Are You Committed to Your Goal?

Daily Boost Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Woody Allen said, "Half of success is showing up." I've thought about that quote many times over the years. There was something about its logic that didn't match up with my day-to-day experience. Don't get me wrong, no matter what you want to do in your life, showing up is the first step in getting it. But I've shown up many times and ended up going home with the prize that I so much wanted. I've also seen others convinced that they'll advance toward their goals if they show up. Instead, they end up disappointed with their results. So, if showing up is getting you halfway, what's the other half? It's knowledge, work ethic, and communication, and people skills. And let's not forget your ability to commit to doing whatever it takes to get what you want. Some people don't show up, and some don't commit. Many do show up. Why don't they succeed? I remember the words spoken by my Paster moments before my wedding to my first wife, Sheryl. I was a 20-year-old kid, and he asked, "Do you know what makes a marriage work?" Without much thought, I said, "It's a 50/50 thing. As long as we show up for each other, it'll work." His response resonates with me to this day. "Success in anything is 100/100 thing. You show up and commit to giving it 100% of your effort all the time - and so does everybody else." So, yes. Showing up will get you halfway to your goal. But if you want to go all the way, you must commit to 100% and doing whatever it takes to get what you want. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are ya? Happy Wednesday. I gotta tell ya, it's a beautiful week here in Daytona Beach and bike week.
0:22.0	I'm loving riding that road king, having a good time. A lot of people here, but it's like 400,000 motorcycles here,
0:27.0	and we can tell it is busy and it is loud, it's crazy. So today I want to talk to you about your commitment and how committed you are to getting what you want,
0:34.0	whether it's something you're going after yourself or something maybe you're working together with somebody else on a husband, a wife, something like that.
0:39.0	How committed are you and do you have the right level of commitment? I think you probably do, but maybe not, and maybe you're shooting a little lower than you think.
0:47.0	I had a conversation a long time ago when I was a young young man, stuck with me ever since, and I'll share that with you today.
0:54.0	It is a daily boost from MotivationAmovie.com every single day. I take my thing that's called Scott Logic, this common sense.
1:00.0	Basically, if the world looks upside down and I go, hey, I don't care what anyway, it says, if the world looks upside down and wonky,
1:06.0	kind of like it is all over the place right now, have you noticed this kind of kind of that way? It's Pizarro land.
1:11.0	I look at that, and while everybody else is in, it's fine, Scott, carry on. I'm like, yeah, but my Scott Logic says it's not.
1:18.0	So this entire show, everything I do every single day is based on that good common sense, good wisdom to bring it to you.
1:23.0	You've got it too. I just want to spur it in you to think about that. It's happy to have you today.
1:28.0	It is me, Scott Smith, founder, chief motivating officer here at MotivationAmovie.com.
1:32.0	And I apologize. I am a little, I don't feel real good today. I had a dermatological procedure.
1:38.0	That's a big word. I had to say it slow. I had a skin cancer on my cheek, and I had it out with something called the most procedure yesterday.
1:46.0	Now, you got to understand I consider myself Superman. I can go through anything all day long, and I always feel good. I just, I'm really surprised when I don't. I'm like, what, what happened?
1:54.0	And so I went there and I spent like nine and a half, 10 hours. It was crazy. They numb me up about four times. They gave me antibiotics. They sent me home, and I thought,
2:01.0	Superman, I got to get up in the morning, ready to rock and I don't know what my voice is affected. But anyway, not 100% today, but isn't that what life is about?
2:12.0	I know we want to be 100% every single day. I know that. But we can't always, and I know we have things we want to do every single day, but we can't always get it all done.
2:20.0	So what do we do? We scale back, give 100% of what you got, and that's what you get today. So, um, oh man, let's talk goals.
2:31.0	Um, are you committed to your goals? Are you like a third of the way or your halfway or your two thirds of the way?
2:38.0	That's weird. I broke up my fractions there. Are you all the way 100% in all in committed?
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