If You Know Your Purpose But Can't Act

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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If You Know Your Purpose But Can't Act October 22, 2025 | Episode 5208 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description You already know your purpose. You just haven't admitted it yet. Scott's betting all your friends know exactly what you're passionate about too. They're just waiting for you to finally go do it. But what if you know your purpose and still can't get yourself to take action? That's a different problem with a different solution. Plus, Scott's 93-year-old mom might make a podcast appearance. You'll see where he comes from if you hear his mom. He promises you that. Featured Story Scott's mom is almost 94 and coming to visit from his sister's place up north. On the phone, she asked if she could watch him record his podcast. "I can't believe you're still doing that. I've never seen you record it." Maybe she'll make an appearance. Maybe she won't. That's her right at 93 years old to do whatever the hell she wants to do. But here's the thing about purpose that connects to this story. Scott's been doing this podcast for almost 20 years now. He coined a phrase two decades ago that still holds up: if you don't know your purpose, your purpose is to find your purpose. Simple thinking. Disc jockey logic from years of pizza and free t-shirts. The twist? Most people already found their purpose. They're just too scared to admit it and go after it. Important Points Passion comes from you experiencing life and finding what fires you up—it's not out there waiting or assigned to you at birth. Most procrastination happens because you got yourself into something you shouldn't be doing or you're just busy with minute-by-minute life distractions. If something's in your mind, it's real and it's all about you—stop asking the internet if other people think like this for confirmation. Memorable Quotes "If you don't know your purpose, your purpose is to find your purpose." "I'm betting you already have found it. You just haven't admitted it yet." "Running faster will only distract you from your purpose even further." Scott's Three-Step Approach Slow down and get real about what you actually want—become aware of what's working and what's not instead of running faster. Forget the limitations floating around in your mind because they're just beliefs stopping you, and toss out the fear of consequences. Accept where you are today with your peaceful base, then put one foot in front of the other pointing toward your dreams—it doesn't have to take forever. Connect With Me Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast 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	Ever wondered what power is.
0:02.0	Power is transforming the sun into your own energy source.
0:06.0	Power is getting energy companies to pay you.
0:10.0	Power is enjoying your morning coffee, knowing you created the energy to make it.
0:15.0	Well, you and the colossal ball of fire in the sky.
0:19.0	Because with solar panels from Hive, the sun works for you.
0:23.0	Hive, know your power.
0:25.0	May not cover all electricity usage roof and weather dependent.
0:27.6	Paid for surplus requires eligible SEC tariff. How you doing? Come on in here. Good to have you.
0:47.9	Holy moly. Nice to have you today. Rolling through this beautiful week here. It's like 78 degrees. It's just gorgeous in Florida. Oh, you didn't hear that from me. Nope, we're closed. We have no more space in the end here. So just there we are in the cold weather. We don't have any space for you here anymore, okay? Today we're going to talk about purpose. I can talk about passion. Passion is something I like to talk about a lot. Purpose is what we're talking about today. And not this kind of the wimpy kind of purpose thing. We're actually talking about how you find it, how you kind of dial it in.
1:13.0	My guess is not to, my popcorn in the lobby and have everybody eat it. My guess is you already have your purpose right now. You just don't, well, you haven't recognized it. We'll talk about it, okay? It is the daily boost from Motivation to Move.com.
1:32.8	I talked to my mom the other day. My mom's 94. Almost 94. She's coming to visit me too.
1:38.0	She comes down once a year and I give my sister a break because she lives at my sister's house and a nice mother-in-law apartment. And she was on the phone. I said, you excited to come down?
1:41.1	She goes, yes. Can I see you record your podcast? I said, yeah, I guess. I can, you excited to come down? She goes, yes, can I, can I see you record your podcast?
2:02.4	I said, yeah, I guess. I can't you believe you're still doing that? I've never seen you recorded. I said, well, you'll be here. We can record a whole week. Maybe I should have my mom make an appearance on the podcast, huh? And she, you'll see where I, you see where I come from if you hear my mom, you will. I promise you that. So maybe we'll see what happens, okay? No promises because she might say no.
2:20.7	Because that's her right at 93 years old and do whatever hell she wants to do. Do you have a purpose? Have you figured it out? So I have a program called Face Your Passion. Face Your Passion is very simple. It's the realization I had many years ago, that there's something fishing around inside your heart,
2:21.9	something you're thinking about doing.
2:24.3	Someday, maybe, yeah, kids are gone, whatever, I'll do it.
2:25.9	But you never quite get to.
2:28.4	That's really what it is.
2:29.5	That you never quite get to it.
2:31.2	Then that's presuming you know what it is, right? But you never get to it.
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