How are you? All right, here we go. Man, it's been busy around here. Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy. We had a lot of racing in Daytona, the Rolex 24, the Daytona 500 now. My time of the year is arriving. Bike week is about ready to arrive. I went to

a bike toberfest. I bought a new motorcycle shortly after that. So now I get to go to bike week and I'm just going to be under

up to destination Daytona and I'll be back a little later on today and she'll say, give me the credit cards. I say, Huh? What I need to give me the credit card? Come on. It's something that bike needs. It's a brand new 2021 Harley Davidson road king. It's a starter kit. You know what I mean? All right. She's going to hold me accountable because she's going to say, I pay the bills. Give me the credit card. And that's what I'm talking about today. We're going to talk about credit card. All right. No, we're going to talk about being in Daytona.

Accountable. Hmm. Maybe Friday and slip there. Yeah. We'll talk about being accountable today. Because you know, one of the things that happens, I bear with me for a second here. One of

the things that ends up happening is this as a guy who does what I do, I work with a lot of people, coaching clients and consulting clients and groups and all that stuff. And nine times out of 10, people will eventually come to me. When they come to me, they listen to show for a long

time. They'll come to me and they'll get on the phone and we will agree that they want to work with me. And at some point, I'm not going to say everybody, but probably 20% of them will say,

this, Scott, I want you to hold me accountable. And I'm like, Oh, no, it's not, this is not a good thing. Because I've learned something. I have learned that when somebody needs somebody external of them to hold

themselves accountable, like me, the minute I do, I get three tries. And by the third one, I'm fired. Now I actually sign people who say that to me, not everybody with the ones who say that you might said, you're going to sign an agreement. You asked me to hold you accountable. So I can remind you of it when you do. Okay. We'll talk about that

today a little bit. And what I think the solution is, although you may have already figured it out, darn it. I gave it away.

How are you? I'm happy to have you today. My name is Scott Smith, founder, chief motivating officer here at Motivation to Move.com. The Facebook group is awesome. You should check that out. It's really

as cool. I mean, it's just a people to kind of do it of themselves. It's a neat place to go. It's a safe place. It's a positive place. It's

upbeat. It can be funny. It can be entertaining. It's like it's like me on Facebook. It is daily boost podcast.com slash Facebook to make it easy for you.

All right. I think we should talk about being accountable. So over the years, I've learned something.

I have witnessed people set themselves up for failure by what may seem to be a wise choice.

When you set a goal, you make it public. You tell everybody you know so that they can support you. Have you heard that before? And I am not in

disagreement with that. I really am in agreement with saying things publicly. But you got to be careful because it bites you in the ass.

Sometimes things change. Timing changes. Sometimes you got distracted. It happens. Right. You didn't. Maybe you didn't mean what you're going to be doing. And you

shouted out publicly. And before you know, you got shouted down, I tell people, be really careful. If you know exactly what you're going to do and you are 100% committed to it, yeah, go ahead. Tell everybody in the world

to hold you accountable. But you better do it. You better do it. So it's a great tool. I totally agree with it. But at the same time, I think it's it's like anything else in what we do here.

There's a couple layers to it. Everything is layered. You have to know where to put it in there. And if you put it into fast, it could be depotivating. I guess a good way to say, huh?

So my experience, it just hasn't worked so well. And it doesn't really work well for me on long term goals. And the reason is because anybody outside my close relationship doesn't really know me well and I've

understood what I'm going through and what I'm doing. They just don't know it. That makes it kind of challenging for them for people around me to provide support in meaningful ways. It's difficult.

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