Time to Creatively Destruct Your Life

Daily Boost - Clarity for Life and Work

Scott Smith

Business, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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End of year. Time to reinvent yourself. Sometimes tweaking what you've got just doesn't cut it. Sometimes you need to blow it up and start fresh. I call it creative destruction. This episode digs into why waiting for perfect alignment keeps you stuck. You're tired because you're not inspired. And why your current activity might be completely incompatible with your future self. Ready to stop patching and start building? This conversation gives you permission to make radical changes. No apologies needed. Featured Story I was sitting with a client who looked defeated. Completely stuck. He kept saying he was trying to figure out how to become his future self. But everything he was doing today just wouldn't get him there. He thought he could figure it out. I gave him the shortcut. Ditch it. Do something else. The relief on his face was instant. He didn't need my solution. He needed permission to walk away from what obviously wasn't working so he could figure out what would. That's creative destruction. Not giving up. Clearing space for what's next. Important Points Your current activity might be completely incompatible with your future self, and that's okay. Waiting for stars to align before making a move is exhausting and impossible. Sometimes you can't upgrade what you've got—you have to tear it down first. Memorable Quotes "The reason you're tired is because you're not inspired." "Sometimes you can't go over. Sometimes you can't go around. Sometimes you can't go under. Sometimes you're completely trapped. The only thing you do is blow it up." "Don't worry about what anybody else thinks. You know why? Because as soon as you do it, they're going to say, what took you so long?" Scott's Three-Step Approach Give yourself permission that everything might need to change—not just minor adjustments, but radical shifts in direction. Stop trying to upgrade what's fundamentally broken or incompatible with where you want to go. Embrace the scary moment of decision, then act—everything changes the second you commit to blowing it up. Chapter Notes 0:00 - New theme song and big YouTube announcement coming 1:01 - When your current self can't become your future self 2:55 - How creative destruction actually works in real life 4:39 - Give yourself grace to make radical changes this year 6:15 - Stop patching and painting what needs replacing 7:12 - The obstacle is the way: sometimes you blow it up Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: [email protected] Main Website: motivationtomove.com YouTube: youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: @heyscottsmith Facebook Page: facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: Join the Daily Boost Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	happy monday so it is that time of year when people like to reinvent themselves. Into the year, how
0:38.1	my year go? Next year, how's it going to be? Sometimes you try to tweak what you got. Sometimes
0:42.8	you've got to start brand new. It's something we call creative destruction. That is today's
0:47.2	conversation. I need a boost. I need a daily boost. I need a daily boost. How are you? It is a daily boost. My name is Scott Smith. Good to have you here today. Yeah. And by the way, speaking of creative destruction, did I just throw away the old theme song and get a new one? I think I did. I've been working on this for months now and just kind of like it. Really makes me kind of feel good. I'll hope you do too. And what you don't know as well is
1:14.4	we are going to be on YouTube very soon. It's some rehearsing time for me to get used to because I'm the guy that does this, right? I'm the guy that has to talk to the camera and push you in. I have to do this. So today, I'm rehearsing, cameras are rolling, everything's happening here,
1:27.7	and if all goes
1:28.3	well, very quickly, you get us every day on YouTube.
1:30.9	Coming soon.
1:32.1	So I was all with a client the other day, and this is really common for me to run into somebody
1:36.9	who's stuck or stalled or in neutral as good personal development talk, I'm stuck, I'm stalled.
1:42.7	All the coaches, are you stalled?
1:44.0	I can help you. Well, at the end All the coaches, are you stalled? I can help you.
1:44.8	Well, at the end of the day, we all are, right? And the conversation was this. It was, I'm trying to figure out how to become my future self. And I'm looking at what I'm doing now, and I just can't figure out how to make it work. And so the problem is what you're doing today, the activity you have going on right now, the thing that you think
2:02.0	you need to do is completely incompatible with how you see yourself in the future. Can you see that? He goes, yeah, but I thought I could figure it out. I said, I'll figure it out for you. Shortcut, boom, ditch it. Do something else. Now, does that mean I have an answer about how to do it? No, I don't.
2:16.7	And I didn't need the answer.
2:18.2	What I knew is as soon as I gave him permission to walk away from what obviously... Now, does that mean I have an answer about how to do it? No, I don't. And I didn't need the answer.
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