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Daily Boost  - Clarity for Life and Work

Here's What Stops Everybody

Daily Boost - Clarity for Life and Work

Scott Smith

Business, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

You know what you want. You've got the vision. But something keeps stopping you from actually getting there. It's not lack of motivation. It's not that you aren't smart enough or capable. It's three specific psychological barriers that trip up everyone I work with. Today I'm breaking down what's really holding you back and why understanding these three things will finally get you unstuck. This is about the psychology of why we stay where we are even when we know exactly where we want to go. Featured Story After 19 years of running the same theme song, I changed it seven weeks ago. And now I'm second-guessing myself. I need your help deciding if the new one works or if I should go back to the old. Send me an email at scottatdailyboostpodcast.com or hit me up on Instagram at heyscottsmith. I'll write you back, I promise. And yeah, I see the irony. An episode about clarity, and I can't even decide on my own theme song. But that's exactly the point. Sometimes you need outside perspective to see what's right in front of you. Important Points Without specific clarity on what you want, there's a 99% chance you won't even start moving forward at all. Your current identity keeps you stuck right where you are right now, even when you know what needs to change next. Implementation isn't just action, it's integrating your new mindset into your current life and building momentum. Memorable Quotes "If you don't know what you want with specific clarity, you're going to get something else instead of what you need." "You have to become the person you're going to be in the future, not the one you are today, before you ever get there." "You don't need another book or seminar. You already know enough. What you need to do now is actually implement it." Scott's Three-Step Approach Get specific clarity on exactly what you want, not vague ideas or someday dreams, but real measurable direction forward. Shift your identity to become the person who already has what you want before you actually have it in real life right now. Start implementing by integrating this new mindset into your current life and walking across your bridge to where you want to be. Chapters 0:08 - The trampoline of psychology (and what stops everyone) 1:17 - Why lifestyle business shifts are so damn hard 2:05 - Clarity isn't optional (and why we ignore it anyway) 2:56 - Your identity is keeping you exactly where you are 4:07 - Implementation as integration (not just action) 5:28 - Walking your bridge to where you decided to go Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, so today we're going to go psychological on you. Not too deep. We're going to go down, come back up, down. Think of it like a trampoline. We're going to bounce around on the trampoline of psychology today. And the reason I want to is because there is something that is stopping you right now, something that is not really serving you, and it's stopping everybody. It's not just you. When you decide to go after something and you can't figure out why you can't get what you want, we're going to talk about that today in three very easy steps. So hang on with the ride. You're going to, getting this is going to change a lot for you. By the way, you'll notice that I'm playing my old theme song in the background. I ran this song for 19 years. About seven weeks ago, I changed it. We've had some discussions about the current one, and I don't know if you like the new one. And so I would like your help with this. So if you'd like to help me, send an email to Scott at daily boozepodcast.com, and just let me know. And I'll write you back. We'll have a conversation. I'll throw your email address away.

0:54.8

Don't worry about that.

0:55.8

Or if you're on Instagram, make it easy.

0:57.0

Just, hey, Scott Smith on Instagram and just tell me what you think. And you will hear back from me, I promise. And I do appreciate you helping. It's so hard. I need clarity, which is kind of what we're going to talk about today, right? and you're going to help me get that. Good to have you. So yeah, let's go down the road of

1:11.1

Maslow and Erickson and

1:13.8

Victor Frankel and all that stuff today, just a little bit and touch on it because if you get what

1:19.3

I talk about today, you start to see why you may have some trouble moving yourself in the direction

1:23.7

of what you want to be doing. Now, for you to understand me and where I come from,

1:27.7

understand I'm a lifestyle kind of guy. In other words, I built a business based around a lifestyle. Freedom, flexibility, do what I want to do, what I like to do, when I want to do it with, who I want to do it with. That was the whole goal 20 years ago, and I built that. And one of the goals was to make enough money to not have any financial stress. That was built into that stuff. But I got to tell you, shifting into that mindset is hard to do.

1:47.1

And I work with a lot of people. enough money to not be have any financial stress that was built into that stuff but i got to tell you

1:44.7

shifting into that mindset is hard to do and i work with a lot of people that are trying to do the

1:49.2

same thing i track those people because that's what i do and so i help them and man that's the biggest

1:53.9

job is changing them from this corporate mentality into this more freedom mentality right it's hard

1:58.9

so let me tell you what's going on with that.

2:08.7

Number one, everybody gets stopped by a lack of clarity. I'll go deeper. Specific clarity.

2:13.4

Now, this is, everybody knows this. You know this. This is everywhere. Because every coaching school teaches all their life coaches. It's all about clarity. Get clarity. Get aligned. All that kind

2:17.4

of stuff. Right. It's true. It is true. It is so true and so in our face that we ignore it. But if you don't know what you want with clarity, specific clarity, you're not going to get it. In fact, I'll go so far as to say you're going to get something else. I'll even go another step. If you don't specifically know what you want, there is a 99% chance you're not even going to start. Why?

2:49.0

Because you don't know what to do. And if you're like me, if I don't know what to do, I'm not going to waste the energy, right? So you got to get clarity. We're not talking about that today. That's a big old podcast all by itself.

2:50.6

But you need it.

2:51.4

So study that, okay?

2:52.5

Number two,

2:59.1

once you have clarity, you will get stopped by your identity. You need a shift. So what is identity? Well, think of it like this. Think every single day you go out and you have experiences

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