So, What Do You Do?

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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So, What Do You Do? Two people came into a restaurant and walked up to the bar. While it sounds like the setup for a joke, what's about to happen is much more serious. My friend and New York Times Best Selling Author, Joel Comm, has a favorite question for times like these - So, What Do You Do? Asking that simple question can propel hours of conversation - as proven by my client. While attending an event, she was standing at a bar when the gentleman next to her asked, "So what do you do?" Her quick response was to say, "Anything I want!" Obviously, her answer caused question marks to rise from her new friend's ears as curiosity rose. Frankly, my client's answer wasn't the defacto narrative she had spewed for years. She's nearing an early retirement, and her next phase is unclear. Still, she knew one thing— she wasn't going to talk about the past-- and that scared her to death. She was also fearful of what others will think, say, and do about her response. She should not have been. Asking, "So, what do you do" is an excellent door-openers that allow us to not talk about ourselves and express interest in others - something everybody loves. It's also an opportunity for you to give an honest answer that will likely stimulate the imagination of the person you are speaking to. Talk about a great conversation starter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	That may happen. Happy, happy, happy Friday. If it's Friday when you're listening, happy
0:18.8	Friday. So two people walk into a restaurant and they step up to the bar. It sounds like
0:24.9	a set of her joke doesn't it, but I assure you what happens next is a whole lot more serious.
0:29.5	I have a friend, his name is Joel Calm. He's a New York best New York Times bestselling
0:33.5	author. And he has a favorite question. He asks people he wrote a book about it called.
0:38.0	So what do you do? It's a great way to open doors. We'll talk about that. But I have a client
0:43.0	who has asked that question and her answer changed her life. And it was so simple. They're
0:48.2	so cool. I'll share it with you today. And I'm thinking it'll probably change yours too.
0:52.7	As that kind of power hang in there. It is. The Daily Boost from MotivationDevoved.com
0:59.7	Life begins when you move. I was contemplating motivation today because I'm kind of obsessed
1:04.0	by it way back in the beginning. I was like, OK, I can motivate myself. I can motivate anybody
1:08.2	else. And very quickly within like two and a half hours, I figured out that wait a second,
1:11.4	life gets in the way. Now what are we going to do? The disruption shows up. So I kept looking
1:15.3	for I said, OK, well, is it inspiration? I said, Oh, not really. It's a motivation comes before
1:20.2	inspiration for sure. But what comes before that? Where does motivation come from?
1:25.0	At age old question comes from deep in the mind. And lately, I've been digging into cravings
1:32.2	because you crave certain things in your life, don't you? And what I notice is that when we
1:36.8	crave certain things, if you use it for good and not evil, it kind of leads because if you crave
1:40.6	a good thing, it kind of leads to that motivation you want. Right? We'll talk more about that here
1:44.2	in the future because the whole goal is this. It's really simple. Whatever dreams and desires you have
1:50.3	and usually get them because you deserve them. Why? Because you're breathing. That's it.
1:56.2	But it's going to take a little bit of challenging work throughout every single day to overcome all
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