Creating Your Wonderful Life

Daily Boost - Clarity for Life and Work

Scott Smith

Business, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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We're playing off that Jimmy Stewart movie today because you can actually create a wonderful life. And right now—when everyone else is busy looking that way—you can go the other way and make it happen. I'm sharing three stupidly simple ways of thinking that should empower you to make any change you want. No more drifting in the winds of life. It's time to start driving through it instead. Fair warning: it's so simple that the complicated nuance gets in the way. But that's what makes us human. Featured Story I have a friend who writes a book every single year. Done just before Christmas. He keeps telling me, "Scott, you should try it." He's right. I should. I'm on my seventh book and haven't finished any of them. Trust me, I get it. But people actually do this. Friends have written entire books over Thanksgiving weekend. Four days. Book done on Monday. Boom. You know why this works? Because right now through mid-January, everyone's busy. Your boss is busy. Your friends are busy. They're all looking that way while you can go the other way. You can write your book. Start a new business. Clean out your garage if you want to keep it that simple. This is the perfect time to do anything you want when nobody's paying attention to you. Important Points • Everything begins when you become aware of what you want and accept that it's up to you to go get it—in my coaching program, I make people answer nine questions daily for 21 days, and they fight me on it until they see how awareness creates change. • If you believe your dream can be real, all you have to do is start living it right now—want to be a writer, sit down and write, you are one just like that, want to be in shape, go to the gym and be in shape, the click is a millisecond in time. • You are the boss of you, which means you can decide to go on a diet on Monday and not do it because the boss said you didn't have to—nobody else has to give you permission to start or stop anything. Memorable Quotes "Most people are drifting in the winds of life. True happiness arrives when you start driving through life instead of drifting in those winds." "If you believe your dream can be real, as soon as you start living it, it will be. The trick is the click. The click is a millisecond in time and you get it and you make things happen." "You're the boss of you. You can decide to go on a diet on Monday and you don't have to do it. You know why? Because the boss said you didn't have to." Scott's Three-Step Approach • Become aware of what you want and accept personal responsibility to go get it—answer the same questions about your life daily until you become so aware that changes naturally start happening and you can't help but take action. • Believe your dream can be real and start living it immediately without talking about it on ChatGPT or anywhere else—if you want to be a runner, go out the door and run, you are one just like that, could it be that easy, yeah it could. • Recognize you're the boss of you and stop planning, start doing—forget wishing and hoping and dreaming, just start with little bits of happiness and work toward your dream every single day because you decided to. Chapter Notes 0:15 - Why this is the perfect season to create change 5:26 - The awareness that changes everything explained 6:08 - When believing your dream makes it instantly real 8:10 - The ChatGPT trap and why talking kills dreams 9:15 - You're the boss of you: permission not required 10:15 - Drifting versus driving through life Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: [email protected] Main Website: motivationtomove.com YouTube: youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: Join the Daily Boost Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are you?
0:15.7	Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy Friday.
0:17.8	Is that enough happy Fridays?
0:18.9	I think I'm required by the law of Instagram, I think, and Jen and her husband.
0:22.9	I think it's Jen.
0:23.4	Is it Jen? I could have to say, seven Happy Fridays. And new theme music coming up where I'm not sure I'll be able to say the Happy Fridays anymore. It's just not that kind of song, but we'll see. So today we're going to create a wonderful life. Yes, we're going to play on that wonderful title from the Jimmy Stewart movie.
0:37.9	It's a Wonderful Life, which is just a freaky movie.
0:40.6	I mean, every time I see it's like, wow. Today we're going to create a wonderful life. Yes, we're going to play on that wonderful title from the Jimmy Stewart movie.
0:37.9	It's a wonderful life, which is just a freaky movie.
0:40.6	I mean, every time I see it, it's like, why am I watching this thing?
0:42.6	But I get it.
0:51.0	A lot of undertones in that movie, I've got to tell you. But you can create a wonderful life. So why not? let's just tap into the theme and so what does it take to do that?
0:56.0	Some really basic stuff because we're kind of coming out of the motivational season right now.
0:54.1	Motivation season is, well, it's been going along. So what does it take to do that? Some really basic stuff because we're kind of coming out of the, kind of coming out of the motivational season right now.
1:11.2	Motivation season is, well, it's been going a long time. It kind of ends about April, to be honest with you. But, and then we get in the summertime. And then right now we're kind of coming into the inspirational season. Everybody gets inspired. We get more spiritual, right? And then we jump right out of the inspirational season into the motivation season again. When does that begin?
1:32.8	Well, it used to start on January 1st. Now it's about January 23rd, to be honest, because you're all busy. You've got to pay your bills. You've got to get back to work, all that stuff. But it's coming, okay? So since we're going to do that, since the season is coming, why not give ourselves the gifts of a wonderful life? Why not take advantage of this opportunity at the end of the year to create things that you want to create? So I give some ideas how to do that today. And one little tip as we start, I want you to remember something. This is just some observational motivation,
1:39.9	some stuff that I see, and you know this already, and certainly psychologists know this, and even eBay knows this, everybody knows this, that this time of year people get busy,
1:48.9	right? That's the, duh, yeah, they get busy. They're not paying attention to you. They're not.
1:55.8	And I would say pretty much about right now through probably mid-January, your boss is going to be busy,
2:01.2	your friends are going to be busy.
2:19.3	You could do whatever you want to do. You can still have the holidays. You can still put on a party. You can still do the things you want to do, but you could actually write your book. You could start a new business. You can clean out your garage if you want to, if you want to keep it that simple. There's a lot of stuff you can do right now when everybody's looking that way.
2:20.1	You go the other way.
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