How are you? Happy, happy, happy Friday. How's your week? Did you work this week? I got to tell you. I think half the world, or at least in the United States of America, I think everybody's on vacation this week and all summer long. We just had to get out, didn't we? We're doing it a big way.

So today, something else in a big way, and that is your goals. It aligns a little bit with yesterday's show, the law of attraction made simple. But goals always drifting in the wind. Every time I talk about this particular way of thinking about goals, I get lots of feedback on it and decided to revisit it for today in a way during this week of transition that I'm in, make my life a little bit easier.

It is the daily boost from motivation.com, the positive boost you need every single day. It's all about this. Life begins when you move inevitably, there will be challenges along the way. It happens. Some people say, hey, I consider those challenges a test. I believe in that. I think when you change your mind and decide to go after something that you're going to be tested, it's going to be, you need to validate it. You say, yes, I don't care. Universe, whatever you throw at me, I don't care. I'm going to go do it anyway. And then what do you do? You stand up, you take a step, you repeat until you get exactly what you

want. That's how we do it. Hey, it's me, Scott Smith. Thanks for stopping my import orange Florida today. And the very next podcast you hear recorded will will be from the Banner Elk North Carolina area elevation about 3500 feet. We're going to head up there and and cool down. They're going to escape the heat like a lot of Floridians do. But the program continues to go on. I was share something with you. It's so cool about choosing to go mobile. And if you're wondering, we really are looking for a place to live. And we really don't have a time schedule. And we're very blessed to be able to do that. I mean,

literally, you're saying, yeah, until we get out and get clear and get up in the mountains, we're not even going to think about it. We'll figure it out. And maybe it'll be a month, maybe a year. I don't know. That's what we're going to be doing. So yesterday. We're holding out of the property, we're leaving our home for the last time. And it's probably an hour and a half before we pulled out my daughter calls. It's a dad. You remember, Sawyer, my grandson, he's having his VP K graduation. He's getting out of VP. Well, what is that? He's going into kind of Gordon next year. And she said, are you coming? So my first house, I am moving.

I'm packing up. My whole life is like in boxes right now. I was my first thought. And then my second thought was very quickly within milliseconds and a second. What good is packing up everything and moving into a motor coach and traveling the country, having the freedom to do the things you want to do. What good is that? If you can't go to your grandson's VP K graduation, and then go to Tijuana flats, T flats, I call it. It's a Mexican food for lunch. What good is if you can't do that? I said, yeah.

We're coming. We did those tacos were awesome. How do you want to feel? Thinking about tacos when I asked that question. On a Friday, when you ask a question, how do I want to feel life changes? It's a very, very scientific question. It digs right into your heart and soul, right into your subconscious mind. It calls out your attention and demands action. And you get to choose. So you can be grumpy and decide the death. Oh, yeah. I don't know if you'll get

it wrong. Or you can be very excited about it. I want to feel great and work to that end. Thoughts become exactly what you'd be doing. So when you ask the question, how do we want to feel on the side? You want to feel great and prosperous and upbeat and positive and happy. It happens. So heavy. You noticed airplane splike crooked. I'm a pilot. I talked to pilots all the time. And every time I do this particular pilot story, and again, we're repeating some of this stuff this week, all freshly recorded, just to contents.

The stuff I've done before with new twist on it because I learn all the time. But I talked to pilots on so I have a ton of pilot friends. And every time I do something like this, they see man, you're so right about that. It's like it's cool to hear. These are like the guys who just use all the pilot, but they know what I'm talking about, but Airflames flight crooked. Go on the internet. Go on YouTube and watch us crazy. What they call cross wind landings. But also when an airplane is heading to its destination, it's flying crooked. It's just a little bit. So if the wind is blowing a little bit. And it always is blowing a little bit. And it changed.

It changes at every altitude. Did you know that? It's different on the ground than it is at 10,000 feet or 5,000 feet or 30,000 feet is very different. And so when an airplane is flying in a certain direction, if the airplane just flew straight, I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there. It's not going to get there. It's not going to happen. So what they do say they adjust their their heading. As the wind attempts to blow them off course, they do what they call wind correction. And that means is turning the airplane into the wind a little bit.

Maybe a degree or two, not a whole lot. And you got to figure it out. It depends on the on the wind. And they are crafting everything else. You have to figure out. It's kind of goal setting. It's the same thing. If you're heading in a certain direction and things are blowing you off course, wait a second. My boss is not helping me helping me do certain things or nobody supporting me or I just take me longer to get what I want. Then do you lean into it entirely and fly directly into the wind? Not really. Now you still want to go to your destination. So you just make a little bit of a course adjustment. You kind of lean into it. So it's not going to happen.

It doesn't blow you off the other way. You can imagine that physically right now every one of us has had to lean into something. Maybe it's a balanced situation. Maybe it's the wind actually blowing at you. Maybe you think about those reporters that go out in the hurricanes leaning into the wind. You want to correct a bit when it comes to goals. Years ago, Zigg Ziggler tells the story about the basketball team. They got all pumped to go play the game. And they walked out there. There were no goals at the end there. They had no place they could go. So they had no direction. But they also tell us.

The story about an error. It might be in the same is the same story that that I heard. It's been so long since I heard it. About an aircraft being all course off course 99% of the time. Because if it flies at direct course, if it doesn't make that wind correction, it's never going to get there. And you're, I get news for you're making that wind correction right to the minute you land. In fact, if you're a pilot, you know this. You're still making wind correction when you're on the runway. When do you stop making wind correction when you tie the airplane down? That's when you do it. Same thing with goals. Same thing happens with goals.

You would prefer a straight path. I know you would. You don't even have to tell me Scott. I just want to go from here to there as fast as I can. Nothing in between. I know you'd prefer that. But you're going to run into winds. Things are going to blow you off track. And you have to just accept that. But at the same time, you have to lean into it. Your spouse doesn't agree with your plans. Happens a lot. In fact, one of the most common conversations I get in my coaching calls is, you know, my wife is not on board or my husband's not supporting me on this one. What am I going to do? And we have to figure out how not to do it.

To go into it directly, start a fight. But instead, lean into it gently and strategically and find a way to make sure we still accomplish our goals. You're bossed him any more hours. And you, you can't. Your kids, your friends, the responsibilities, they keep blowing you further from your dreams. It just seems non-stop no matter what you do, the more you want, the more you have to do. That's the reward for hard work. You know that. You get good at what you do or you decide to make a change in your life. You decide to do something different than nobody else has done. You're going to get some wind blowing at you.

You're going to happen. So we just learn to accept that it's going to happen. And we don't go completely, of course. We just lean into it a little bit. Always remembering where we're heading, what that original goal was, what we were trying to accomplish, always remembering that.

It's time for you to start thinking like you're flying the airplane instead. And not one of the fancy air buses. We're just pushed about now if you take off and let it fly itself. No, no, no, we're sticking rudder stuff, okay?

Hey pilots, you remember sticking rudder stuff? I know you haven't flown in the past year. Start thinking like a pilot. Always set a goal.

Factor in what's going to blow you off course. Keep an eye on that final destination and make those small corrections until you get where you're at. You will get there. I promise you that.

Probably right when you expect it to.

Pardon my drift into pilots, but I recently, because of COVID, so many pilots have not flown. And recently, they've had a lot of anxiety with their semi-annual recurrent training, but they do where they test them basically to see if they're going to break the airplane or not.

And many of them have been breaking the airplane. But they're learning, they're training, they're getting back into game. They're going to get back to that destination.

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