Why You're Stuck in Comfortable Misery (And How to Escape)

Why You're Stuck in Comfortable Misery (And How to Escape)

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Why You're Stuck in Comfortable Misery (And How to Escape)

Friday, 4th April 2025
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Happy Friday! How you doing? My

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goodness. Have you ever felt... I was

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talking to a client just yesterday and

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I feel the same way sometimes. Like

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sometimes in your life, it's like you're

2:10

wearing every hat. Jack of All Trage,

2:12

you wear all the hats, right? You wear every

2:14

hat on the hat on the team. It's like

2:16

you're a baseball team, but you're playing every single

2:18

position. And you, like, you are not playing your

2:20

part on the team. Maybe you felt that way.

2:23

I bet you have. I think a lot of

2:25

people have. And that's okay because we're like team

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Scott you're like team you right this is no

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matter what's going on around you Ultimately, there's a

2:31

lot of moving parts inside you and that sometimes

2:33

is what gets in the way and that's what

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we talk about here a lot It is daily

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it's okay I'm happy to have here today my name

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is Scott Smith. Thanks for stopping by

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today on a Friday. Do me favor today when

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the show is done just take about 30

3:15

seconds and ask yourself this question how

3:17

do I want to feel? That's it. Ask

3:19

yourself a question. And you can think

3:21

about what you're driving if you want to, and then allow the

3:23

answers to come in. And here's the thing. I just want you to

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for just at least a second, instead of saying, well, I need

3:27

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Ask how you want to feel, and then follow that path. You might

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of shows up. I mean the actions speak

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louder than words, right? So ask that question

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today. How do I want to feel? Why you

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take your massive action to get massive success?

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Yay, make your move. Thanks Tony. So I

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feel like life. is kind of crazy sometimes.

4:01

You can remember something, okay? Life and business

4:03

are about solving problems. That's about it. I

4:05

mentioned the other day, I was watching the

4:07

second half of the final season of Yellowstone.

4:09

Oh, it's a pickier picky-up our ways. That's

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so good. It is good. It's not really

4:13

a peat. They were talking about being a

4:15

cowboy. Cowboy is supposed to be hard. That's

4:18

what life is. It's hard. And life is

4:20

that way, life is hard. I know you

4:22

want to be easier. Thank goodness we've done

4:24

a lot in our time and been able

4:26

to make life nice and comfortably for her.

4:28

But the truth is, we're all just very,

4:30

very short distance away from everything falling apart

4:32

and falling apart. But the truth is, we're

4:34

all just very, very short distance away from

4:36

everything falling apart and falling apart and falling

4:39

from everything falling apart and falling apart. It's

4:41

just very, very short distance away from everything

4:43

falling, falling, falling, this is a big facade

4:45

right now. Okay, if it's going to be

4:47

that way, I'm just going to feel good

4:49

about it anyway, and let's go after it.

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And that's what this show's all about. Just

4:53

taking on the challenge. Oh yes, you might

4:55

have a moment here or there where you're

4:58

like, what? I do the same thing. But

5:00

at the end of the day, what can

5:02

you do about it? You're very, what? But

5:04

at the end of the day, what can

5:06

you do about it? You're very, what? What,

5:08

at the end of the end of the

5:10

day, what, what, what, what, what, what, what,

5:12

what, what, what, what, what can you, what,

5:14

what, what, what, what, what, what, what, can

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you, what, what, can you, what, what, can

5:19

you, what, can you, what, what, can you,

5:21

what, can you, can you, what, can you,

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can you, what, can you, can you, can

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you, can you, I have dreams, I have

5:27

things I want to do. Do you have

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big dreams, big goals? Maybe something you always

5:31

wanted to do? Maybe something you'd like to

5:33

do today, some change you would like to

5:35

make in your life? I was talking to

5:37

a friend the other day who moved to

5:40

Daytona Beach where I live. He's going to

5:42

a friend the other day who moved to

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Daytona Beach where I live. He's 55. A

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friend the other day who moved to Daytona

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Beach where I live. He's 55. I was

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going to a friend the other day who

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moved to Daytona. By the way we're full,

5:54

there's no space here anymore, so you can't

5:56

come now. Big dreams? I want you to

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hang on to those. But

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how do you begin with a bang? So I've got a few things for you

6:03

here. So this is kind of a little bit of a list. If

6:05

I'm gonna do a list of any kind, you'll hear me doing it

6:07

on a Friday show. Just kind of give you something to chew on for

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the weekend. And number one, you want to decide what you want for

6:11

the weekend. And number one, you want to decide what you

6:13

want. Be specific. I asked for a car one time. I got a

6:15

1963. I got a 1963. Volkswagen Volkswagen bug. It was all beat up.

6:17

It was all beat up. I had to put everything. I had

6:19

to put everything Volkswagen bug. I had to put everything. I had

6:21

to put everything. I had to put everything new. I had to

6:23

put everything new. I had to put everything new. I had to

6:25

put everything new. I had to put everything new. Decide

6:27

what you want to be specific. But Scott,

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I don't know what specific is. Your

6:32

job is to figure out what specific is.

6:34

Can you help me figure it out?

