Building Your Foundation

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You've set goals before and watched them fall apart six months later. Maybe you thought you had a solid foundation. Maybe you didn't. I'm pulling from 25 years of coaching experience and thousands of hours working with people just like you. What I've learned is this: you need a peaceful base before you chase any goal. Six domains of life that have to be balanced first, or everything crumbles. Think of it like an audio console. Get the levels wrong at the start, and everything downstream is a mess. Get them right, and you can reach for anything. Featured Story My daughter invited me to help with the audio at her church. I produce, I direct, I've got the background. So I stepped in. When you're the audio guy behind that big console, two things are true. You get all the blame. And if you lose control of the balance, you're in serious trouble. Every service starts the same way. You've got 8, 10, 12 people on stage. The very first thing I do is set the foundation - the input levels for every mic, every instrument. Get that wrong, and everything downstream falls apart. Feedback, hot mess, scary stuff. I started thinking about how this applies to life. What if we got the levels right from the beginning? What if we balanced everything before chasing the big goals? That's when the peaceful base concept clicked. Important Points Most people fail at goals because their foundation has cracks they don't even know about. Six domains need balance: time, body, mind, money, relationships, and spirit - in that order. Get these levels right first, and you can chase the biggest goals without upsetting your peaceful base. Memorable Quotes "Time is yours. It's limited in what you have. There's only so much time in the day, and everything you do will take time." "Financial security provides true choice. It's mobility in life." "Connections that are nurtured, not sacrificed." Scott's Three-Step Approach Take inventory of the six domains and identify where you're out of balance right now. Fix the small challenges first before setting any big goals for next year. Maintain that peaceful base as you grow so you don't mess up what you've got. Chapter Notes 0:35 - Why goals fail and foundations crack 1:26 - The peaceful base concept revealed 2:51 - Church audio story and the balance metaphor 4:28 - Setting levels and maintaining control 6:29 - The six domains that create balance 9:27 - Unity and keeping what you've built Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, every year I get older, it gets a little bit better, I mean, eventually I'm going to sound like Santa.
0:10.8	This is just going to happen, right?
0:12.7	Today, a way to think about making next year a whole bunch easier.
0:17.7	I need a boost.
0:19.8	I need a daily boost. I need a boost. I need a boost. I need a daily boost.
0:22.1	I need a daily boost.
0:28.2	How are you?
0:29.6	It is the daily boost.
0:32.5	My name is Scott Smith.
0:33.5	Good to have you here today.
0:34.3	Thanks for stopping by.
0:35.0	It's a crazy time of the year.
0:37.0	I'm not as raspy as I have been. We had three parties to go to good friends, annual parties, and we always say, why do we go the next day? You know, sorry, you're talking too much, eating bad food, the whole thing, right? I'm done now, though. Raspi will be here for a few days, and then we get all set for next year. So that's what I want to talk about today, a little bit of next year. And I'm going to get different today.
0:58.0	A little bit more conceptual, if you will. I'm going to pull from my Face Your Passion program. By the way, we are launching Operation Facier Passion in January. I build on this program every single year. It's what I use for my clients.
1:12.0	If you're looking for, well, I'm not going to tell you a whole lot about it. Just go to face your passion.com, put your name on the wait list. And after the holidays, we'll tell you all about it, okay? But today we're going to take you down a road and a concept that I use within it that I think you're going to find kind of eye-opening. Now, the reason I'm doing this is because I see massive failure.
1:30.3	I see people try so hard year-round. It's not just the resolution season. I see people set goals. They take off running. They falter. They tip and it's just crazy. So we're going to take you out a path today and give you a different way to think about something.
1:47.4	And it's going to start with the concept that I call the peaceful base.
1:54.5	It rests on a few pillars, but there's a couple of things that we actually put in play here that I just believe based on massive experience,
1:56.8	but need to be in play if you're going to do anything.
2:03.4	Now, when I say massive, I have done this podcast for 20 years. I've done coaching for 25 years.
2:10.4	In the past two years, I've coached 1,213 hours. That was actually 22 months worth.
2:19.1	So this comes from a place of massive experience. I call it the peaceful base, and the peaceful base started a ways back when we all built a foundation. We said, listen, you can't do anything without a solid foundation. Now, that's
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