Daily Boost Motivation and Coaching

You're Building Your Life Backwards


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You're Building Your Life Backwards

October 21, 2025 | Episode 5207

Host: Scott Smith


Episode Description

Smart people are doing it backwards right now.

Even people who studied this exact thing in college are forgetting the basics. They're chasing respect before they can pay rent. They're demanding acceptance while their life's falling apart.

Scott breaks down why 2025 has been so damn hard and what Abraham Maslow figured out in 1954 that still works today. No shortcuts. No hacks. Just the sequential steps you actually need to climb.

Spoiler: You can't skip steps just because you're 21 and think the world is different now.


Featured Story

Scott's been having the same conversation over and over the past few weeks with successful people who've somehow forgotten what they learned in college.

They're college-educated. They know Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. But when Scott reminds them what they studied at university, they go, "Oh yeah, I forgot about it."

Here's the thing that keeps coming up: people are trying to build the top floors before they've laid the foundation. They want self-actualization and respect while they can't feed themselves or feel safe.

Scott calls it building without a peaceful base. And in a year as hard as 2025 has been—politically, financially, with AI throwing monkey wrenches everywhere—more people are doing this than ever.

Even his son-in-law thinks he has to fix his entire hurricane-damaged house by himself when he's surrounded by a church community ready to help. Sometimes the basics are right in front of you.


Important Points

Your best life is built sequentially, one level at a time—forget the elevator, you've got to climb the steps to the top.

If you can't feed yourself, feel safe, or maintain good relationships, you're not ready to help others or reach your full potential yet.

Humans figured out how to build this whole world without AI, and things that have worked forever still work today—don't get distracted.


Memorable Quotes

"What a man can be, he must be. You feel it inside your bones."

"I don't think you have to wait to become the person you're meant to be. I think you were put on this planet as that person."

"If you can't feed yourself, if you don't have good relationships, if you're not happy, how could you possibly go out and help other people?"


Scott's Three-Step Approach

Take inventory of where you are in Maslow's five levels—physiological needs, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization.

Build your peaceful base first by handling the basics like shelter, money, relationships, and feeling safe before chasing bigger goals.

Stop demanding respect and acceptance from others until you've mastered the previous levels—what you can be, you must be, but in the right order.


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