Why You Don’t Need a WHY

Daily Boost — Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Business

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Why You Don’t Need a WHY A while back and friend and I were chewing the fat about getting what we wanted out of life. It’s a common topic among my friends and should be among yours. It makes sense; what you focus on is what you get - right? As we talked, I realized that as I’ve bumbled and stumbled my way through a very colorful life, I’ve also stumbled upon a simple idea… Getting what you want in life requires that you know what you want in life. But what happens when you have no idea how the best things arrived in your life? I get that kind of thinking blows away the theory of WHY most of us talk about. Yes, your WHY is why is going to get you through the tough times of life. Sometimes it’s the only thing that will. But in my world, I’ve learned something else… Sometimes, the most happiness we find in life comes when we’re entirely unaware of WHY we are doing whatever we are doing. Huh? And I can’t tell you how often my wife has asked, “Why are you doing that?” My answer is usually, I’m not sure. I guess it needed to be done. So, as I sit here listening to ‘Girl Named Toms’ new Christmas album, I can’t help but wonder what magic you are missing out on because you are spending too much time seeking a mystical WHY instead of honoring the choices you have already made in your life. My Scott Logic tells me that when you explore the possibilities when they arrive in your life, without thinking about it, and go with the flow, you will be happier - even though you might not admit it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are ya? Happy Wednesday. It's the day that I asked the question to myself. You can have a
0:21.1	today too. What can I do? Frustrating moments sometimes today trying to get what you want in life,
0:25.7	trying to get the big ass goals? Don't know how, just say, oh, great. I don't know how. I'm
0:29.6	feeling kind of stupid today, but what can I do, and you'll come up with the answer? Oh, you don't
0:34.4	need to why, by the way. No, you don't. Mm-hmm. We're talking about that today. Why you don't need a
0:39.2	why? I know it's popular to need a why, and everybody has their lesson about that, and I believe in
0:43.3	needing a why, but at the same time, I don't think you need a why for everything. In fact, I sometimes
0:47.2	think the best parts of life show up when you don't know why to help you do that, okay? You agree?
0:51.2	I bet so. It's a daily, what? It's a daily boost from motivationmove.com, the positive boost
0:56.8	you need every single day. Can you believe? I mean, a simple concept of stand-up take a step
1:03.2	and repeat and keep going to you get what you want. Why would you stop before you got it anyway?
1:07.2	Simple concept that started in right at the end of 2004 when I discovered podcasting.
1:14.0	And now here we are, wrapping up, man, a whole bunch of episodes. It's crazy stuff. This is just
1:18.8	going on forever, but you know, it's, it's the basic rules, right? As life begins when you move,
1:22.9	we all know that. Take some action, massive action, massive, important action, apply yourself,
1:27.0	go out and do it. We all know that stuff, right? But it's got to, how do I do it? I got to cook the
1:33.1	turkey. I know. I know. Simple concept, but if I can keep moving forward in some direction,
1:41.6	a little bit every single day, you're going to get what you want. That's what it's all about.
1:46.2	How are you? My name is Scott Smith. I'm the founder of the Chief Motivating Officer here at
1:50.4	MotivationMove.com today. We are going to talk about something controversial today.
1:58.2	Oh, hang on. We don't do controversy here. I don't do politics. I don't do finance. I don't do
2:02.1	stuff like that. Don't talk about stuff like that because your grandma said not to.
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