Be Honest with Yourself

How are you? Well, happy, happy, happy Monday. Come on in here. Good to have you here today. How are you doing today? I feel really good. Although that's not entirely truthful because it's like a Thursday when I'm recording this.

I really don't know how I feel on this Monday, but I'm good. So let me ask about your comfort zone. How is your comfort zone? Are you good with that? Most people I find like to be in their comfort zone.

Me too. But sometimes there's a place, there's a reason to expand it, if you will. It's a big deal. If you can't expand your comfort zone, it's hard to do anything.

So we'll talk about that today, okay? It is the Daily Boost from MotivationToMove.com, broadcasting live from Daytona Beach, Florida. My Port Orange people keep saying, Scott, you're actually in Port Orange. Would you give us some press too?

I'm right in the middle, all right? I kind of live in Daytona, Port Orange area. It's a nice place to be at this time of year. Even better, even better.

The weather just gets fantastic, but we're full. There's no room for you here anymore. Just stay where you are and just I'll Zoom call you, okay? You know, I launched my school, Face Your Passion group, skool.com slash faceyourpassion.

People came to me and they said, Scott, I love facing my passion. I love going for it every day, but I'm still trying to find it, man. Can you help me find it? I said, well, yeah, okay, we can do that.

There actually is a method for that that I've taught for a very long time that's scientifically backed. It has to do with obsessive and harmonious passion.

So we do that. We teach you how to do that. That's why we have our Next Steps coaching program. So I can help you find it and then face it. But about half the group said, the problem is, Scott, I can't pay for it afterwards.

I want to fund my passion. My words, not theirs. Well, I've done this for 25 years now. I've been all over the world. I'm a consultant, a coach, online, offline, just any possible thing you can do, all geared at a freedom lifestyle.

Every bit of it. I haven't taken a paycheck from anybody else in 25 years. I've done what they want to do. So I'm going to do something for about three months for my founding members only.

And I only have 100 founding members. The price goes up after that. If you're a founding member, it's $49 a month, man. I'm adding in a Fund Your Passion program.

I'll do it through the end of the year and probably do it after that. But it's promised at the end of the year. If you show up and you like it, I'll do it, okay?

It is based on my wisdom and wealthy frameworks. I'm going to teach you how to position yourself, to understand yourself, how to actually make this work for yourself. You can do the work behind the scenes. I'm going to tell you what you need to do.

So there you go. You only got 100 spots. Don't even have that many left right now. Just go to skool.com slash faceyourpassion. That's school.com slash faceyourpassion and get part of it.

Oh, yes, by the way, yes, I understand I'm chatting a little bit longer about this this week. That's okay. We're going to get it until we get founders, get a little bit momentum here, and then I'll back off a little bit.

But you do have the fancy skip feature on your podcast. You can skip right past it if you want to, and then I'll continue to the show. And then when we get to the end and I mentioned it again, you know, it's coming. You can just skip past that as well.

That's cool. It's not going to hurt my feelings. I'm going to be real with you, right? Let's talk about comfort zone today. One of the most empowering mindsets that I think I own and you can own is knowing that you are never alone in this world.

Right? So I received an email I want to share with you, okay? Because I think a lot of the emails I get, they represent a lot of people. You've heard that stuff before, but it's true because, you know, most people don't send me an email.

Something can be broken someplace on a website, a link, things like that. It'll go for three weeks before anybody says, oh, by the way, it doesn't work. Nobody sends me an email. I have lives that are being transformed all over the world right now based on something I said.

And then maybe six years later, I get an email. I've been meaning to write you for a while, Scott. Well, thanks. I've been guessing for a long time. I love getting emails.

Support at MotivationToMove.com or at HeyScottSmith, Instagram, or join my group. Talk to me directly. Tell me your story right there. I'll talk back and forth with you, okay?

Hi, Scott. I got something so positive from your message yesterday. You talked about getting out of your comfort zone. I thought about All I've ever wanted was to experience a little comfort zone.

I realized from the podcast, people who have enjoyed living in their comfort zone have their struggles. It's hard to do scary things when you don't have to.

So you stay where you are and you feel frustrated. I've had success these last few years, but it's been challenging. I've had to take actions I didn't want to take

dig deep when all I wanted to do was bury my head in the sand. I wanted to be happy, stable. I wanted it so bad. And that kept me going. With a bad marriage out of my life, selling my big burdensome house, a bonus of cash in the bank from the sale, I can feel a little comfort zone in my horizon.

And honestly, I'm ready. Am I wrong? I read that really slowly. Because when I read this slowly, it's just, I didn't change anything. It's exactly what it was written.

I just copied and pasted it in front of me so I'd have it, okay? Is that real or what? And you get to the end of it, it's like comfort zone, expanding comfort zone, the whole thing. Turns out there was a divorce.

It was some messy garbage, I'm sure. Bad stuff. My friends, I cannot tell you how many people listen to this podcast are right in the middle of bad stuff right now.

