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Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Are You Burying The Lead in Your Life

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Get the written version of the Daily Boost. Have you ever found yourself setting out on a big mission yet not being able to define what you want? When I was a young man, I trained in journalism as part of my broadcast career. Radio stations would send me to the local town meetings and political events. Anything newsworthy. My job was to write a story and deliver it on the air, and I thought I was doing a great job - until my boss called me into his office. He wanted to know why I wasn't getting to the critical part of the story faster. He said I was distracting from what is important. In my mind, I was doing no such thing. I told the story how it sounded best in my mind, but nobody was listening long enough to hear what I had to say. All these years later, I've learned the "I want to get more out of life" crowd does the same thing. Recently, I spoke with a client when I realized she was very good at shifting to the unimportant—finding more time, learning more, and getting more advice. Even cleaning the garage was more important. In the middle of her wandering story, I stopped her, "Why are you avoiding what is most important to you? Cut to the chase, say what you want, and go do it." Her response came with a few tears. "I thought I was talking about what is most important. Now I realize I'm telling myself a story that is comforting and sounds good to in my mind." She is burying the lead in journalistic terms, busying herself with secondary details, and growing frustrated. How does this relate to improving your life? Do you say, "I can't focus?" Nope. You are focusing on the wrong things. Do you say, "I can't get myself moving?" Truth? You are moving - in the wrong direction. Do you say, "I don't have enough money?" Wrong again. What you need is more money! If something is important to you, give it the honor, respect and focus it deserves. Lose the drama, get to the point, and start getting what you want right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

How are ya? Happy Wednesday. How's your week going? Awesome, I hope? You still got time.

0:22.0

So I have a question for you. I have lots of questions. If you get to know me, I'll ask you questions all day every day.

0:27.0

Here's a question. Have you ever come up with something in your mind that you want to do and then when somebody asks you, so what do you want to do?

0:33.0

You try to articulate it and you kind of beat around the bush. You don't get specifically to what it is and they can't really understand what you're trying to do.

0:39.0

Does that happen to you? It probably has. It happens to everybody, but don't worry about it. There's a word for it. There's a way to deal with it. We'll talk about that today.

0:47.0

It is the daily boost from motivation to booge.com. Every time I say that, I feel like I'm sending more and more like Ryan Segris. It's the date.

0:57.0

I just learned something a long time ago. Here's what I learned. I don't care what you want to do, even if you want to sleep in and not be bothered in the morning.

1:07.0

Something may happen. I mean, in my case, I might want to sleep in, but then the sun, it creeps in through the drapes right through the window and wakes me up like, well, life got in the way.

1:17.0

Gotta figure that out. Have to have a strategy. Well, life is like that, no matter what it is, no matter what you decide to do.

1:21.0

Life begins when you move, but then challenges happen. So this show is dedicated to dealing with those challenges every single day to keep you in the game and playing at whatever level you want to play and you get whatever you say you want.

1:32.0

It's up to you and my job is to support that and gosh darn, I'm going to do that. So we've been doing 15 years now. My name is Scott Smith, founder, chief motivating officer here at Motivation to move.com.

1:42.0

Thanks for all the great email yesterday, by the way. And I did have a question. Young lady asked me, Scott, why do you not have show notes?

1:49.0

Podcasts have show notes, right? And I said, well, actually, I do. I just call it my daily nugget. So here's what happens. I believe in storytelling and emotions to get the feeling that drives you forward.

1:59.0

I like to create that automatic motivation. That's the goal of the podcast at the end of the podcast. You've got an idea. You have a feeling you automatically want to drive yourself forward. And I've learned over time, the taking that and just turning it into a straight transcription.

2:12.0

You lose that and you start collecting information and you've got enough information. So instead, I write the daily nugget in a story form that captures all the emotions that a transcription just can't. And so you get the power of this podcast in written form at five o'clock in the morning.

2:27.0

It is awesome. It is by far the most popular feature that we have at Motivation to move.com 70% open rate on that email. And that's the only way to get it by the way.

2:37.0

Members only and there's a whole lot more that we give you as part of a membership. So do me a favor. Go join motivation to move.com. Get the daily nugget back to what I was saying just a moment ago.

2:49.0

About having a big idea, a big mission. And yet not being able to properly articulate that mission or define what you want. And usually it's a it could be just to yourself. You just can't figure it out.

3:02.0

But you talk to other people maybe talking to me. And I don't get you or folks can't support you. That's like, huh, don't even know what you're really talking about because you're kind of beating around the bushes. That ever happened to you.

3:13.0

Now sometimes you haven't thought your idea through clearly and other times. Well, we'll get to that here in a second, but a long time ago.

3:20.0

I was a young man. Fire my belly. And I was going to be a disc jockey. I've talked about that before, but part of my DJ training school was some journalistic training as well because when you're a baby DJ back in the day, we used to go to small markets and you had to do the news and everything else as well before you got to be the big time radio DJ that I wanted to be right.

3:39.0

So I was working on my broadcast career. And I learned some journalism, not a whole lot, but enough to, enough to stay out of trouble, I think at radio stations, what they would do would send this not knows 19 year old to local town meetings to political events, things like that.

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