How are you? Happy Monday. Happy Christmas. Check. That one's off the list. What's next? Oh, it's New Year's Eve. Yeah, I'll be in bed by 9.30 anyway. I'll hear the fireworks at Midnight's. How do I know I'll do that?

Because that's what happens. So today we're going to talk about big ass goals. As we send off on a week, kind of a in between a Netherlands week, if you will, between Christmas and New Year's, a lot of folks aren't even around paying attention.

Others are a lot of folks coming in next week or so. But ultimately, I want to talk about some of the bigger picture stuff, things to focus on how to get what you want next year, and then really dial in this week to the nuance between the lines, because while the things that do work, I can give you the steps here.

Or the five steps you should take. It's like, okay, but I know you have which sidewalk do I walk on? I give you the step to put on a nice jacket. Okay, Scott, what color? See, it's the nuance is all that stuff that messes things up. So today we'll, and tomorrow in the next day, all week along, kind of focusing on that. So bear with me as we roll through this week, because it'll be a little bit different than we use most week. I do most weeks, but I'm going to have fun with it. My name is Scott Smith. I'm the founder of the Chief Motivating Officer here at MotivationToMove.com. Happy to have you today. Today is actually a pretty big deal. Because as of today,

well, as of about an hour from now, it's kind of weird when you're recording in advance. We complete our 16th season of the Daily Boost podcast and start season 17. Is that crazier what? So we'll start at like 4,476 episodes. That will be the first one into next year. And like I said, I'm going to go to 5,000. So we're getting there.

So I have something I want to share with you as well. If you'll give me about 30 seconds, I woke up one day with an idea in my head based on my Facebook page, DailyBoostPodcast.com slash Facebook.

Where I always ask people what your big ass goal is. And I woke up one morning, and it was resonating with me that, man, how many people are saying they don't have one.

So I went and checked. I keep all that stuff. And it was like 90 plus percent of the folks who I asked that question said, I don't know, help me figure that out. I'm working on that. That's what they said.

So it resonated with me. And so I decided in January, we're going to nuance it a little bit. We're going to get you on your goal setting experience very, very well and get it done right with something we're going to call the big ass goal challenge.

So just kind of put them back your mind. It's going to come in January. You'll hear me talk about more next week. And we'll build into that. But it's going to be a lot of fun. Very excited about that.

All right, 30 more seconds. How's your life going? Ask that question right now. I'm telling you, pay attention to me. Get over here. I know what I'm talking about. Didn't do this a long time.

A real long time. If you don't stop for a couple of minutes and say, how is my life going? And then and let the answers come in and decide in the roles and the goals of my life, how am I doing? How do it spiritually? How do you with my family, my kids, my work, everything?

How am I doing? If you don't do that, years are going to fast. And you're going to wonder what happened to your life.

So today you have an assignment is homework. When you get done with this show today with you to sit for about two minutes and say, how's my life going? And jot down a few notes. Watch the magic happen.

Things will get changed without you even trying. It's very cool stuff. All right, so let's do this thing. This nuance is a little bit through the week because one of the things that ends up happening.

If you're, I don't know where you are. Maybe you're a person who is starting out trying to find your way. What's the path to do this? You're looking for a strategy, a framework, a roadmap, whatever you want to call it. Look over. Scott, just tell me what to do. Give me the damn steps, right? Maybe you're that person or maybe your person who's been at this for a while.

You use shows like this and people like me to kind of keep you in the game, keep you thinking, give you a different way of staying motivated and inspired.

I don't know who you are. What level you are right now. But one thing I know is this is that it's always that nuance. It's always the thing that people just don't get usually what I get paid for is to clarify what you're thinking.

To read between the lines and people are very surprised when they talk to me. And I just come back with a little bit of insight you weren't thinking about.

And it's the in between. So it works. We'll work on that this week. But as a new year comes, we're going to set some big ass goals.

Teach you how to do that. I want to give you a little bit of a broad overview. This is not a goal setting list. This is not how to set goals. No, we'll do that later.

It's a refresher of what goals are and how you should consider using them. So number one, the very first thing I just want to kind of put out there is goals need to be more significant than where you are today.

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