fly by before you know it.

Slowing down and focusing deeply on essential goals actually makes time expand and gives you all the free time you'll ever need.

Setting extreme goals with compressed timelines forces you into deep work mode where time slows down and you accomplish what matters most.

Memorable Quotes

"When you go fast, fast, fast, everything goes fast. The days, the weeks, the years, your life flies by when you do that."

"When you slow down, when you hold space for yourself, things change."

"Time slows down and you enjoy your day like you were born to."

Scott's Three-Step Approach

Set an extreme goal that's so big it almost scares you, then compress the timeline to force your focus on what actually matters.

Stop rushing through your to-do list and start holding space for deep work on the essential things that move you toward your goals.

Focus on results relevant to your dreams and watch as time magically slows down and you find free time you didn't know existed.

Chapter Notes

0:03 - Time keeps slipping away faster every year

0:53 - Connect with me on social media and Facebook group

2:24 - Why birthdays come faster as you get older

4:15 - The speed trap that steals your life away

5:32 - Einstein's relativity applied to your daily schedule

7:07 - Benjamin Hardy's extreme goals strategy explained

8:25 - Deep work mode slows everything down perfectly

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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 discover on a mountaintop.

Today I'm pushing back on popular advice and sharing what actually works when you're trying to build the life you want.

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My wife once told me she decided to date a bad boy.

That bad boy was me.

Then when I asked her to marry me, she said yes. But she also said something that made me laugh: "I figured out you're just a little bit bad. Mostly good."

We used to plan these elaborate dates. Dinner, dancing, the whole production. Those nights were usually just okay. But the nights we stumbled into with zero planning? Those were magic.

That's how life works too. You can be intentional all you want, but sometimes the best stuff happens when you're just bumbling around and something sticks.

Important Points

Memorable Quotes

"Life is long. You're going to change. I have people all the time say, Scott, you're not the same guy you were 20 years ago. That's the whole point."

"What happens if you have no idea what you want, but still the good things keep arriving in your life?"

"If you just bumble and stumble around, find the what you like, it won't be long before you find purpose. And purpose becomes your why."

Scott's Three-Step Approach

Chapter Notes

0:03 - The what and why question that drives everyone crazy

0:37 - Building your peaceful base between here and there

1:27 - The bumbling and stumbling truth about colorful lives

2:51 - Why passion isn't waiting to be discovered

3:52 - My controversial take on leading with why

5:37 - When stumbling around creates your best happiness

6:33 - The only time your why really matters

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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 too. The same tools that build million-dollar businesses work for building the life you actually want. No separation needed. Just one you with one life that all blends together.

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I'm sitting with a client mapping quarterly revenue targets and conversion rates.

He's taking notes. Nodding. Excited about the plan.

Then he stops with that look. You know the one. That millisecond when something just clicks in your brain.

He says, "Man, I wish my personal life was this organized. I feel like I'm just making it up as I go."

I laughed and said, "Well, we all are, aren't we?"

Important Points

You are one person with one life, and everything blends together whether you admit it or not.

Vague goals get vague results, but specific goals get specific results. "I want to be happy" means nothing. "I'm at the gym at 6 a.m. three days a week" is a system you can actually build and measure.

Positive ROI or die applies to your life just like it does in business. If you're spending 60% of your time for 10% satisfaction, that's terrible ROI and you wouldn't accept it in business, so why accept it in life?

Memorable Quotes

"Every day you and I make smart business and job decisions. ROI calculations, risk assessments, strategic planning. And then at five o'clock we clock out and what do we do? We wing it."

"You wouldn't invest in your business and continue to get negative returns, would you? But so many people do it in their life."

"If you don't know who you are, you cannot build a life that fits you. Just like a business. If a business sells the wrong product to the wrong customer, they do not have a business."

Scott's Three-Step Approach

Define your avatar. Get specific about who you are right now, not who you were five years ago or who your parents think you should be. What lights you up? What drains you? When do you feel most like yourself? If you don't know who you are, you cannot build a life that fits you.

