Running Your Life Like a Business

Daily Boost - Clarity for Life and Work

Scott Smith

Business, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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You make smart business decisions all day long. ROI calculations. Risk assessments. Strategic planning. Then five o'clock hits and you clock out. Suddenly you're just winging it with your personal life. Wild, right? I spent years consulting business owners on quarterly goals and customer journeys. One day a successful client had this lightbulb moment: "I wish my personal life was this organized." That's when it clicked for me too. The same tools that build million-dollar businesses work for building the life you actually want. No separation needed. Just one you with one life that all blends together. Featured Story I'm sitting with a client mapping quarterly revenue targets and conversion rates. He's taking notes. Nodding. Excited about the plan. Then he stops with that look. You know the one. That millisecond when something just clicks in your brain. He says, "Man, I wish my personal life was this organized. I feel like I'm just making it up as I go." I laughed and said, "Well, we all are, aren't we?" Important Points You are one person with one life, and everything blends together whether you admit it or not. Vague goals get vague results, but specific goals get specific results. "I want to be happy" means nothing. "I'm at the gym at 6 a.m. three days a week" is a system you can actually build and measure. Positive ROI or die applies to your life just like it does in business. If you're spending 60% of your time for 10% satisfaction, that's terrible ROI and you wouldn't accept it in business, so why accept it in life? Memorable Quotes "Every day you and I make smart business and job decisions. ROI calculations, risk assessments, strategic planning. And then at five o'clock we clock out and what do we do? We wing it." "You wouldn't invest in your business and continue to get negative returns, would you? But so many people do it in their life." "If you don't know who you are, you cannot build a life that fits you. Just like a business. If a business sells the wrong product to the wrong customer, they do not have a business." Scott's Three-Step Approach Define your avatar. Get specific about who you are right now, not who you were five years ago or who your parents think you should be. What lights you up? What drains you? When do you feel most like yourself? If you don't know who you are, you cannot build a life that fits you. Design your product. Decide exactly what life you want with specific details, not vague wishes. Transform "I want to work out" into "I'm at the gym at 6 a.m. three days a week for 45 minutes." The more specific your solution, the easier it is to build because everything else just falls away. Build your system. Create daily non-negotiables and predictable habits that deliver results. Your habits absolutely dictate your success and happiness in life. If you don't have a system for delivery of you as a person, you're winging it and that's negative ROI all day long. Chapter Notes 0:03 - Clocking out and winging your personal life 0:48 - Smart people plan now, take holidays later 1:27 - The client meeting that changed everything 2:47 - Money matters, but so does staying married 5:01 - What you measure matters in life and business 5:39 - Your personal avatar: who are you really? 6:54 - Getting specific about the life you want 8:24 - Systems beat winging it every single time Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: [email protected] Main Website: motivationtomove.com YouTube: youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: Join the Daily Boost Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I have a birthday coming up, and I know they say, don't worry about the age, and I'm not really, but I am a little concerned about what they call my biological age. That's the age of my cells and my organs, because I recently learned that's the number one predictor for serious disease, like heart disease and cancer and dementia and a whole lot more. Iick. So when my sponsor, True Diagnostic, sent me a true age test. I was like, yes, let's do this thing. It's a simple at-home test.
0:23.6	It helps you uncover your true biological age. You get personalized insights and you take control of your health, basically. Did you know, by the way, that if your biological age is just five years older than your actual age, your risk for major disease goes up by 30 to 50 percent? I didn't know that. It's a little scary.
0:38.5	But this good news, I guess, up to 90% of biological aging is driven by lifestyle so you can change it. I'm really excited to see my results. I'm a little scared, but I'm also really motivated. If you care about protecting your health and you want to find out what your real age is, head over to true Diagnostic.com and use my code, Boost,
0:55.7	to get 20% off your entire order or subscription.
0:58.7	That's Truediagnostic.com.
1:00.8	Use Boost at checkout to get 20% off your future self.
1:04.4	Well, thank you.
1:08.5	You know what's crazy?
1:10.6	Every day, you and I and lots of other people make smart business and job decisions.
1:15.7	ROI calculations, risk assessments, strategic planning, things like that.
1:19.0	And then at 5 o'clock, we clock out and what do we do?
1:22.2	We wing it.
1:23.2	I need a boost.
1:25.6	I need a daily boost. I need a boost. I need a daily boost.
1:28.0	I need a daily boost.
1:30.2	I need a daily boost.
1:33.6	How are you?
1:35.3	It's me, Scott Smith.
1:36.1	Good to have you here today.
1:36.9	I love this time of the year because the daily boost is essentially about reminding you
1:42.2	every single day of the goals that you set, what you're going
1:44.9	after, how you want to live your life, the choices you've made, and if life gets in the way, we just boost ourselves right through it. That's what this is all about. And this time of year, I think we fall into two camps. You are either the smart people, because I'm in that room, the smart people in the room are not dwelling on what happened this year. We're looking at next year, but what we can make happen. We're planning right now, get it out of the way so we can take some holiday time off and then enjoy and get busy in January. The not smart people in the room, I'm going to say it like that. You guys are planning your Black Friday adventure, and that's awesome because people like me that are business owners, we need you out there spending your money.
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