No Plan B

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Over the years, most of us have heard that anything is possible. Our mentors say, "If somebody else is doing it, you can too!" When Roger Bannister broke the "four-minute mile barrier" in 1954, 1,400 other runners followed in his footsteps. I was watching American Ninja Warrior recently, female after female climbed the 14-foot warped wall. Something impossible before Kacy Catanzaro did it in 2014. This past week as we attended the Medical School graduation of my step-daughter. I was reminded of how her journey began nine years ago, sitting on my office floor in tears. Deciding to do something that seems so far off can feel like an impossible and scary thing. Even if you have an "if they can do it, I can do it attitude." A journey of a thousand miles is always filled with doubt until you arrive at your destination. After an hour of imagining the scariest things that could happen on her journey, Alayna's tears died up. She took a breath and asked, "What should I do, Scott?" Since it seemed that she had made up her mind, had assessed all the possible challenges, and wanted it more than anything, the only question I could think to ask was, "Do you have a Plan B?" She repeated her answer dozens of times over the years as she navigated the up and downs of achieving her goal. On graduation day, I overheard her saying the exact phrase to anybody who congratulated her on her achievement, "Thank you. You know - there wasn't a Plan B. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be. I had no choice, so here I am!" We all know Alyana had a choice. We always have a choice. No, that doesn't mean that you always get what you want. But you increase your chances of success when you cut off all your other options and go for your dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	How are you? Are you ready? Man, what a day it's been, tens of thousands of people and
0:37.9	I think I talked to every single one of them on the phone or zoom this morning. All of
0:41.8	the world has been awesome folks standing up, taking a step in repeating until they get
0:46.0	the life they want, including not having a plan B. Do you have a plan B? Do you have
0:52.9	plan C, D or X, Y, Z? Sometimes having an additional plan is the reason the first one
0:58.8	didn't work. We'll talk about that on today's show. It is the daily boost from motivationamove.com
1:04.8	every single day life begins when you move but we don't care because we're going to get
1:09.5	what we want anyway even if life gets in the way and it sometimes does little little
1:13.0	chinks little little things that that maybe undermine your your plans and you have to
1:17.9	work through them. We don't care because if you decide what you want and you set a goal
1:21.2	you should get it. You're the boss of you, right? You are the boss of you just because
1:25.0	you said hey I want something I think you should go after it. So no matter what happens
1:29.3	all day long all year long forever. We shall be here every single day to help you get
1:34.3	through the day so you get exactly what you want. My name is Scott Smith I'm the founder
1:38.4	and the chief motivating officer here at MotivationDemove.com that's what I do. I'm a durable
1:43.4	character. I just kind of keep going no matter what knocks me down and over the years
1:48.2	boy things can knock you down can't they? I know I've been knocked out a few times. Speaking
1:51.8	of over the years I have developed a bit of a hobby in the past couple of years. I
1:57.1	am a mattress tougher cutter. I know it's pretty well I used to be anyway but I had a really
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