Finish Your Day Before It Starts

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Finish Your Day Before It Starts June 4, 2026 | Episode 5471 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Most mornings start with you reacting. Email pulls you one way, somebody's crisis pulls you another, and by noon the day is running you instead of the other way around. Years ago a wealthy boss handed me a set of Zig Ziglar cassettes that changed how I work. One idea stuck harder than the rest, and I've lived by it every single day since. It's not about cramming more into your schedule. It's about knowing where you're headed before your feet hit the floor. Press play and I'll show you exactly how. Featured Story I was about 24, working for a wealthy boss who saw something in me he couldn't quite tame. Instead of fighting it, he got smart. He handed me a Nightingale-Conant album — twelve Zig Ziglar cassettes called See You at the Top. Back then you couldn't just download this stuff. A set like that ran a couple hundred bucks, and I couldn't have afforded it. He gave it to me anyway. That weekend I binged it before binging was cool. One line buried in those tapes rewired how I run my life, and I still use it every single day. Important Points Your day shouldn't even begin until you know the one meaningful result that pulls you closer to your bigger goals. Finishing your day before it starts isn't about packing your schedule; it's about deciding your direction first. When you know where you're headed a year out, the daily chaos stops feeling like an emergency and starts shrinking. Memorable Quotes Finish your day before it begins — that one line from Zig Ziglar quietly shaped everything about how I work today. My day should not begin until I know the meaningful result I want, the one that gets me closer to my ultimate goal. All the little crazy stuff spinning around you every day is insignificant, and once you see that, you can let it go. Scott's Three-Step Approach Before today even starts, look ahead into tomorrow and decide the one meaningful result you want to walk away with. Then stretch that same thinking out across a month, a year, even five years, so you always know your true direction. When chaos hits today, check it against that direction; if it doesn't move you forward, finish it and move on fast. Chapters 0:47 - Why I connect to a call at the exact second 1:30 - The no-pitch inner circle happening June 11th 3:32 - The Zig Ziglar tapes that changed how I work 5:35 - Finishing your day before it even begins 6:30 - How over-planning my days used to blow me up 7:30 - Stretching the plan out a month and five years 8:50 - Why the daily chaos really doesn't matter much Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify If you enjoy the Daily Boost, you might like Notes From Scott. A few mornings each week, I send a short note with something I've been thinking about or noticing lately. Sometimes those ideas turn into podcast episodes later. You can sign up at https://notesfromscott.com. Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Some follow the noise.
0:03.3	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:05.4	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
0:09.3	Whether it's the funds-fueling AI or crypto's trillion-dollar swings,
0:13.8	there's a money-side to every story.
0:16.5	And when you see the money-side, you understand what others miss.
0:22.3	Get the money-side of the story., you understand what others miss. Get the money side of the story.
0:25.3	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:30.3	How are you?
0:31.1	Well, happy Monday.
0:32.4	I hope you had a great weekend.
0:33.6	I certainly did.
0:35.9	I'm going to share my positive energy with Utah a little bit.
0:36.5	I had a great time. Uh, uh, uh, uh, I only have 13 minutes. I have a call share my positive energy with Utah a little bit. I had a great time.
0:42.6	Uh, uh, uh, I only have 13 minutes. I have a call in 13 minutes. This show will only be less than 13 minutes long, for sure. I need a boost. I need a daily boost. I need a
0:52.8	daily boost. It is the daily boost from Motivation to Move.com. That's my place where I spend my time. Motivation
0:59.4	to Move.com. All the stuff, the podcast, more about me, stuff like that. You can go there and get that.
1:04.9	I just think about people that do the work that I do, coaching, consulting kind of work.
1:09.1	And I do just do it a lot. I do tens of thousands of people now.
1:28.1	We have this thing about being on time. So to the second, by the way, it's so funny. My wife laughs at me. I have a call coming up and I will wait. I'll have clock in front of me to the second and I will push connect a couple of seconds before just to connect at the right time. It's just, yeah, it's psych, it's psychotic.
1:28.8	It really truly is.
1:45.2	I mentioned last week we're going to get together for this thing, this workshop, this webinar, this non-sales thing called an inner circle. Listen, I'm, I've done sales my whole life and I just don't want to over pitch and I don't want to chase you and I don't make feeling comfortable.
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