Two Days a Week

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

I got two full work days back this week. Not two hours — two days. Tasks I'd been doing manually, week after week, are now handled by AI workflows I built over the past few weeks. When I added it up, even I was surprised. Two days a week is 100 days a year. The tools are only getting better. But time recovered without a plan just disappears into longer meetings and extra emails. The real question isn't how to save time. It's what you'll build once you have it. Featured Story When the extra time first showed up, I didn't know what to do with myself. I'd finish for the day and just wander around the house. My wife asked what I was doing. I said I had no idea. I'd built these systems to give me time back, but I hadn't decided what the time was for. It hit me that time recovered without intention is just time lost differently. I had to stop, get clearheaded, and predecide what those hours were actually for. Ride the motorcycle, go fishing, build something new — but choose before the time evaporates. That shift changed everything about how I approach this. Important Points Two days a week is 100 days a year. Even if you start small, the compound savings will surprise you by Friday. Parkinson's law states that work expands to fill the available time. Without a deliberate plan, recovered hours just vanish. Stop engineering the machine and start building something with it. The tools don't create your freedom — intention does. Memorable Quotes "Time recovered without intention is just time lost differently. You have to predecide what that recovered time is for." "I got done at two in the afternoon, walking around the house with nothing to do. That's when the real question hit me." "The tools don't build things. People with intention build things. You get two days back, you decide what they're for." Scott's Three-Step Approach Track where your time goes this week. Rough estimates are fine — just notice what you're doing manually each day. Ask yourself one question: what would I build if I had two extra days every week? Write the answer down before it fades. Automate one mechanical task, protect the time you recover, and invest it in that answer. Compound it every single week. Chapters 0:02 - Wrapping the AI arc and what's coming next 1:38 - Two full work days back and how that number hit different 3:17 - Using AI for the mechanical parts of podcast production 5:10 - Wandering the house with nothing to do after finishing early 5:56 - Time recovered without intention is time lost differently 7:18 - Parkinson's law and why recovered time disappears on you 10:00 - Two days a week, 100 days a year — start building now Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Join Notes From Scott. Sign up at https://notesfromscott.com to get my personal notes—just a few mornings each week. You’ll get inspiration, fresh ideas, and early insights that often become future podcast episodes. Don’t wait—take your next step and subscribe today. Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith 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	How are you? How are you? How are you? Well, come on in here. We're rolling through this AI arc, if you will. It's kind of fun. A lot of stuff here today. We'll shift out of this tomorrow, but I hope you're learning some stuff from this and give you some ideas. And I hope I'm motivating you to dive in deeper and really take advantage of it. I need a boost. I need a daily boost.
0:21.9	I need a daily boost.
0:24.0	I need a daily boost.
0:27.1	It is the daily boost.
0:29.1	How you doing?
0:29.9	It's good to have you here today.
0:31.7	Come on in.
0:32.7	It's me, Scott Smith.
0:34.5	Have you got my perfect week planner yet?
0:36.6	I made this thing four years ago.
0:37.9	It may be five, four or five years ago, something like that. Been downloaded by thousands of people at Perfectweekplanter.com. It's just a simple thing. We need to update it because some of the stuff that's on there these days, people don't quite understand. But it is explained on the video when you download. It's a 12-minute video. So do me a favor. Do not even attempt to download
0:56.2	my Perfect Weekplanter at Perfectweekplanter.com unless you're going to watch the video that's right there on the same page, 12, 12 minutes. That will explain how to use it. You'll get the biggest benefit from it. And here's the other thing I ask of you. The first time you do it, it might be difficult. The second time, it'll take it 2% of the time it took your first time. And that 2%
1:12.2	will repeat every single week forever as long as you do it, it might be difficult. The second time, it'll take it 2% of the time. It took your fifth first time. And that 2% will repeat every single week forever as long as you do it. It really does make it easy. And I didn't, I didn't really do this entirely. I actually kind of watch what other people were doing, watch some people really managing their time well. I saw it, I adopted it, and then I wrote it down. I gave it to you. So that's kind of where it came from.
1:27.7	So go get it, perfect week planner.com.
1:29.8	So the AI arc running here for a couple of days.
1:33.3	I did want to continue talking about the fact that I got two days back, two full work days back into my life this past week.
1:44.7	Not two hours, not two full days that I've been doing manually, week after week, that AI now
1:52.3	handles as part of that workflow.
1:54.9	And it surprised me, by the way, when I added it up.
1:57.6	It probably shouldn't have, I don't think, because I kind of been building these systems
2:00.5	for a while now. I've always in a workplace automation guy. I've always leaned on computers to make things easier to give me the laptop lifestyle without the laptop so I can be free to travel and I have to look at my phone on my laptop all the time, let the bots handle things, right? I've done that for years. But the times haven't been really obvious. I mean, it was beyond what I've seen before because it's a bit autonomous.
2:19.8	It just kind of does its thing under the guide rails I've given it.
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