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Yeah, probably can, but still, that's your

6:38

job. Number two. Decide you gotta pay the

6:40

price. You heard it before. Short-term pain,

6:43

long-term gain. The future value of

6:45

your life depends on your current value

6:47

of your effort. So decide you need to

6:49

pay the price. I know you don't want to pay

6:51

the price, but I would say that most people

6:53

I sit and meet that... don't want

6:56

to pay the price or comfortably be

6:58

miserable right now, just barely, barely

7:00

getting by. They haven't decided to pay

7:02

the price. When you do, it's going to pay

7:04

off. I was at the gym the other day. They

7:06

said, Scott, how much can you, can you lift

7:09

weight? I currently am working out at

7:11

285 pounds on a bench prison, 65

7:13

years old. I said, I've been doing about a

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year now. You said, well, how much could you

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bench last year? I said, I said, 80 pounds,

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got to pay the price. McDonald's

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only in theaters. your goals.

7:38

You don't need to ask permission from anybody.

7:41

You don't even need to say a word. Put

7:43

your head down, get to work, let them figure

7:45

it out themselves. Although. Although find

7:47

out eventually, practice and private,

7:49

watch what happens. I

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got six more for you here. These are

7:53

good things. So I would you want

7:56

to decide that you have to pay the

7:58

price, own your goals, and then...

8:00

you've decided what you want. Don't accept your

8:02

excuses. It's time to get to work. Doesn't that

8:04

drive you crazy? Gives me crazy. I'm the boss

8:06

of me. This is what I decided. I'm gonna

8:08

go do it. What make me next week? No!

8:11

Stop the excuses. Go get it done. Suck it

8:13

up, Butter Cup. Enjoy the suck. Number five. Start

8:15

your day early. Do that. It's important. Start your

8:17

day early. Start your day early. Now I know

8:19

you have a life right now, maybe the kids

8:22

start your day for you nice and early, maybe

8:24

you got to get up and work, you got

8:26

tons of stuff to do. Maybe you had to

8:28

work late last night, you can't, I get it,

8:31

I get it, I get it. But the most

8:33

energy you will have, the most excitement you will

8:35

have, the most everything you will have, the most

8:37

everything you will have when you're or you're, you're,

8:39

you're, the most everything you'll have when you're you're

8:42

you're you're you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're,

8:44

you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're,

8:46

you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're,

8:48

you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're,

8:50

you're But otherwise, no, everybody else, like circadian rhythm.

8:53

You can't mess with your circadian rhythm much as

8:55

you want to try. It is what it is.

8:57

Stop fighting it. Set your focus and starting point.

8:59

Pick your first ask, finish it, move on to

9:02

the next. Keep going to the next. Keep going

9:04

to you get what you want. That's it. Set

9:06

your focus. Set your starting point. Wherever it is

9:08

today, figure it out. Pick the first thing you

9:10

do to get it done. Get it finished, then

9:13

move on the next thing. Boom. You'll get what

9:15

you'll get what you'll get what you want in

9:17

the next thing. You'll get what you want that

9:19

way. You'll get what you want that way. You'll

9:21

get what you want that way. Hold

9:24

space for yourself that's essential to you. If

9:26

you don't hold space for yourself, somebody else

9:28

is going to suck it up and make

9:30

it important to them. How much are you

9:33

spent by somebody else holding space, your space

9:35

for their use? Develop the habit of deep

9:37

work. A couple of hours of uninterrupted work

9:39

will change your life. I know it hurts.

9:42

Maybe you need to spend some time on

9:44

yourself and that's where your deep work is.

9:46

Your values, your beliefs, all that stuff. Maybe

9:49

it's your business. I don't know what it

9:51

is. A couple of hours of uninterrupted work

9:53

every single day will change your life and

9:55

will change it fast. There's a lot of

9:58

things you could do. You

10:00

could forget getting caught up in believing

10:02

that you've got a network joint venture,

10:04

collaborate, have partnerships. You could just believe

10:06

that you can start all by yourself

10:08

and let everybody else catch up. You

10:10

could believe in that. You could believe

10:13

that you don't need to get caught

10:15

up in learning. You could just stumble

10:17

on your answer, get back to work.

10:19

Yeah, you could because that happens. You

10:21

could believe that... If I apply never

10:23

any massive imperfect action, I'm going to

10:25

get what I want because I trust

10:28

it's going to happen. You just clean

10:30

up the mess later, right? You could

10:32

believe that if you wanted to. It's

10:34

all true. This is about you believing

10:36

in yourself and you've got all the

10:38

answers inside and you're going to figure

10:40

it out any way. You've been doing

10:42

it your whole entire life. If you're

10:45

not getting what you want, you've got

10:47

to make sure you keep it, right?

10:49

Rules of life have not changed just

10:51

because the internet is here and AIs

10:53

here now. Rules of life have always

10:55

been the same and you know what

10:57

they are because you've been living on

10:59

my whole life. Now just live them

11:02

better, okay? And oh man, everything me,

11:04

if you want to connect with me,

11:06

contact me, just go to motivation and

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move.com. All spelled out, you find all

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my information right there. No matter what

11:12

you do, there is one super simple

11:14

success recipe. Stand up, take a step

11:16

repeat. How long, Scott? Keep going until

11:19

I get what I want? Why would

11:21

you stop before you got there anyway?

11:23

Have a great week and I'll see

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you next up this Monday. Again on

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the Daily Boost.

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