How To Keep Things Simple

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Get the Daily Boost commercial-free and 5 days a week at MotivationToMove.com Last week in Daytona Beach, I noticed the seasons were changing. It may be too early for the leaves to change colors, but the license plates of our winter residents are beginning to take over the roads - and they sure are busy. I like to keep life simple, so I notice when, even while beginning an exciting adventure, people seem to lose all common sense, embrace complexity, and lose track of how simple life can be. My mind drifts in observational moments like these— "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~ Leonardo da Vinci "Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated." ~ Confucius "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~ William James And possibly the most appropriate. "Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough." ~ Charles Warner Your life will get more complicated without even trying so why not… 1) Practice the rule of "Good Enough." 2) Say No. Repeat it even if it's to yourself. 3) Remember, you're supposed to be happy. Today, why not make an effort to simplify everything that crosses your path. It will make you and everybody around you happier. Get the Daily Boost commercial-free and 5 days a week at MotivationToMove.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So have you ever found yourself in the car, maybe on a road trip or at the gym on the treadmill,
0:05.0	burning some calories, thinking I need something to listen to now, and it has to be good.
0:11.0	Ben there, done that a thousand times.
0:13.4	May I make a recommendation? The something you should know podcast with Mike Carruthers.
0:18.8	Give it a try. You're going to like it. Search for something you should know wherever you
0:22.2	get your podcast. Just look for that bright yellow light bulb and get listening.
0:43.9	So for years I have said I like simple because simple works. Actually I used to just say I like
0:50.3	simple people said why? Because it just works. We're going to talk about simple today and why
0:54.6	your life needs to stay that way. If you've managed in this pandemic for the past year and a half
0:58.0	to simplify your life and you find it getting a little more crazy these days, well I'm going to
1:03.2	try to keep you back in the simple thing because it is the ultimate form of sophistication which is
1:06.8	what we talk about today. It is a daily boost from motivation to move.com every single day for
1:12.0	since 2006, nearly 50 million downloads later, tens of thousands of people jump on this show.
1:18.3	Why dreams, ambitions, desires, things had just been unfulfilled in life. They want more. They want
1:22.4	less. Whatever it happens to be. But in fact, no matter what goal you do, if it's a goal that takes
1:27.2	some time to get there, you have to work at it every single day. And a lot of it is just remembering
1:31.1	to pay attention to it or to have a tool, a tip, a strategy, an idea away to get through the frustrations
1:36.4	and the roadblocks of life and just get there. That's what this show does. And I'm happy to have
1:41.6	you here because we're going to do it today and we're going to make it simple. That's a promise.
1:45.2	My name is Scott Smith. I'm the founder and the Chief Motivating Officer here at Motivation
1:48.7	to move.com. Happy you're here today. And I apologize for my very screechy voice today.
1:53.9	It's weird. I just had lunch a minute ago, about a half hour ago, and something coded my voice,
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