Design your product. Decide exactly what life you want with specific details, not vague wishes. Transform "I want to work out" into "I'm at the gym at 6 a.m. three days a week for 45 minutes." The more specific your solution, the easier it is to build because everything else just falls away.

Build your system. Create daily non-negotiables and predictable habits that deliver results. Your habits absolutely dictate your success and happiness in life. If you don't have a system for delivery of you as a person, you're winging it and that's negative ROI all day long.

Chapter Notes

0:03 - Clocking out and winging your personal life

0:48 - Smart people plan now, take holidays later

1:27 - The client meeting that changed everything

2:47 - Money matters, but so does staying married

5:01 - What you measure matters in life and business

5:39 - Your personal avatar: who are you really?

6:54 - Getting specific about the life you want

8:24 - Systems beat winging it every single time

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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 conversation gives you permission to make radical changes. No apologies needed.

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I was sitting with a client who looked defeated. Completely stuck.

He kept saying he was trying to figure out how to become his future self. But everything he was doing today just wouldn't get him there. He thought he could figure it out.

I gave him the shortcut. Ditch it. Do something else.

The relief on his face was instant. He didn't need my solution. He needed permission to walk away from what obviously wasn't working so he could figure out what would.

That's creative destruction. Not giving up. Clearing space for what's next.

Important Points

Your current activity might be completely incompatible with your future self, and that's okay.

Waiting for stars to align before making a move is exhausting and impossible.

Sometimes you can't upgrade what you've got—you have to tear it down first.

Memorable Quotes

"The reason you're tired is because you're not inspired."

"Sometimes you can't go over. Sometimes you can't go around. Sometimes you can't go under. Sometimes you're completely trapped. The only thing you do is blow it up."

"Don't worry about what anybody else thinks. You know why? Because as soon as you do it, they're going to say, what took you so long?"

Scott's Three-Step Approach

Give yourself permission that everything might need to change—not just minor adjustments, but radical shifts in direction.

Stop trying to upgrade what's fundamentally broken or incompatible with where you want to go.

Embrace the scary moment of decision, then act—everything changes the second you commit to blowing it up.

Chapter Notes

0:00 - New theme song and big YouTube announcement coming

1:01 - When your current self can't become your future self

2:55 - How creative destruction actually works in real life

4:39 - Give yourself grace to make radical changes this year

6:15 - Stop patching and painting what needs replacing

7:12 - The obstacle is the way: sometimes you blow it up

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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 complicated nuance gets in the way. But that's what makes us human.

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I have a friend who writes a book every single year. Done just before Christmas. He keeps telling me, "Scott, you should try it."

He's right. I should. I'm on my seventh book and haven't finished any of them. Trust me, I get it.

But people actually do this. Friends have written entire books over Thanksgiving weekend. Four days. Book done on Monday. Boom.

You know why this works? Because right now through mid-January, everyone's busy. Your boss is busy. Your friends are busy. They're all looking that way while you can go the other way.

You can write your book. Start a new business. Clean out your garage if you want to keep it that simple. This is the perfect time to do anything you want when nobody's paying attention to you.

Important Points

• Everything begins when you become aware of what you want and accept that it's up to you to go get it—in my coaching program, I make people answer nine questions daily for 21 days, and they fight me on it until they see how awareness creates change.

• If you believe your dream can be real, all you have to do is start living it right now—want to be a writer, sit down and write, you are one just like that, want to be in shape, go to the gym and be in shape, the click is a millisecond in time.

• You are the boss of you, which means you can decide to go on a diet on Monday and not do it because the boss said you didn't have to—nobody else has to give you permission to start or stop anything.

Memorable Quotes

"Most people are drifting in the winds of life. True happiness arrives when you start driving through life instead of drifting in those winds."

"If you believe your dream can be real, as soon as you start living it, it will be. The trick is the click. The click is a millisecond in time and you get it and you make things happen."

