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Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Turn Obstacles Into Opportunity

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Turn Obstacles Into Opportunity Have you ever wondered how much easier things would be if you didn’t have to think so much? What if the future or your past didn’t matter? Imagine if you didn’t worry about the possessions, success, or drama of others? What would happen if you believed that YOU were in control?  Now you are starting to think like a Stoic Philosopher. Stoicism is about paring down and simplifying. They eliminate unproductive traits that define the majority of the population. One of the most common is turning obstacles upside down, creating opportunities, and seeing them as teachable moments. For a Stoic, every bad thing becomes a new source of good.  Marcus Aurelius said it this way,  “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in your way becomes the way.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's happening? How are you? Happy, happy, happy Monday! Here we go! Pan, I hope you had a good weekend and I hope you're ready for an awesome week because it's gonna be great if you wanted to be that way or it will be the other way depends on what you want.

0:26.0

So today we're gonna spend a little time talking about these challenges you're gonna have this week. It's gonna happen and how to flip them around a different way of thinking for you and flipping them around into a new opportunity if you will. A learning if you will.

0:40.0

Make things go a little better for you. It's gonna be kind of fun. Hang on for the ride.

0:43.0

It is a daily boost from MotivationAmoved.com. The positive boost you need every single day. Life begins when you move. Life gets in the way. We stand up, we take a step, we repeat until who's we by the way?

0:58.0

Who's we that stands up, takes a step and repeats and keep going until you get what you want? Because you're the boss of you, why would you stop before you got what you want anyway because somebody said you can't do it, it's gonna be hard oh my god.

1:08.0

Oh, who's the we? Well, the we is me and you and all those other tens of thousands of people in this world who have figured out that as long as we keep ourselves moving no matter how bad we fail no matter who gets in our face no matter who says something bad to us no matter what's on the news doesn't make any difference.

1:25.0

As long as we think about what we want and commit ourselves to going after it and every single day do the best we can to keep moving toward that goal we're gonna get it.

1:33.0

If you're that kind of person you're my kind of person I love you we could spend some serious time together doing stuff or hang it on the beach doesn't really matter if you're not that kind of person listen for a while adapt that attitude watch what happens your life will change when you just say hey I don't care what gets in the way it's not gonna stop me I just keep going.

1:50.0

How are you my name is Scott Smith I'm the founder and the chief motivating officer here at MotivationAmoved.com I share a quick story with you.

1:59.0

I've told this story before I don't think here though I'm on my own lawn.

2:05.0

And whenever I say that it's kind of weird it's like I'm on my own lawn people say what you still mowing your own lawn.

2:10.0

I don't have to mow my own lawn I don't have to and afford to get somebody to mow my lawn I've done that before I got cut my own lawn.

2:18.0

But every time I say it I cannot tell you how many people say you still you got better things to do the mow your own lawn you don't need to be doing that pay somebody to mow your lawn for you.

2:29.0

And I say yeah but but I like mowing my lawn.

2:33.0

Oh God could you like mowing the lawn you live in Florida and I can never it never works I can never ever explain so I found the thing that explains here's what happens and I telling you this for a reason.

2:42.0

I say here's the thing I can't get away from.

2:45.0

I don't know if it's being outside have my feet on the ground.

2:49.0

The buzz of the mower I don't know what it is but I get so many ideas.

2:54.0

I'm out there for about an hour and I get so many ideas flowing into my head half the podcast I get come from when I mow the lawn.

3:00.0

I ideas I get about vacations and jobs I want to do and rent businesses I want to start it comes from mowing the lawn.

3:06.0

And I said for any of the days that you have a man I get all these good ideas and he stopped in his tracks and he said.

3:11.0

Oh I get that you need to keep mowing the lawn.

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