Fixing What Doesn't Need to Be Fixed

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Ever catch yourself tweaking and fixing things that honestly work just fine? I spent last week watching smart people waste time optimizing stuff that should just be eliminated. We do it in business. We do it in life. We convince ourselves we're being productive when we're actually spinning our wheels. Today I'm sharing the exact framework that gets anything done without the busy work. You'll learn when to optimize, when to eliminate, and why most of us do it completely backward. Plus, the three non-negotiables that make everything else possible. Featured Story My 93-year-old mom is coming to visit this week. She told me she wants to watch me record the podcast. After all these years, she's finally curious about what I actually do. Never thought I'd see the day. But it got me thinking about all the conversations I have every week with clients who are stuck. They're tweaking. They're adjusting. They're optimizing things that frankly don't need to exist in their lives at all. They're like engineers trying to perfect something that should just be thrown away. I realized I needed to share the framework that changed everything for me. The one that separates people who get stuff done from people who stay busy. Important Points The most expensive mistake you can make is trying to optimize something that should be eliminated. Stop tweaking what needs to go. Everything you've ever accomplished followed the same pattern: belief, blueprint, execution. Miss any of those three and nothing happens. Life should be boring and repeatable once you get it right. Drama is just garnish. If your life isn't peaceful, you're optimizing in the wrong places. Memorable Quotes "The most expensive and virtually useless engineer on the planet is the one who tries to optimize something that should not be optimized." "If you don't believe in your heart that you can get something done, you're just not going to do it." "Life should be repeatable and boring every step of the way. Drama should be there just for garnish." Scott's Three-Step Approach Start by eliminating everything that doesn't fit before you try to get more efficient. Clean house first, optimize second. Focus only on belief, blueprint, and execution until you have a rhythm. Don't worry about perfection until you're actually moving forward. Once you've eliminated the clutter and built momentum, then optimize only what you know you need. Not everything deserves your attention. Chapter Notes 0:15 - Stop fixing what isn't broken in your life 3:35 - The three steps that create anything you want 4:44 - Why most people never move past the blueprint 6:30 - When to reduce and when to optimize for results 8:15 - Making life boring in the best possible way 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 productivity, personal growth, motivation, goal setting, success habits, eliminate distractions, optimization, efficiency, belief and action, execution, decluttering life, reducing complexity, framework for success, getting things done, Scott Smith, Daily Boost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are you?
0:15.6	Happy, happy, happy Monday.
0:18.1	So a question for you today, and this is based on the work I did last week with some clients, are you fixing things or trying to fix things that frankly don't need to be fixed? Are you wasting some time? Maybe you don't know it or maybe you do know it, which is kind of me. It's like, I'm going to do this anyway. I know I shouldn't be, but I do it. Are you doing that? We'll talk about that today, how to become very efficient and optimize for what you should be optimizing. And also, how do you get anything done? And we'll lead into it that way. How there's three things you can do to kind of get anything done, then optimize it from there. So we'll apply it to any part of your life. It's going to be fun. It is a daily boost from Motivation to Move.com. Coming up on our, wrapping up our 19th year of doing this. Season 20 starts in January. Is that crazy or what? My name is Scott Smith. Good to have you today. My mom is 93. She's coming down here today to visit with us. I never thought I'd see my mom coming down and visiting for a week at a time. I thought, you know, those days passed when she was like 85, I guess.
1:12.0	But no, she keeps coming.
1:13.3	And all she wants to do, she says, I want to watch you record the podcast. I said, really? Why? You've never asked me. She said, well, you've been doing it all this time. I want to see you do it. And I said, all right, well, so maybe she'll be in here next week and maybe the video cameras will be rolling as well and you get to meet my mom.
1:27.6	93, man.
1:28.8	Speaking of that, on the YouTube side, we will get these shows up on YouTube this week. A lot of our audiences there now. We have added about 150 subscribers in the past month and I ain't done nothing new. So thanks for doing that. It's a Daily Booze podcast at YouTube. I'll let you know when we go live there. It's going to be a lot of fun.
2:03.8	So get ready for that. So today, a lot of, okay, I run into this all the time. I work with people throughout the course of the week. I have dozens and dozens of conversations every single week. And everybody's trying to make their life better or get stuff done or figure stuff out. That's, be motivated, all that kind of stuff, right? life gets in the way. You get out of bed and the wind blows them, what happened, right?
2:01.1	It's always trying to figure it. better or get stuff done or figure stuff out. That's, and be motivated, all that kind of stuff, right? Life gets in the way.
2:01.8	You get out of bed and the wind blows and what happened, right?
2:04.3	So I was trying to figure it out the most optimal way to make things happen. So this is a huge part of my conversation. And if I do anything, I mean, I do two things in my life. I do this podcast. I talk to you. and then I spend the rest of my time talking to people about stuff that we need to fix.
2:16.5	That's it.
2:17.3	So this came up this week and it's really powerful.
2:19.4	So I think Steve Jobs said this. the rest of my time talking to people about stuff that we need to fix. That's it. So this came up this week and it's really powerful.
2:19.4	So I think Steve Jobs said this.
2:22.0	I know Elon Musk has said this.
2:23.6	They talked about engineers, the most expensive and virtually useless engineer on the planet,
2:29.0	is the one who tries to optimize something that should not be optimized.
2:32.6	You may have heard that.
2:33.3	What that means is a lot of people spend time trying to tweak something out, trying to get things to work just right. Well, the truth is they should just get rid of it. That applies in business. It applies in just about anything. You can do that in your life right now. There's probably a hundred things you can think of without too much trouble that you're like, you know what?
2:51.0	It's kind of right. I should just leave that alone and just not even deal with it. Throw it away, just walk away, whatever you want to do with it. So we start there with that in. People want to optimize. They want to get more efficient. And these days in the world of personal growth and all the folks doing podcasts and YouTube videos, it's just so many of folks out there. and there's only so far you can go.
3:08.7	And I absolutely do not do that anymore.
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