Why Does Life Get in The Way?

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

If you knew me as a child, one thing would be true; that I was 100% a non-adult and would maximize my time getting away with being cute and funny. That’s what kids do - and I love it. Children don’t generally ask for permission or forgiveness. That’s has nothing to do with what they want to do. It never enters their mind. It doesn’t matter if it’s a good or bad decision. Once a child decides on their path, nothing will stop them. Most times, exploring Life isn’t an issue. Unless it is dangerous when most parents say— “Oh, they’re kids. Let them have some fun…” “They have to learn somehow…” “They’ll grow out of it someday…” But sometimes, parents intervene, stop the madness, and crush another childhood dream. While the kids may not know it at the time, Life just got in the way — something worthy of a temper tantrum of epic proportion, and that leads to a realization. “Someday, when I grow up, I’m going to do what I want to do, and you won’t be able to stop me.” Fast forward a few years, and the day arrives that every child steps into the real world - only to find out Life has built a big wall in front of everything they ever wanted, and it seems to stop them at every turn. And forget that instead of letting you run free in the world, your parents passed their responsibility of getting in your face and denying your dreams to people who call themself Boss, CPA, Tax Man, Grumpy Old Guy… Shall I go on? Life. It can be a tricky thing that can shut down your dreams, make you turn on your autopilot, and lead you to count the days until you get to retire and have fun again. Or maybe… What if it was an imaginary wall? Nothing more than an illusion? What if all those people who are stopping you don’t care about you at all? Are they just on autopilot too? What if the reason Life gets in the way is to clear the road for folks like you to follow your dreams while the others are building fortifying the wall? Always remember, when Life gets in the way, YOU are the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy, happy, happy Monday. How are ya? Woo-hoo. I have some of y'all right now. I can
0:21.6	smell you from here. You went out this past weekend at a holiday party and you're just
0:25.8	getting over it, aren't you? That's okay. That's okay. I have done it myself. I'm gonna try not to do
0:31.3	it this year. I'm really, that's trying not to. And so far, so good. It is a daily boost from
0:36.1	motivationabove.com. So why does life get in the way? Why does it? Why when you want to get something,
0:41.2	it just boom, it's their life. It's been sent this for years, but why does it get in the way? Well,
0:46.0	chat about that today and I can't tell you how to get it out of the way, but I can tell you how to
0:50.0	kind of help you go the way that you want to go. Okay. It is a daily boost from motivationabove.com,
0:56.8	positive boost. You need every single day. It's practical as well. My name is Scott Smith,
0:59.8	Founder Chief Motivating Officer here at MotivationAmoved.com. Yeah. And a guy with a very common name,
1:06.9	the very uncommon sense. And here's the thing. A lot of people coming in these days and they're
1:10.6	trying me out right now. They're thinking, okay, who the hell is this guy? He's got this radio
1:13.6	voice thing. Like you're a bunch. And he talks really fast and he's upbeat, he's positive,
1:20.0	and yet he's got these, he's kind of tried funny and he's dramatic and he's, well, that's because
1:24.7	we don't take our two self-too-seriously around here. I just, listen, life is short and the longer
1:29.5	you live, the more you realize that I was way too serious, like even two months ago. No, we don't
1:34.8	do that. We have a good time. And if I'm not your thing, it's cool. That's cool. But I encourage you
1:38.8	to hang on for the ride because we mean no harm. We come and we're, you know, in peace.
1:45.3	And there's planet Scott thing we have here. So come on in for the ride. Let's have a good time
1:49.2	today. We have a nice show and a couple of shows for you this week as well.
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