Why You're Not Motivated - Science Will Surprise You

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Daily Boost Podcast Show Notes Why You're Not Motivated - Science Will Surprise You October 1, 2025 | Episode 5193 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Ever feel like you're spinning your wheels despite reading every motivation book out there? Scott discovered something fascinating in baby DJ school that completely flips traditional goal-setting advice on its head. Turns out, everyone's teaching you to start with your "why" - but that might be exactly backwards. Today's episode reveals the science-backed sequence that actually works. It's simpler than you think, and it explains why you've been fighting yourself all this time. Featured Story Picture this: 18-year-old Scott faces a choice between broadcast school in freezing Minneapolis or sunny Fort Lauderdale. Obviously, he chose Florida. Who wouldn't? But here's the twist - those broadcast school professionals forced him to learn journalism when all he wanted was to spin records. He looked down his nose at journalists, thinking it had nothing to do with being a world-famous DJ. Years later, those five little journalism words became the key to unlocking personal transformation. The irony? He had to completely flip the order everyone teaches. Important Points Most personal development advice starts with "why" - but that's actually backwards for real change. The magic sequence is What, Why, When, Where, Who - not the traditional journalist order. Specificity beats perfection every time; concrete goals create concrete results. Memorable Quotes "Y'all wrong. I got it right." "Don't wait for the perfect plan. Because when you sit around waiting for the perfect plan, things don't always get perfect." "We're just going to assume some days are going to be perfect, and some days are not going to be perfect. So if we average out pretty good days, we get a pretty good life, right?" Scott's Three-Step Approach Define your "what" with brutal specificity - write it down and make it concrete. Create a question roadmap using the five words in proper order for transformation. Take massive, imperfect action - put one concrete step on your calendar this week. Connect With Me Search for The Daily Boost on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Email: [email protected] Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast 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?
0:14.9	Come on in here.
0:16.1	Good to have you here today, man.
0:17.8	The weather is getting so good here where I live in the Daytona Beach area. I just, it makes me want to sit inside and do a podcast. What? So you're writing the story of your life. As you live out your day, you're writing the story of your life and I don't know what it's going to be. You've already written part of it. You can probably look back on it and say, good, bad, whatever, I don't know. What you're writing a new one today, your future is up to you,
0:41.0	and other people are watching your story as well. But sometimes, if you get confusing, you get frustrated, it's because, well, in the rules of writing a story, you have a couple of the words off. a little bit just out of order.
0:53.4	We'll talk about that today.
0:54.9	It is the daily boost.
0:56.8	From Motivation to Move.com, how are you doing today? I am awesome. Thank you for asking. I sure
1:01.9	appreciate you being here. Really simple mission. I believe that you have something you're passionate
1:08.2	about. It might be buried deep down inside.
1:11.4	You might be on pause.
1:13.0	You might have had kids.
1:13.9	You might get married.
1:14.7	You might have a job. You might not have enough money. Whatever it is. It's on pause and you'll go back to it someday. Like when you retire, you'll do the stuff you love to do. No, we don't do that. So the mission of this show is to inspire you to figure out what you're passionate about,
1:28.2	face your passion, and go do it every day. It's kind of simple. And then the things we talk about on this show help you get that done. Boom. Makes sense? Easy peasy.
1:38.2	A long time ago, in baby DJ school, that's what I call it. It was actually a broadcast school. There were two that I had a choice to go to. One was in Minneapolis, St. Paul. The other was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Now, let me ask you a question. Ladies and gentlemen, you're 18 years old. You're a man, or a boy man, a man boy at the time. And you have a choice of going to Minneapolis, St. Fall, or Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
2:02.5	Well, you know where I went.
2:03.5	We'll leave it to that.
2:04.1	But nonetheless, I went to baby DJ school because I was going to be a DJ. And I wanted to go to school and learn how to play a record. That's more than that, I guess. But you know what they did? these professionals in this school that ran this school when I was just dreaming of being a world
2:19.1	famous dominating disc jockey, they said you've got to learn journalism.
2:24.8	What?
2:25.8	Have you ever been to college?
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