"You're the boss of you. You can decide to go on a diet on Monday and you don't have to do it. You know why? Because the boss said you didn't have to."

Scott's Three-Step Approach

• Become aware of what you want and accept personal responsibility to go get it—answer the same questions about your life daily until you become so aware that changes naturally start happening and you can't help but take action.

• Believe your dream can be real and start living it immediately without talking about it on ChatGPT or anywhere else—if you want to be a runner, go out the door and run, you are one just like that, could it be that easy, yeah it could.

• Recognize you're the boss of you and stop planning, start doing—forget wishing and hoping and dreaming, just start with little bits of happiness and work toward your dream every single day because you decided to.

Chapter Notes

0:15 - Why this is the perfect season to create change

5:26 - The awareness that changes everything explained

6:08 - When believing your dream makes it instantly real

8:10 - The ChatGPT trap and why talking kills dreams

9:15 - You're the boss of you: permission not required

10:15 - Drifting versus driving through life

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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 about creating the conditions where that feeling you've been chasing—that thing you just can't quite touch—naturally appears.

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I was sitting on my 7 a.m. Face Your Passion Inner Circle call Wednesday morning, wearing my alpaca hoodie because it's been so damn cold everywhere.

Years ago, you'd never have convinced me I'd get out of bed for a 7 a.m. call. But when you hang out with people willing to show up and go all in that early, your life changes.

During the call, I shared this emerging model I've been developing. And I watched it happen multiple times—that moment when someone's body language shifts, their breathing changes, and you see them go "Oh." That's where life is lived. Those small moments of emergence.

It got me thinking about retirement too. People keep asking if I'm done after 20 years. Now when they ask what I do, I just say I'm retired. They go "Oh, that's good," and we move on. I emerged into being able to say that. Interesting how that works.

Important Points

• You'll change when you wear yourself out, and that's not negative—it's the natural process of pieces coming together until you finally go, "Oh, I should do this instead of that."

• Everybody knows exactly what they want and how they want to feel, but they can't quite describe it—it's that thing you just can't touch, that moment when everything feels good and you think, "Damn, this is good."

• Who you want to be isn't your past, present, or future self—it's an emergent property that appears when conditions are right, like consciousness emerging from neural activity or life emerging from chemistry.

Memorable Quotes

"You will change when you wear yourself out. You want motivation? If life is not going the way you want it to go, it's okay. You'll get tired one day, you'll change."

"I believe that everybody knows exactly what they want, how they want to feel, but they can't quite describe it. It's that thing you just can't touch."

"The Person who you actually are emerges. That mythical me, that person inside of you where we're like, if I could only get this feeling all the time, is it possible? Yes, it is."

Scott's Three-Step Approach

• Accumulate wisdom through pattern recognition across all domains of your life—it's not just reading more books or living longer, it's the integration of learning with actual living and understanding principles through experience.

• Practice consistency over intensity by showing up regardless of motivation and building a bridge between your accumulated wisdom and future intentions through sequential daily action in actual conditions.

• Navigate the messy middle instead of trying to escape it—get tools and techniques to manage the collision zone where life, home, and inner self converge, because that's where the magic happens and where you'll emerge.

Chapter Notes

0:15 - The warm studio and why 7 a.m. calls changed everything

3:27 - Challenging the future self model after 20 years

5:05 - The four-step emergence model revealed

6:24 - Building the bridge between wisdom and intention

7:49 - Why the messy middle is where magic happens

9:11 - Caring without caring: detached engagement explained

10:44 - The retirement emergence story

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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 they should be going. They're just not willing to lean into it. This episode breaks down how to recognize when something's genuinely calling for your attention and what to do about it before you drive yourself crazy sitting on the fence.

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It's 36 degrees in my Daytona Beach studio with a wind chill at 31. I'm wrapped in my alpaca hoodie thinking about how this time of year shifts us into reflection mode.

