This Is How Happy People Think

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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This Is How Happy People Think October 17, 2025 | Episode 5205 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Ever wonder why some people seem happy no matter what life throws at them? It's not rose-colored glasses. It's not pretending problems don't exist. Happy people have a completely different way of looking at the world, and you can learn it in about seven minutes. Scott breaks down the five ways happy people think differently, starting with one truth that'll change everything: if you're alive, you have problems. The real question is what you do with them. Featured Story Scott gets real about his own happiness journey, including the day he quit drinking because it was "making me fat and stupid." He also admits his biggest frustration as a podcast host. Spoiler: it involves you not listening to episodes he worked hard on. But here's the twist. Even that frustration doesn't make him unhappy. Because he's figured out the secret happy people know about problems, action, and what it really means to shake things up. This isn't your typical motivation talk. It's coffee shop wisdom that actually works. Important Points Happy people don't pretend problems don't exist—they accept that being alive means dealing with challenges every single day. Getting frustrated is normal, but happy people know frustration means they're actually living and shaking things up instead of staying stuck. You don't have to solve every problem out there, just the important ones, then get a great night's sleep and do it all over again. Memorable Quotes "I promise you this. When you die, you will have no problems." "Dealing with problems is a privilege of being alive." "Nothing will make you happier than moving. And you can start that right now." Scott's Three-Step Approach Accept that you're alive and problems come with the territory—stop fighting reality and start working with it. Stand up and shake things up even when you're unhappy, because movement creates happiness, not the other way around. Take responsibility for solving your important problems, let the rest go, and repeat tomorrow because that's the real reward. 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	Pst. Hey, it's A-O. Just letting you know you've not visited us yet. It's okay, things are busy.
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0:30.3	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.
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1:33.2	Your future self will thank you. How are you happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, happy, Friday.
1:54.2	Good to have you. Did I hit seven? I'm not sure I hear seven's required. So every day's a Friday, I'm happy. Are you happy? Do you want to be happy?
2:03.5	Were you happy yesterday, but not today? Are you happy? It's the weekend? Are you wondering why
2:08.3	that person's happy and you're not happy? How could you be happier? Why they should be happier?
2:12.6	I don't know. How do a happy people think, huh? How do they do that? We'll talk about that today,
2:17.3	give you some ideas, some kind of a presuppositions, if you will, where you can just accept these and go, okay, if I accept this, then fine. The world's problems just kind of are what they are, and I can be happy. We'll talk about it. It's a daily boost from Motivation to Move.com. My name is Scott Smith. Good to have you here today. Yeah Mindset's interesting. You know, this podcast, come real close. Let me introduce you to an idea about
2:38.8	attention and why this podcast actually exists. Because I could go deeper. And a lot of people say,
2:44.0	Scott, dig deep. Go deep on the content. Well, we go kind of deep into more of moving you
2:49.0	in the forward direction, not necessarily giving you
2:52.3	these deep, deep, deep ideas, although, you know, certainly we do that, but, but that's not really
2:56.1	the goal of the podcast. Here's, oh, come here. Here's why it's, stick with me. Here's the goal. Have you
3:01.3	ever noticed, but sometimes you're having a great day. And then maybe out of the, just a corner your eye,
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