Some of them write in that bad stuff. It's always there, and that will crash your comfort zone so fast you don't know what to do. Isn't the comfort zone a completely different place when you have had to fight so hard for it?

Maybe. A new comfort zone, by the way, which you might be looking for, is not a different place when you have to fight for it. It's a state where Judith Bardwick, I had to write her name down because I don't mention her very often.

She said people operate in an anxiety neutral condition. That's where most people live until you feel the need to change. Are you in an anxiety neutral position right now?

It makes sense, doesn't it? So when that happens, you will feel the need to transition from safe and in control to something new. At first, you enter the fear zone.

Always happens. If you keep fighting, you transition to the learning zone. If you continue to drive yourself, you will arrive at the growth zone. And that's likely where you are and the person writing me today is.

I always visualize a comfort zone as a bubble. Now, maybe you haven't thought about it this way, but I've always done this. And I can tell you over the years that whenever I mention this, people don't think this way. Whenever I mention it, I will get an email.

I'll get a comment. Somebody will comment on the fact that they never thought about it this way. The comfort zone as a bubble. Because people say, get out of your comfort zone.

I say, go keep to yourself. You're a jerk. I really say that. Get out of your comfort zone. You got to push yourself beyond what you're comfortable with.

I'm like, no, I don't. Sometimes, yes. Yeah, there are places you have to do that. What, day-to-day life? Really? Let's get outside and see how fast I can go down the street without getting a ticket.

Let's go. Let's push our cup. No. Let's say something to my wife that, you know, maybe I'd say to a 22-year-old I saw walking down the beach and see how I'd get on with that.

No. But for those of you guys out there, for you David Goggins fans, I'll give it to you. Sometimes you got to get out of your comfort zone. I was walking through Death Valley about seven or eight weeks ago, right?

Croy was running way out of his comfort zone. So was I. Death Valley is no place to be hanging out. So I get it, man. But I like the bubble. I like the bubble.

Maybe it's because I saw the bubble boy when I was a kid in the movie. Can't barely remember, but the kid that lived in the bubble. But you ever see bubbles?

Sometimes we go to the pool and Maya, Maya's my granddaughter. She's only four. And she loves those bubbles. I think Evan, who's my youngest grandson, he's only one now.

We got five of them now. They love them bubbles, and they like the big ones. And you ever notice how you blow a bubble, like a bubble at the pool, like a bubble maker thing?

And it gets bigger and bigger and bigger. Then it pops. Oh, no. They grow. They expand. My bubble, in terms of my comfort zone, is kind of like that. And sometimes my bubble connects with other bubbles.

Is yours bubble done the same thing? Sometimes my bubble expands, and there's somebody else expanding their bubble right there, and it connects. Man, it's kind of like my Fisher Passion Group. They're expanding their bubble, and their bubbles are connecting.

It's crazy. And when that happens, you kind of arrive in a new space and in your control, in a controlled comfort zone. And from there, you can explore the possibilities of life, which was one of the greatest ways to find whatever is your next move.

Listen, if you want to explore the possibilities, then you're not going to find anything. Now, by the way, exploring the possibilities, there is a rule. That's my phrase. I've used it forever.

I used it way long time before it became science facts. That when you get out and kind of just explore, stay in your comfort zone, look around and see if something is more comfortable for you, maybe something else you would like to try. I don't want to go in there. I don't know.

Oh, it wasn't that bad. Maybe I will. And then it changes, right? When you explore your comfort zones or explore your possibilities a little bit, your life changes.

Your bubbles kind of merge. But the goal here is, in my view, is for 99% of our time is to expand our comfort zone just a little bit. Stay comfortable, my friends. Just expand it a little bit so you're like, okay, I'm on the edge.

That's where you want to be. And from time to time, you're going to set a big-ass goal that's going to scare you to death, and you're going to be way out of your comfort zone, and you're going to have to go all David Goggins on yourself.

And you're going to go out and do it. But all the time? No. Life's way too short to be like that all the time. Remember, according to Maslow, Abraham Maslow's theory of human motivation, that was way back in 1943.

What a man can be, he must be. You got to be musting right now. Uh-oh, I said Tony Robbins. You must do it. Be musting. Get on my must team. What's your must team?

They take $10,000 from you. That's my must team. You must give them money. Yeah, it's true, though. What a man can be, he must be. My friends, that's something that was made up.

I didn't make it up. Abraham Maslow didn't make it up. If you study deep, if you go deep into the human psyche, you'll find... That's just how it is. Comfort zone.

Stay in that safe, controlled bubble. And every now and then, face your fear. Learn something new and go grow into the person you want to be. That's how it works.

I can help you. Why don't you come over? Why don't you join my school group? Let's have a good time. I can take you in a lot of different places. Love to have you.

Just go to skool.com slash faceyourpassion. Get on my Next Steps coaching call this week. And remember... How about soon? Founders only. Going to take you in to fund your passion with the wisdom to wealthy frameworks.

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