I've coached thousands of people over the years, and something wild keeps happening. I'll share an insight with someone, and they'll look at me like I'm reading their mind. "Are you inside my head?" they ask. Kind of. Because we're all just humans navigating the same patterns.

For me, the universe whispers all day long. I believe God created it, so those whispers feel like guidance. You can have whatever belief you want. But after years of coaching and living, I've noticed messages come in triplicate. Three times is when I start paying real attention. Hard-headed and distracted as I am, even I can't ignore the pattern by the third time.

Important Points

When seemingly random situations and people deliver the same message within a short time frame, your path is being altered whether you recognize it or not.

You already know what direction you should be going, and if you're heading the wrong way, you know that too—you're just not willing to lean into what's obvious.

When something gets your attention, you've got three choices: say yes and go for it, say no and move on, or sit on the fence getting splinters forever.

Memorable Quotes

"Most people already know kind of what direction they should be going. And usually if they're going the wrong direction, they kind of already know that. They're just not willing to lean into it."

"If it starts getting your attention, it's real. Anything that gets your attention, it's going to take you down the road."

"Eventually you will change when you wear yourself out. When you get tired of rejecting what is obvious that you have to do, you're going to do it anyway."

Scott's Three-Step Approach

Notice the pattern. Pay attention when the same message appears through different people, situations, or sources within days or a week—that's your signal something matters.

Ask what you're supposed to learn. When patterns emerge, stop resisting and get curious about the lesson or direction being presented to you.

Choose and act. Make the call—yes, no, or fence-sitting—but know that fence-sitting just delays the inevitable while causing unnecessary pain.

Chapter Notes

0:15 - Cold morning spirituality: Winter reflection begins

2:03 - Practical vs theoretical: Why I skip the unicorns

2:58 - Messages and guidance: Life's crazy sum total

4:01 - The triplicate rule: When to actually pay attention

7:45 - Three choices framework: Stop driving yourself crazy

9:22 - Eventually you'll change: Wearing yourself out

9:40 - Watch for your messages: The next two months matter

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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 trapped.

Today I'm sharing why I broke the rules and went with two words instead of one. You'll learn how to make your word actually mean something and why high concept thinking beats generic motivation every time.

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I named last year "joiful" after my wife.

J-O-I full. Her name is Joi, so I got to tell her all year that I named my year after her. Smart move on my part.

But honestly, I did it because happiness kept slipping away. I realized we're not here to be happy all the time.

Life gets hard. But we can be joyful in any situation. That shift mattered.

This year I needed something different. Something more specific. I started with "simple" because I've been saying for 20 years that simple works. But when I tested it with my Inner Circle, I saw the problem

immediately. Simple what? Simple where? It was too broad to actually use.

That's when I decided to break the rules.

Important Points

A word of the year only works if it's high concept. You should instantly know what it means and how to use it when you see or hear it.

Generic words like "focused" or "determined" sound good but don't give you direction. If your word could apply to everything, it applies to nothing.

Sometimes you need to empower your word with a second word to make it specific enough to matter. Don't be trapped by someone else's rules.

Memorable Quotes

"I like simple. Simple works. I've said this for 20 years on this program."

"When it's everywhere, it becomes really, really washed out, and you just can't do much with it."

"So my one word is two, strategically simple. I'm going to break the rules."

Scott's Three-Step Approach

Make your word high concept so anyone who hears it instantly understands what you mean. If it needs

explanation, it's not the right word.

Test your word by asking where it applies. If the answer is "everywhere," you need to get more specific or add context.

Don't be afraid to empower your word with a second word that defines how you'll use it. Rules are meant to be broken when they don't serve you.

Chapter Notes

0:15 - Why one word might not be enough for you

1:24 - How observational motivation actually works

3:13 - The trap of generic words and vague intentions

4:28 - What high concept really means for your life

6:45 - Why strategically simple beats just simple

8:30 - Breaking the rules to make your word matter

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