Take Control of Your Calendar This Week (Before It Controls You)

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Take Control of Your Calendar This Week (Before It Controls You) October 30, 2025 | Episode 5214 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Your calendar running your life instead of you running it? Look. I've seen those AI calendar apps you're using. Five-minute blocks. Color-coded chaos. That's manager thinking, not founder thinking. Here's what nobody gets: High performers don't manage their day five minutes at a time. They hold space. They protect time. They say no without apologizing. This week I'm breaking down exactly how I went from calendar chaos to actually controlling when I work. Thursday planning. Standing appointments. Deep work days that people can't touch. And yeah, my biggest problem now? Other people who learned this system trying to move MY calendar around. Time is all you got. Somebody's trying to take it from you right now. Featured Story Ever look at your week and realize you don't even know what's happening today? That was me. Getting pulled around by everyone else's agenda. No time to think. No time to create. Just reacting. So I started doing something simple on Thursdays. I'd sit down mid-to-late day and plan the next week. Not hoping it would work out. Actually blocking it in place. Monday and Tuesday became deep work days. Wednesday and Thursday morning for coaching. Friday? Motorcycle day or whatever I want. Here's the weird part: When I started holding that space and saying no, people just... went along with it. Took a few weeks. But it worked. Now my biggest challenge? The people I taught this to trying to reschedule me. "Scott, I'm doing my Perfect Week Planner, need to move you." Nope. Not moving. Your time is all you got, man. Important Points Why managing your day in five-minute blocks is killing your ability to do creative work and make real money (and what founders do instead). The Thursday planning ritual that locks in your next week before the Sunday scaries hit and everyone starts grabbing your time. How holding space for deep work days forces people to work around you instead of you constantly moving around them—even if you don't think you have that control yet. Memorable Quotes "Time is all you got, man. That's all you got. And somebody on this planet, every single day for the rest of your life is going to try to take your damn time from you." "If you want more money, you got to get this under control. I'm sorry." "Why do I do it on Thursday? Common sense. I just noticed that a lot of y'all were trying to figure it on Friday. You're all stressed out." "This is a kind of meandering episode today, which is kind of what I do best. My whole thing is to meander all over the place." Scott's Three-Step Approach 1. Plan your next week every Thursday (mid-to-late day works best)—lock in your schedule before Friday stress hits and before the Sunday scaries make you reactive instead of intentional about your time. 2. Block your deep work days first—protect Monday/Tuesday for creative work, hold specific days for focused tasks, and make standing appointments for everything else so people move around you instead of you constantly rearranging your life. 3. Start saying no and holding your ground—people will test you at first, but within 2-3 weeks they'll just go along with your schedule because time is all you got and you need to protect it like your life depends on it. Chapters 00:00 Your Calendar Is Out of Control (And You Know It) 03:39 The Perfect Week Planner That Changed Everything 05:40 How Standing Appointments Make Your Life Easier 07:01 Why Saying No Gets Easier Every Single Time 09:07 The Thursday Planning Ritual That Actually Works 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 Get the Perfect Week Planner: perfectweekplanner.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sean has had some good ideas over the years.
0:05.0	But using Canva was a really good one.
0:08.0	Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.
0:13.0	They looked good.
0:15.0	Really, really good.
0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.
0:24.5	Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.
0:28.1	Thanks, Canva.
0:30.2	So I have a birthday coming up, and I know they say, don't worry about the age, and I'm not really,
0:35.1	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. 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. But this is 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 Truediagnostic.com and use my code, Boost, to get 20% off your entire order or subscription. That's truediagnostic.com and use my code boost to get 20% off your entire order or subscription.
1:28.8	That's Truediagnostic.com.
1:30.8	Use Boost at checkout to get 20% off.
1:33.2	Your future self will thank you. What's happening? Let's do this thing.
1:52.0	All right.
1:53.3	I had a big conversation this week about my calendar.
1:57.0	You have trouble controlling your calendar?
2:00.0	I mean, listen, I've seen some of the calendars you guys are using these automatic AI calendars. Like, oh my goodness, this is crazy stuff. It is so much simpler. Anybody who is a high performance individual who gets stuff done who does creative work and makes money and stuff like that, they're not doing what you're doing. They're not managing their day five minutes at a time. I promise you that, okay? That's a manager way of thinking. It's not a founder way of thinking. I'm going to give you a founder's way of thinking today to control your calendar and tell you what happened to me when I started controlling mine, okay? It is a daily boost. From Motovietamu de Humbolddam. Yeah, I've learned everything.
2:34.6	Who the hell cares?
2:36.1	Yeah. Welcome. Good to have here today. Is that motivating? Is that inspiring? Here's the thing. Come real close to me, okay? I have gone through years and years and years of deciding at one point just to be a motivational dude. And I said, well, I'm that kind of guy anyway. and but at the end of the day, I want to be real to you because I look on the internet.
2:52.8	I look at what everybody's doing to you because I look on the internet.
2:52.8	I look at what everybody's doing these days. And I love to be inspiring to you. And there's certainly a time and a place to do that. But this show is about trying to shake you and wake you up and say, hey, do it this way. It's simple. Go do it. and sometimes, and am I going to have fun because I'm not going to filter myself to you, okay?
3:09.5	Although I could use a filter for the camera coming up on YouTube. go do it. And sometimes, and I'm going to have fun because I'm not going to filter myself to you,
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