Admitting What You Already Know

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Something has been sitting in the back of your mind. You already know what you should do about it. You just haven't said it out loud yet. Smart, successful people are the toughest to coach because we keep our walls up. We educate ourselves into corners. The answer is right there in plain view, but admitting it feels too big. Today, I want to give you permission to stop dancing around what you already know. I'll share a story about a client who blurted out his answer within seconds, only to almost miss it. Press play and listen for yours. Featured Story I was on a call with a client named Richard the other day. Sharp guy, big professional, real list of things to figure out. We're working back and forth, getting good stuff done, and the clock is running out on me. Right at the end, I asked him one question. Of everything we just covered, what's the thing you already know you need to do? He answered in a single breath. The answer was so clear and so close to him, he didn't even know he'd been carrying it. Then he sat there, almost embarrassed. The look on his face is what I want you to see today. Important Points The answer to your biggest question is already inside you. Most of the work is just admitting that you know it. Real change rarely happens in three days. It happens when you get tired of carrying the same heavy answer around. A good coach is just a mirror. The breakthrough is hearing your own words played back with a little less distortion. Memorable Quotes You'll change when you wear yourself out. There's no quick fix and no three-day shortcut, no matter who's selling it. I'm a smart mirror standing in front of you, reflecting back your own honest words with a useful bit of distortion. Smart people are the hardest to coach. You've got the walls up, and the work is letting just one of them down. Scott's Three-Step Approach Ask yourself one honest question about the thing you already know you need to do, with no filters and no spreadsheets. Say the answer out loud, even if it sounds wrong or scary. Hearing yourself say it makes it real and gets it moving. Take one small action today that proves you really meant it. Momentum starts the second you stop denying the answer. Chapters 0:02 - The one thing you've been holding off saying 3:45 - The CalmB plan and that Rubicon change moment 5:47 - The involuntary cue on your face that gives you away 6:54 - You already know the answer; you keep dancing 10:41 - The call with Richard and the really hard stop 12:52 - The CEO answered that Richard almost couldn't admit 14:26 - One honest question to ask yourself today Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify If you enjoy the Daily Boost, you might like Notes From Scott. A few mornings each week, I send a short note with something I've been thinking about or noticing lately. Sometimes those ideas turn into podcast episodes later. You can sign up at https://notesfromscott.com. Email: support@motivationtomove.com 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

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0:53.5	How are you? Well, happy, happy, happy Thursday. Come on in here. It is Thursday someplace. This is the Thursday daily boost, so it's Thursday everywhere in my view, right? It's 5 o'clock somewhere, right? It's Thursday somewhere. Today there's something you've been holding off that you know. We're going to talk about what that is and get you to admit. I need a boost. I need a daily boost. I need a daily boost. I need a daily boost. Admit it. It is the daily boost. It's me, Scott Smith, hanging around, fiddle around, fool around, the boss of me, telling myself I can do whatever
1:27.9	the hell I want to do, because that's, when you do it anywhere. So do I, right? Gets me in a tons of trouble and out of trouble. My mom asked me one day, or she said to me one day years ago, you know what, you can get yourself into anything, can't you? I said, yeah, but I can also get myself out of anything too and that's the real superpower. I can teach you that too. Good to have you. Thanks for
1:45.5	coming in. By the way, Motiv motivation to move.com is where my stuff is. I incorporated that company back in 2004 to do motivational and fitness work and it has just stuck. I don't see a need to change it. Motivation is an incredibly important component of what we do. We have to have it. Some people say, no, we don't need it.
2:01.3	Yeah, right. You're going to cry in your beer every single night or talk to me on the phone and get motivated, right? Which one is it going to be? I go with a beer for a couple of weeks, but eventually, I'm just being honest, being real, right? So I was on my inner circle call this morning. and my group encourage me to do what I'm going to do right now.
2:17.9	So give me a little bit of grace.
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2:20.9	I have not paid. and my group encourage me to do what I'm going to do right now.
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