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Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Make Your Own Motivation

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Make Your Own Motivation As a child, I wondered why I couldn't always have my way. Mom and Dad were so mean! I couldn't wait to grow up, move out, and experience being an adult. Everything would be different - or so I thought. After stepping into the adult world, it didn't take long to realize that not much had changed. It turns out it wasn't my parents. It was life turning down my requests. Life was getting in the way. What was even worse was that I was getting in my way. I've joked over the years that if I'm the Boss of me, why don't I do what I say? Eventually, I realized having a big ass goal, being on a mission, and most importantly, motivation on demand was the solution. Motivation is a powerful, if not fleeting, tool that we all need. But we need to understand how our minds generate motivation: 1) Your physiology dictates your feelings. The easiest way to break free of a slump is to stand up, take a step, and REPEAT. Movement wakes your body up, guides your emotions, and makes anything feel possible. 2) Focus fuels your fire. If you're feeling unmotivated, you are also drifting in the wind with no direction. Shifting your thoughts in a positive direction and toward what excites you will break you out and get you moving. 3) The words you say create the emotions you feel. Negative self-talk will drag you, and everybody else, down. When you make the words, you say to yourself, internally and externally, positive and uplifting, everything changes. Words matter more than you think. You're human. Your brain isn't wired to stay motivated all the time unless you are willing to give it a helping hand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Friday. Seven. Happy. Fridays. You know, we're getting comments now.

0:20.0

Always have, but now on the YouTube channel. People are sending me notes. Happy. Friday. Scott on Friday. And they're giving me seven. Happy. Happy. Happy. It's so cool. And I give them right back to you. So hang on for the ride. So today.

0:29.0

Making your own motivation because people come to me and I go to others to get motivated and inspired. Have somebody give me a different idea about how things work. And we all do it. But we also at the end of the day have to make our own motivation.

0:41.0

We have to know where it comes from to be able to get what you want because you're inside your old hat 24 seven. You can't have somebody else there all the time. Right. So that's today's show. It is the daily boost from motivation and move.com. The positive boost you need every single day because life begins when you move. There's no doubt but then screeching whole boom.

0:58.0

Life gets in the way. It's like, what happened? Oh, what happened? I was doing so well and then suddenly that happened. That guy did this. Like I did that. Oh my God. What am I going to do?

1:08.0

What what's got to do? W. W. S. D. I need a bracelet. Right. Scott would stand up. Take a step. All right, Pete. You'll keep going until he gets what he want. Will he like doing that? Hell. No, I will not like doing. Are you kidding me? Do we like doing the things that we want to do to get the things we say we could do?

1:27.0

We say we're not weird. This is what I wanted. This is what I want. This is what I want to do. But to get me to go do it is like, what? It's really hard. That's why this show is here because every single day for the rest of my life.

1:37.0

You and me and everybody else are going to get out of bed and we're going to drag us self. All of us kicking and screaming to get what you want. Deal. All right. Hi, my name is Scott Smith. Founder Chief Motivating Officer here at MotivationToMove.com. I'm happy to have you here today. So let's get into making on this making this motivation thing.

1:57.0

As a child. God help my parents are having to deal with me because I couldn't always have my way. And mom and dad were so mean to me. And they believe that what I think they weren't. They got a great childhood.

2:11.0

I had to think back on my childhood and all the things they did. We did everything. We just camping and vacations and swimming and activities and boy scouts and all that. So we did it all and they were always there for us. That was cool.

2:21.0

But they were so mean to me. Even before I was a teenager, they were mean to me. I couldn't wait to grow up and move out of the house because I was going to be an adult. I was going to get to other experience me an adult. I could not wait.

2:30.0

In fact, so much I couldn't wait that I one day decided to leave the house and gave them about an hour and a half notice jumped on a motorcycle on a head off from a new life.

2:37.0

My new career. Everything is going to be different. A 20 hour motorcycle ride from Manassas, Virginia to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and boom. I'm in my new life. Yeah.

2:46.0

One of the smartest thing to do. But I did it. It's where I was in the moment, right? I stepped in that adult world. I began to go out there and change. I began to do things that I wanted to be doing. I was going to school. I was fighting my way through it. And I realized all these people are mean.

3:01.0

Everything is mean. I mean, it's like mom and dads are all over the world.

3:06.0

It wasn't just my parents were evil. It was everybody. Life was getting. It was getting my way. It was turning me down.

3:13.0

What was even worse? I was getting my own freaking way. I was. That was young. Yeah. I was 18, 19 years old. But I kept getting my own freaking way for 40 years after that.

3:27.0

40. Let me think about this. Nope. Not that long. Maybe 20. Okay. I don't know how old I am. Don't want to know. Don't tell me. Don't remind me.

3:34.0

So I've joked over the years that I'm the boss of me. You're the boss of you. So why don't you do what you say you want to do?

3:41.0

There's someday I'm going to do this. When someday going to happen, why don't you do it? Should happen today? Eventually I realized that having big ass goal being on a mission was what drove me.

3:51.0

And I have to tell you, this is what gets you in the driven. If you haven't done this before, if you haven't, if you're seeking for it, you may be looking for it.

3:57.0

But the truth is when you finally get that big ass goal, that big ass mission, you're on.

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