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Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Advice For Better Relationships

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Advice For Better Relationships When I first met my wife, Joi, I knew we would be married and live happily ever after. But there was a problem. Joi didn’t see it that way - at least not right away. If life has taught me anything, it’s that almost nobody is on the same page when they first meet. We might be in the same book but not on the same page.  In the early weeks of our relationship, I was in full-on action mode, and I was on a mission to achieve my goal as quickly as possible. I was also getting frustrated since Joi didn’t seem to share my urgency. She was enjoying our relationship and in no hurry. One day, I decided to take action - I dragged myself out of bed at 4:30 AM, drove 30 minutes, and waited for Joi to arrive at the gym. I met her when she stepped out of her car, nearly scaring her to death, and said, “I love you. What do I have to do to catch you? We should…”  Stopped by a kiss, she said, “We’ll know in about 6 months. Let’s enjoy the ride.” It wasn’t the answer I was looking for, but Joi had given me something even more powerful. She gave me an expectation, I knew her rules, how to play the game, and that she was right.  All relationships, romantic, friendship, or professional, follow the same path. There is an initial spark, a period of trust-building, and finally, commitment. In time, the relationship grows stronger or will fade. Time will tell. That’s how it works and how it went for us. Exactly 6 months later, to this day, I asked Joi to marry me, and she said yes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, happy Monday. I'm so happy to have you here. I hope you had a good weekend.

0:20.0

It's getting busy. I'm here and folks are going out for holiday parties already, huh?

0:25.0

It's the ones that happen like the first day of December that kind of I don't get, but anyway, the season is upon us.

0:32.0

So I want to chat relationships today. Good time for you to do that because this is when relationships get challenged and pushed to the max.

0:39.0

And when I talk relationships, I'm talking your romantic relationships to marital relationships. I think there are two different things.

0:45.0

Sometimes your kid relationship, your boss relationship, your neighbor relationship, that guy, yeah, I know.

0:52.0

How do you make them stronger? Boundaries? Sort of. I'll let you know a little bit later in the show.

0:58.0

It is a daily boost from motivation and move.com, the positive boost you need every single day.

1:03.0

So basically on a Monday, let me remind you, here's how it goes. Life begins when you move. What's that means, Scott? Get off your ass.

1:10.0

Okay, it's more complicated than that, but that's, but if you do that, you're going to succeed in something and we'll figure out the path after that.

1:16.0

Okay, just get off your ass and go. Wait a second. I did. Then life got in the way.

1:22.0

Meaning somebody looked at you, somebody did something, you lost your job, whatever. Oh, no, what are we going to do?

1:26.0

Well, get mad. You're crying your beer, have a glass of wine, whatever you want to do, and get over it.

1:31.0

If you're really what the advanced version of it, just recognize it's going to happen and get over it without doing anything else. Just move on.

1:37.0

Hard to do. Sometimes I've been. And then what do we do, Scott? Well, reset. Click, stand up, take a step, repeat.

1:46.0

I stand up, head off in the direction I want to go, keep going until I get there because we know you should be stopping until you get there anyway.

1:53.0

Why? Why would you do that? I'm for flex to this because I'm, because it's myself too.

1:59.0

Good to say, Scott, this is what you said you wanted to do. You had dreams about it. You wrote stuff about you talked about it.

2:04.0

It must be something you're excited about. Why aren't you doing it? Good question.

2:09.0

That was about 5,000 podcasts ago. I tend to do things the way I went to these days.

2:14.0

So if you're stopping by for the very first time, thank you. I'm glad you're here. If you've been here for a while, I just, I do want to say something.

2:19.0

Thank you for allowing me to do what I do. I really do enjoy this show. I really do enjoy doing this when I can do it my way.

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