Get Unconfused in 3 Steps

Daily Boost - Clarity for Life and Work

Scott Smith

Business, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday we talked about fixing what's broken. Today I'm giving you the exact three steps I use with every single client to make that happen. You already know what needs to be fixed. The problem is everything feels confusing and overwhelming when it's bouncing around in your head. But when you dump it all on the table and see it clearly, suddenly you can't hold yourself back. These three steps work because they take you from confused to clear to unstoppable. No choice about it. This is how we fix things. Featured Story Every time I work with a new client, there's something I'm going to make them do. No choice. They're going to do it my way, and it might be uncomfortable. They might not want to admit what's there, but I'm going to make them do it anyway because it's the foundation of everything that comes after. We start with a massive inventory. Imagine a big table where you toss every piece of your life puzzle. Your finances, your dreams, your relationships, all of it. The stuff that sucks usually comes first. Everything that keeps you awake at night goes on that table. We don't try to fix anything yet. We just dump it out. And then something amazing happens. Important Points Taking inventory means dumping everything on the table without editing. Every resource, obstacle, and dream revealed. You already know what needs fixing. Until you see it clearly on the table, it's not blinking bright enough yellow yet. When you see life as it is and build a strategy from there, you almost can't hold yourself back. That's pure motivation. Memorable Quotes "You already know what's wrong. Until you put it on the table, it's not blinking bright enough to say caution." "Everything confusing you right now will be laid out in front of you. It's not as bad as you thought. You can do this." "Don't go for the motivation first. Go for the fix first by getting the inventory you need and seeing life as it is." Scott's Three-Step Approach Take a massive inventory and dump every single thing in your life onto the table without editing or fixing anything. Strategize by sorting through what's there, throwing away 80%, keeping the 20% that matters, and building your roadmap. Stand up, take a step, repeat. Once you see clearly where you are, the action becomes almost automatic and unstoppable. Chapters 0:02 - The three things you need to fix anything this year 0:27 - Quick favor: tell me about the new theme song 1:38 - Step one: the massive inventory that changes everything 3:38 - Step two: strategizing and building your roadmap 5:11 - Step three: action mode (you can't hold yourself back) 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: 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	Happy New Year.
0:04.1	Happy 2026. Come on in.
0:06.4	So today, if I could give you a word, not a word of the year, but a word that represented
0:11.0	something you had to do this year that would fix everything, a three-letter word, if I
0:15.9	could give you that, would that be valuable?
0:17.8	I think so.
0:18.3	I need a boost.
0:20.4	I need a daily boost. I need a boost. I need a daily boost. I need a daily boost. I need a daily boost. It is the daily boost from Motivation to Move.com. My name's Scott Smith. Happy to have you here today. Nice coming in. I know not everybody's back for the holiday from the holidays yet, but you are, and that's cool.
0:38.9	And I'll do the best I can today to keep this voice together.
0:41.0	It's been a little bit, I keep coughing. I keep kind of, it's snuffly, snarfly. You got that going on? I kind of have that going on, but we'll get the best through. So here's what happened. about about 20 years ago I started this company and the slogan I started with I mentioned last
0:55.9	a week was life begins when you move but in the past couple of weeks I was listening back
1:00.6	some old stuff I did and the theme song I had actually didn't start that way it started with
1:06.3	the words when life gets in the way as we go into 2026 that's where we are because life has been getting in the way. So a couple of quick stories, we're going to lead to a moral of the story and a lesson at the end. And you're going to say, wow, if I do that, I can change anything. Life gets in the way, huh? Over the holidays, I had a, it was tough. I had a toilet break. The handle broke. It was a fancy toilet.
1:29.6	And I looked inside. I said, I've never seen it before. I don't think I could fix that, but probably can go down to Home Depot and fix it. I went down there. Nobody had any parts to fix this fancy toilet. I went to the fancy toilet store. They didn't have any parts either.
1:40.0	I couldn't fix the toilet.
1:41.0	And my wife said, well, how am I going to pee in the middle of the night?
1:44.0	I had a problem.
1:45.8	And right after that, it was going to be 32 degrees here in the Port Orange Daytona Beach area. I have a gas fireplace. I was going to use it for the 10 times a year I get to use it. So I'm not real experience with gas fireplaces, but it wouldn't work. I had to fix it. I couldn't find anybody to help me. They wouldn't come out. So I had to figure it out myself. My fireplace broken. What am I going to do? So I dug in, got a soldering iron, and started learning how to fix a fireplace. Took me five hours, by the way. Then my battery died in my wife's car. Well, it was draining. It was parasitic bleed, I guess they
2:20.1	caught. And she said, my battery is going to die and going to be stranded. Well, she wasn't going to be
2:25.3	happy. Her toilet is broken. Her fireplace is not working. And her battery is not reliable. I had to
2:31.6	fix that, too. This was a day before New Year's Eve. And so I am
2:35.6	totally 100% completely obsessed on fixing these broken things to keep my wife happy and me happy too,
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