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Daily Boost  - Motivation and Coaching

You're Building Your Life Backwards

Daily Boost - Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Business, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

You're Building Your Life Backwards October 21, 2025 | Episode 5207 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Smart people are doing it backwards right now. Even people who studied this exact thing in college are forgetting the basics. They're chasing respect before they can pay rent. They're demanding acceptance while their life's falling apart. Scott breaks down why 2025 has been so damn hard and what Abraham Maslow figured out in 1954 that still works today. No shortcuts. No hacks. Just the sequential steps you actually need to climb. Spoiler: You can't skip steps just because you're 21 and think the world is different now. Featured Story Scott's been having the same conversation over and over the past few weeks with successful people who've somehow forgotten what they learned in college. They're college-educated. They know Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. But when Scott reminds them what they studied at university, they go, "Oh yeah, I forgot about it." Here's the thing that keeps coming up: people are trying to build the top floors before they've laid the foundation. They want self-actualization and respect while they can't feed themselves or feel safe. Scott calls it building without a peaceful base. And in a year as hard as 2025 has been—politically, financially, with AI throwing monkey wrenches everywhere—more people are doing this than ever. Even his son-in-law thinks he has to fix his entire hurricane-damaged house by himself when he's surrounded by a church community ready to help. Sometimes the basics are right in front of you. Important Points Your best life is built sequentially, one level at a time—forget the elevator, you've got to climb the steps to the top. If you can't feed yourself, feel safe, or maintain good relationships, you're not ready to help others or reach your full potential yet. Humans figured out how to build this whole world without AI, and things that have worked forever still work today—don't get distracted. Memorable Quotes "What a man can be, he must be. You feel it inside your bones." "I don't think you have to wait to become the person you're meant to be. I think you were put on this planet as that person." "If you can't feed yourself, if you don't have good relationships, if you're not happy, how could you possibly go out and help other people?" Scott's Three-Step Approach Take inventory of where you are in Maslow's five levels—physiological needs, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. Build your peaceful base first by handling the basics like shelter, money, relationships, and feeling safe before chasing bigger goals. Stop demanding respect and acceptance from others until you've mastered the previous levels—what you can be, you must be, but in the right order. 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

So I have a birthday coming up, and I know they say, don't worry about the age, and I'm not really, but I am a little concerned about what they call my biological age. That's the age of my cells and my organs, because I recently learned that's the number one predictor for serious disease, like heart disease and cancer and dementia and a whole lot more. Iick. So when my sponsor, True Diagnostic, sent me a true age test. I was like, yes, let's do this thing. It's a simple at-home test.

0:23.6

It helps you uncover your true biological age. You get personalized insights and you take control of your health, basically. Did you know, by the way, that if your biological age is just five years older than your actual age, your risk for major disease goes up by 30 to 50 percent? I didn't know that. It's a little scary.

0:38.5

But this good news, I guess, up to 90% of biological aging is driven by lifestyle so you can change it. I'm really excited to see my results. I'm a little scared, but I'm also really motivated. If you care about protecting your health and you want to find out what your real age is, head over to truediagnostic.com and use my code boost to get 20% off your entire order or

0:57.6

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0:55.7

to get 20% off your entire order or subscription.

0:58.7

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1:00.8

Use Boost at checkout to get 20% off.

1:03.2

Your future self will thank you.

1:05.0

Thank you. Come on in here. Man, man, man, oh man. What a week it has been.

1:27.4

So are you building your life the way you wanted to? When I say life, it's your job, it's your kids, your relation, all the stuff that we do, we pay attention to it. They're just living, going out to dinner, going to concerts, things like that. Are you doing it the way you want to, or are you doing it backwards? As I've had a lot of conversations in the past couple of weeks and they're doing it backwards. It makes no sense. In fact, I've had smart people doing it backwards who went to college and studied what I'm going to talk to you about today. And when I reminded them what they studied at university, they went, oh yeah, forgot about it. We'll talk about that today. A little Abraham Maslow stuff today. It is a daily boost from Motivation to Move.com. It's me, Scott Smith, doing what I do. Man, we are getting close. We are 5,207 episodes, and looks like we have, what, just about two and a half months to go in the year. Wrap it up our 19th year. Right about January 1, we go into 20 years of doing the Daily Beast podcast. I'm just going to keep going. Why stop now, right? I mean, half the people that are my age that are retiring for their jobs, what do they want to do? They want to start a podcast into YouTube channel. So I figure, well, what am I going to do? am I going to go ahead and retire from that and go get a corporate job? No, I'm not going to do that.

2:35.5

It's like living in Florida.

2:36.9

It's like, at my age, it, what am I going to do? Am I going to go ahead and retire from that and go get a corporate job?

2:34.9

No, I'm not going to do that.

2:35.5

It's like living in Florida.

2:36.9

It's like at my age, it's like I could move someplace else, but then again, I think I'm legally required to retire to Florida and I'm already here, been here since it was 18, may as well stay. Life is crazy, isn't it? It's even more fun if you'd like to think like I do, which is just make it fun and just keep moving because, trust me, there's enough stuff that's going to bump into you every single day that's going to bust the motivation right out of you. But you figure out, you always do. You always do. Every time I work with people, I know one thing. I know it's a season. It's a thing that's happening. Could be a really good thing. Could be life on fire. It could be really frustrating. Life could have fallen apart. It happens all the time. But I just know that it's going to pass. I just know that. And this year, by the way, just as a, as an acknowledgement, you do know how hard this year has been, right? 2025 has been a hard year. It's been hard politically for a lot of people. Still is in many ways. It's been hard financially for a ton of people in so many ways. And this AI thing has just thrown a real monkey wrench into it. And a good one. I use AI all the time. I'm pretty proficient at using it these days. But it has really, really done a number on people this year.

3:43.1

And it's going to settle. It will. But there's so much opportunity out there right now if you look

3:47.9

in the right way. And we'll start with that today, building your life backwards. That's not what

3:54.6

you want to do right now. Yes, I guess I'm, we pretty much want

3:57.5

to just run to the hills. I was watching a video on YouTube. I couldn't believe it. I was watching

4:01.5

these guys in little cabins and little tents and little trucks in the Arctic. I mean,

4:06.5

like it's minus 50 degrees and 40 million people are watching these videos. I'm thinking,

4:12.0

whoa, do that many people want to go do that? Or are you just

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