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Daily Boost  - Motivation and Coaching

Stop Letting Others Control Your Calendar

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 β€’ 1.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Daily Boost Podcast Show Notes Stop Letting Others Control Your Calendar August 28, 2025 | Episode 5169 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Scott fires up about the one thing that'll guarantee you more time – and it's not what you think. Fresh off a client call where he got major pushback, Scott breaks down why most people are dead wrong about controlling their schedule. Whether you're stuck behind a cash register or running your own show, Scott proves you've got way more control than you realize. This episode will change how you think about time forever. Featured Story Scott shares the story of a recent coaching client who pushed back hard when asked to block his calendar in advance. The client insisted he couldn't possibly plan ahead with kids and responsibilities piling up. But here's the kicker – he did it anyway. And just like Scott has seen countless times over 20 years, when you start taking control of your time, everything shifts. The universe has a funny way of aligning when you decide what you want. Important Points You can change your schedule no matter what job you have – Scott's seen cashiers, corporate employees, and everyone in between make it happen when they decide to take control. Blocking your calendar a year in advance gives you power over 150+ days annually, and when someone tries to book you, blocked days get an automatic "no." Nobody gets to control your calendar because the minute they control your calendar, they control you – that's why Scott never allows automatic scheduling or reschedule links. Memorable Quotes "You are in control of your life, believe it or not. When you sit down and decide, this is what I do and I'm going to go out a year in advance." "Nobody gets to control my calendar because the minute they get control of my calendar, they get control of me." "Life is a whole lot more fun when you do it that way." Scott's Three-Step Approach Start blocking your working hours right now – if you work nine to five, block nine to five and add blocks for kids' activities, golf, or whatever matters to you. Block your days, weeks, and months in advance – choose your vacation weeks, buffer days, weekends, and holidays, then put them all on your calendar as recurring events. Take control of who gets access to your calendar – don't allow others to automatically schedule or reschedule appointments because that hands over control of your entire day. Connect With Me Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's happening? Come on in. Good to have you here today. Thanks for rolling through the week with me.

0:18.7

Coming up on Labor Day weekend. I think a big conference next week. I've never been to a conference. It started on a Monday of Labor Day. It'll be fun, though. Down at Disney, it got a fun. Very different conference for me. Something I haven't done before. We'll talk about it later on. We'll see. So today, I want to guarantee that you have more time. And this comes directly from a call I had about an hour ago.

0:34.8

When I got massive pushback when I asked him to do justice, and he'll listen to the show so he'll know I'm talking about it. No, I won't give you his name. But he did it. He did it. He said, I'm paying you, Scott. I'm going to listen to you. I'm going to trust you. Please do. I've done this a long time. Do what I say, okay?

0:35.6

It's good for you.

0:38.4

That didn't sound good, but it's true.

0:54.3

It is the Daily Boost. It's me, Scott Smith. Nice to have you. Yeah, doing this for 20 years now. It's such a long, long, long, long time that this has been going on. Before we get in today's show, I just want to say that I do have a private client opening right now. I don't mention it very often. I try to kind of keep it limited as not to abuse you with a sales pitch. But if you

1:16.9

listen to me and I resonate with you and you'll want more freedom-based, focused life like I like

1:22.0

to teach and possibly maybe building a sustainable online business, I will say of at least 10K

1:25.7

a month to start. We hit that number

1:27.6

20 years ago and soared way past that a long time ago. But if you'd like to do that, we should talk. I call it, do what I do coaching because I don't teach anything but what I do. So if I resonate, if you like the freedom lifestyle, if you want to make some money online, be sustainable, be an influencer kind of thing. Send me note. Scott at Motivation Move.com. Just tell me how I might be able to help. And if I think I can, we'll have a conversation and we'll talk about that. But only if I can. Otherwise, I'm not going to do it. That's how I roll. All right, let's talk about getting more time. So you probably have downloaded my Perfect Week planner at some point. If you haven't, go get it. Perfectweekplanter.com. Get the concept of how we take control over a week. You may have heard me talk about my pyramid planning schedule. What that means is I kind of ramp things up. I hit Mondays. Hardly anything happens on Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I get very busy and hardly anything on Friday.

2:14.4

So it's a fear of me toward the middle of the week. A lot of people say, Scott, that fits you. I can't do that. Yes, you can. I don't care what job you have. You can begin to change your schedule. I have done it so many times. I don't care if you work for somebody else and you're stuck to see a standing in front of a cash register.

2:15.4

I don't care what it is.

3:08.2

I have seen this so many times when you begin to decide that you want to change your schedule, change how you roll, change how you live your average perfect days. It may not happen today. It may not happen tomorrow, but it will happen. Sometimes you get a whole new job. Don't even see it coming. Sometimes the universe just aligns and goes, you know what? I wanted this. That wasn't going to work. Let me give you something else. So I want to take that off the table. If you think that your life and your schedule is different, Scott's talking about something he has built over the years and he does that and I can't do that. You're wrong. You can. How do I know? Because when I started, I didn't do it either.

3:25.2

I created it. That's an amazing thing about thinking this way. It comes your way if you will start to create it. Most of what I do in my coaching programs is kind of hold the space for people to let it happen. They don't believe it's going to happen when they come in the door. They get excited and then we You got to hold the space for them. Some people stay with me for years and we just keep expanding, expanding, expanding.

3:26.0

So you can do it.

3:26.9

Just trust me on this one, okay?

3:28.2

So let's talk about this time thing.

3:29.8

A quick story.

3:38.1

I was talking about time and controlling time, kind of the same conversation you and I may have.

4:36.1

And I said, do you block your days like for the rest of the year? He said, no, I don't do that. I said, why not? Oh, I have stuff to do. I have, you know, my kids and I have all this stuff going on. I can't possibly do that. I said, sure you can. If you went Fridays off forever, just start blocking Fridays. I get it. You may not have that ability, but you may be remote. You may be more like me where you can take a Friday, or you may have to work someplace and you're stuck. You're not going to get Fridays. But like I said, it can happen eventually. But if you don't take the time to block out the days in advance, you're going to miss out. You ever try to go to a concert or sporting event or something like that? And suddenly you notice all these people there that bought a ticket way before you did to the point that you couldn't even get in. I do my schedule a year in advance. And I have it on my calendar. It's a recurring thing that pops up and tells me, block your calendar. In fact, I'll probably go do it again. I think I'm blocked out through 2026 right now. What do I block? Every single Friday is blocked off. Every single Monday is blocked off. I consider them buffer days for me. I can do whatever I want on those days,

4:40.0

but they're blocked off. Every weekend is blocked off. Every calendar or every holiday is blocked off

4:45.2

in advance. 150 plus days a year blocked off that I control. Does that

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