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Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Do Leftovers Make Happiness?

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

When I began training and competing with my dog in agility, I made a rookie dog trainer mistake. I wasn't consistent, and my dog was getting confused. One day, my trainer said, "For a dog, one time means all the time. Every time you let them do something new, they're just going to keep on doing it." Now, as silly as it sounds, that came to mind a couple of weeks ago when my wife, a creature of routine and habit, did the same thing. We were invited to attend Thanksgiving with family, and Joi's training kicked in instantly— "I like going to their home, but what about leftovers? I like leftovers?" Now, as a guy who has experienced Joi's "No eating out at the restaurant until all the leftovers are gone" rule, I knew this was a big issue. But, like a good husband, I got out of the way and let her figure it out. A couple of weeks later, after enjoying a nice day, I watched as Joi carried her share of leftovers to the car, thinking to myself, "Good. She got her leftovers." Boy, was I wrong— Joi came home from the gym the following day, headed for the kitchen, and started cooking - LEFTOVERS! She wasn't re-heating them. She had purchased a small turnkey and all the ingredients she needed to keep with her routine for the weekend. At that moment, I couldn't control the look on my face. "What? I like leftovers, and I look forward to it. It's what I do, and it makes me happy." Like a good husband, I didn't say a word. My only thought was, I guess we're not having pizza tonight. Do leftovers make you happy? Not really. YOU make you happy. Do what you do. We can always have pizza next weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

So let me ask you a question. Are you a happy, happy, happy, happy person? Are you? I think our mission and life, the one we were born with, that we just have to do no matter what, is to make us happy.

0:27.0

Now there are other missions and passions we can go after and sometimes that leads or happiness, not always, but I think that's our mission.

0:33.0

And today I want to talk about happiness and is it potentially tied, no research on this yet, but it may happen.

0:38.0

I'm going to spend one billion dollars researching does Turkey make you happy? I mean Turkey the food.

0:45.0

We'll talk about that in a second, okay? It's the daily boost from motivation to move.com.

0:51.0

The positive boost you need every single day, because life begins when you move, life gets in the way and then we say, whoa, whoa, what am I going to do?

1:01.0

You ever say that? What am I going to do? Didn't see that coming? Oh, you know, okay. Well, we just say, well, instead of saying, what am I going to do, we say, what can I do?

1:10.0

And go, well, obviously, Scott says stand up, take a separate feed. Well, what am I going to do when I stand up, take a step and repeat? Who cares?

1:17.0

Stand up and go somewhere, figure it out on your way. That's what this shows all about. And you're special, you know why?

1:25.0

Because this time of year right now, about 10, 15% of the folks who listen to the show daily disappear.

1:31.0

And then in January, they all come back. It's like going to the gym, about another 20 or 30% come back on top of that. And it's a fun four months.

1:38.0

You are here, and I think it's the most powerful thing you can do.

1:43.0

And let me tell you why. Real close, listen to this. I'm going to get right in your ear. Okay.

1:47.0

Being here right now is what a high performance person would do. A successful person. In fact, all my clients, every single one of them right now are asking me, we have to plan for next year.

1:59.0

Let's spend November, December doing that. And we spend time. It takes a lot of time. A couple of hours usually to go through it all and to get them to the point where they really, really understand what's going to happen in 2023.

2:09.0

So if you're here paying attention to me right now, I know sometimes it's like, well, Scott's just that guy.

2:15.0

But you know when you listen between the lines, the words, the wisdom of the wise cracks, boom, stuff happens.

2:22.0

If I keep you here just a little bit, I'm going to make you happy. And I know that's what you want.

2:28.0

Oh, by the way, yes, hi, it's me, Scott Smath, founder, chief motivating officer here at motivation and move.com. My job is really, really very simple. It's to drag you kicking and screaming to the place you said you wanted to go anyway.

2:40.0

Well, maybe you stumbled and bumble to got lost a little bit. It's time of year. It's going to get busy. We're going to get off track for a few months.

2:46.0

Yeah, I said a few months. It's like mid-January for most people these days.

2:51.0

Well, we try to guide you back between the lines. So you get what you want. So happiness is one of those things.

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