Time to Focus Bigger?

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The older I get, the more I fiddle with small things that drive me crazy but keep me busy. And I do it with the full knowledge it’s not the best use of my time, below my pay grade, and distracting from big stuff I should be doing. Over the years, I’ve noticed almost everybody I know does the same thing. I’ve also learned it doesn’t have to do with procrastination as much as getting a quick win and a short-term payoff. Yes, the reward for more significant projects is getting what you want, but check off your list of little stuff is distractingly intoxicating. It makes you feel good all day but keeps you awake a night. The solution is to think bigger. As I work through my day, I focus on the biggest, broadest, and most important mission in my life. Is it family? Is it your health? Do you want to make more money? Is it time to give back more? When you have a great picture painted in your mind, your mission becomes your focus, and you will do whatever it takes to move closer to that vision. That’s why - “I work on BIG things I love, not SMALL things that drive me crazy.” The small stuff is going to get done. If not, it probably doesn’t matter. Big stuff does matter. Imagine the impact you will have on your life and the world by focusing on big? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are you? Happy, happy, happy, happy Friday. There is no limit to the number of
0:20.4	happiness you can put on your Friday. It should be a happy super fun day. Get
0:23.4	other enjoy yourself, blow off the work we get in the weekend, have a good time
0:26.3	enjoy summertime, make it blast, get in an inner tube and float down a mountain
0:30.5	creek here in the great Smoky Mountain National Park watching kids do that
0:33.5	right in front of me right now as I record a podcast of all things. So are you
0:37.7	thinking big enough? Are you thinking tiny? Are you caught up in the
0:40.8	minutia? Time to get out of the minutia and think big, think broad, think
0:44.8	cute, if you will. Talk about that today. It's the DailyBoost from MotivationAboot.com.
0:49.4	The positive boost you need every single day. I just believe one thing. If you
0:54.7	stand up and take a step and repeat, and you keep on going and keep on being
0:58.6	flexible and not give up and just keep sitting, I'm going to get what I want.
1:01.7	You keep working at it. You're going to find your way as long as you choose to
1:05.1	keep moving and not stop. Why would you stop anyway? Why would you do that?
1:09.7	Never been any sense to me. You let you just change your mind. I mean if you decide
1:13.0	you really truly want something, why would you ever stop before you got it?
1:16.2	You would simply come here, come here a second. Let me give you a little insight
1:20.9	about getting what you want in life, right? I learned this a very, very long time ago.
1:24.4	It was huge for me because I had to really, really recognize that I had a problem
1:31.4	because I'd really want something. I have this dream I'd make it up. I'm going to go for it,
1:34.6	but then I find I wouldn't push myself all the way through. One day I realized there was
1:39.4	somebody else who wanted it more than me. They would get it and I wouldn't.
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